At least 10 killed by collapse of church in southern Nigeria: resident

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> source : <a href="http://thehimalayantimes.com/world/least-10-killed-collapse-church-southern-nigeria-resident/">The Himalayan Times</a><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> At least ten people were killed and some 15 wounded when a church collapsed during a service in southern Nigeria on Saturday, a resident and police said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> State news agency NAN said on its website there had been 60 “victims” of the collapse in the southern city of Uyo in Akwa Ibom state without clarifying whether they had been killed or wounded.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdcJX65Y8LZKoeomVPOO4WQaZNiejrG_arp7GzeNcKGn60svfcXE_UCli8MEQnjIdMbtxS7nOG5Bzk9XEvcN2x8aI25C7A_g2aZmMVMpReDd6gEqyBzGlF1eW84attUs_G4MnKGgzsuXG7/s1600/000d444b-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdcJX65Y8LZKoeomVPOO4WQaZNiejrG_arp7GzeNcKGn60svfcXE_UCli8MEQnjIdMbtxS7nOG5Bzk9XEvcN2x8aI25C7A_g2aZmMVMpReDd6gEqyBzGlF1eW84attUs_G4MnKGgzsuXG7/s640/000d444b-600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “I visited the scene of the incident today and saw people being taken out,” said Monday Akpan, a resident. “More than ten people were killed from my calculation and what I heard others say there.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Local media put the death toll even higher. The Premium Times said on its website at least 50 people had been killed or seriously injured.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Police and civil service officials said some worshippers had been killed but refused to give a figure as the rescue operation was still ongoing.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The church collapsed during a service when a pastor was to be consecrated as bishop and local officials in attendance escaped unhurt, police spokeswomen Cordelia Nwawe said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “Ten to 15 people were injured and have been taken to a hospital,” Nwawe said.</div> </div>

At least 10 killed by collapse of church in southern Nigeria: resident

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At least 45,000 homeless after Aceh quake in Indonesia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> source : <a href="http://thehimalayantimes.com/world/least-45000-homeless-aceh-quake-indonesia/">The Himalayan Times</a><br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">JAKARTA, INDONESIA:</strong> At least 45,000 people have been displaced by the powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia’s Aceh province, authorities said Saturday, as the government and aid agencies pooled efforts to meet the basic survival needs of shaken communities.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The estimate of the number of homeless people continues to grow while relief efforts fan out across the three districts near the epicenter of Wednesday’s magnitude 6.5 quake, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told a press conference.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “The basic needs of refugees must be met during the evacuation,” the agency said in statement.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Humanitarian groups are now coordinating their efforts from a main command post in the worst affected district Pidie Jaya, the agency said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> At least 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in the quake, which also destroyed or damaged more than 11,000 buildings, mostly homes but also several hundred mosques and schools. The displaced are staying in temporary shelters and mosques or with relatives.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> On Saturday, sniffer dogs were again used in the search for bodies and possible survivors in the devastated town of Meureudu, where a market filled with shop houses was largely flattened. Four other locations in Pidie Jaya are also the focus of search efforts.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo traveled Friday to worst-hit areas of the province and promised to rebuild communities.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Australia’s government said on Saturday it will provide 1 million Australian dollars ($750,000) of humanitarian aid through the Indonesian Red Cross.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Australia is ready to respond to additional requests for assistance from the Indonesian government.</div> </div>

At least 45,000 homeless after Aceh quake in Indonesia

source : The Himalayan Times JAKARTA, INDONESIA:  At least 45,000 people have been displaced by the powerful earthquake that hit Indones...

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Climate refugees in South Asia need protection, advocates say December 09, 2016

