Asia, Southeast News Headlines

• Asia-Pacific Has The Biggest Diabetes Burden In The World
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Asia-Pacific Has The Biggest Diabetes Burden In The World
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
  
• WFP Welcomes 20.8 Million US Dollars From Japan To Promote Social Protection In Africa, Asia And Latin America
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Chinese province on alert after human bird flu case
  The Earth Times - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:33 EST
  
• New HIV/AIDS Cases In Japan Reach Record High In 2006, Government Report Says
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Warming to spread disease, hunger in South Asia: WHO
  Reuters - Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:20 EST
  
• 'Attack Rate' Of Flu In Kids Is 55 Percent Lower With Nasal Spray Vaccine
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• 2 Out Of 3 Heart Attacks And Strokes In Asia
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:00 EST
  
• Single Dose Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine From Acambis
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• RCGP Response To Lord Crisp's Report On Global Health Partnerships, UK
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• First Lancet Medical Forum On Cancer Management To Be Held In Asia
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Global Study Concludes 'Attack Rate' Of Flu In Kids Is 55 Percent Lower With Nasal Spray Vaccine
  ScienceDaily - Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• First Lancet Medical Forum On Cancer Management To Be Held In Asia
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Hypertension key to heart disease in Asia
  The Earth Times - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:14 EST
  
• IPP-SHR - Free Online Full Text Access For Leading Austral-Asian Cancer Journal
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:00 EST
  
• Parkinson's Cases Will Double In Next 25 Years Worldwide
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:00 EST
  
• Southeast Asia HIV Prevention Program Lacking Political Commitment, WHO Adviser Says
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:00 EST
  
• WHO Revives Efforts To Eliminate Forgotten Disease: Yaws
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Biologists Demote Southeast Asia’s Forest Ox
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Worldwide Parkinson's Cases Will Double In Next 25 Years
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation Hails Thai Action On Compulsory AIDS Drug Licensing
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Thailand Vacationers’ Health 14 Months After The Tsunami
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Avian Influenza 2006 - From Asia To Africa, From Europe To The Mediterranean
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:00 EST
  
• South Asians at greater heart risk
  The Earth Times - Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:06 EST
  
• South Asians Have Higher Levels Of Heart Attack Risk Factors At Younger Ages
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Bird Flu Claims Lives, Ways of Life in Asia
  Washington Post - Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:00 EST
  
• South Asians Have Higher Levels Of Heart Attack Risk Factors At Younger Ages
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Businesses Gather To Prepare For Pandemic Influenza
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Bird flu spreading again in Asia
  MSNBC - Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:30 EST
  
• Deaths reported as bird flu flares in Asia
  CNN - Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:18 EST
  
• Lancet To Hold Its 2007 Medical Forum On Cancer Management In Asia
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:00 EST
  
• AVEO Acquires Clinical Stage Anti-Cancer Compound From Kirin
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation Announces New AIDS Treatment & Training Partnership In Xinjiang Province, China
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation Receives Donation Of CD4 Testing Machines
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic In Asia
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:00 EST
  
• HIV/AIDS on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa
  The Earth Times - Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:57 EST
  
• Global Fund's 'Disarray' Hurts AIDS Patients, Undermines Donor Confidence, Says AHF
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Many risk long-term damage from SE Asia haze: experts
  Reuters - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:53 EST
  
• Many risk long-term damage from SE Asia haze: experts
  Reuters - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:53 EST
  
• Many risk long-term damage from SE Asia haze: experts
  Reuters - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:53 EST
  
• WFP Helicopters Start Delivering Aid To Flood Victims In Southeast Ethiopia
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 02 Dec 2006 06:00 EST
  
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation Praises Thailand For Bold Move To Increase AIDS Drug Access
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• U.N. Officials Call For Increased Action To Prevent Spread Of HIV Among Women, Children In Asia-Pacific Region
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:00 EST
  
• Diabetes an epidemic in Asia: S. Korean scientists
  Reuters - Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:26 EST
  
• H5N1 strain could start wave of bird flu outbreaks
  Reuters - Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:10 EST
  
• H5N1 strain could start wave of bird flu outbreaks
  Reuters - Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:10 EST
  
• Fewer Mental Health Problems Reported by Asian Immigrants
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Asian-American Teens More Likely Than Whites, Latinos To Learn Healthier Lifestyles
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• AHF Hails Bush For Order Lifting US Ban On HIV Positive Foreigners
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Screening Of Film '3 Needles' On World AIDS Day To Benefit AIDS Healthcare Foundation
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• WFP Gives Urgent Help To Victims Of New Floods In Southeast Ethiopia
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:00 EST
  
