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Americans Get Least Value For Money In Healthcare

...he US spends twice what the average industrialized country spends on health care but were clearly not getting...vis warns. We spend three times what the average country spends on a day of hospital care and we also spend twice what the average country spends on prescrip...

Health Experts Discuss Effect of DOTS on TB Control in India

...easing number of TB cases recorded throughout the country indicates that there are problems with how the DOT...orts. Pachnekar also said that many doctors in the country use trial-and-error methods to treat drug-resistant TB, turning to second-line treatments after firs...

Thailand Will Not Issue Compulsory Licenses for Patented Drugs

...educed price in Thailand on the condition that the country agrees not to allow generic versions of the drug into the market, Siriwat Thiptaradol, secretary-general of Thailand's Food and Drug Administration, said. Abbott offered to sell Aluvia for about 34,000 baht, or $1,000, per person annually. Indian g...

WHO Director Urges Nations to Share Bird Flu Virus Strains

...vaccines would work. Chan did not single out any country by name, but Indonesia and China have been the mai...nesia's health minister Tuesday announced that the country had shared three viruses with a WHO-accredited laboratory in Japan, it is uncertain whether further ...

Yoga Enthusiasts Oppose Patenting Yoga Overseas

...nate," he added. Saying that yoga belongs to the country and the entire human race, yoga guru Swami Ramdev also echoed Johar's thoughts on the patenting issue. "Yoga can't be owned and run like a company. Since there are attempts to patent this tradition (of yoga) in America, the Indian government and yo...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

...t recruited 2,000 healthy people from all over the country to receive unnecessary surgeries in exchange for money or low cost cosmetic surgery. The recruitment of patients, or "capping," is illegal in California. Insurance companies paid more than $17 million during a 10-month period. The cappers, or recru...

WHO to Investigate Hepatitis Vaccine Deaths in Vietnam

...with the programme expanding to all regions of the country by 2003. With close to 1.5 million children being vaccinated annually, Hepatitis B vaccine has been used on millions of Vietnamese children to date. Hien urged parents to remain calm, saying that these were extremely unusual cases that related to o...

Significant Differences in Stroke Prevalence Among U.S. States & Territories - CDC Report

...DCs WISEWOMAN program funds 15 projects across the country that provide low income, underinsured and uninsured women (aged 40-64 years) with risk factor screening, lifestyle intervention strategies and referral services to reduce their risk for stroke....

Study Finds That Lincoln Suffered from Smallpox During Gettysburg Speech

... days after the start of his illness, and lead the country to a successful conclusion in the Civil War of 1865, which led to a reunification of the North and South, and an end of slavery in the US. According to a physician's contemporary account reported in the study, Lincoln retained his trademark wry an...

US Hospital Group Offers Warranty on Surgeries

...orkers. Geisinger is one of the few systems in the country that is just beginning to understand the lessons of global manufacturing, Dr. Milstein said. The doctors nevertheless needed some persuading that Proven Care would not be some form of inferior cookbook medicine, said Dr. Charles H. Benoit, a cardia...

Workplace Stress Leads to Rising Suicide Rate in Japan

...hem older Japanese suffering financial woes as the country struggled through a decade of economic stagnation. In response, the Japanese government has earmarked substantial funds for programs to help those with depression and other mental illnesses and is more actively involved in encouraging those affecte...

Sanctions Imposed On Zimbabwe Can Threaten International Health Security

...ealth Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, to join the country in calling for the unconditional lifting of these ...the effects of these illegal sanctions against our country because the final consequence is that poor health in Zimbabwe can quickly become a big threat to int...

Where is Our Soul, Asks Michael Moore

...movie, which has taken Cannes by storm, portrays a country where the government is more interested in persona... million people with no health care in the richest country on Earth."He says the U.S. health care system is driven by greed and asks of Americans in general, "...

Myths About Hydropower Projects Exposed

...ientific study has revealed that large dams in the country are accountable for at least 19 percent of India's global warming emissions, especially methane. According to the study, Indian dams are larger methane emitters and total methane emissions from the country's large dams could be around 33.5 million...

University of Arkansas to Ban Tobacco from Its Campus

... become one of the first major universities in the country to completely ban tobacco and tobacco products fro...rsity of Arkansas joined many other schools in the country to ban smoking in its buildings and within 25 feet of all building entrances. Tobacco sales also wer...

Invasion of Cicada Hordes Feared in US Midwest

...be we'll love it. We may have to travel around the country as infestations occur."...

AIDS Victims, Supporters Gather in Bond of Hope

...receiving free first line ARV treatment across the country and it has been a big relief for HIV/AIDS afflicted ever since it became functional in April 2004. However, there are some who have become resistant to the first line of medication. In the absence of free second line drugs, their chances of surviva...

Google to Digitise 800,000 Books at Mysore Varsity

...tudents, scholars and historians from all over the country to access the knowledge base....

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...ation in Bangladesh and said it is "serious". The country needs a long term strategy to control the deadly H5N1 strain, the FAO said. Though no cases of human infection have been reported in Bangladesh, some 157,000 chickens have been culled and 1.5 million eggs destroyed as the virus spread to 11 out of ...

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...into a simple method that a mother in a developing country could use. Studies by this research team have shown that flash-heating breast milk can kill bacteria while retaining most of the milk's nutritional and antimicrobial properties, as well as a majority of its important antibodies. "We wanted to be ...

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