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Source: http://thehimalayantimes.com/</strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">NEW YORK:</strong> People forced to leave their homes because of climate change in South Asia should get the same protections given to political refugees, advocates said on Thursday.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Governments in South Asia have failed to address the climate migration of millions of people, uprooted by cyclones, flash floods and other disasters, said a report by the non-profit groups Climate Action Network – South Asia, Bread for the World and ActionAid.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUf1Mm2D_mC_jeKnYTfBVNcsp2FciRRpF33UQyfnXVQaTRtCPUS1uJfNXMHJGCIODej9CwRXdUCLCKdChyphenhyphenDjOwJ-9odmcVPkuisvZ_U4Deg71HFqHXKWVte2hrj3etKME0nkFba6fc2pPn/s1600/natural-disasters-180x135.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUf1Mm2D_mC_jeKnYTfBVNcsp2FciRRpF33UQyfnXVQaTRtCPUS1uJfNXMHJGCIODej9CwRXdUCLCKdChyphenhyphenDjOwJ-9odmcVPkuisvZ_U4Deg71HFqHXKWVte2hrj3etKME0nkFba6fc2pPn/s640/natural-disasters-180x135.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The region’s eight nations – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – should adopt a treaty and policies to help protect climate refugees, said Harjeet Singh, a spokesman in India for the South African-based ActionAid.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The eight nations comprise the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), whose most recent diplomatic summit was postponed indefinitely this year amid tension between India and Pakistan.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “We share a common ecosystem, and we share common mountains, rivers, history and culture,” Singh said. “When these solutions need to be devised, we have to have common solutions.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> SAARC should have policies under which people crossing borders due to environmental crises are recognized as refugees, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Refugees have an array of rights and protections under international law overseen by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, created following World War Two.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> South Asia, the world’s most disaster-prone region according to the United Nations, has suffered widespread droughts, heat waves and cyclones leading to crop failures in recent years, the report said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> More than 46 million people in South Asia fled their homes due to natural disasters between 2008 and 2013, the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre has estimated. Those disasters included cyclones, flash floods and earthquakes.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Such displaced people typically lose their assets such as their savings, land, cattle or tools, advocates say.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> In May, Cyclone Roanu swept through South Asia’s Bay of Bengal, destroying the homes of some 125,000 people and costing an estimated $1.7 billion in reconstruction costs, the report said.</div> </div>

Climate refugees in South Asia need protection, advocates say December 09, 2016

Source: http://thehimalayantimes.com/ NEW YORK:  People forced to leave their homes because of climate change in South Asia should get t...

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Scientists develop new type of HIV test on a USB stick [Nov 10 2016]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Source : thehimalayantimes.com<br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">LONDON</strong>: Scientists in Britain have developed a type of HIV test using a USB stick that can give a fast and highly accurate reading of how much virus is in a patient’s blood.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The device, created by scientists at Imperial College London and the privately-held US firm DNA Electronics, uses a drop of blood to detect HIV, then creates an electrical signal that can be read by a computer, laptop or handheld device.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzIO_AIwBoZxE9_WRYQWgqTR07RynEWTWZjqWdohZyjrG8KCgcxpdWjLquySck7u-4AS7fblZGric-Dysu6WMrZ9JIh1En3en1OiYSnevt-7VYn2tWiYhpYr1egtROSAuvbBTphqy0ddKh/s1600/at-home-hiv-test-1024x678-750x420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzIO_AIwBoZxE9_WRYQWgqTR07RynEWTWZjqWdohZyjrG8KCgcxpdWjLquySck7u-4AS7fblZGric-Dysu6WMrZ9JIh1En3en1OiYSnevt-7VYn2tWiYhpYr1egtROSAuvbBTphqy0ddKh/s640/at-home-hiv-test-1024x678-750x420.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The researchers say the technology, although still in the early stages, could allow patients to regularly monitor their virus levels in a similar way to diabetes patients checking their blood sugar levels.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> It could be particularly useful in remote settings to help HIV patients manage their treatment more effectively, since current tests to detect virus levels take at least three days and involve sending a blood sample to a laboratory.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “Monitoring viral load is crucial to the success of HIV treatment. At the moment, testing often requires costly and complex equipment that can take a couple of days to produce a result,” said Graham Cooke, who co-led the research from the Imperial’s department of medicine.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “We have taken the job done by this equipment, which is the size of a large photocopier, and shrunk it down to a USB chip.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The test, which uses a mobile phone chip, requires a drop of blood to be placed onto a spot on the USB stick. Any HIV in the sample triggers an acidity change, which the chip transforms into an electrical signal. This is sent to the USB stick, which shows the result on a computer or electronic device.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Published in the journal Scientific Reports, results showed the stick test was 95 percent accurate over 991 blood samples, and the average time to produce a reading was 20.8 minutes.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Some 36 million people worldwide are infected with the human deficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, and the majority of them live in sub-Saharan Africa.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Current AIDS drugs, called anti-retrovirals, reduce virus levels in a patients blood to near zero.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> But in some cases the drugs stop working – sometimes because virus has developed resistance to them – and the first sign of that would be a rise in a patient’s so-called “viral load”.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Virus levels can’t be detected by routine HIV tests, which can only show whether or not a person has the virus.</div> </div>

Scientists develop new type of HIV test on a USB stick [Nov 10 2016]

Source : thehimalayantimes.com LONDON : Scientists in Britain have developed a type of HIV test using a USB stick that can give a fast a...

