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High-Tech 'Smart' Face Mask Helps Hong Kong Families Combat Swine Flu
Beginning today, Hong Kong people and their children will have direct access to Filligent"s patented anti- microbial face mask, the BioMask(TM). The revolutionary mask, which traps and kills germs like H1N1 upon contact, was launched at Asia"s leading drugstore chain, Watsons, today. In addition, Hong Kong"s biggest travel agency, Hong Thai, will be providing the BioMask(TM), on a complimentary basis, to all air travelers through the end of August. Up until now, the CE-certified, specialist mask has only been available to medical and healthcare professionals. The launch and availability of the BioMask(TM) in consumer retailers and service providers is significant because, as CEO Melissa Mowbray-d"Arbela says, "The BioMask(TM) is the first "intelligent" face mask. You don"t have to be a health care worker or medical professional to use it correctly. Instead, the mask is very easy to put on, wear and dispose of properly. Thus, it"s one of the best forms of protection for ordinary people and their children during this year"s swine flu crisis."
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A new approach to stimulating immune cells enhances their anticancer activity, resulting in a powerful anti-tumor response in mice, according to a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health. This work represents an important advance in the development of immunotherapy for cancer and appears online June 14, 2009 in Nature Medicine.
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Funding, Restrictions Keep WFP From Reaching Millions Of Hungry North Koreans

The U.N."s World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday a "lack of international funding and new restrictions by North Korea on its staff and where it can operate has left it unable to reach millions of hungry women and children in the impoverished country," AP/Taiwan News reports. According to the WFP, it has received 15 percent of the $504 million it needs to feed 6.2 million North Koreans (Sanderson, 7/1). The agency has had to reduce its goal of reaching all 6.2 million, and is now targeting 2.27 million people, Torben Due, the WPF"s country representative in North Korea. "For adults, it doesn"t mean a lot if you live for a few months on a diet of cereals and vegetables, but for children, it is critical," Due said, adding that anecdotally there appears to be "an increase in the number of children being admitted to hospitals with severe malnutrition," via AFP/Google.com. He said the country"s chronic food shortages have created a negative cycle in which malnourished children grow up stunted with weak immune systems, and, in turn, give birth to less-than-healthy babies. According to SAPA/BusinessDay, the government told the WFP to "scale back its operations and get rid of its Korean-speaking staff, which reduced the number of workers to 16 last month from the 59 agreed upon last year" (7/1). According to Due, government leaders ordered the scale back without giving clear reasons why. "A long-running international standoff over North Korea"s nuclear programmes escalated on May 25 when Pyongyang carried out its second nuclear test, followed by further missile launches, which resulted in new U.N. sanctions," writes APF/Google.com. "We have not really received any contributions after the nuclear test was carried out," Due said (Martin, 7/1). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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