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EDITORIAL: The power of touch — Campaigns you should be aware of

November 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Who knew a touch could do so much? It can, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO, more than 150,000 newborns die every year across China. This has prompted a WHO campaign on Weibo (somewhat similar to China’s version of Twitter). The campaign, called “First Embrace” and launched by WHO’s Regional Office […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2015, China, Dr Bernhard Schwartl, First Embrace, Seattle, Seattle Big Give, University Christian Church, Vol 34 No 47 | November 14 - November 20, WHO, Western Pacific

Cancer surge in China prompts rise of special patient hotels

April 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jack Chang Associated Press BEIJING (AP)—Li Xiaohe has set herself up for the long haul in a cramped but sunny room in western Beijing, about a block from China’s most renowned cancer hospital. Her laundry dries on hangers and her husband cooks in a communal kitchen as she embarks on an 84-day program of […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Angela Pratt, Associated Press, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Chen Shuhong, China, Chinese, Cui Xiaobo, Guo Xinglan, United States, Vol 34 No 17 | April 18 - April 24, WHO, World Health Organization

US nurse with Ebola says she’s ‘doing well’

October 18, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Emily Schmall and Nomaan Merchant Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A nurse who became infected with Ebola while treating the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. said Tuesday that she was “‘doing well,” while the World Health Organization projected that West Africa could see up to 10,000 new infections a week within two months. […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Bruce Aylward, Christina Tran, Disease Control, Fort Worth, Jeremy Blume, Kent Brantly, Liberia, Matthias Hasberg, Nina Pham, Nurse Nina Pham, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Thomas Eric Duncan, US, United States, Vietnamese Catholics, Vol 33 No 43 | October 18 - October 24, WHO, West Africa

Asbestos pushed in Asia as product for the poor

August 17, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Katy Daigle AP Environment Writer VAISHALI, India (AP) — The executives mingled over tea and sugar cookies, and the chatter was upbeat. Their industry, they said at a conference in the Indian capital, saves lives and brings roofs, walls and pipes to some of the world’s poorest people.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2014, Abhaya Shankar, Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers Association, Asia, Assistant Surgeon General Dr, India, John Nicodemus, Madan Prasad Gupta, New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Quebec-based Chrysotile Institute, Richard Lemen, Russia, Supreme Court, Toxicologist David Bernstein, Umesh Kumar, VAISHALI, Vol 33 No 34 | August 16 - August 22, WHO

WHO declares India polio-free

April 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Manik Banergee Associated Press SHAHPARA, India (AP) – The scourge of polio ends in India with a lively 4-year-old girl, Rukhsar Khatoon, who became ill as a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, AP, Abdul Shah, Afghanistan, Associated Press, India, New Delhi, Nigeria, Nirmala George, Pakistan, Poonam Khetrpal Singh, Rukhsar Khatoon, SHAHPARA, Southeast Asian, Vol 33 No 15 | April 5 - April 11, WHO, poverty

Seattle nonprofit, Gates Foundation, and Chinese manufacturer promote life-saving vaccine

November 8, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave a stamp of approval for a Chinese-made vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), a disease that plagues mostly children in poor rural communities in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Seattle’s PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) had been searching for ways to develop a low-cost vaccine […]

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2013, Bill Gates, CDIBP, Cambodia, China, Chinese, Gates Foundation, India, JE, Nepal, North Korea, PATH, SA, Seattle, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Vol 32 No 46 | November 9 - November 15, WHO, Western Pacific

Super smog hits north China city; flights canceled

October 26, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Louise Watt The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Visibility shrank to less than half a football field and small-particle pollution soared to a record 40 times higher than an international safety standard in one northern Chinese city as the region entered its high-smog season.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Barry Orms, Beijing, China, Chinese, Patti Austin, Russia, Vol 32 No 44 | October 26 - November 1, WHO, Wu Kai

Potent form of common child illness deadly in Asia

July 21, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Margie Mason The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Vietnamese hospital, and it could be many months more before he can go home. All for a disease that in Asia is as common as chicken pox, and usually about […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Asia, Australia, Cambodia, China, Europe, HANOI, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Tran Nam Trung, United States, Vietnamese, Vol 31 No 30 | July 21 - July 27, WHO, Zarifah Hussain Reed

Are Asian Americans immune to becoming overweight?

February 16, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nan Nan Liu Northwest Asian Weekly Asians don’t get fat…right? “Most Asians I encounter are smaller and thinner,” said Rebecca Kelley, a Korean American who is half white. She is the creator of MediocreAthlete.com. “I imagine it’s partly due to genetics and partly their upbringing.”

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2012, Asian Americans, BBQ, China, Disease Control, Domingo Rodriguez, Indonesia-born Maria Hermawan, Korean American, Lulu Lemon Athletics, Maybe Asians, Northwest Asian Weekly, Rebecca Kelley, The Health Issue, United States, Vietnamese-born Ana Le, Vol 31 No 8 | February 18 - February 24, WHO, Yi Zhang, attention

Health officials say India is close to wiping out polio

October 29, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Nirmala George The Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has not had a case of polio in nine months, raising hopes the country is on the verge of defeating the disease, health officials said Monday, Oct. 24.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Afghanistan, Asia, Australia, Europe, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, India, Nata Menabde, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rod Curtis, UNICEF, Uttar Pradesh, Vol 30 No 44 | October 29 - November 4, WHO, West Bengal, World Health Organization, World Polio Day

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