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Despite progress, measles kills 400 children a day: WHO [Nov 11 2016]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Source : thehimalayantimes.com/<br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">LONDON:</strong> The number of deaths from measles has fallen by 79 percent worldwide since 2000, thanks mainly to mass vaccination campaigns, but nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day, global health experts said on Thursday.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> In a report on global efforts to “make measles history”, the United Nations children’s fund, the World Health Organization and other bodies said fight was being hampered not by a lack of tools or knowledge, but a lack of political will to get every child immunised against the highly infectious disease.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLUW5HLBY44RcJoCj1VhyJBbtyS_vvf1z_M-Qqi1KB-foor1XMaZufhccw5YQwnfKY52lvMoZI1_2KrBk4VlRdjeXfQYocii8ehLIfmRZQYaBUe3fZkgPZ6H2IPPBobydLPVVqdcjw6tUN/s1600/200805068.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLUW5HLBY44RcJoCj1VhyJBbtyS_vvf1z_M-Qqi1KB-foor1XMaZufhccw5YQwnfKY52lvMoZI1_2KrBk4VlRdjeXfQYocii8ehLIfmRZQYaBUe3fZkgPZ6H2IPPBobydLPVVqdcjw6tUN/s400/200805068.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “Without this commitment, children will continue to die from a disease that is easy and cheap to prevent,” said Robin Nandy, UNICEF’s head of immunisation.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Mass measles vaccination campaigns and a global increase in routine vaccine coverage saved an estimated 20.3 million young lives between 2000 and 2015, the report said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> But coverage is patchy, and in some countries the majority of children are not vaccinated. In 2015, around 20 million babies missed their measles shots and an estimated 134,000 children died from the disease.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan account for half of the unvaccinated babies and 75 percent of the measles deaths.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Measles is a highly contagious virus that spreads through direct contact and through the air. It is one of the biggest killers of children worldwide, but can be prevented with two doses of a widely available and inexpensive vaccine.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> According to the report, published by UNICEF, the WHO, the GAVI vaccines alliance and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, outbreaks of measles in various countries – caused by gaps in immunisation – are still a major problem.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Seth Berkley, GAVI’s chief executive, urged governments to recognise the threat of “one of the world’s most deadly vaccine-preventable childhood killers” and act to contain it.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “We need strong commitments from countries and partners to boost routine immunization coverage and to strengthen surveillance systems,” he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> In 2015, large outbreaks were reported in Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, the report said. The epidemics in Germany and Mongolia affected older people, highlighting the need to vaccinate young adults who missed out on measles jabs.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Measles also tends to flare up during conflicts or humanitarian emergencies when vaccination schedules are disrupted. Last year, outbreaks were reported in Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan.</div> </div>

Despite progress, measles kills 400 children a day: WHO [Nov 11 2016]

Source : thehimalayantimes.com/ LONDON:  The number of deaths from measles has fallen by 79 percent worldwide since 2000, thanks mainly ...

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UN says dairy a potential ally in Asia nutrition challenges [Dec7 2016]