• Diabetes threatens many of world's indigenous people
  Reuters - Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:15 EST
  
• Vaccine-Resistant Bird Flu Spreading in Asia
  MedicineNet - Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
  
• WHO urges ban on some pesticides to curb suicides
  Reuters - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:24 EST
  
• WHO urges ban on some pesticides to curb suicides
  Reuters - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:24 EST
  
• H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Is Changing, FAO And OIE Recommend Increased Surveillance When Vaccinating
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:00 EST
  
• H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Is Changing
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Unhealthy Myths About The HIV Epidemic In Asia
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Texas Republican Candidate For U.S. House Sekula-Gibbs Says She Has Changed Stance On Abortion Rights Since 2001
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Saint Joseph's Hospital Debuts One Of Area's First Convertible Ultrasound Platforms At Dare To Care Screening
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• 70,000 Women Die Because Of Unsafe Abortions Annually; Most Pregnancy-Related Deaths Preventable, Report Says
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• 'Hunger critical' in South Asia
  BBC - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:43 EST
  
• Addressing AIDS Challenges In Belarus
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Recently Released PLoS Article Looks At Myths Surrounding HIV/AIDS Epidemic In Asia
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Statement On Avian Influenza From Randall L. Tobias, Director Of U.S. Foreign Assistance And USAID Administrator
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Cancer Patients In Southeast Ireland Gain Access To Most Advanced Radiotherapy Treatments With Opening Of Varian-Equipped Center
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Travelers to Africa, Asia returning with new virus
  Reuters - Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:23 EST
  
• Largest Trainload Of WFP Food In Years Leaves Lubumbashi In DR Congo
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:00 EST
  
• 18th EORTC -- NCI -- AACR Symposium
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:00 EST
  
• WHO urges control over alcohol use, patient safety
  Reuters - Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:45 EST
  
• WFP Opens Strategic Hubs To Augment Global Emergency Response
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:00 EST
  
• Stigma, Discrimination Impede Efforts To Control Spread Of HIV In India, U.N. Envoy Says
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:00 EST
  
• HIV/AIDS Conference Delegates Call For More Regional Support To Fight Spread Of The Virus
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Bureaucratic Issues, Lack Of Federal Inspectors Have Delayed New Mental Health Centers In Louisiana, Editorial States
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:00 EST
  
• 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation: U.N. report
  Reuters - Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:50 EST
  
• Health scare in Asia over P&G skin lotions
  Reuters - Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:59 EST
  
• Cordis Corporation Launches Cypher Select Plus Stent
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Both Endemic And New Virus Strains To Blame For Bird Flu Recurrence In Asia's Poultry
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Access Decree Dropped At WHO Conference After U.S. Objection To Support For Needle-Exchange Program, Officials Say
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Both Endemic And New Virus Strains To Blame For Bird Flu Recurrence In Asia's Poultry
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:00 EST
  
• IOM Releases Report On HIV/AIDS Among Injection Drug Users
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Surprising Results From Major Asian Study
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Avian Flu Pandemic Could Cost World 2 Trillion Dollars
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Gates gives $68 million to fight tropical illness
  MSNBC - Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:50 EST
  
• Male sex sending HIV out of control in Asia-group
  Reuters - Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:53 EST
  
• Over 50% Of Cervical Cancers Occur In Asian-Pacific Developing Region
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:00 EST
  
• HIV Prevalence High Among MSM In Asia-Pacific Countries, Lack Of Government Resources, Stigma, Ignorance Primary Causes, Report Finds
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Climate Changes Increase Risk Of Plague
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Rich nations should share birdflu antivirals
  Reuters - Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:32 EST
  
• 2 Michigan Swans Seem Infected With Nonlethal Avian Flu Strain
  New York Times - Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Bird Flu virus back with a bang in Cambodia.
  The Earth Times - Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:32 EST
  
• Cancer Patient Receives First Proton Therapy Treatment At University Of Florida Proton Therapy Institute
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Biologists testing for bird flu in Alaska
  MSNBC - Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:07 EST
  
• World Food Programme Urges More Focus On Nutrition In Fight Against HIV / AIDS
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Food a basic need in HIV fight: UN agency
  Reuters - Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:01 EST
  
• A Mushroom Extract May Impact The Body's Immune System
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
  
• CRI's Asia Pacific Regional Office Provides Fast-Track Skills Training For Biomedical Engineers
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:00 EST
  
• 'No Threat' Bird Flu Found in Michigan
  WebMD - Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:54 EST
  
• Kaisernetwork.org Daily Video Round Up From XVI International AIDS Conference In Toronto, Monday, Aug. 14
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Avian Influenza Still Expanding In Africa - Disease Widely Checked But Could Pose Threat For Years
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:00 EST