RA individuals from lower GDP countries keep working despite worse symptoms than richer countries
Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday 12 June 2009: Individuals diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in lower gross domestic product (GDP) countries (GDP below $11,000) are more likely to continue working despite higher disease activity and functional disability scores compared to their counterparts in ...GLOBESCAN Survey for the BEYOND GDP Conference, European Parliament, Nov. 19th and 20th
Worldwide Support for True Wealth Measures: Three-Quarters Say Governments Should Look Beyond Economics and Measure Social and Environmental Progress BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three-quarters of people in ten countries believe their governments should look beyond eco...Poll of Business Executives Shows Most Companies Not Aware of True Costs of Healthcare
...nt costs by $218 billion per year Reduce the economic impact of disease by 27 percent, or $1.1 trillion annually Increase the nation's gdp by $905 billion through productivity gains Identifying the true cost drivers and the value of productivity enables employers to crea...Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized
...e scaled up, they argue. "Global scale-up of a basic "minimum essential" intervention package against seasonal hunger would cost around 0.1% of global gdp and save millions of lives, while protecting millions more from severe illness," they argue. Addressing seasonal hunger is a necessary step in meeting...Frost & Sullivan: Healthcare Delivery in APAC Upon Economic Recession
...majority of the developing countries are still faced with the challenges of insufficient funding for the healthcare sector in relation to the national gdp and disparity in terms of distribution of healthcare within the urban and rural regions. Furthermore, the attraction of new players and the expansion ...Regence Optimistic About Health Industry Leaders' Pledge to Cut Health Care Costs
..."I support the health industry's commitment to help control health care costs in our nation. We are a country that spends more than 15 percent of our gdp on health care - a number that threatens to rise, is unsustainable and is a mark of inefficiency - so today's announcement is a helpful step. As we k...Mercy Ships Founders Receive Humanitarian of the Year Award From Variety Club
...The average lifespan of women where our ships serve is 46 years. 3,000,000 women in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from obstetric fistula in nations whose gdp translates to families living on less than a dollar per day. Medical care, both primary and surgical, are scarce commodities and when they do exist a...Fighting global warming offers growth and development opportunities
... failure to do so could result in the loss of 1.5 to 3.4 percent of Japan's gdp by 2085 (Japanese gdp in 2007 was 3.41 trillion euro). This is due to an increased number of days...Top scientific meeting urges coordinated response to economic and environmental crises
...lower risks while providing better quality of life, eliminating poverty and enhancing social coherence. In contrast, using the conventional measure of gdp growth as the lead indicator of national policies "has been badly misleading us," Prof. Robert Costanza, an ecological economist at the University of ...Singapore opens Fusionopolis, its second major R&D hub in 5 years
...an unprecedented increase of 26% from the 2006 GERD, and double the amount of $3 billion (Singapore dollars) recorded in 2000. GERD as a percentage of gdp rose to 2.61% in 2007, up from 2.31% in 2006 and 1.88% in 2000. Two thirds of this expenditure comes from the private sector. Both Fusionopolis an...The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity- TEEB
... some ecosystem services, some negative feedback effects of these losses on gdp growth are not fully accounted for, and the values do not account for non-l...requirement is to develop an economic yardstick that is more effective than gdp for assessing the performance of an economy. National accounting systems ne...Book examines clash of capitalism and the environment
... Speth says that these studies suggest the need for a radical rethinking and reordering of societys priorities. Obsession with consumption and gdp growth has now causes more harmto the environment, social fabric and world securitythan good. It took all of history, Speth notes, to build th...European Union forests expanding, absorbing carbon at surprisingly high rate: study
... EU nations in order to meet a post-Kyoto commitment to reduce emissions 20% from 1990 levels by 2020: a dramatic reduction of energy used per unit of gdp and de-carbonization of energy supply against a backdrop of rising population and affluence. CO2 emissions in EU nations grew by an average of ro...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
...ic Product exceeds US $4,600 (roughly equal to the gdp of Chile), richer is greener. In about half of th... most forested nations with more than about $4,600 gdp per capita. In the exception, Canada improbably r...stable or increasing in countries where per capita gdp exceeds US $4,600, the results in India and China ...The making and breaking of microtubules
...ed the depolymerization process, watching what happens to microtubules when gdp is bound to tubulin. During this process tubulin protofilaments curve back ...n process, watching what happens when GTP is bound to tubulin molecules. If gdp somehow causes protofilaments to curl up tightly, GTP does the opposite, ca...Cord Blood America Continues International Expansion
...e southern Caribbean, is overseen by the Netherlands, while Bermuda, a British territory in the North Atlantic, has previously had the world's highest gdp per capita. About Cord Blood America Cord Blood America (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI) is the parent company of CorCell, which facilitates umbi...Hoosiers Work for Health Highlights Impact of Medical Research and Innovation on Indiana Economy
...es that the biopharmaceutical sector has made a substantial contribution to U.S. economic growth, and that on average, this sector contributed more to gdp on a per employee basis and grew faster than the rest of the economy from 1996 to 2006." In addition, the local presence of the biopharmaceutic...Frost & Sullivan Forecasts Early Rebound: Strong Growth Ahead for Global Economy
... up 4.91%. -- U.S. retail sales are finally in the black, with January sales posting an increase of 1% from the previous month. -- High gdp rates in emerging markets -- Near-zero fed rates and high dividends in emerging economy stocks Frost & Sullivan believes that busines...Japanese Continue Relentless Biotech Stake in Midwest
... 27.4 percent 19.3 percent gdp (1999): $4.3 trillion ($0.8 trillion in the Kansai region) ... 202 Health Spending as percent of gdp (2001): 7.9 percent 12.9 percent ...Broadband Deployment & Adoption in Wisconsin
...ue and productivity of the IT industry. It has been estimated that a ubiquitous broadband infrastructure would account for an increase in the nations gdp up to $500 million annually. Former Michigan Governor Engler has stated that jump-starting Michigans high-speed Internet access throughout the st...Midwest Biotech: Watch India, the Next Biotech Frontier
...ths related to HIV/AIDs. 5. GDP growth rate in 2002 was 4.3 percent and gdp per capita was $2,540. 6. About 25 percent of the population live below...gs and services is substantially lower than that of the U.S. given that the gdp per capita is about one-tenth of that of the U.S. In summary, there see...IT is critical for economic growth, says UW business dean
...enter Wednesday for the Fusion 2005 CEO-CIO Symposium . Just looking at gdp growth, the U.S.'s performance over from 1994 to 2004 was good but does not...those two nations, Knetter noted. This is especially true when one compares gdp performance with the disparity in productivity growth, in which the U.S. ha...Japanese biotech is booming and linked with Midwest
...with average R&D expenses of $1.5 million. PharmaVOICE estimates that Japanese biotech R&D spending represents about 3.18 percent of the countrys gdp (versus 2.59 percent in the U.S.). It is estimated that the value of Japanese biotech will more than triple from 2002 to 2005 and reach almost $5 bill...