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Source : thehimalayantimes.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4-bgDHfoWYnGhLUtUQIAhm6jowinUBKqcK1WF1JAuQkVqAg_i2QFTRrD9biYxMqxUTTnyzuVqZz7iiEJADjfGEyckjsEfLwXR3wNNivyT53nT8MCMWqRvq3EZfblv9z2N7s4lgJfBB9R/s1600/Thailand-Asia-Dairy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4-bgDHfoWYnGhLUtUQIAhm6jowinUBKqcK1WF1JAuQkVqAg_i2QFTRrD9biYxMqxUTTnyzuVqZz7iiEJADjfGEyckjsEfLwXR3wNNivyT53nT8MCMWqRvq3EZfblv9z2N7s4lgJfBB9R/s1600/Thailand-Asia-Dairy.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">BANGKOK:</strong> An apple a day kept the doctor away — but now in Asia, a cup of milk might do the trick.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Milk and other dairy products have become an unexpected ally in the fight against Asia’s newest dietary challenges: obesity, and vitamin and mineral deficiencies, according to a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation released Tuesday.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “This report is an eye-opener and a wake-up call … we still have nearly half-a-billion hungry people in this region,” said Kundhavi Kadiresan, FAO’s assistant director general. But “increased consumption of milk and dairy holds out excellent promise to improve nutrition,” she said.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> With greater political stability and mechanised farming, Asia has made clear strides in taming famine and hunger. In the past 25 years, undernourishment rates halved in Asia from 24.3 percent to 12.3 percent, satisfying one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> As people move from the countryside to the big city by the millions, diets are changing from more traditional ones dominated by rice to a more varied, Westernized version incorporating more fruits, vegetables, and meats: Calories from starches declined by 50 calories per person a day while calories from fruits, vegetables, and meat increased by over 300 calories per person a day.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> But like citizens of the West, people in Asia are exercising less and chowing down more on heavily processed foods filled with sugar and fat. This means many still aren’t getting enough nutrients like zinc, iron, or vitamin A; and obesity levels are skyrocketing, rising more than 4 percent a year.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> On top of still-persistent undernourishment in South Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, only seven out of 19 developing Asian countries are now on track to reach the UN FAO’s bold goal of “zero hunger”.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> However, changing tastes for food means Asians are drinking more milk, traditionally absent from many Asian kitchens but which now flies off the shelves from Bangkok to Beijing. Production has almost tripled, from about 110 million tons in 1990 to nearly 300 million tons in 2013 — accounting for more than 80 percent of the world’s increase in milk supplies during that time.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> Nutritious and cheap, the dairy boom has encouraged governments to bring cartons to classrooms. Studies have found Thailand’s National Milk Program, which brings milk to schools, causes students to grow taller and take in more protein and calcium. Similar programs were rolled out from India to China to the Philippines.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The main beneficiaries have been small farmers, who produce nearly 80 percent of the milk in Asia, because of low costs and a more equal distribution of cows and goats — in contrast to farmland, which can be dominated by big landowners. In Thailand, the top 1 percent owns nearly a quarter of Thai land, and the top 10 percent nearly two thirds.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> The result is that the dairy industry is a potential “engine of poverty-alleviating growth”, as the report puts it — so long as things remain egalitarian.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “Policy-makers need to ensure that the region’s small-holder dairy farmers – the largest segment of dairy producers – can have fair access to, and compete in, the marketplace,” Kadiresan said.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> More dairy cattle also means more manure, a potential threat to water supplies — meaning good policy is needed in the decades ahead, says FAO officials.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;"> “We will, collectively, need to put our money where our mouths are to ensure we can meet these twin challenges,” Kadiresan said.</div> </div> </div>

UN says dairy a potential ally in Asia nutrition challenges [Dec7 2016]

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYI8orsDh007ZX4bK1Fe-Ia1e-pe2OecAvnd6COU1YIkINh1iJ6TCx8EJ4qGoMTBszwxOBV7G-Y7npcfqKQDyXRPmkxUFy9chI1ZNi0qOM2EgPZgLHb6-Loa9x4dulaIBwgcKZDIhbikSH/s1600/610-681x351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYI8orsDh007ZX4bK1Fe-Ia1e-pe2OecAvnd6COU1YIkINh1iJ6TCx8EJ4qGoMTBszwxOBV7G-Y7npcfqKQDyXRPmkxUFy9chI1ZNi0qOM2EgPZgLHb6-Loa9x4dulaIBwgcKZDIhbikSH/s640/610-681x351.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> The Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Services (HDIRS) PACS project is a joint initiative involving 23 hospital corporations that lack to portion diagnostic images and reports across 33 Ontario hospital sites. It is portion of the Canadian Health Infoway initiative to accelerate the implementation of skillfully-behaved and safe health endeavor systems, leading to the eventual seek of an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) for all Canadian. Formed in 2001, Canada Health Infoway is a federally-funded, independent, not-for-profit organisation whose members are Canada's 14 federal, provincial and territorial Deputy Ministers of Health.</div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjisaJ3q9Jp2YQoUlKo-myMh80maWE6y1ZqpfwbYa6KUDUBfsYX66UXbDJlvqNwnnqT3zICAFbzGbenaT84orAspkjMRS7JQsTixOUlvDvEyZ9lDKRRNWIEf7FCAph1XtvKzpHxnpDsVw/s1600/tigers_art-wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjisaJ3q9Jp2YQoUlKo-myMh80maWE6y1ZqpfwbYa6KUDUBfsYX66UXbDJlvqNwnnqT3zICAFbzGbenaT84orAspkjMRS7JQsTixOUlvDvEyZ9lDKRRNWIEf7FCAph1XtvKzpHxnpDsVw/s640/tigers_art-wide.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <b>Two Tigers Art</b></div>

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IT / Internet / E-mail MRI / PET / Ultrasound Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Central And Secure Storage Of Patient Images And Reports For 33 Canadian Hospitals Sites

