A healthy diet that includes fish, fruit and vegetables can reduce the chances for heart disease, a US doctor said Thursday. That nutritional balance was once common in Cambodian food, but that is changing, Taing Tek Hong, a Florida-based physician, told “Hello VOA.” To understand heart disease, it is important to understand the heart, which [...]
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Mental Health Crisis Strains Cambodia
April 19th, 2010 
admin Despite a growing economy and rapid development, Cambodia suffers from high rates of mental illness, and very little treatment. Aubrey Belford recently visited the Cambodian community of Kampot and reports on one of Asia’s worst mental health crises. Cambodia is a country with a more traumatic past than most. Recent decades have seen civil war, [...]
Tags: Cataracts a Leading Cause of Blindness: Doctor
December 20th, 2009 admin Approximately 19,000 Cambodians are blinded each year from cataracts, a clouding of the lens common in the elderly, a US-Cambodian doctor said Thursday. “The lens is the clear part of the eye that helps focus light or an image on the retina,” said Taing Tek Hong, a physician at the Borland-Groover clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., [...]
Health Workers Warn of Higher HIV Infections
December 4th, 2009 admin Health agencies say they are worried about a high number of HIV infections among indirect sex workers, drug needle sharers and men who have sex with men. Infections have risen since the inception of an anti-trafficking law that has driven sex workers out of brothels, where condoms are easily distributed, and into entertainment venues where [...]