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A round-up of health news for the week ending 27 August 2010.
How video-based multidisciplinary consultations are benefiting children with complex posture and movement problems, preventing delays in care and...
Britain’s biggest children’s hospital, part of a complex of four institutions that opened in Manchester last summer, is not just a godsend for...
The following is a list of the top 10 medical breakthroughs from 2009.
Andrew Lansley discusses patient choice and responsibility, access to information and the latest treatments, and why basic care should remain free.
My husband lost his health insurance two months before being diagnosed with stomach cancer. Joe had been a truck driver all his life, the...
While US politicians argue about how to make healthcare more accessible and affordable, many Americans have found their own solution – going abroad...
In the £1m ($1.66m) hole in the ground that is the decidedly well-appointed basement gym at the upscale London office of the international law firm...
Two United States institutions wield enormous power over healthcare in the US and around the world. The US Food and Drug Administration has the...
The volunteers offering free medical services to poor rural communities in the US.
How the recession could impact the future of healthcare systems around the world.
As the H1N1 influenza pandemic has reminded us, disease knows no boundaries. Tackling health issues globally is critical to maintaining good health...
That the world’s population is ageing rapidly is old news. Driven by falling fertility rates and a sustained increase in longevity, many...
Over the next five years, the US government will inject $19.2 billion into healthcare IT, with the goal of providing electronic medical records for...
Healthcare is a growing global challenge. Demand is increasing due to ageing, obesity and the rise of chronic disease. What does this mean for the...
Simultaneous vaccination against seasonal and pandemic flu provides protection against the virus without provoking significant side effects,...
Is the AIDS-vaccine syringe half full — or virtually empty? That's the question researchers continue to contemplate following the release of the full...
Navi Radjou, the Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge,...
The genetic disease thalassaemia is relatively unheard of in the western world but is believed to affect hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions –...
We have been warned for a long time now that America’s long-term healthcare costs are unaffordable, unsustainable and a threat to our economic...
Our carbon footprints are calculations of the greenhouse gases we’re individually responsible for. Reduce yours, and you can take some satisfaction...
Geoff Colvin is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and...
Yale Professor, Jacob Hacker, reflects on the academic proposal he made a decade ago - and the political fixation it's become.
When you've been strong and fit your whole life, it can be easy to discount your body's first whispers of sickness as merely the side effects of...
In recent weeks, opponents of Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans have criticized Britain's National Health Service (NHS) in an effort to counter...
High infant mortality, low life expectancy, soaring healthcare costs — the symptoms are numerous and the diagnosis unmistakable: America's healthcare...
To get a sense of just how dysfunctional American healthcare is, members of Congress don't need to look further than their local emergency department...
An awful lot of people at large in the world began their lives in a dish. Just over 30 years ago, a British baby named Louise Brown became the first...
For many pregnant women in America, it is easier today to walk into a hospital and request major abdominal surgery than it is to give birth as nature...
Any pregnant woman who has ever cracked open a medicine cabinet is familiar with the warnings against using nearly every kind of medication,...
Expectant parents, spare a thought for Mrs. Jacob Nufer, who in 1500 found herself in agonizing labor. More than a dozen midwives of the Swiss town...
A much-anticipated study released Nov. 9 at the American Heart Association's annual meeting confirms what doctors have long suspected: that...
The battle of the sexes has long been played out in the home and in the workplace, but when it comes to health and biological makeup, are men and...
For decades, heart disease has had the dubious honor of being the leading killer of Americans. Most heart-related deaths happen among the elderly, by...
It was a powerful idea, and there was some intriguing early evidence suggesting that something as simple as popping vitamin D might hold off the...
This month at GetInsideHealth, we aim to give our readers a taste of the immense, varied, and fascinating topic of Women’s health and well-being.
The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, which killed tens of millions, descended with devastating virulence on a world ravaged by four years of war. The...
It would be entirely fitting for Congress to rekindle the “war on cancer” in response to the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), but another...
One of the most far-reaching government health initiatives over the past year is also one of the least-publicised. It is the pledge to support and...
In addition to being the editor of GetInsideHealth, Kip Piper, MA, FACHE, is a leading authority on health care policy and finance. With 27 years'...
The number is between 50 and 75 percent. That is the percentage of people in the U. S. and U. K. on medication who are non-compliant. This means they...
Fears of a swine flu pandemic may have opened the door to the development of a more effective vaccine
Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director of Apollo Hospitals Group, India's largest private healthcare provider, says greater cooperation is needed...
Sir Liam Donaldson is leading the charge for preventive care strategies
Teenagers are probably the least likely among us to eat enough fruits and vegetables or to get adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals from their...
At first glance it feels like any Latin American barrio filled with kids. It's a Saturday afternoon, and a dozen young children are sprawled out on a...
Life, if you're a bacterium or virus, boils down to this: finding a pristine human home to provide for your every need, from food and nutrients to...
Getting a flu shot is an annual rite of passage — or at least, according to U. S. health officials, it should be. For the first time, the Centers for...
Children are impulsive. Any parent knows that from experience — they want everything they see, and they want it right now. That's not necessarily a...
(WASHINGTON) — Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be...
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing could open the door to better targeted treatments, but concerns are growing about its quality.
We tend to view the brain like an alien that happens to reside in the skull. We see it as unpredictable, ungovernable in ways that other organs...
When the first U. S. patients fell victim to the new H1N1 flu, they may not have immediately thought to call their doctor or run to the nearest...
