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EconomyKorea cuts GDP forecast on Mers outbreak
Financial Times
The impact of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has forced South Korea to cut its growth outlook for 2015. Korea's finance ministry cut its GDP forecast this year from 3.8 per cent to 3.1 per cent as a result of Mers and drought. It also sees lower inflation: the ...

S.Korea says to "reinforce finances" by 15 trillion won, cut 2015 GDP forecast   Economic Times
Commercial Times: From SARS to MERS -- Learn from past experience   Focus Taiwan News Channel
South Korea cuts growth forecast as MERS saps spending   Chron.com
The Chosun Ilbo
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Vancouver to weed out illegal marijuana dispensaries
Vancouver Sun
Vancouver changed the landscape of Canada's cannabis culture Wednesday, becoming the first city in Canada to regulate illegal marijuana dispensaries. The action, which will see a two-tiered licensing system aimed at weeding out for-profit dispensaries in ...

UPDATE 1-Vancouver to regulate booming marijuana dispensaries   Reuters
Vancouver votes to regulate marijuana dispensaries   The Globe and Mail
Vancouver, B.C., regulates illegal marijuana dispensaries: High anxiety from ...   seattlepi.com (blog)
The Guardian
Macleans.ca
Huffington Post
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Condom with colour-coded warning
Times LIVE
"We created the S.T.EYE as a new way for STI detection to help the next generation," said Daanyaal. File photo. Image by: Gallo Images/Thinkstock. A group of schoolchildren in the UK have invented a condom that detects sexually transmitted infections such ...

Condom that changes colour when STIs are detected invented   New Zealand Herald
The condom that changes colour if the wearer has a sexually transmitted disease   Stuff.co.nz
Roses are red, condoms are blue... if you have syphilis   CNET
Examiner.com
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Google is working on its own fitness smartwatch
GMA News
Google has designed a medical wristband that can provide doctors real-time data on their patients' vital signs. The wristband can measure the wearer's pulse, heartbeat, skin temperature and activity level, PC World reported. Quoting Google, PC World said ...

Google Inc Introduces New Health-Monitoring Wearable Band   The Bell Jar
Google working on health-tracking wristband   New York Daily News
Google X Is Working on a Wearable–And It Could Help One of Its Moonshots   Gizmodo
PC Magazine
U.S. News & World Report
NDTV
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Guinea quarantines villages in reinforced bid to stamp out Ebola
Reuters Africa
CONAKRY, June 24 (Reuters) - Guinea will put four villages under a 21-day quarantine as part of a robust strategy to stamp out a lingering Ebola epidemic after new cases of the disease were discovered there. ADVERTISING. The worst Ebola epidemic on ...

Ebola cases not slowing in Guinea, Sierra Leone   Boston Globe

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Noisy Roads Can Shorten Your Lifespan, Says Study
Tech Times
Researchers have shown that high levels of road traffic noise, be it during the day or night, can lead to an increase in hospitalizations and deaths for people living in affected areas. (Photo : Oran Viriyincy | Flickr). According to a study carried out by researchers ...

Horn not ok   The Hindu
Traffic noise might be linked to shortened life expectancy: study   Global Times
Quiet, please! Researchers worry urban noise may be linked to belly fat, stroke ...   Washington Post
Financial Express
BBC News
Daily Times
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Essential vitamin linked to acne
NEWS.com.au
VITAMIN B12 may be an underlying cause of acne, new research has shown. THE essential nutrient, found in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, alters the activity of skin bacteria leading to unsightly spots and pimples in susceptible individuals, scientists ...

Too Much Vitamin B12 Linked to Acne   Live Science
Study provides evidence on vitamin B12 and acne link   Fox News
Could a Vitamin Play a Role in Acne Outbreaks?   Philly.com

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Suicide risk spikes after hospital: report
The Australian
IT'S so easy to just see them as numbers on a page: 627, 30, six. BUT they're not numerals, they're lives. In Queensland last year, 627 people died by suicide. For every life ended, about 30 more attempted to do the same. And that left at least six friends, family ...

Farmers, middle-aged targeted in five-year suicide prevention plan   Irish Independent
'Our happiness is being destroyed by cyberbullying'   Irish Examiner
Youth survey indicates county's teens at risk for depression, suicide   My Edmonds News
Bundaberg News Mail
WTVA
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Skinny jeans could make you a fashion victim
New Vision
Squatting in super-tight "skinny" jeans may pose a health risk, Australian doctors have warned, reporting the case of a woman who temporarily lost feeling in her legs from an hours-long squeeze. The 35-year-old collapsed and had to be hospitalised the day ...

CRAIG BROWN: Deadly jeans? It'll be killer teddies next!   Daily Mail
Fashion Victim's Skinny Jeans Send Her To The Hospital   The Inquisitr
RTÉ News: Wearing skinny jeans could pose a health risk   The Bell Jar
University Herald
Weekly Observer
The Guardian
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Reuters

Drastic acceleration of HIV fight needed to stop AIDS resurgence
Reuters
LONDON, The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the AIDS virus, the United Nations and disease experts said on Thursday. While good progress has been made in ...

Five-year window for preventing AIDS rebound: experts   Yahoo News UK

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