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Private Medical Insurance in the United Kingdom
This paper provides a descriptive overview of the market for supplementary Voluntary Health Insurance VHI, or Private Medical Insurance PMI, in the United Kingdom. The structure of the paper reflects the three principal dimensions of the market: the product, demand and supply. An appendix discusses the market for health cash...
Effects of Armed Conflict on Access to Emergency Health Care in Palestinian West Bank: Systematic Collection of Data in Emergency Departments
Armed conflict affects public health in various ways. In the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, tight restrictions have been imposed on the population. Towns and villages are encircled by military checkpoints, making passage difficult, unpredictable, and occasionally impossible. The World Health Organization recommends collection of data in emergency departments as...
Children's Health and Environment Developing Action Plans
The European Commission has strengthened its focus on environment and health issues, not only by providing large amounts of funds to its Member States but also by developing policies and action plans, such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization of chemicals), SCALE (Science, Children, Awareness raising, Legislation, Evaluation), the European Union...
Human Resource Indicators and Health Service Performance
Public expectations and increasing financial pressures are requiring health services to adopt new approaches to the management of their resources, particularly human resources. This paper examines the use of human resource indicators HRI to support management-led initiatives to improve health service efficiency and effectiveness. The paper continues with an identification...
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Sharp unveils new anti-bird flu air purifier
TOKYO AFP — Japan's Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes. The system has been improved from an earlier version which was shown in 2005 to have eliminated 99...
Well-Being of Americans Declines as Economy Worsens
Recent study released by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being IndexSM demonstrates that economic concerns, associated lowering of standards of living are affecting America's well-being NASHVILLE, Tenn. & WASHINGTON -- Research released by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index last week points to a significant decline in overall well-being among all Americans over...
Novartis Begins Shipment to US of Fluvirin(R) Influenza Virus Vaccine With Three New Strains for the 2008-2009 Influenza Season
Novartis announced today that it startedshipments of its Fluvirin® Influenza Virus Vaccine to US health carefacilities and practitioners for the 2008/2009 influenza season. The company is producing up to 40 million doses of Fluvirin, with the WorldHealth Organization recommended change in all three virus strains includedin the influenza vaccine composition....
Drug Resistance Is Slowing Global Fight Against TB
Standard methods of treating tuberculosis are failing in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant MDR forms of the disease, say researchers who analyzed World Health Organization data from 2003 to 2004 for 155 countries. 21.4 percent vs. 11.9 percent. The findings suggest that current TB treatment regimens need to...
YourCity.MD Sets Up Largest Single Owned, Geo-Targeted Online Ad Network Covering 450 Cities and States Across U.S
YourCity.MD Ad Network Reaches 215 Million Internet Users with Annual Spending Over $200 Billion for Out of Pocket Healthcare Expenses CINCINNATI -- YourCity.MD LLC (www.YourCity.MD), a medical and information network with 450 city and state-specific .MD Web sites across the U.S., today announced the first ever, single owned,...
Aquaculture and florfenicol resistance in Salmonella enterica Typhimurium DT104
To the Editor: In June 2006, the World Health Organization WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO, and the World Organisation for Animal Health OIE convened an Expert Consultation to consider the risks to human health represented by the use of antimicrobial drugs in aquaculture. This...
AIDS Healthcare Foundation to Preview AIDS Advocacy March and Events Set for Mexico City's AIDS Conference
Thousands of AIDS Advocates to March Sunday for 'Universal AIDS Action Now' MEXICO CITY -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Key Events Include: * AIDS MARCH & RALLY, Sunday, August 3rd--March Demanding 'Universal AIDS Action Now' Proceeds from Plaza de la Revolucion to Zocalo Plaza, Starts...
French Agency Receives 10 Million Dollar Grant From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Support the Establishment of National Vaccine Advisory Committees in Africa and Asia
PARIS, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The French agency Agence de Medecine Preventive AMP has received a grant of 10 million dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the development of National Vaccine Advisory Committees in Africa and Asia. These Committees will help the National Health Authorities...
Beijing in haze with games quickly approaching
IT WAS A a lazy Sunday afternoon when Nancy Gonsalves, the U.S. Olympic Committee's director of games preparation, stood before a small delegation of media at San Jose State and was asked about the conditions in Beijing. "The grass is green," she said, "the flowers are blooming."...
NIH's National Center For Research Resources Selects Collexis To Develop State of Science Analysis System
Collexis' Technology To Enhance Decision Making On Biotechnology Research Funding COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic and knowledge discovery software, announced today that the National Center for Research Resources NCRR, of the National Institutes of Health NIH, has...
Access to essential biomedical research to be expanded through collaboration by Collexis Holdings Inc and JISC Collections
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-8 July 2008-Access to essential biomedical research to be expanded through collaboration by Collexis Holdings Inc and JISC CollectionsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Collexis Holdings Inc (OTCBB:CLXS), which develops software that supports the market-building tools to search and mine sets of information, reported yesterday (7...
Wyeth Applauds Six Countries Across Europe, and the Middle East, That Recently Announced the Inclusion of the 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Their Immunization Schedules
MAIDENHEAD, England, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - PREVENAR Vaccine to Help Protect Children Against the Leading Vaccine-Preventable Cause of Death in Young Children Wyeth applauds the countries of Cyprus, Hungary, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Republic of Ireland, Slovak Republic and Sweden for announcing their...
Leading Worldwide Cause of Cardiovascular Disease May Be Modified by Diet
Potassium, Other Minerals Shown to Reduce Blood Pressure NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A new article indicates that an increased intake in minerals such as potassium, and possibly magnesium and calcium by dietary means may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and...
FDA Grants AMDL Clearance to Market the AMDL-ELISA DR-70® Blood Test for Monitoring Colorectal Cancer
TUSTIN, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMDL , a leading vertically integrated bio-pharmaceutical company with operations in China and the US, announced today the US Food and Drug Administration FDA has issued a letter of substantial equivalence to an existing predicate device and granted clearance to...
Collexis Holdings, Inc. and JISC Collections - Helping to Widen Access to Essential Biomedical Research in the United Kingdom
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A major new agreement was announced today between Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic knowledge discovery software and expert profiles, and JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical...
International Guidelines Will Promote Food Safety of Plant and Animal Biotech Products
BIO Applauds Codex Adoption of Guidelines on Low-Level Presence, GE Animals WASHINGTON -- The Biotechnology Industry Organization congratulates the Codex Alimentarius Commission for approving key guidelines to further promote the safety of products from agricultural plant and animal biotechnology. The Codex Commission took final action...
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All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services: 621999
