Showing posts with label Voice Of America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voice Of America. Show all posts
Monday, December 01, 2014
How Far Fight Against AIDS Has Come
How far fight against AIDS has come - http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/opinion/anthony-sb-thanasayan/article/how-far-fight-against-aids-has-come
Friday, January 31, 2014
Friday, December 20, 2013
Meditation May Reduce Inflammation - Study
Meditation May Reduce Inflammation - Study
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Studies Explore Impact of Music and the Brain
Studies Explore Impact of Music and the Brain
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Voice Of America's Take On Sabah Attack
Voice of America News / Asia
Malaysian Troops, Fighter Jets Attack Filipino Group in Borneo
March 05, 2013
Malaysia has sent fighter jets and troops to secure an area of Borneo
Island, where an armed Filipino group is engaged in a bloody standoff
with the government over a decades-old territorial claim.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement that every effort has been made to peacefully resolve the issue, but that the Tuesday raid was necessary "to safeguard the dignity and sovereignty" of Malaysia.
The dispute began in mid-February when around 200 members of the armed group stormed a seaside village and demanded to be recognized as the ancestral owners of the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah.
A shootout erupted Friday leaving 12 intruders and two policemen dead. Since then 19 more gunmen and eight police officers have been killed.
Malaysian fighter jets pounded the area for about 30 minutes on Tuesday, before hundreds of soldiers were sent to the area. It is unclear whether the raid succeeded in clearing the area.
Abraham Idjirani, a spokesperson for the Filipino group, said its leaders had survived the bombardment. He said some were scared, but insisted they would not surrender.
"The truth is, some are scared. Who wouldn't be, given the odds? Two-hundred eleven, against 100,000 plus," he said. "As Malaysian forces fire their guns, in sacrificing their own lives in order to kill them, they [the Filipino group] will get crushed."
The militants belong to the Sultanate of Sulu, a former Islamic power that once controlled parts of Borneo and the southern Philippines. Although the sultanate lost power about a century ago, the group still claims sovereignty over the area, which it says was illegally merged with Malaysia when it gained independence from Britain.
The conflict is Malaysia's worst security crisis in years, and threatens to damage ties with the Philippines.
Manila has urged the group to stop the conflict and return home, warning its members could face prosecution. But it has also urged Malaysia to exercise restraint and not to harm the interests of the estimated 800,000 Filipinos in eastern Sabah state.
James Chin, a Malaysia analyst with Australia's Monash University, says he does not think the issue will severely disrupt Philippines-Malaysia relations. But he also casts doubt on whether the current military action will solve the dispute.
"This is an historical issue, so the solution will have to be political in nature," he said. "The military action now is being done to stop this group, which is using a military means to stake their claims. The idea behind the military action is simply to round up the people with guns and weapons, but it's not going to stop the issue."
On Tuesday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario was in Kuala Lumpur for talks with his Malaysian counterpart on the situation.
Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement that every effort has been made to peacefully resolve the issue, but that the Tuesday raid was necessary "to safeguard the dignity and sovereignty" of Malaysia.
The dispute began in mid-February when around 200 members of the armed group stormed a seaside village and demanded to be recognized as the ancestral owners of the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah.
A shootout erupted Friday leaving 12 intruders and two policemen dead. Since then 19 more gunmen and eight police officers have been killed.
Malaysian fighter jets pounded the area for about 30 minutes on Tuesday, before hundreds of soldiers were sent to the area. It is unclear whether the raid succeeded in clearing the area.
Abraham Idjirani, a spokesperson for the Filipino group, said its leaders had survived the bombardment. He said some were scared, but insisted they would not surrender.
"The truth is, some are scared. Who wouldn't be, given the odds? Two-hundred eleven, against 100,000 plus," he said. "As Malaysian forces fire their guns, in sacrificing their own lives in order to kill them, they [the Filipino group] will get crushed."
The militants belong to the Sultanate of Sulu, a former Islamic power that once controlled parts of Borneo and the southern Philippines. Although the sultanate lost power about a century ago, the group still claims sovereignty over the area, which it says was illegally merged with Malaysia when it gained independence from Britain.
The conflict is Malaysia's worst security crisis in years, and threatens to damage ties with the Philippines.
Manila has urged the group to stop the conflict and return home, warning its members could face prosecution. But it has also urged Malaysia to exercise restraint and not to harm the interests of the estimated 800,000 Filipinos in eastern Sabah state.
James Chin, a Malaysia analyst with Australia's Monash University, says he does not think the issue will severely disrupt Philippines-Malaysia relations. But he also casts doubt on whether the current military action will solve the dispute.
