Middle- and low-income countries do not have enough evidence to makeinformed policies regarding their human resources for health, accordingto an article published on February 22, 2008 in The Lancet’sHuman Resources for Health Special Issue. A major challenge of all policy makers is to guarantee a proper supplyand distribution of trained health workers.
Middle- and low-income countries do not have enough evidence to makeinformed policies regarding their human resources for health, accordingto an article published on February 22, 2008 in The Lancet’sHuman Resources for Health Special Issue. A major challenge of all policy makers is to guarantee a proper supplyand distribution of trained health workers.
“You sound terrible. Go home.” A new survey about flu in the workplace shows that 33 percent of organizations send employees home if they come to work sick. Just over one in 10 offer telecommuting options for workers who are ill but ask to work from home.
Women with diabetes are seven times more likely to have a stillborn baby compared to other women.These findings will be presented next week at Diabetes UK’s Annual Professional Conference in Glasgow. Research looking at 130 pregnancies in Leicester of women with Type 1 diabetes between 1999 and 2006 showed that 3.9 per cent resulted in stillbirth. This compares to 0.
Vain British men perceive themselves to be more than three inches slimmer than they really are and are ignoring a warning sign for diabetes. In a study being presented next week to Diabetes UK’s Annual Professional Conference (APC) in Glasgow, attended by over 3,000 healthcare professionals, more than 500 men and women were asked to estimate their waist size.
With a bipartisan voice vote earlier today, The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed House Resolution 5501 (the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act), a bill to reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the US global AIDS program. AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) (http://www.
DOV Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OTCBB: DOVP) announced that it has initiated a Phase II clinical trial of DOV 21,947 in patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder. DOV 21,947 is DOV’s lead triple reuptake inhibitor, or “TRIP,” for the treatment of depression and obesity.
Congress will wait until next year to pass the fiscal year 2009 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill in the event that the Bush administration does not agree to negotiate on the legislation, House Appropriations Committee Chair David Obey (D-Wis.
“The Fall and Rise of U.S. Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960-2002″: The study examines whether relative and absolute differences in mortality between socioeconomic groups and between whites and nonwhites widen or narrow when overall population health improves. Researchers examined annual U.S.
Scientists in the US have discovered that living organisms like bacteria play an important role in making rain and snow in the atmosphere. The discovery could help researchers understand the role of living organisms in the water cycle and lead to better climate forecasting, and solve problems of water shortage, said the researchers.