Economy

“ Economy Class Syndrome

Their study finds even flying in business class can put people at increased risk of developing dangerous blood clots during long flights.// The link between blood clots (venous thromboembolism) and prolonged sitting was first described during World War II, when doctors noticed a rise in fatal pulmonary embolisms among people who slept in deck chairs in London air raid shelters. The asso...

Prescription to NHS: Nourish the Malnourished, For a Well-Fed Economy!

Patients, most often the elderly are wanting in good health and nourishment. Now, Doctors and nurses in the NHS have been asked to give better care, especially to elderly patients who are deficient in nourishment.// The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has recommended initial screening of all out-patients, prior to admission, so that malnutrition can be detec...

TB: Hurdle To Indian Economy

Indian economy is deeply affected by tuberculosis, which claims more than 500,000 lives every year thereby taking away the productive years// of infected people, according to an official statistics. According to documents available with the health ministry, TB is killing more adults than any other infectious disease and affects the lives of people in the age group of 15 to 54....

Figment of Imagination? A Powerful US Economy Gives Rise to Fatal Heart Attacks

Have you ever heard of a well-fed economy as a potential heart attack risk? According to a recent study, the risk of dying// of a heart attack gets elevated with the strengthening of the US economy. Christopher Ruhm, an economics professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro wrote in his study that there is a pronounced increase in death rate due to heart attacks, when th...

Free IVF Treatment Could Prove Beneficial to the Society And Its Economy

A new research was conducted by Professor William Ledger, a fertility expert at the University of Sheffield who studied the average cost of producing //a baby through in-vitro fertilisation and the benefit to the government over the person's lifetime. The study states that the benefits of providing free fertility treatments to couples could compensate by far the costs to the government....

Study finds Smoking Mortality Higher Among Lower Economy Class

Evidences show that a person's death risk is inversely proportionate to his socioeconomic status. A recent study by the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford// blames smoking as the cause for death risk among men in lower economic status than the men belonging to the higher class. The study, which appears online in the Lancet's July 15 issue, looked at nearly 600,000 dea...

HIV/AIDS Epidemic to Cause Adverse Effects to Indian Economy

The increasingly unchecked spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic could affect the Indian economy adversely in the coming years according to a report on the Macroeconomic// and Sectoral Impacts of HIV/AIDS. The study was conducted by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and supported by the the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and National AIDS Control Organis...

Flu Pandemic Could Cost Global Economy $2 Trillion

A severe flu pandemic could cost the global economy up to $2 trillion or 4.8 percent of the world's gross domestic product, the World Bank said on Sunday.// In a worst-case scenario, 70 million people, or 1 percent of those infected, could die from the virus that had spread beyond East Asia to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Developing countries would be the worst hit,...

Smokers Cost Chinese Economy Billions

Smokers in China cost the country at least 250 billion yuan (about $31 billion) last year, the Beijing Evening News reported Friday.// According to a research report of China Centre for Economic Research of Peking University, the health costs associated with treating 23 smoking related illnesses was about 166.6 billion yuan, accounting for almost one percent of gross domestic product (G...

Global Health Enriching the States Economy

A study conducted by the University of Washington shows that the work intended for global health is in fact enriching the Washington State economy . The research was conducted by a UW team including William Beyers, professor of geography; Amy Hagopian, professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine; Jennifer Devine, co-director of the Global Washington Initiative; an...

Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

With the demand for healthcare services set to more than double in the next five to ten years, the Indian healthcare industry appears ripe for investment. A robust economic reform process and inflated healthcare budgets have attracted big ticket foreign investments in several sectors, such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, clinical trials, medical devices and equipment, healthcare services, ins...