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Drug-resistant TB blamed on Indian treatment flaws

HealthMar 29, 2012

NEW DELHI (AP) ― India’s inadequate government-run tuberculosis treatment programs and a lack of regulation of the sale of drugs that fight the disease are responsible for the spiraling number of drug-resistant cases that are difficult to treat, health activists said Friday.India adds an estimated 99,000 cases of drug-resistant TB every year, but only a tiny fraction of those infected receive the proper drugs to treat the stubborn disease through the government-funded program. Saturday marks Wor
More people take longer-lasting options to replace missing teeth

HealthMar 29, 2012

DETROIT ― She wasn’t even wearing heels. But on the sidewalk near the Southfield, Mich., law firm where she works, Arlene Bordman’s loafer got stuck in a crack and “I went right over and landed on my mouth.” A few weeks later, she felt something rattling and loose in her upper jaw. Her dentist ended up pulling out her upper four front teeth, just six weeks before her son’s May 30 wedding.Bordman, 68, of West Bloomfield, Mich., got through the wedding wearing a flipper: fake front teeth attached
Functional dyspepsia

HealthMar 29, 2012

Most people have experienced gastrointestinal symptoms such as digestive disturbances, abdominal pain, vomiting and heart burn. When these symptoms come up, it’s best to take clinical laboratory tests. This is because Korean people are particularly vulnerable to stomach cancer and gastric ulcers. If you visit our outpatient clinic with these complaints, we will provide clinical laboratory tests as hepatic function tests, blood tests, urinalysis, stool examination, upper gastrointestinal endoscop
Court orders FDA action on use of antibiotics on farms

HealthMar 29, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) ― A federal court judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35-year-old rule that would stop farmers from mixing popular antibiotics into animal feed, a practice which is widely believed to have led to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria.In 1977, the FDA concluded that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock, poultry and other animals weakened the treatment’s effectiveness in humans. The agency issued an order that would have banned no
Seasonal veggies boost immune system

HealthMar 29, 2012

As the temperature lingers below the annual average, more people are getting the flu. According to the Korea Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, 4.66 of every 1,000 patients visiting the doctor recently were diagnosed with influenza. The authorities blame the cold weather, saying it likely brought down overall immunity.According to experts, one way to restore or boost immunity is an extra intake of fruit and vegetables. The effect is much more powerful when coupled with exercise. Sti
Weight loss in a pill contains coffee bean

HealthMar 29, 2012

Green -- unroasted -- coffee beans might be the weight-loss pill that has been sought for so long, a U.S. researchers suggested. Joe Vinson of the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania and colleagues said the study involved 16 overweight or obese people ages 22-26, who took capsules of the ex
Rights activist awarded POSCO TJ Park Prize

PeopleMar 28, 2012

POSCO TJ Park Foundation on Wednesday awarded a nano-medicine expert, a school principal and a human rights activist the annual TJ Park Prizes for science, education and social endeavor, respectively. Cheon Jin-woo, professor of chemistry at Yonsei University, won the award for his research in the use of nanotechnology for medical purposes. Kwak Jong-moon, principal of Hangyeore Middle and High School, was awarded for his contributions in alternative education and helping teenaged North Korean d
Fighter pilot donates bone marrow

PeopleMar 28, 2012

Air Force Major Lee Myeong-woo of the First Fighter Wing has donated bone marrow to a leukemia patient, the Air Force announced Wednesday.According to the Ari Force, Lee registered with the Korea Marrow Donor Program as a potential donor after the story of Brian Bauman was made known in 1996. At the time Lee was studying at the Air Force Academy, and has since been serving as a fighter pilot. Bauman is a Korean-American who was adopted by American parents. He suffered from chronic myelogenous le
Seoul Fashion Week features new designers at new runway

FashionMar 28, 2012

The nation’s 12-year-old fashion week is being reenergized this season with a new organizer and venue, and a lineup of designers that includes several new names.Co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and global fashion consulting company IMG, Seoul Fashion Week will showcase 2012 FW collections at Olympic Park’s World Peace Plaza in Bangi-dong, southeastern Seoul, in the first week of April. The event will be held in four tents set up at the park, with a tent each dedicated to Seoul Collecti
Twins seek sex change in China first: report

HealthMar 28, 2012

Two young Chinese women undergoing sex-change surgery at a Shanghai hospital are hoping to be the first twins in the country to change their gender, a state-backed newspaper said Wednesday.The 25-year-old sisters from the southwestern province of Yunnan have already undergone preliminary surgery at
Park Jin-young opens Korean barbecue restaurant in New York

Food&BeverageMar 28, 2012

Korean music mogul Park Jin-young has become an owner of a Korean barbecue restaurant in New York, featuring a special grill that he invented. Park, CEO and founder of JYP Entertainment, a major K-pop record label and management company in Korea, held a press meeting in New York on Monday announcing
Lebanese author wins prize for Arabic fiction

BooksMar 28, 2012

ABU DHABI (AP) ― Organizers say a Lebanese author has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel depicting life of a Christian egg seller after war, in exile and during imprisonment.The prize is a prestigious Arabic literary award, affiliated with the Booker Prize Foundation in LondonRabee Jaber’s “The Druse of Belgrade’’ is set in Beirut in the 1860s. The protagonist, Hanna Yacoub, has assumed a false identity of a Druse fighter after civil war and is sent into exile. The book
U.S. man injured in gun accident gets new face

HealthMar 28, 2012

After 15 years of wearing a mask and living as a recluse, a 37-year-old Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident got a new face, nose, teeth and jaw in what University of Maryland physicians say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed. From left to right: face of Richard Norris b
Revamped Seoul Fashion Week changes venue to Olympic Park

FashionMar 28, 2012

Seoul mayor to model at Donation Runway The nation’s 12-year-old fashion week is being reenergized this season with a new organizer and venue, and a lineup of designers that includes several new names.Co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and global fashion consulting company IMG, Seoul Fashion Week will showcase 2012 FW collections at Olympic Park’s World Peace Plaza in Bangi-dong, southeastern Seoul, in the first week of April. The event will be held in four tents set up at the park, with
Harry Potter novels available as eBooks

BooksMar 28, 2012

British author J.K. Rowling's seven Harry Potter books are for the first time available for all types of electronic readers.The eBook versions of the blockbuster fantasy novels can be purchased exclusively at Rowling's Pottermore.com Web site as of Tuesday.More than 450 million hard copies of the se