Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Poor Oral Health Damages Economy :: Over 2 million people in the UK say they have taken time of work due to poor oral health. The UK's economy is being damaged unnecessarily with an estimated two million workers taking sick time off work due to poor oral health over the past five years. Most problems with teeth and gums are preventable with a good oral health routine, but around seven per cent of the UK's 29 million workforce have called in sick with teeth problems at least once in the past five years... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Will This Student Loan Repayment Program Save A Large Slice Of Rural America? :: Student-loan debt levels are rapidly rising, recently topping $1 trillion in the U.S. And communities in Kansas and New York are using the bait of paying off this debt to lure educated residents who they hope will help improve the economic, cultural, and social conditions of their respective regions.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363065/20120714/student-loan-repayment-niagara-falls-kansas-government.htm
Economic View: Medicaid's New Tug of War – Economic View :: The new health care law calls for expansion of Medicaid, but American voters may well rebel against the program over time. (Source: NYT Health)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Healthy Eating Hindered By Parents' Work-Life Stress :: In a tight economy, with fewer jobs, many people end up working harder and sacrificing more to stay employed. A new study finds that one of those sacrifices is sometimes their own and their family's nutrition. While prior studies have implicated working mothers in providing less healthy family food environments, this is one of the first studies of family nutrition to look at fathers - in particular a population of urban fathers, who face higher rates of unemployment and under-employment... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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New Microsoft Office ropes in Skype, Yammer, SkyDrive :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/zT4c0BnWEok/
Scaling the traditional database: the NewSQL opportunity :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/1K0zA8tCEoI/
Margaret Sullivan, New York Times' New Public Editor, Is 'Extremely Experienced': Deputy :: Margaret Sullivan, outgoing editor of the Warren Buffett-owned Buffalo News, brings 32 years of journalism experience to her new role as public editor of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT), as the Sulzberger family-controlled paper faces unprecedented financial challenges.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363514/20120716/margaret-sullivan-nyt-public-editor.htm
The New Gold Rush: How China is Making Aussie Miners a Mint :: According to the data, the richest 13 towns in Australia are all in Western Australia, an area which has experienced a huge boom in mining owing mostly to China's demand for natural resources.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363486/20120716/australia-china-mining-rich-gold-rush.htm
New delay at Finland nuclear site :: The launch of a flagship nuclear power station in Finland is delayed for a third time, Finnish electricity company TVO says.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18862422#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Two US States Launched Libor Fixing Probe Over Six Months Ago :: US states New York and Connecticut launched a probe into the possible manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (Libor) by several global banks, over six months ago
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363327/20120716/regulator-barclays-libor-fixing-scandal-fsa-del.htm
Mongolia Has New Australian Miner on the Block :: Mongolia, a nation known for its vast yet largely untapped natural reserves, has earned yet another interested miner from Australia for its oil and natural gas supplies.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363248/20120716/china-mongolia-takeover-ipo.htm
Rwanda: Too Many Babies Straining Economy :: [Focus]Rose Mukamurigo is a 54-year-old community health worker in Kayonza district, Eastern Province. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
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Dampier is Australia's Richest Town, According to Latest Census :: Latest census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that most of Australia's richest towns lie in its western portion, which is not surprising though since Western Australia is home to the country's much touted mining boom. New research showed the town of Dampier is now Australia's richest town.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/363205/20120715/incomes.htm
Lippo unit's stake lures private equity to Indonesia: sources :: JAKARTA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The chance to buy as much as 49 percent of Indonesia's largest private healthcare operator, Siloam Hospitals, is attracting a slew of global private equity firms to the sale, as they bet on a rapid rise in healthcare spending in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, sources said. (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Study Puts Cost of Medical Errors At $19.5 Billion :: Medical errors and the problems they can cause — including bed sores, post-op infections and implant or device complications — cost the U.S. economy $19.5 billion in 2008, according to a study released today. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality)
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New 'Bill of Rights' for shoppers :: Stronger consumer protection laws are being proposed by the government to measures that have been unchanged for decades.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18831779#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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