Courageous diplomat lauded
IT was Dr Feng Shan Ho (1901-97), Chinese consul-general in Vienna, who saved several thousand Jews in Nazi-occupied Austria from the Holocaust by issuing them with Chinese visas in 1938 and 1939.
Beating baldness with surgery
IT'S not uncommon for balding people to have a line of hair remaining at about the level of the ears.
Hospitals co-operate in neurology
RENJI Hospital announced last week it will be co-operating with the Shanghai Neural Studies Institute attached to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Study links milk, ice cream to prostate cancer
SAN FRANCISCO - New data from a long-term study suggest a possible link between consumption of dairy products, including whole and skim milk, cheese and ice cream, and an increased risk of prostate cancer, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health said on Tuesday.
A-Z of fashion from lgerdo
GUCCI shoes with Louis Vuitton bag or Christian Dior suit and Fendi bag... Which should it be?
Treatment for tired eyelids on tired eyes
EVERY woman knows wrinkles will first appear around her eyes. But do you know the reason?
Heart attack risk not seen with fen-phen
CHICAGO - Dieters who took the since-recalled drug cocktail known as fen-phen raised their risk of developing a heart valve problem but were not at higher risk of suffering a heart attack, a study said on Tuesday. Doctors at the University of California, Irvine, said their study found obese patients who took the diet drugs for an average of three months or more exhibited two to three times the rate of aortic regurgitation of patients treated without the drugs. Aortic regurgitation occurs when blood being pumped out of the heart leaks back in because of damage to the valves. But rates of serious cardiac events such as heart attack, congestive heart failure or ventricular arrhythmia were the same in both groups of patients, the report said. Part of a popular drug combination known as fen-phen, fenfluramine was sold under the brand name Pondimin by Wyeth Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp, and A.H. Robins Co Dexfenfluramine was sold under the name Redux, which was developed by Interneuron Pharmaceuticals Inc, which licensed the drug to Wyeth. (Agencies via Xinhua)
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