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Health
Brazil's fugitive 'Dr Bumbum' plastic surgeon arrested over patient death
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP/AP) — A Brazilian celebrity butt-enhancement surgeon known as Dr Bumbum was arrested last Thursday over the death of a patient in a botched operation after spending four days on the run. Read More
Benefits of seeing the same doctor
WHEN you fall ill, who do you see for your health care? Do you seek the same doctor every time, or do you use a centre, office or health institution where there is a different doctor each time? Read More
HIV infection doubles risk of heart disease
PEOPLE infected with HIV are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease, research has found. Read More
Simpler, one-dose treatment to prevent malaria relapse OK'd
US regulators Friday approved a simpler, one-dose treatment to prevent relapses of malaria.Standard treatment now takes two weeks and studies show many patients don't finish taking every dose. Read More
Gene-editing damages DNA more than previously thought — study
PARIS, France (AFP) — A revolutionary gene- editing technique, hailed as the future of disease eradication and mooted for a Nobel prize, may be less precise and cause more cell damage than previously thought, researchers said last week Monday. Read More
Spanish researchers develop five-strain Ebola vaccine
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spanish researchers are working on a vaccine against all five strains of the killer Ebola virus in what would be a world first, Madrid's October 12 Hospital said Wednesday. Read More
First-ever colour X-ray on a human
PARIS, France (AFP) — New Zealand scientists have performed the first-ever 3-D, colour X-ray on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field of medical diagnostics, said Europe's CERN physics lab which contributed imaging technology. Read More
Study: Virtual whale ride helps ease fear of heights
PARIS, France (AFP) — People who had lived with a fear of heights for decades became less afraid after virtual reality (VR) therapy that saw them riding a flying whale, researchers said Thursday. Read More
WHO recognises 'compulsive sexual behaviour' as mental disorder
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization has recognised “compulsive sexual behaviour” as a mental disorder, but said yesterday it remained unclear if it was an addiction on a par with gambling or drug abuse. Read More
Complex regional pain syndrome
WHILE browsing through a British newspaper, I recently came upon an article about a 24-year-old young woman who was suffering from such excruciating pain in her knee that she was begging the doctors to amputate her whole leg. Read More
J&J ordered to pay US$4.69b damages in talc cancer case
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was Thursday ordered to pay out $4.69 billion in damages in a lawsuit representing 22 women and their families who alleged a talc sold by the company contained asbestos and caused them to suffer... Read More
Jamaica Cancer Society receives mammography unit
IN a bid to help in carrying out the mission of the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) — “to eliminate cancer as a major health problem in Jamaica” — Sagicor Foundation donated a much-needed mammography work station unit to the JCS at a handover event on... Read More
Nutrition and oral health
OUR modern diet contains a mix of sugars. Oral bacteria can ferment all these sugars with more or less equal ability, with the exception of lactose (milk sugar), from which less acid is produced. Read More
Candidate AIDS vaccine passes key early test
PARIS, France (AFP) — The near 40-year quest for an AIDS vaccine received a hopeful boost yesterday when scientists announced that a trial drug triggered an immune response in humans and shielded monkeys from infection. Read More
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