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While the health benefits of regular exercise are well established, more than 60% of adults worldwide fail to meet the recommended levels of physical...
How could the ways in which we source and prepare food change in the future, to help ensure sustainability and potentially improve health?
Not enough is being done to reduce the incidence of coronary disease in women
The most recent Financial Times health supplement focuses on the health reform with article topics ranging from the effect of recession, US reform,...
Andrew Lansley discusses patient choice and responsibility, access to information and the latest treatments, and why basic care should remain free.
What strategies should we be taking to ensure we are equipped to deal with our ageing societies?
The fight against cancer doesn’t just take place in a patient’s body. The mind also plays its part. After being diagnosed with the disease, many...
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...
A new Economist Intelligence Unit report provides insights into the implications for healthcare systems of a rapidly ageing global population.
Reducing maternal mortality rates is not just a problem for the developing world
A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights the dilemmas faced by policymakers seeking to implement healthcare reform.
Far-sighted employers are increasingly addressing the distinctive needs of women employees and, as a result, reaping the gains of liberating 50 per...
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...
Oprah called them “amazing” and “stunning.” US TV journalist Diane Sawyer called them “incredible.” What could elicit such awe-struck remarks by two...
Patient Power: Supporting Patients and Their Families
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...
Home Health has become an umbrella term for the home as a center for health and well-being. Take a look at how telehealth is contributing to this...
Fears of a swine flu pandemic may have opened the door to the development of a more effective vaccine
Health professionals face a long battle against superbugs
Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director of Apollo Hospitals Group, India's largest private healthcare provider, says greater cooperation is needed...
Effective innovation in healthcare is difficult, but not impossible
Until relatively recently, most patients have relied on the skill of their treating physician to assimilate information about their conditions and...
A brain surgeon performed what he called a "life-saving" surgery on a teenager by removing a large brain tumor using a method he read about on CNN....
Open innovation is the way to deliver technological advances in the modern world.
For decades most companies saw innovation as a closed activity, conducted inside their R&D centers in a series of closely managed steps.
The guru of disruptive innovation, Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, shares his ideas on how innovation can reform healthcare in an article this...
Watching the news helped a North Carolina-based neurosurgeon save the life of 19 year old youth because it alerted him to a newly available surgical...
The European Commission is betting on electronic healthcare as a major market in coming years, according to a report in European Voice.
Nowadays, everything seems to be smart: smart phones, smart cars, smart toasters. And soon we may be taking smart pills.
Baby boomers want to live independently for as long as possible, a report from the International Longevity Center-USA reports.
The UK’s National Health Service will innovate its way out of the recession, a senior member of the Department of Health told delegates to the...
The healthcare systems in Europe must fundamentally change focus from cure to prevention, if they are to cope with societies’ changing demographics,...
The benefits of playing sport are undeniable. Almost every day, a new piece of scientific research appears that proves regular, vigorous exercise can...
Breast cancer is a global crisis. Once regarded as a disease of the wealthy West, it is now the most common form of cancer for women across the...
Telemedicine has come of age in rural America, where it is being used to provide specialist intensive care that would otherwise be costly and...
Organisational and structural barriers are blocking healthcare reform. A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows how they can be...
Cutting-edge electronics are gradually proving that human body parts can be replaced by alternatives that are just as good as the real thing—and...
Hospitals were designed to make sick people well. But in most developed countries, a significant—and growing—number of people who go to hospital die...
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...
Eric Silfen MD, chief medical officer, Philips Healthcare, argues that successful healthcare reform is achievable.
Whether a TomTom, Magellan or Garmin – GPS has changed the way we drive, making us more efficient, more in control and more successful in how we get...
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...
Could remote monitoring help Scotland deal with one of its biggest public health challenges?
The average manager gets 19% less than the recommended eight hours sleep a night, the results of an international survey sponsored by Philips show.
Tense negotiations have been under way for three hours without a break, and they aren't over by a long shot.
Even when we’re on the move we expect to have access to all kinds of entertainment and information. Even if in hospital we’d still want to have...
Breast cancer screening in the Netherlands will be totally digital by the end of this year, improving detection rates and potentially saving the...
Technology will transform hospitals, enabling healthcare systems to meet rising demand, with fewer staff while providing patients with care tailored...
The role hospitals play in our communities is not simple; neither do we all have the same concept of what that role 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
How stem cells from babies’ umbilical cords could provide hope for those with conditions such as leukaemia
Dr Andreas Ullrich, medical officer for cancer control at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, discusses a major shift in the...
Using light to treat a range of conditions is a well established therapeutic option.
Some doctors aren’t convinced that home testing is safe and effective. The results of The Home INR Study and several previous studies show that it is.
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...