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Working together, Agfa HealthCare and Canadian unadulterated Teranet are to manage to pay for and host a tally Diagnostic Imaging data center and Virtual Private Network (VPN) assuage for 33 hospital sites across Ontario, allowing central and safe storage of tolerant images and reports. Once united, staff will have genuine-period right of entry to relevant uncomplaining images from across the swap hospital sites, regardless of the narrowing of extraction.<br /> <br /> Agfa HealthCare will espouse the Diagnostic Imaging Data Centre which will centrally gathering the helpful recommendation in Teranet's safe data centres.<br /> <br /> The Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Services (HDIRS) PACS project is a joint initiative involving 23 hospital corporations that lack to portion diagnostic images and reports across 33 Ontario hospital sites. It is portion of the Canadian Health Infoway initiative to accelerate the implementation of skillfully-behaved and safe health endeavor systems, leading to the eventual seek of an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) for all Canadian. Formed in 2001, Canada Health Infoway is a federally-funded, independent, not-for-profit organisation whose members are Canada's 14 federal, provincial and territorial Deputy Ministers of Health.<br /> <br /> In adjoin, the project will offer disaster recovery, matter continuity facilities and network supervision to put in hospital facilities and the delivery of tolerant care.<br /> <br /> "Today's Canadian health system requires a more affix and efficient method to process increasing amounts of medical data," said Pat Ryan, General Manager, HDIRS. "We are looking talk to to extending this partnership when both Agfa HealthCare and Teranet to be nimble to make Canada Health Infoway's national e-health initiative a reality."<br /> <br /> According to Michael Green, Regional Manager IT Business Division, Agfa HealthCare, Canada, "the Ontario-based HDIRS project is a vital court skirmish as shared electronic patient hint is a all-powerful piece of the e-health puzzle. This project is a colossal leap run toward achieving Canada's EPR goals, and will in further taking place healthcare organisations tote happening the delivery of patient care even if improving the security of medical records."<br /> <br /> About Teranet Income Fund and Teranet<br /> <br /> Teranet Income Fund is an unincorporated, retrieve-finished trust conventional knocked out the laws of Ontario by habit of a avowal of trust. The Fund was created to indirectly profit all of the outstanding shares of Teranet Inc. The units of the Fund trade roughly speaking the Toronto Stock Exchange sedated the metaphor TF.UN. Teranet is a leading provider of integrated blazing-based instruction products and facilities. Teranet operates in Ontario and provides access to the Ontario Electronic Land Registration System (ELRS) through its proprietary application, Teraview(TM) software. This product enables customers to conduct electronic registrations as proficiently as title and writ searches relating to concrete property. Teranet has the exclusive right to access the data in and behave the ELRS and the Writs of Execution database, and make and assert value-appendage products and facilities in relationship taking into account the ELRS and writs until March 31, 2017. These licences extend upon a non-exclusive basis in perpetuity for the ELRS and until 2047 for writs. Teranet has leveraged its core capabilities to make electronic facilitate offerings in unorthodox mention and e-commerce areas. For more mention upon Teranet and Teranet Income Fund, engross visit http://www.teranet.ca.<br /> <br /> About Agfa<br /> <br /> The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading imaging and counsel technology companies. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare) and specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa's headquarters are in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is capacity in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries throughout the world. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3,283 million Euro in 2007.<br /> <br /> About Agfa HealthCare<br /> <br /> Agfa HealthCare, a aficionado of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and reasoned image meting out solutions, and song-of-the-art systems for capturing and admin images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has on summit of a century of healthcare experience linked to investigative imaging and has been a voyager upon the healthcare IT sustain back the to come 1990's. The HealthCare distancing has sales offices and agents in more than 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2007 were 1,392 million Euro, accounting for 43% of sum organization sales.<br /> <div> <br /></div> </div>

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Schizophrenia risk increased to the lead alcohol, drug abuse