"This is an historical issue, so the solution will have to be political in nature," he said. "The military action now is being done to stop this group, which is using a military means to stake their claims. The idea behind the military action is simply to round up the people with guns and weapons, but it's not going to stop the issue."
On Tuesday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario was in Kuala Lumpur for talks with his Malaysian counterpart on the situation.
Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
VOA: Life Expectancy, Disability Up
News / Health
Study: Life Expectancy, Disability Up
December 13, 2012
WASHINGTON — People are living longer,
but they are also living more years in poor health. That’s according to
the most thorough look to date at the global burden of disease.
On average, men worldwide can expect to live 67 years; and women, 73, according to the new research in the journal “The Lancet.”
That’s about a five-year increase over 1990.
The findings are part of a seven-article series looking at global disease and disability, involving nearly 500 researchers in 50 countries.
“All of us in the world of health focus on diseases and often bad news. Actually, the global burden of disease 2010 study broadly presents very good news,” said Richard Horton, “The Lancet’s” editor-in-chief. .
The new research found far fewer people died of measles, tetanus, respiratory and diarrheal diseases in 2010 than in 1990. Overall, deaths from infections, complications from childbirth, and malnutrition fell about 17 percent, to 13.2 million.
Global efforts have focused on reducing HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. But these diseases still kill more than a million people per year each, and malaria has actually increased by nearly 20 percent.
“Those three big, big diseases are not just going to go away,” said Mike Cohen, who heads global health research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was not involved in the studies. He says the report notes declines in HIV/AIDS deaths since 2006. Tuberculosis deaths are down nearly 20 percent as well.
But the research highlights a major transition taking place worldwide, Cohen says.
“As infectious diseases have been better controlled and people live longer, and as their diets change and lifestyles change, the inevitable consequence in health is, you have to deal much more broadly with hypertension, heart disease, (and diabetes),” he said.
In fact, the report found these kinds of non-communicable diseases accounted for more than half of the global burden of disease in 2010, surpassing infections, maternal and childhood ailments, and malnutrition.
For example, in 1990, the top cause of death was childhood underweight. In 2010, that dropped to number eight, and high blood pressure topped the list.
But while people are living longer, they are also spending more time in poor health, says Joshua Salomon, professor of global health at Harvard University and co-author of the section on disability.
“I think in general we’ve been more successful at reducing mortality and less successful at actually addressing chronic disability,” Salomon said.
Physical conditions such as arthritis and back issues, and mental and behavioral problems like depression, anxiety and substance abuse were the top causes of disability.
And while much has changed in global health in the past two decades, one thing has stayed the same: smoking remained a top-three cause of death.
On average, men worldwide can expect to live 67 years; and women, 73, according to the new research in the journal “The Lancet.”
That’s about a five-year increase over 1990.
The findings are part of a seven-article series looking at global disease and disability, involving nearly 500 researchers in 50 countries.
“All of us in the world of health focus on diseases and often bad news. Actually, the global burden of disease 2010 study broadly presents very good news,” said Richard Horton, “The Lancet’s” editor-in-chief. .
The new research found far fewer people died of measles, tetanus, respiratory and diarrheal diseases in 2010 than in 1990. Overall, deaths from infections, complications from childbirth, and malnutrition fell about 17 percent, to 13.2 million.
Global efforts have focused on reducing HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. But these diseases still kill more than a million people per year each, and malaria has actually increased by nearly 20 percent.
“Those three big, big diseases are not just going to go away,” said Mike Cohen, who heads global health research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was not involved in the studies. He says the report notes declines in HIV/AIDS deaths since 2006. Tuberculosis deaths are down nearly 20 percent as well.
But the research highlights a major transition taking place worldwide, Cohen says.
“As infectious diseases have been better controlled and people live longer, and as their diets change and lifestyles change, the inevitable consequence in health is, you have to deal much more broadly with hypertension, heart disease, (and diabetes),” he said.
In fact, the report found these kinds of non-communicable diseases accounted for more than half of the global burden of disease in 2010, surpassing infections, maternal and childhood ailments, and malnutrition.
For example, in 1990, the top cause of death was childhood underweight. In 2010, that dropped to number eight, and high blood pressure topped the list.
But while people are living longer, they are also spending more time in poor health, says Joshua Salomon, professor of global health at Harvard University and co-author of the section on disability.
“I think in general we’ve been more successful at reducing mortality and less successful at actually addressing chronic disability,” Salomon said.
Physical conditions such as arthritis and back issues, and mental and behavioral problems like depression, anxiety and substance abuse were the top causes of disability.
And while much has changed in global health in the past two decades, one thing has stayed the same: smoking remained a top-three cause of death.
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