Hepatitis B accounts for 40 percent of 'missing' Asian women
In a groundbreaking, sure-to-be-controversial new study, Emily Oster (a graduate student in economics at Harvard University) argues that excess female mortality, such as infanticide, may not be the only cause of uncommonly high male to female ratios in many Asian countries. It has long been observed that the relative number of males is higher in certain Asian countries than in the West, where it...Fiserv enters health-care savings accounts business
Spurred on by HSA authorization by Congress in 2004, healthcare banking is a set of services which includes managing tax-advantaged healthcare accounts for consumers and moving payments between pa...Africa Accounts For 50% Of HIV Patients
Senegalese schoolchildren took a pledge to abstain from promiscuous sex on 1 December 2005, the World AIDS Day. The prevailing taboos in the developing nations // and ignorance with regard to AIDS are contributing towards the disease spreading rapidly. The Special Envoy of the U.N Stephen Lewis, has called upon the world’s rich nations to contribute more towards combating the disease....Delhi Accounts for 23,000 Female Fetus Abortions Last Year
Around 23,000 female foetuses were aborted in the capital last year with, experts said Wednesday. // "Whereas Denmark had 23,000 births in 2005, the same number of female foetuses were aborted in Delhi alone," said Puneet Bedi, a leading medicine expert, quoting records of the Delhi government. "In a recent audit on ultrasound clinics based on three months data, we found t...