Health

Vietnam Medical Confab Puts Focus On Diarrheal Disease

November 14, 2010 Health

Government official met with their regional counterparts in Hanoi this week to discuss a vaccine that prevents the leading cause of severe diarrheal diseases. Research has shown it could prevent half of cases of the virus in poorer parts of Asia. In August, British medical journal the Lancet published data from trials of the rotavirus [...]

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Tubercolosis Rate Remains High Despite Decline

November 12, 2010 Health

The percentage of Cambodians falling ill with tuberculosis continued a gradual decline in 2009, but remained the highest in the region and one of the highest in the region and one of the  highest in the world, according to an annual report released yesterday by the World Health Organization. Cambodian saw about 442 new cases [...]

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New Tuberculosis Diagnosis Machine Could Prove Game Changer

November 11, 2010 Health

Cambodia has received a new rapid diagnosis machine for tuberculosis and plans to purchase more in an attempt to stop the spread of the often-untreated disease, health officials said. The Xpert, developed by the US medical technology company Cepheid, diagnoses and identifies drug-resistant tuberculosis based on DNA in between 20 minutes and two hours. Most [...]

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Mineral Water Company to Launch in Cambodia

November 11, 2010 Health

Investor from Cambodia and Singapore are planning to open a mineral water company from a freshwater source in Siem Reap province’s Phnom Kulen National Park, an official at the company said. Sothea Sambath, director of Kulara Water Co Ltd, said that the company was due to start distributing water by the middle of next year [...]

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National Draft Budget Calls for More Health Spending

October 22, 2010 Health

Although government spending on health is set to rise next year, Cambodia will continue to rely on donor aid for the sector, officials said. The government will prioritize health and education in its new draft budget, allocating about $200 million to each, Mr Cheam Yeap said at the conference on financing immunizations that was organized [...]

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Twice as Many Babies Delivered at Health Facilities

October 22, 2010 Health

The number of women giving birth at public health facilities more than doubled between 2005 and 2009, according to data released by the Planning Ministry’s National Institute of Statistics on Wednesday. Facility-based deliveries increased from 21.5 percent in 2005 to 46.3 percent in 2009, the data showed. “There was a significant improvement in the deliveries [...]

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Benefit To Aid Women’s Hospital

October 21, 2010 Health

To ninght’s Bloom Fashion Benefit aims to raise cash toward establishing a women’s health centre in Phnom Penh under the auspices of Sihanouk Hospital Centre of HOPE. The hospital hopes to open The Women’s Centre, a comprehensive medical centre, in December next year to offer high-quality medical care to all Cambodian women, regardless of their [...]

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Malaria Deaths Plunged in First Half of 2010

August 6, 2010 Health

The number of deaths from malaria in the first half of the year dropped by more than two-thirds compared to the same period in 2009, according to National Malaria Center data. “This year, cases and deaths have decreased due to our village workers; secondly, high coverage of bed nets; and thirdly, we are not out [...]

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Government Bans Pig Imports; Swine Flue Deaths Persist

August 5, 2010 Health

The government has banned the import of pigs in order to curb a regional outbreak that has killed thousands of swine across Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. The ban came the same day that provincial animal health officials gathered in Phnom Penh to discuss how to control the spread of [...]

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Pig Disease Kills Hogs in Kampot and Battambang Province

August 3, 2010 Health

An unidentified disease has killed about 125 pigs in Kampot province’s Kampong Trach district in the past week, while dozens of pigs in Battambang have died of another unknown illness over the past three weeks, local officials said yesterday. Kompong Trach district governor Um Sinath said that the disease broke out in his district  on [...]

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Protect Your Eyes From Your PC With Google Chrome Grass Background

June 16, 2010 Health

Everyday I spend many hours sitting in front of Computer even in my workplace I need to use the computer too. Also my favorite is surfing the internet for various information. I am addicted in Internet since I first time used it in 2006. After I left my work at 5.00pm, I spend all time [...]

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