Few people relish the idea of a stay in hospital. For most of us, our health goals are to stay well, avoid hospital, and if we do have to spend time...
Medical costs are skyrocketing because western populations are aging, chronic illness is growing, and medical science pushes the boundaries of what...
News that more and more Americans are getting less and less sleep comes as no surprise to Dr David White, chief medical officer at Philips...
Even though you’ve always known you do the work of ten men, you’ve started to wonder, despite your exemplary lifestyle, why you’re so exhausted all...
In the UK, adult children will provide elderly parents with the equivalent of £39 billion in unpaid care this year. Many of these adults will also...
As we feel the impact of the world’s demographic changes, home monitoring will play an increasingly important role in maintaining independence and...
People are spending less and less time in hospital. Heart attack victims now spend half as much time in hospital as they did in the Eighties,...
Indian healthcare professionals believe that their country’s healthcare system is more efficient and effective than it was two years ago, with better...
During uncertain times, people tend to look back and wonder, How did it get to this? Regret can become pervasive. Good decisions or bad, people feel...
A new study suggests that cell-phone radiation could be causing sleepless nights.
Sleep is one of the richest topics in science today: why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how that affects everything from our athletic...
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.
Lewis Pugh was the first person to complete a long distance swim at the North Pole. CNN's Vital Signs catches up with the swimming daredevil.
Almost a third of companies offering health insurance benefits to their employees also provide a wellness program of some sort, however opponents...
Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and treatable. And yet every
year the respiratory disease kills 1.7 million people. The death toll is especially...
Sleep is a stranger to many managers. Research by leading scientists shows just how dangerous that problem is.
Is stress good or bad for you? The answer is both. New research demonstrates that managers who learn to regulate stress can be more productive and...
Stress and depression have always been problems in the workplace –now, they threaten as never before. How should companies respond? By facing reality...
Who doesn't welcome the sweet oblivion of a good night's sleep? The sad reality, however, is that a decent slumber is increasingly hard to come by.
You can hardly escape reading about neuroscience in the press these days, and it’s easy to see why the topic fascinates managers. Intellectual...
New research in neuroscience shows how to stay sharp by exercising your brain.
The science of stamina has advanced to the point where individuals, teams, and whole organizations can, with some straightforward interventions,...
Modern office life and an increasingly common condition called “attention deficit trait” are turning steady executives into frenzied underachievers.
We all know that too much stress hurts our health, our relationships, and our productivity at work. The good news: New research reveals that...
Will the end of this month find you cat napping at your desk when we move into Daylight Saving Time (DST)?
We are all creatures of the light. Our bodily functions — temperature, hormone production, heart rate, blood pressure and sleep patterns are governed...
Training business leaders to have the endurance of world class athletes, so enabling them to face ever-increasing pressure isn’t easy.
The 18th century social critic Thomas Carlyle may have believed that but now the reverse appears true.
Hard labor no longer means heading down the mines. For most of us it means eight hours in front of a computer.
To compete at the peak of racing, drivers have to be at the peak of their fitness. Diet, training, health and well-being are vital to their success...
Everybody wonders about the future of healthcare. But what do the people at the front line of healthcare think about?
Gerard Kleisterlee, president and CEO of Philips, believes the same trends affecting global healthcare are also influencing his employees across the...
Limits on overtime hamper many European and U. S. manufacturers in their efforts to compete effectively against low-wage overseas companies. But our...
When companies buy computers for their employees, they also provide training to make sure the investment pays off. So why do those same companies...
Rising healthcare premiums have companies shifting costs, pushing "wellness, " and punishing unhealthy behaviour.
Some executives thrive under pressure. Others wilt. Is the reason all in their heads? Hardly. Sustained high achievement demands physical and...
A review of trends and initiatives sponsored by Philips and written in co-operation with the Economist Intelligence Unit
Cause and effect are hard to prove, but research suggests that taking care of your heart may help protect your brain.
Patient empowerment is a big theme in healthcare, but what rights do citizens really have?
How long can human life expectancy be stretched?
India has made significant progress in improving healthcare, but there are huge challenges in extending basic services to the rural population.
A great deal of research suggests exposure to long-term stress can harm your body. Chronic stress influences high blood pressure and heart disease....
We hear so much about the physical benefits of regular exercise. What effects do exercise and staying fit have on our cognitive function -- the...
What should employers do about healthcare?
An executive coach's tips for getting work done while you snooze.
Odds are you're not getting the eight hours of nightly shuteye experts agree you need. Here's why it matters - for you and your business.
What other 20-minute investment gives you an immediate productivity boost?
The workplace has an important role to play in the health of a society.
The Economist Intelligence Unit investigates the complex issues behind corporate health plans