The News Review:
- Childhood vaccines cause financial burden to many health care …
- Zimbabwe Health Minister Appeals for More Help to Combat Cholera …
- 109 Medicines and Vaccines Now in Development for HIV/AIDS
- Giving the Gift of Health This Holiday Season
- Malawi crying out for help from West to tackle Aids
- The economics of obesity: tipping the scales toward a health crisis
- UNICEF Canada: Early HIV Testing and Treatment Can Save Newborn Lives
Childhood vaccines cause financial burden to many health care …
EurekAlert (press release) DC
Of the pediatricians 70 percent responded along with 60 percent of family physicians. The study of costs and reimbursements included data from 76 practices. Authors: In addition to Freed authors of both papers were Sarah J. Clark MPH and Anne E. Cowan of the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit. Sashi Gregory MPH also was an author of the reimbursement study. Funding: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Zimbabwe Health Minister Appeals for More Help to Combat Cholera …
Voice of America
David Parirenyatwa spoke as a choleraepidemic has killed more than 400 people with more than 11 thousand casesreported across Zimbabwe since August. City officials in the capitalHarare have reportedly offering free graves for victims of the epidemic. Withmore than a 200 million-percent inflation rate most Zimbabweans cannot affordthe nearly 30 dollars it costs for a grave. Parirenyatwatold VOA Zimbabwe?s crumbling medical system was doingall it can to combat the cholera epidemic.
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109 Medicines and Vaccines Now in Development for HIV/AIDS
MarketWatch
December 1 marks the 20th anniversary of “World AIDS Day” – a global awareness campaign that originated at the 1988 World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention. “We are greatly encouraged by the new critically important medicines and vaccines in development to treat and prevent HIV infection” says PhRMA President and CEO Billy Tauzin. “Pharmaceutical researchers are continuing their efforts to develop new therapies and vaccines to improve and lengthen the lives of HIV-infected patients. The report found that of the 109 products in development 29 are vaccines and 57 are antivirals. These drugs are either in human clinical trials or await approval by the U.
Giving the Gift of Health This Holiday Season
MarketWatch
1 2008 ANN ARBOR Mich. But this year why not give something more healthy and beneficial to a loved one? Why not give the gift of health? Staying healthy around the holidays can be challenging and this year many Americans are faced with extra hardships due to our tough economy. assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School (.
Malawi crying out for help from West to tackle Aids
Irish Times Ireland
Prior to the advent of HIV the healthcare system in Malawi was severely challenged; with its arrival it has been brought to its knees. While many people have received treatment the majority of those in need have not been reached. Efforts to increase access to treatment and to maintain and improve the quality of care are being hampered due to the acute shortage of health workers. It has been recognised for some time that this is greatest obstacle to healthcare delivery in many African countries and is contributing to unnecessary illness and death. In Malawi there are only two doctors and 56 nurses per 100000 patients. Travelling around district healthcare clinics surrounding Lilongwe this shortage of healthcare workers is a stark reality. So many people are ill and awaiting treatment but in the majority of clinics there are no doctors and very few qualified nurses.
The economics of obesity: tipping the scales toward a health crisis
Brandywine East Community News DE
The apple doesn’t fall far from the treeFood advertising has also played a role in our consumption she said and commercials for soft drinks and unhealthy snacks tend to appeal to children. The marketing is working. Kids consume twice the daily recommended amount of sugar Finkelstein said and an average child drinks 62 gallons of soda each year. “There is not a child who can’t recognize the golden arches” Carter said. “If we as a nation are trying to be healthy we need to do something about that. ”Children’s lives mirror their parents’: they also have more opportunities to be sedentary than ever before she said and many kids don’t have time to exercise because they are busy with schoolwork and other activities and some neighborhoods lack safe areas for kids to play. Their trend toward obesity is also beginning to mirror their parents’: thirty-six percent of Delaware kids are overweight or obese according to Nemours & Prevention Services.
UNICEF Canada: Early HIV Testing and Treatment Can Save Newborn Lives
MarketWatch
“We urgently need to strengthen our global efforts to prevent HIVtransmission to children and to quickly and effectively diagnose andassist those impacted by HIV and AIDS” says Nigel Fisher Presidentand CEO UNICEF Canada. “We need to make this the last generation ofchildren to bear the brunt of the epidemic. “Without appropriate treatment half of children with HIV will diefrom an HIV-related cause by their second birthday” said Ann M. Veneman UNICEF Executive Director. “Survival rates are up to 75 percent higher for HIV-positive newborns who are diagnosed and begintreatment within their first 12 weeks. However in 2007 less than 10 per cent of infants born toHIV-positive mothers were tested for HIV before they were two monthsold.
