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Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...cords were used in 18 percent of the estimated 1.8 billion physician visits that occurred in 2003 and 2004. Using a previously defined set of 17 quality indicators for ambulatory care developed by the Stanford investigators, the researchers checked the database to determine whether an electronic health recor...

Indian Minister Laments Country's Lack of Sex Education

...'t want to talk about it and that is why we have a billion population," Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said at an event to mark World Population Day. "In our close-knit society, we have to enlighten and create awareness among our children," he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India. The gove...

Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

...eases in the western world, costs the NHS up to 17 billion pounds per year. According to the scientists, they have identified a series of proteins, which are most commonly found in those with a predisposition to Alzheimers. In this case, such a test would be a life saver, as an early diet of the recommend...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...ctively able to turn the evolutionary clock back a billion years to see how a more primitive P2X molecule functions. The team discovered that there was only a 10% similarity between human P2X and the slime mould equivalent. They were therefore able to deduce from evolutionary theory that it was these simila...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...nd promotion grew from 491 million dollars to 15.5 billion dollars. During this period, the percentage of smo... trade groups, and pay the states an estimated 206 billion dollars. The tobacco companies also agreed to finance a 1.5 billion dollars public anti-smoking camp...

Human Pain-controlling Molecule's Structure Identified

...ctively able to turn the evolutionary clock back a billion years to see how a more primitive P2X molecule functions," Nature quoted Thompson, as saying. "Inhibiting P2X as a potential pain-relief therapy would be the Holy Grail of rational drug design and could revolutionise the way we manage chronic pain ...

Kenyan Capital Bans Smoking in Public

...ng provides the Kenyan government with around five billion shillings (74.6 million dollars, 55.5 million euros) per year in taxes, but costs five times as much in disease, disability and death, according to official figures. Kenya is Africa's second country to introduce a partial smoking ban after Tanzania...

US Rejects More Food from India Than from Any Other Country

...ollar value. China shipped goods worth a total 288 billion dollars to the US in 2006, compared with Mexico's 198 billion dollars, India's 22 billion dollars and the Dominican Republic's 5.3 billion dollars. Toothpaste m...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...ns more waste, and all of Delhi's three and a half billion litres (950 million gallons) of daily urine, excre...s the Yamuna north of the city and takes about 1.1 billion litres of fresh water, more than a third of what the city uses every day. After that, only drains ...

Pfizer Says Nigeria Gave Approval for 1996 Drug Test

...ate suits against Pfizer, claiming around some 9.5 billion dollars in damages for victims of the failed drug ...filed its suit on June 4 in Abuja for almost seven billion dollars in damages against the US drug firm, while Kano is asking for 2.5 billion dollars. The fed...

Uninsured Adults Increase Medicare Costs

...bled Americans. In 2006, the programs cost of $374 billion accounted for 14 percent of the federal budget, an...l spending on Medicare is expected to grow to $524 billion by 2011. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicare spending as a share of GDP is estimated...

New Delhis Apollo Hospital Treats More Than 80 Iraqis

...medical tourism to India is estimated to reach two billion dollars annually by 2012. A few Indian hospitals offered free treatment to Pakistani children in the wake of the trust steps between the two countries initiated by their leadership since 2003....

Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

...pollution. This costs the country an estimated 9.7 billion dollars annually in environmental damage....

Spain Announces Cash-for-kid Payments to Boost Birth Rate

... The new measure is set to cost the state some 1.2 billion euros a year based on the 2006 figure for live births of 481,000, according to the INE....

President Bush Not for Expansion of Child Health Insurance

... cents, to $1 a pack, to expand the program by $35 billion over the next five years. That would create total program funding of $60 billion over the period enough, lawmakers said, to cover 3.3 million additional youths while keeping the fo...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...Hunan -- where floods have sparked a plague of two billion rats after water submerged their holes -- denied the newspaper's undercover report. One official quoted by the Beijing Times on Sunday dismissed the report, saying it was far too difficult to catch rats alive, while their relatively small size mean...

India Plans Hospices for HIV Positive Women

...re opposing it," the minister said. "We have a one billion population and we don't want to talk about sex. We have to be vocal on such issues. If we don't, then it will affect the generations to come," she warned. National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) Director General Sujatha Rao regretted it was dis...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

... for Wyeth, as it angles for its share of the $1.7 billion annual American market for birth control pills. So as business-savvy officials re-conceptualize menstruation as a disease in need of treatment, bleeding women may well be in for a lot of confusion- to stop or not to?...

Fortis Plans Multi-speciality Hospital in Jaipur

...Singh said a 100-bed hospital costs between Rs.1-2 billion while a Medi city can cost anywhere between Rs.5-6 billion. He added that the healthcare company also plans to set up two or three, 100-bed hospitals in the state as part of its expansion drive. "We are also keen on entering into a public-private...

Americas Preparations For Flu Outbreak Still Incomplete

...nt decisions had already been made, including a $1 billion investment in finding new ways to manufacture flu vaccines.But, as Dr. Venkayya warns, there is much work that remains to be done. The Department of Health and Human Services also announced that it had released $897 million to states for emergency ...

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