Myanmar and Vietnam Testing Patients for Ebola
Myanmar and Vietnam are holding several patients in isolation after testing them for the presence of the Ebola virus.
Reportedly, patients arrived from Nigeria and developed fevers. Myanmar has only the most rudimentary healthcare system and likely would have resources quickly depleted if there a significant number of patients developed the disease.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 20, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Medical News Wire Ebola myanmar patients testing vietnam Source Type: blogs
The Challenges of Being a Superpower
Doug Bandow
The foreign policy meme is fixed that President Barack Obama is weak and therefore responsible for virtually every global ill. It’s hard for the denizens of Washington to accept that not everything in the world is about them.
As I point out in National Interest online: “People elsewhere have interests and ambitions. Like the obstreperous British colonists in North America more than two centuries ago, foreigners are willing to defy major powers in order to achieve their ends.”
Government and guerrilla leaders still may worry about what Washington thinks. But they judge American thr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Japan Moves Closer to Defending Itself like a Normal Country
Doug Bandow
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has begun to transform Japan into a normal country. Tokyo plans to take a more active role internationally. Eventually it should take over responsibility for defending itself.
As military occupier after World War II, the United States imposed Article Nine of the Japanese constitution, disarming Tokyo. But in recent years, Washington has pushed Japan to do more militarily.
So far, Tokyo simply has revised its interpretation of Article Nine. Japan’s “Self Defense Force” will be allowed to cooperate with other countries in combat.
Overseas the response was mixed.&...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Adb To Link For Expanding Hiv/aids Treatment In Myanmar
Using 10 million U.S. dollars’ grant from the Japanese fund, ADB will establish innovative partnership between government and NGOs to deliver better services to 739 villages in five townships in Mon, Kayin and Shan ethnic states. It is projected that by 2017, communities will see strengthened health system that can plan for and manage response to HIV/AIDS and STI with the number of trained health service providers increasing by 30 percent, the number of patient consultation increasing by 80 percent and behavior change campaign to help reduce exposure to HIV, STI, TB and malaria. Estimation shows that 240,000 people i...
Source: aids-write.org - December 25, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news hiv news Source Type: blogs
Kratom: Mitragynine For Beginners
An organic alternative to methadone?
A disclaimer: Everything I know about kratom, I learned on the Internet and in science journals. I have no real world experience with this opiate-like plant drug, haven’t used it, don’t know very many people who have. Although it comes from a tree indigenous to Thailand and Southeast Asia, and has presumably been around forever, a recent journal article referred to kratom as “an emerging botanical agent with stimulant, analgesic and opioid-like effects.” Which makes it sound like a combination of heroin, amphetamine, and strong weed. In reality, however, it is evidently a fa...
Source: Addiction Inbox - October 25, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Should Ill-Fated Activists Expect Rescue from Washington?
Doug Bandow
Kenneth Bae is a 44-year-old Christian missionary who was arrested last November while leading a tour of North Korea’s Rason special economic zone. He wanted to spread the Gospel, but the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea views religion as a particularly serious threat.
Bae was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. His letters home, said his sister, Terri Chung, “contained the same message—Kenneth’s health is failing, and he asked us to seek help from our government to bring him home.” He urged Washington to send an envoy for him.
Bae’s mother was even more insistent: “I don’t ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 28, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Encouraging Continued Reform in Burma
Doug Bandow
Burmese President Thein Sein will be visiting Washington next week. It’s the first trip by a Burmese head of state in nearly five decades and reflects the reform winds blowing through Naypyitaw.
Burma, or Myanmar, languished under brutal military rule for a half century before the armed forces moved into the background and created a nominal civilian government. Thein Sein is a former general and the retired junta leaders undoubtedly remain influential, though their exact role remains hidden.
Nevertheless, Burma has come far in the last couple of years. Many political prisoners have been released. Many restri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 15, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Sunlight Before Signing in Obama's First Term
Jim Harper
“Sunlight Before Signing” was President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to put all bills Congress sent him online for five days before signing them. It was a measurable promise that I’ve monitored here since the beginning of his first term, and I will continue to do so in his second.
It was the president’s first broken promise, and in the first year he broke it again with almost every new law, giving just six of the first 124 bills he signed the exposure he promised.
With his first term concluded last month, we can now assess how well the president did with Sunlight Before Signing. Complianc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Source Type: blogs
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Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - January 12, 2013 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Twitter @Flap Tweets Source Type: blogs
