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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Fixing the economy, with Science! :: Former Apprentice candidate Katie Hopkins has offered solutions to the problems with the NHS. So it's only fair that someone with biomedical science knowledge offers solutions for how to fix the problems with the economy.SpotOn London 2012 took place recently. For those unaware, it's a conference focussing on "how science is carried out and communicated online". Many interesting points were brought up during it, one of which was the issue of self-promotion. The extent to which you should self-promote, and how people will react to this, resulted in a number of interesting discussions. Athene Donald, on her excellent blog, and my friend the lovely Della Thomas responded to this interesting debate in the classic scientist way by attempting to generate some data about it. However, at present, ...<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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Weibo: How China's Twitter Has The Power To Save Children, And Why That Worries The Government :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Cases of human trafficking are continuously popping up in the Chinese media, forcing the government to pay attention to a phenomenon it has otherwise largely overlooked. Now, the addition of social media is making authorities listen even more to citizens, after several kidnapping and human trafficking incidents were picked up on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.</p></div></div></div>
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How Communities can help Google+ with one of its key problems :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/nyzHV8hryxw/story01.htm
How to unify monitoring: organizing the crumbling IT silos :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/wBATX0W2De8/story01.htm
How telcos are using big data to set prices and maybe make bills better :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/DdJf4tYS06U/story01.htm
Q&A: How will the Autumn Statement affect you? :: Q&A: How Autumn Statement measure affects you
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How the fiscal cliff could affect you :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/u_rsed8ICuE/index.html
Healthcare in Asia: a perspective from primary care at the gateway to a continent. :: Authors: Jiwa M, Othman S, Hanafi NS, Ng CJ, Khoo EM, Chia YC
Abstract
Malaysia has achieved reasonable health outcomes even though the country spends a modest amount of Gross Domestic Product on healthcare. However, the country is now experiencing a rising incidence of both infectious diseases and chronic lifestyle conditions that reflect growing wealth in a vibrant and successful economy. With an eye on an ageing population, reform of the health sector is a government priority. As in other many parts of the world, general practitioners are the first healthcare professional consulted by patients. The Malaysian health system is served by public and private care providers. The integration of the two sectors is a key target for reform. However, the future health of the nation will de...
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