Is there a hidden price to pay for the latest advances in reproductive technology?
What can other countries learn from South Korea's plan to implement universal healthcare?
Panasonic Corp. said Tuesday has developed a medical robot that dispenses drugs to patients, the Japanese electronics giant's first step into...
Industry will contribute $155 billion in Medicare and Medicaid savings in the next decade, to help fund health care reform vice president says.
Amgen CEO Kevin Sharer's job is to produce blockbuster drugs. Will health-care reform make that harder?
The healthcare systems in Europe must fundamentally change focus from cure to prevention, if they are to cope with societies’ changing demographics,...
Jonathan Mann is an anchor and correspondent for CNN International. Based in the network's Atlanta headquarters, Mann is a 20-year veteran journalist...
Tourist Jack Golden remembers a recent trip to China for all the wrong reasons. Golden, of Lenox, Mass., had a prostate condition that required...
America’s health care is the costliest in the world, yet quality is patchy and millions are uninsured. Incentives for both patients and suppliers...
Barack Obama was elected in part to fix America’s health care system. Now is the time for him to keep his word.
Most of the rich world is short of babies
Patient focus might be the new mantra of governments around the world as they struggle to address the issues of rising healthcare costs, and the...
Advances in science and medicine have helped mankind conquer many of the pathogens that once wiped out communities.
Smallpox, measles, and typhoid...
Welcome to the latest issue of GetInsideHealth. In the first of a two-part series, we're taking a closer look at what's happening at the forefront of...
Treating the sickest part of America’s economy
Any parent can appreciate how much babies hate shots. So, welcome Pentacel, the first vaccine to immunize against five diseases at once — diphtheria,...
Telemedicine has the potential to offer access to specialist diagnostic services in remote places. But that potential will not be fulfilled any time...
Tough economic times won't help Russia to fund long-awaited healthcare reforms
A combination of technology and international collaboration are proving to be vital frontline tools for tracking pandemics.
National Health Service staff are no longer being asked whether they would be happy to be treated in their own hospitals.
The image of doctors studying X-ray films clipped to a wall-hung light box is an enduring one thanks to television hospital dramas. However, it is...
As more people receive healthcare services in a range of places the questions arise: how will all these various health professionals access our...
The role hospitals play in our communities is not simple; neither do we all have the same concept of what that role is.
When you check into a hospital, you want to be sure you’ll be getting the very best care. That’s always been true, but since more and more care is...
Travelling abroad for medical treatment is expected to grow in popularity in coming years
For good or ill, health information services are proliferating on the internet
Patients in poor countries could gain easier access to effective malaria treatments at a fraction of current prices under a pioneering subsidy...
As Maureen describes how the severe pain in her joints makes it hard to do housework, Amanda Cooper listens sympathetically at the other end of the...
China’s planned Rmb850bn ($124bn) revamp of its ailing healthcare system will generate software spending worth at least $1.5bn, according to IBM’s...
The Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen looks like any other hospital in the developed world, except for one notable absence: there are...
The Obama administration thinks it has discovered a magic bullet in the drive to lower health-care costs: electronic medical records (EMR). Getting...
Prescription pads, clipboards and patient charts are so 20th century. In the era of CT scans, gene-splicing and stem-cell breakthroughs, handwritten...
Life-saving drug treatment for up to 1.7m people with HIV is under threat because of funding pressures triggered by the global financial crisis,...
Healthcare in the European Union is riddled with political and economic challenges, but the law is shifting to give individual patients the treatment...
In this webcast, experts discuss ways in which strained European and US healthcare systems can relieve some pressure.
Technology has been a culprit behind runaway health costs. It might now help tame them.
The National Health Service in England has – more or less – hit the government’s target that no one should have to wait more than 18 weeks for...
President Obama hopes that cost-effective, universal healthcare will be his legacy. But can he afford it?
Larry Kocot, from the Brookings Institution, says that electronic patient records will improve quality of care in the US healthcare system. Others...
Health economist Professor Alan Maynard explains how healthcare standards could be improved by giving doctors less freedom… and re-instating the 1845...
Committee supports proposal but Socialists withhold their support.
Inequality and under-investment in healthcare are still problems for many countries in the south-east of Europe.
Phil Hammond may be a comic and an author but he also has some serious issues in his sights.
Indian healthcare professionals believe that their country’s healthcare system is more efficient and effective than it was two years ago, with better...
Getting out of bed on a January morning can be tough. It’s cold outside, it’s warm under the duvet and you’re tired after another late night. The...
Fixing Healthcare is an Economist Intelligence Unit report commissioned by Philips, the first in a series of four to be published in 2009.
Denmark is taking a new approach to tackling increasingly prevalent chronic diseases.
You know an idea is beginning to take off when entrepreneurs try to make money out of it.
Rising healthcare premiums have companies shifting costs, pushing "wellness, " and punishing unhealthy behaviour.
Patient empowerment is a big theme in healthcare, but what rights do citizens really have?
India has made significant progress in improving healthcare, but there are huge challenges in extending basic services to the rural population.
What should employers do about healthcare?
The workplace has an important role to play in the health of a society.
Simon Lovestone, a British molecular scientist, hopes one day to make a significant contribution to addressing one of the pressing medical issues of...
Scientific inspiration can come from anywhere — a person, an event, even an experiment gone awry. But perhaps nothing can drive innovation more...