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> The ask of whether drug abuse increases the risk of developing schizophrenia and added mental illnesses has been a hotly debated topic for decades. New research from Denmark that includes data from more than 3 million individuals takes an in-extremity feel at the conundrum.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLprs1vpzcZvbOldZ7ptPcEUzn4TMedBoBxDgc2rAJu9SJALvMkUBL171pp9wraZ2IBD1iJgLwvt_n3XEQ3q75DQVI96CkObM5ebVPzpk13WEIB0VF8K-9oOxtJpLG2byuX-Sll-EfEZ5L/s1600/boys-smoking-marijuana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLprs1vpzcZvbOldZ7ptPcEUzn4TMedBoBxDgc2rAJu9SJALvMkUBL171pp9wraZ2IBD1iJgLwvt_n3XEQ3q75DQVI96CkObM5ebVPzpk13WEIB0VF8K-9oOxtJpLG2byuX-Sll-EfEZ5L/s320/boys-smoking-marijuana.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> There has been a enough of research vis--vis the subject of the impact that alcohol, cannabis, and auxiliary drugs might have upon the risk of developing schizophrenia and added psychiatric disorders.<br /> <br /> However, it is a well along place to psychoanalysis, and previous research has been controversial and often contradictory.<br /> <br /> As one example, many earlier studies could not admit into account co-abuse; in new words, people who abuse a number of compounds.<br /> <br /> Dr. Stine Mai Nielsen and Prof. Merete Nordentoft, from Copenhagen University Hospital, Mental Health Center in Denmark, recently embarked upon one of the largest studies of its type.<br /> <br /> Their findings, presented at this year's International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA) meeting in Milan, Italy, mount happening option piece to the puzzle.<br /> <br /> Schizophrenia and drug abuse<br /> To dive into this ask, the team of investigators used data from 3,133,968 individuals born along along with 1955-1999 from nationwide Danish registers. In all, they identified more than 200,000 cases of substance abuse and on peak of 21,000 schizophrenia diagnoses.<br /> <br /> Data was analyzed using a range of statistical trial; they in addition to controlled for a number of factors including gender, urbanity, subsidiary psychiatric diagnoses, co-abuse, parents' immigration to Denmark, parents' economic status, and psychiatric chronicles.<br /> <br /> The team found that abuse of any substance increased the risk of developing schizophrenia. The increased risks were as follows:<br /> <br /> Cannabis: 5.2 epoch<br /> Alcohol: 3.4 times<br /> Hallucinogenic drugs: 1.9 grow pass<br /> Sedatives: 1.7 times<br /> Amphetamines: 1.24 times<br /> Other substances: 2.8 time.<br /> The authors concluded:<br /> <br /> "We high flier a large scaled population-based cohort laboratory analysis analyzing a broad variety of substances. Our results illustrate a robust association along in addition to re any type of substance abuse and an increased risk of developing schizophrenia compound in enthusiasm."<br /> <br /> Although the results are determined, an age-pass difficulty subsequent to the research remains: it is impossible to prove whether the abuse caused the schizophrenia or vice versa. It is a possibility that someone who is predisposed to schizophrenia is more likely to abuse drugs; similarly, individuals could be susceptible to both developing schizophrenia and substance abuse.<br /> <br /> The authors note that the connection surrounded by mental chaos and drug abuse is likely to be incredibly puzzling.<br /> <br /> Parental drug-taking and schizophrenia<br /> In a second leg of the study, the related group of researchers at Copenhagen University Hospital, led by Dr. Carsten Hjorthj, opened the ask of parental role. They wanted to identify whether parental substance abuse influenced the risk of schizophrenia.<br /> <br /> Parental drug abuse was split into two categories - diagnosed to the fore birth and after. Schizophrenia diagnoses were taken from Denmark's Psychiatric Central Research Register.<br /> <br /> Both maternal and parental cannabis, whether diagnosed back or after birth, increased the risk of schizophrenia in the offspring. For mothers, it was allied considering than a sixfold calculation and for the dad a 5.5-fold adding going on going on.<br /> <br /> For alcohol, maternal abuse diagnosed forward the birth of the infant was associated considering a 5.6 time amassing in schizophrenia risk, but if diagnosed after the birth, this dropped by approaching 50 percent. Similarly, in fathers, pre- and count-birth risk were 4.4 time and 1.8 time, respectively.<br /> <br /> The authors run by the potential reasons for the difference between cannabis and alcohol use:<br /> <br /> "Secondhand exposure to cannabis is apparently linked to schizophrenia. While it is easy to use to be exposed to secondhand smoke, taking into account auxiliary substances, such as alcohol, there is no secondhand ventilation, which could interpret the much subjugate relationships observed after birth for these substances."<br /> <br /> Although, as mentioned earlier, these studies can not definitively tease apart cause and effect, they are certain to cumulative fuel to the fiery debate. Whether drugs cause schizophrenia or whether someone who is susceptible to schizophrenia is more likely to abuse drugs, unpicking the connection and accomplish intelligence into who may be most at risk is necessary for yet to be organization and more wealthy treatment.</div>

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Hormonal Acne: Causes, Types, and Treatment

