Going Global With Concerns on Health Costs
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Calls are deepening for the government to assume more of the costs of medical care through nationalized health care.
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The U.S. President has said that the problem with health care is the lawyers. He doesn't seem to think that there are any other problems we should be concerned about, and the free market is the best way to determine how much you would be willing to pay for health care. The President is pushing our current system, and his challenger is doing the same.
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WASHINGTON -- Staying healthy is a costly business in the United States, particularly in the Northeast, government statistics show.
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In trying to explain the ever-rising cost of healthcare, we often fall back on easy answers: It's medical malpractice premiums, high administrative costs, excessive use of testing. Those things matter. But what matters most is progress. Technology gets better, science finds a way to deliver that technology to more people, and our bills go up.
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Cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease, already common in rich countries, are a growing problem in the developing world, where they are likely to become the main causes of death by 2015, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
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Elective surgery in India? Medical tourism is booming, and U.S. companies trying to contain health-care costs are starting to take notice
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LONDON -- Wealthy countries are falling billions of dollars short of their promises to help fund reproductive health care and efforts to improve the status of women around the world, the United Nations said yesterday.
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Drug prices are a growing problem, and firms trying to set uniform prices face serious difficulties because of the disparities in how much countries can afford to spend, the head of Britain's health watchdog said on Monday.
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The US National Institutes of Health invests $28bn annually in research. European spending is lower, although the European Union is closing the gap, helped by a shortsighted American policy of &quot;flatlining&quot; many scientific research budgets. (Perhaps this is because scientists have an annoying tendency to discuss things that conflict with the Bush administration&#39;s view of reality, such as global warming, evolution, the insufficiency of the New Orleans levee system and the medical potential of stem cells.)
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Health efforts in the developing world should not ignore the growing problem of non-communicable conditions such as cancer and obesity and need culturally appropriate, cheap solutions, an expert said on Thursday.
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"This partnership could literally save lives, by coordinating investment in healthcare that is free, public and well-staffed"  LONDON  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday a global health campaign to target aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries.The International Health Partnership, to be officially launched on September 5, aims to reduce child and maternal mortality and tackle diseases such as HIV/AIDS by building long-term health infrastructures in developing countries.The scheme will bring together donor countries like Britain, Germany, Canada and Norway as well as the World Bank and World Health Organisation. Rich nations would submit long-term health plans and international agencies would commit to better coordinate funding and efforts on the ground. Read more
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Many companies are playing a bigger role in managing and monitoring their workersâ health in an effort to cut health care costs.
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It&#39;s a matter on the minds of many Americans and arguably the top domestic issue in the presidential election. With medical costs and premiums rising, health insurance is influencing how people
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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Heart disease, usually seen as a   quintessentially Western problem, is rapidly becoming a major   threat to the developing world, costing millions of lives and   billions of dollars, top cardiologists said on Tuesday.
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While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
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By VERONIKA OLEKSYN  VIENNA, Austria - Tackling air pollution, contaminated drinking water and other environmental problems could save millions of lives annually around the world, the World Health Organization said in a report Wednesday.