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Putting a price on green

03 June 2011
Research into the health benefits of green space has been estimated in the UK as being worth up to £300 per person per year – partly because of the opportunities that it provides for physical activity, but also the wellbeing effects of being in the natural world....
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The polypill promise

The polypill, a combination of medications known separately to have a positive impact on cardiovascular health, was introduced with great fanfare and promise eight years ago as a potential population-based strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease. By combining...
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$50 fine if you don’t diet or quit?

17 May 2011
The US state of Arizona is considering an annual $50 fine for recipients of Medicaid (the national welfare scheme that provides health care for those unable to afford private health insurance) if they do not follow health regimes developed by the patient and their...
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‘Priority actions for NCDs’

07 April 2011
The Lancet NCD Action Group and NCD Alliance has published a new paper in the Lancet, ‘Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis’, highlighting five priority actions and five priority interventions that have the potential to reduce deaths from...
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Americans’ ever-rising medical bills

04 February 2011
The United States has the highest per capita health-care costs in the developed world. Data released by the government this month showed that spending on hospital services, doctor visits, medication and other health needs increased by 4 percent – to $2.5...
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Ukraine’s mortality crisis

23 January 2011
Ukraine, like most countries, faces an increasing burden of chronic diseases,   and is experiencing particularly early onset of such diseases. Premature death, especially among working-age men is having a major effect on the age and gender structure of the...
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Huge cancer bill for the US

14 January 2011
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently conducted an analysis of costs associated with treating cancer in the United States, based on the growth and ageing of the country’s population. The projections were based on the most recent data available on cancer...
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A ‘medical arms race’

05 January 2011
A new UK-based consultancy, Volterra Health, has published a new report, The Medical Arms Race: A New Global Perspective (click here >>) focusing on the failure, to date, to reform health systems in Europe and the United States, which is leading to increasing...
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High cost of diabetes in the UAE

09 December 2010
A report presented in Abu Dhabi on 7 December 2010 notes that diabetes could affect one in three people in the country by 2020. The report, Diabetes in the UAE: Crisis or Opportunity was prepared by UnitedHealth, an international health care provider, and was presented...
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US: Stark diabetes warning

26 November 2010
A new report from UnitedHealth’s Center for Health Reform & Modernization has predicted that, unless current trends are reversed, an astonishing 50 per cent of Americans could have diabetes or pre-diabetes within a decade. This would account for 10 per cent...
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