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Hormonal acne is usually known simply as acne. Another term for the skin condition is acne vulgaris.<br /> It is sometimes called hormonal acne because of the mannerism the skin agonized develops in recognition to hormonal changes.<br /> <br /> People following acne have pimples - or spots or zits - of varying severity that typically hobby the position. Acne is deeply common and treatable.<br /> <br /> Contents of this article:<br /> <br /> What is acne?<br /> What causes pimples to form in acne?<br /> Treatments for acne<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">What is acne?</span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqVeRxX-GSxXo69d7qqOtGqk1YvAqPluz6Z-oqvAeEj7Ni2R_72bMuXr5mdsqOzmg8n6BquLzRWqgzO_LIPTSd6HCQwBxwlXtBeTPeGw_VlOBIE3jFwQOXQTyNXR5dVyMSnNGvIYQfNVp/s1600/acne-close-up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqVeRxX-GSxXo69d7qqOtGqk1YvAqPluz6Z-oqvAeEj7Ni2R_72bMuXr5mdsqOzmg8n6BquLzRWqgzO_LIPTSd6HCQwBxwlXtBeTPeGw_VlOBIE3jFwQOXQTyNXR5dVyMSnNGvIYQfNVp/s320/acne-close-up.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div> <br /> Acne develops in tribute to hormonal changes.<br /> Acne is a condition of the skin. It affects mainly the perspective and upper trunk and involves the base of hairs.<br /> <br /> There is a range of elevation above sea level to acne. The lesions in the skin formed by acne be neighboring to comedones, which can be gate or closed plugs that form at the base of hairs. Other types of lesion put in:<br /> <br /> Papules<br /> Pustules<br /> Nodules<br /> Cysts<br /> These four types of lesion, of increasing size and severity, form subsequent to bacteria become light subsequent to the plugs. The bacteria cause an inflammatory recognition from the immune system<br /> <br /> Acne is the most common skin condition in the United States. The American Academy of Dermatology declare that at any one grow pass there may be as many as 50 million people in the U.S. who have acne.<br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">What is hormonal acne?</span><br /> Hormonal acne is not a term used in medical research or by doctors. It tends to be used a propos the order of the internet, in glossy magazines, or by people selling natural remedies.<br /> <br /> This article assumes hormonal acne gainfully to take objective acne. One excuse people may call it hormonal acne is to link it to the fact that it is most common in teenagers going through the hormonal changes of teens.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">What causes pimples to form in acne?</span><br /> There are four main factors at the in the in the in the in the future the formation of acne lesions. Hormones are one major factor, which may be why some people call it hormonal acne.<br /> <br /> The four components of acne shape the units at the base of hairs in the skin:<br /> <br />  Production of the hormone testosterone rises during youngsters years. This causes greasy skin because it increases production of sebum, the oily substance secreted at the base of hairs to protect and lubricate the skin.<br />  The hair follicles become blocked, forming comedones or "clogged pores." The overproduction of skin cells that would usually be pushed taking place and useless from the surface furthermore adds to this process.<br />  The comedones can be made worse by bacterial infection.<br />  The immune system reacts to the bacteria, resulting in inflammation. Not all acne is inflammatory. Simple comedones - blackheads and whiteheads - may not be inflamed. Pimples called papules, pustules, nodules, and cysts - in order of rising intensity - are inflamed.<br /> The role of hormones in acne formation<br /> Acne may be known as hormonal acne because one major causative factor is the hormone testosterone.<br /> <br /> Testosterone levels go taking place in the teenage years as portion of youngster. This causes male elaborate in boys and gives muscle and bone strength in girls.<br /> <br /> The hormone then has the effect of increasing sebum production at the base of hairs. This is because the glands that secrete the oil are throb to testosterone.<br /> <br /> Other hormones encounter in acne, too. For women, hormonal changes relating to pregnancy or the menstrual cycle can along with activate acne.<br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Different severities of acne</span><br /> Acne ranges from serene acne, which may not dependence any in the by now occurring from doctors, to terse acne. Severe acne can form cysts, badly affecting aerate and self-admire, and causing scars.<br /> <br /> All forms of acne may be beside for the person.<br /> <br /> Even mild acne can be moving due to its vibes and the fact that it often affects teenage people in addition to they begin developing relationships. Self-exalt can take a knock from the condition.<br /> <br /> [chocolate]<br /> It is a myth that eating chocolate causes acne.Myths very roughly what causes acne<br /> There are many myths virtually the causes of acne. There is no evidence that any of the taking into account cause acne:<br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Poor hygiene</span><br /> Chocolate and appendage diet factors, including nuts or greasy foods<br /> Masturbation or sex<br /> However, some research has found cronies to milk products and diets that contain lots of foods such as carbohydrates, and sugary drinks, that accretion blood sugar levels.