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Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...growth in the world's biggest nation with some 1.3 billion people. Beijing allows urban dwellers to have one child, while villagers can have two if the first child is a girl. Worse, stiff penalties are levied on those who dont fall in line. And when they wont cough up, local officials carry away whateve...

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

...he direct cost of incontinence for women was $12.4 billion in 1995. SISTEr is the first trial completed by UITN, with two other studies in the wings. Results of the second trial, the Behavior Enhances Drug Reduction of Incontinence (BE-DRI), for urge incontinence, are expected later this year. BE-DRI asked...

Majority of Europeans in Favor of Smoking Ban in Public Places

...oking-related diseases cost EU countries up to 130 billion euros ($168 billion) each year, or up to 1.4 percent of GDP....

WHO Plans Global Campaign Against Alcohol Abuse

...acco convention. The WHO estimates there are two billion alcohol consumers worldwide. Some 87 million of them live in Europe, that is 10 percent of the population. There were 2.3 million cases of alcoholism, with alcohol blamed for 1.8 million deaths a year or 3.2 percent of the total. Alcohol is said to...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Renews Goal To Reverse Spread of HIV by 2015

...ng to the report. According to U.N. estimates, $18 billion will be needed in 2007 and $22 billion will be needed in 2008 to meet the U.N. goal of providing universal access to prevention and treatme...

Fidel Castro Appeals for Investment in Health Rather Than in Arms

...for 25 years. Castro stressed that with the $7.5 billion dollars to be used to build this warship, that country could train nearly 75,000 physicians, care for 150 million people and build 3,000 clinics with new technologies, as Cuba does in other countries. According to Castro, the English submarine illu...

Scientists Create Synthetic Proteins

...ed several new proteins in a fraction of the three billion years it took nature. The new findings have led to some surprisingly new lessons on how to optimize proteins that have never existed in nature before, in a process they call synthetic evolution. "The goal of our research is to understand certain...

Women Urged to Be Wary of Ads Promoting Unwanted Drugs

...ceutical industry in the US spent much of its $4.2 billion direct-to-consumer advertising budget in 2005 on ads targeting healthy upper-income, middle-aged people. A common underlying message was this: you appear to be healthy, but a deadly heart attack, hip fracture, or other medical catastrophe could occ...

Labor's Indigenous Health Plan A Good Start

.... The AMA has repeatedly said that at least $1.8 billion over four years is needed to bring Indigenous health service provision up to par with that enjoyed by non-Indigenous Australians, Dr Haikerwal said. We look forward to witnessing a policy and funding bidding war on Indigenous health between Prime M...

Soy Nuts may Improve Blood Pressure, Cholesterol Levels in Women

...) affects approximately 50 million Americans and 1 billion individuals worldwide. The most common-and deadly-result is coronary heart disease, according to background information in the article. Women with high blood pressure have four times the risk of heart disease as women with normal blood pressure. Fr...

Researchers Found Drug Effects of Deadly Prescription Well Before FDA

...his research has resulted in black box warnings on billion dollar drugs like Plavix that may have saved thous...one to two years. That's a six-year savings. For a billion dollar drug, can you imagine how many people that's affecting" In the study, Bennett compared RADA...

Ban Smoking Indoor Workplaces and China Cause for Concern WHO

...iated with passive smoking, while more than half a billion suffer from the smoke exhaled from cigarettes.It said in a report that only 35 percent of respondents to its survey were aware of the dangers of passive smoking, and suggested the government ban smoking in public places. 'Our country still does not...

Cure for Reading Glasses?

...or $808 million. "A cure for Presbyopia could be a billion dollar industry and the growth potential is enormous, if successful," says Hager. Dr. Dello Russo says, "There are no guarantees that this laser technology will work. It will take at least five years to bring this through the FDA approval process. ...

Policy Changes Have Direct Effect on Nursing Home Care

...ted States, but only covers 51 percent of the $103 billion in total nursing home costs. Medicare covers 12.5 percent of those costs, private insurance pays 7 percent and consumers pay 29.5 percent. In 2002, the average US nursing home had 15 percent fewer registered nurses per resident than nationally reco...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...ge, activists in US charge. With sales of over $35 billion worldwide in the bottled water market, corporatio...f what that water sells for, it would make over $1 billion a year. But it will pay the community a despicably measly 000087 cents per gallon for the water it t...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

...by family, friends, and society. Approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide are exposed to leprosy, which is endemic in 24 countries. Approximately 500,000 new cases are found each year -- over 1,300 cases every day. It is estimated that four to five million people already suffer from, or have deformities du...

More Than 270 Medicines in Testing for Heart Disease and Stroke

...ese diseases to American society is more than $430 billion a year. Due in large part to new drug treatments, death rates from heart disease and stroke are falling, states the new report. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), if death rates were the same as those of 30 years ago...

New Drug, Other Trends To Double Smoking Cessation and Addiction Treatments

...expected to rise from revenues of little over $1.1 billion in 2005 to more than $2.3 billion in 2010, according to Smoking Cessation and Addiction Treatments: A World Market Analysis, a new stu...

Tobacco Menace and What can Be Done About It

...The total losses in high-income countries are $451 billion whereas in low-income countries it is $13 billion....he list of consumers. The global trends show 1.1 billion smokers of which 80% are in low- and middle income countries (1 in 3 adults) and the trends are expe...

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to $30 billion for five years after the program's original mandat...rk Times reports. PEPFAR directs an authorized $15 billion over five years for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis primarily to 15 focus countries and provides funding t...

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