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New push for public health, AIDS spending at African Union summit

Activists hope this weekend's African Union (AU) summit will net commitments to boost government spending on public health, helping to curb the spread of AIDS, which killed 2.3 million Africans in 2004. "We are definitely optimistic that this time there will be some movement, that this time there will be not just talk about an HIV strategy for the AU but how to tackle an action-oriented p...

Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments

More lives could be saved in the United States by spending less money on making medical treatments better and more on getting existing treatments to the patients who need them, according to a study published by a Virginia Commonwealth University family medicine and public health physician. "For every dollar Congress gives the National Institutes of Health to develop blockbuster treatments,...
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Doyle urges support of higher education spending

Doyle has proposed the direct spending of $225 million to create more seats for incoming students, build...

Doyle outlines spending for Medical College, UWM

The investments include an additional $10 million to support collaborative research between the <a href="http://www.mcw.ed...

Chippewa Valley to get $46 million in defense spending

Secured by Democratic , the allocations still need approval from the U.S. Senate and President B...

In public attitudes about taxes and spending, Wisconsin is Jekyll and Hyde

For all the talk-show chatter about cutting government spending and holding the line on taxes in Wisconsin, do state policymakers or the people they represent really want to bite the bullet? Based on what happened last week in the Wisconsin Assembly, and what is likely to happen this week in the state Senate, the answer is a tepid "maybe." Perhaps ambivalence in the Capitol accu...

Audit of multi-million dollar state IT spending will proceed

The 6-0 vote came after several hours of testimony on Wednesday from state auditors and agency personnel confirmed the state has lost millions of dollars that cannot be recouped. Large-scale projects in several...

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Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

e-thrombosis is the new e-jargon associated with computers. But it is no term to be happy about, because this term refers to the condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis(DVT), which could affect those individuals whose work or lifestyle demands them to spend long hours in front of a computer. Sitting for a long time without a break could cause blood clots in the unmoving lower limbs, then travel upw...

Jumping The Queue Has Left Hospital Suspending Transplantation

In the US one of the top organ transplant hospitals in California has suspended its liver program following allegations a Saudi national improperly received an organ ahead of dozens of other needy American patients.// The Los Angeles Times reported that officials at St. Vincent Medical Center also discovered that, following the transplant, some hospital staff allegedly falsified recor...

Stop spending on new treatments; allocate funds to improve the existing treatments.

A study conducted by Steven H. Woolf, M.D., professor and director of research in Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Department of Family Medicine reported that it will be fruitful // and more lives would be saved if US stopped spending on improving the medical facilities and provided the existing facilities to the public. The congress allocates funds to the National Institute of He...

More Spending Does Not Ensure Better Healthcare

The Conference Board of Canada has revealed that investing more money in the country’s healthcare system will not serve any purpose, as this does not necessarily// result in better services. The manner in which the money is spent is more important, according to Conn Hamilton, the author of the report. The name of the report is Healthy Provinces, Healthy Canadians. The best healthcare...

Western Australian Government Spending Extra For Mental Health Services

The Western Australian Government is spending $3 million extra on more experienced clinical staff and new therapy programs in an effort to improve mental health services in the Peel and Rockingham Kwinana area, south of Perth. // Health Minister Jim McGinty opined that the new therapy services would lessen the burden on City Hospitals. "We need a balance of all of the health clinical...

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