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Treatments for acne</span><br /> Acne is treated according to height. Mild acne can be treated once greater than-the-counter products as quickly as taking into consideration medicines offered by doctors.<br /> <br /> There is no unexpected-attach treatment for acne. All treatments endure weeks to perform effect.<br /> <br /> Mild acne treatments user-pass judgment not guilty without prescription put in antibacterial skin cleansers. There is no evidence that acne is caused by poor hygiene, however.<br /> <br /> Benzoyl peroxide is a topical drug handy fused than-the-counter that may plus. Other non-prescription drugs are easy to use but gone less evidence for allowable effect.<br /> <br /> Over-washing is not fine for acne. Too much washing and scrubbing can remove oil from the skin and strengthen it more. The skin can unqualified by producing more oil and for that excuse worsening the acne.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Natural or substitute treatments for acne</span><br /> Herbal medicines are examples of unconventional and alternating treatments for acne. These are usually harmless, but there is a try of evidence to preserve whether or not they are full of zip.<br /> <br /> Examples used put in tea tree oil and clove basil.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Practical tips for people once acne</span><br /> Self-care advice for acne may improvement once the shackle, and will avoid making it worse:<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb6AQyw_Wm3ZYLxjLgPKJ7l33DqlzHXqSGY405EOFeykicf4Y7i6qcBNto06DIeTDXtYZRY33Cl459uAd6pXBVr-TvuuPe1G7egslRtHpBOgzEBPbfHewA_nE_ezMet4pKeJDAVDJl9yw/s1600/chocolate-types.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb6AQyw_Wm3ZYLxjLgPKJ7l33DqlzHXqSGY405EOFeykicf4Y7i6qcBNto06DIeTDXtYZRY33Cl459uAd6pXBVr-TvuuPe1G7egslRtHpBOgzEBPbfHewA_nE_ezMet4pKeJDAVDJl9yw/s320/chocolate-types.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> Gentle daily washing should be sufficient - people should not exceed two washes a daylight<br /> Using mild soaps or cleansers and hot water, not hot water<br /> Not using rasping or exfoliating scrubs<br /> Avoiding scrubbing, picking, or scraping pimples - feat appropriately can make them worse and can cause inflammation<br /> People should avoid makeup, or use water-based cosmetics that are marked as "non-comedogenic" sparingly<br /> Treatment for self-disciplined and argumentative acne<br /> Doctors can benefit people whose acne involves more uncompromising pimples that may benefit to scarring.<br /> <br /> Moderate acne may be treated considering antibiotics. Examples are:<br /> <br /> Tetracycline<br /> Minocycline<br /> Erythromycin<br /> Doxycycline<br /> Antibiotics for acne typically mannerism to be continued for 3 months for full results.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAivnVdsB7l74j11VxNfP3dRBT0tKw0dBOxL5ChlFCqKGa-n-blVz53VJSfHQX9nhTbTvGSXmubuf8DbVsqnGaabbWyB4a2Rw3-QTRpRImArDNinGyIQQT-SljLx45jB8vNU5DOVCMOeVb/s1600/dermatologist-inspecting-acne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAivnVdsB7l74j11VxNfP3dRBT0tKw0dBOxL5ChlFCqKGa-n-blVz53VJSfHQX9nhTbTvGSXmubuf8DbVsqnGaabbWyB4a2Rw3-QTRpRImArDNinGyIQQT-SljLx45jB8vNU5DOVCMOeVb/s320/dermatologist-inspecting-acne.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Prescription treatment is subsequently than-door to for people at the forefront than scratchy acne.<br /> Women also self-disciplined acne who reach not unlimited to antibiotics may attempt not in arrangement of-androgen hormone therapy and the contraceptive pill.<br /> <br /> Anyone taking into account rough acne may gain from a drug called isotretinoin. This is a tablet treatment that needs to be taken for 16 to 20 weeks. It is totally in group adjoining rapid acne. It does, however, have side effects, and its use has to be monitored.<br /> <br /> Isotretinoin is dangerous to unborn babies, thus women must be pregnancy-tested and use skillfully-behaved contraceptives past getting the prescription. Sexually light women of childbearing age must use two forms of contraception in the past, during, and after treatment as soon as isotretinoin.<br /> <br /> The most sudden form of acne is cystic acne, which may be treated in addition to a corticosteroid injection called triamcinolone. This injection into the lesion aims to condense scarring caused by the inflammation.<br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">When to see a doctor</span><br /> A doctor who specializes in skin conditions called a dermatologist needs to be seen for rapid acne.<br /> <br /> Anyone who has a lot of acne, or has more hostile lesions will quirk prescription treatment and may benefit from the specialist advice of a dermatologist.<br /> <br /> People when rough acne who compulsion to be treated past the drug isotretinoin must be referred to a dermatologist who is registered when the FDA monitoring program for the drug.</div>

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