Massive public campaign on cancer initiated

… people with special needs, employees of the governmental and private sectors, cancer patients, cancer survivors and health care providers inside and outside Qatar. The centre will also train volunteers to deliver cancer awareness to the community …

South Korea culls 33 million poultry amid worst H5N6 bird flu outbreak

Facing its worst avian influenza outbreak, South Korea has culled more than 33 million poultry since the first reported case last November, officials said Saturday, while observers noted local resources to deal with the deadliest outbreak may have already been stretched too thin. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the country has culled 33.12 million animals as of Friday.

The Centaurus Constellation

Welcome back to Constellation Friday! Today, in honor of the late and great Tammy Plotner, we will be dealing with the “Centaur”, the Centaurus constellation! In the 2nd century CE, Greek-Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus compiled a list of all the then-known 48 constellations. This treatise, known as the Almagest , would used by medieval European and Islamic scholars for over a thousand years to come, effectively becoming astrological and astronomical canon until the early Modern Age.

Tom Price sworn in as health and human services secretary

Rep. Tom Price of Georgia was sworn in Friday as health and human services secretary, setting the stage for the conservative to play a leading role in dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath to Price hours after he won Senate confirmation on a narrow 52-47 vote early Friday.

Senate confirms polarizing pick for health secretary

A polarized Senate voted early Friday morning to confirm Tom Price, the conservative Georgia congressman who has been one of Congress’s most vehement opponents of the Affordable Care Act, as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The 52-47 vote made Price the latest in a series of controversial Cabinet nominees whom the Senate’s Republican majority has been strong enough to muscle through on party-line votes.

Indians love salt a pinch too much: Australia study

An average Indian consumes about 119 per cent more salt per day than the official World Health Organisation recommendation, a study has revealed. The study conducted by the Australia-based George Institute of Global Health notes that most people exceed the recommended limit of two gm per day with the daily consumption going up to 10.98 gm.

Indians love salt a pinch too much: Australia study

An average Indian consumes about 119 per cent more salt per day than the official World Health Organisation recommendation, a study has revealed. The study conducted by the Australia-based George Institute of Global Health notes that most people exceed the recommended limit of two gm per day with the daily consumption going up to 10.98 gm.

Simple blood test may be accurate in differentiating between Parkinson’s disease and APDs

A simple blood test may be as accurate as a spinal fluid test when trying to determine whether symptoms are caused by Parkinson’s disease or another atypical parkinsonism disorder, according to a new study published in the February 8, 2017, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. In early stages of disease, it can be difficult to differentiate between Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonism disorders like multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration, because symptoms can overlap.

The hearing was at Burnley Crown Court

A 47-YEAR-OLD man hanged himself on the day he arrived back from a two-week holiday in Crete, an inquest heard. Nigel Wilson, of Orpen Avenue, Burnley, was found dead by his partner in the garage of their home on September 28 last year, a hearing at Burnley Crown Court heard.

The hearing was at Burnley Crown Court

A 47-YEAR-OLD man hanged himself on the day he arrived back from a two-week holiday in Crete, an inquest heard. Nigel Wilson, of Orpen Avenue, Burnley, was found dead by his partner in the garage of their home on September 28 last year, a hearing at Burnley Crown Court heard.

The Latest: Price transfers business ownership to wife

Tom Price, President Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, has amended his government ethics agreement as the Senate prepares to debate and vote on his confirmation. In the amended agreement released Wednesday, Price says he has transferred ownership interest in a business to his wife.

10 Things to Know for Today

The Pyeongchang Olympics have been drawn into the country’… . Somali soldiers providing security stand near a checkpoint on the eve of presidential elections in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.

The Five Most Affordable Retirement Havens of 2017?InternationalLiving.com

The majority of recent studies on retirement show that most Americans are not adequately prepared for it: They haven’t saved enough, they’ll likely outlive their nest egg, and so they are instructed to work longer, spend less, and lower their expectations for their retirement lifestyle. With the future of Social Security and Medicare uncertain under the new administration in Washington, Baby Boomers have reason to be worried about what their ?golden years” might look like.

NANOBIOTIX appoints senior executive from pharmaceutical industry, as Chief Operating Officer

Paris, France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, February 7, 2017 – NANOBIOTIX , a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering novel approaches for the local treatment of cancer, announced today the appointment of Alain Dostie, a senior executive from the pharmaceutical industry, as its Chief Operating Officer . Mr. Dostie will lead Nanobiotix’s operations, including development, manufacturing, market access and sales, for the Company’s lead product NBTXR3, which could obtain a CE Mark approval in 2017.

Patient riled top to toe by long surgery wait

… anticipated he may have to wait six to 12 months but he is stunned to still be waiting. He has phoned Albury Wodonga Health three times and visited twice but the sole explanation he has received related to his surgeon Gordon Slater. Feeling stymied, …

Percutaneous Coronary Market 2017 Share, Trend, Segmentation and Forecast to 2020

PUNE, INDIA, February 7, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — MediPoint: Percutaneous Coronary Interventions – Global Analysis and Market Forecasts Summary Coronary stents, which include bare metal stents, drug-eluting stents , covered stents, and bioabsorbable stents GET SAMPLE REPORT @ De novo stenosis, acute myocardial infarction , bifurcation lesions, small vessel disease , saphenous vein grafts , left main coronary artery disease , and chronic total occlusions In the US and 5EU, coronary stents market value is expected to decline slowly, whereas it is expected to demonstrate steady growth in the APAC and South American regions Newer technologies, such as BASes and the third generation of DESes aim to address unmet needs of complex lesions and challenging … (more)

Familiar names, faces return to movie theaters

Keanu Reeves returns as hitman John Wick in “John Wick: Chapter 2.” In this chapter he’s forced out of retirement by a former associate hoping to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Wick travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.

Qatar Steps Forward To Support Malaysia In Helping Rohingya Community

From Roslan Ariffin DOHA, Feb 7 — Qatar is among the latest Islamic countries to come forward to support Malaysia in its humanitarian project to help the Rohingya community that had sought refuge in the country. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the Qatar government had agreed to provide special funds for Malaysia to aid the refugees in three areas, primary school education, skill training, and medical and health care.

New article highlights prevalence of nonmedical prescription drug use among young people

Balancing a country’s need to make prescription drugs available to those in need while simultaneously curbing nonmedical use is one of our greatest challenges, according to a perspective article just published by Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and a colleague at American University of Beirut. The article published in World Psychiatry , the journal of the World Psychiatric Association, cites research finding increased rates of deaths worldwide from prescription opioids as high as 550 percent depending on country and time-period.

President warns against begging

In order to ease land transactions, the Lands ministry divided up the country into 22 cadastre zonal areas to include Arua, Lira, Mukono, Gulu, Masindi, Mbale, Jinja, Mbarara, Masaka, Soroti, Tororo and Kabale. Others are Moroto, Kibaale, Kabale, Kabarole, Wakiso, Luweero, Mityana, Rukungiri and Kampala.