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Study reveals people’s thoughts on living longer

Medicine & Health / Health

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If people were given a pill to make them live longer what would they do with that extra time? According to a new study by University of Queensland researchers, they would spend it with their family.


Osteoarthritis increases aggregate health care expenditures by $186 billion annually

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Osteoarthritis (OA), a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Insurers footed $149.4 billion of the ...


Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034. Over the same period, spending on diabetes will almost triple, rising from ...


Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.


Immediate, aggressive spending on HIV/AIDS could end epidemic

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control the spread of the disease. That was the conclusion of a study just published in the open-access journal, ...


Prioritizing low-cost, simple health measures would save 2.5 million child lives a year

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Almost a third of the children under age five who die each year could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, bed nets and basic maternal ...


Trimming US health care spending will require new approaches, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by ...


Health care accounts for 8 percent of US carbon footprint

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American health care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint.


Framed for child porn -- by a PC virus

Framed for child porn -- by a PC virus

Technology / Internet

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(AP) -- Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.


House passes health care bill on close vote (AP)

Landmark health bill passes House on close vote

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the ...


Researcher finds forest birds ‘commuting’ to attract mates

Researcher finds forest birds 'commuting' to attract mates

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ecologist at the University of Rhode Island studying habitat use by a forest-dwelling game bird found that the birds unexpectedly exhibited what he described as "the bar scene phenomenon" ...


International survey of physicians in 11 countries reveals US lagging in access, quality, HIT use

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies ...


Health care dispute: Costs of defensive medicine (AP)

Health care dispute: Costs of defensive medicine

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Dr. James Wang says he tries to tell his patients when extra medical procedures aren't necessary. If they insist, though, he will do it - not so much to protect their health as his own practice.


Weight training boosts breast cancer survivors' body image and intimate relationship satisfaction

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In addition to building muscle, weightlifting is also a prescription for self-esteem among breast cancer survivors, according to new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research. Breast cancer survivors who lift ...