Health Tips For Diabetes

 By Neha Rathore

All the people who are suffering from the problem of diabetes, here's good news for you all! This article provides you some great dietary tips that will certainly help in preventing the rise in your blood sugar levels.

It is true that diabetic people are well aware about the ill-effects and dangers of eating sugary food. They should totally avoid any intake of foodstuff that are sweet in taste in order to keep the sugar count in their blood in balanced state.

Universal Health Care - Ethical Issues in Health Care Reform

By Beverly OMalley



Universal health care seems to be a hotly debated topic whenever health care reform in the United States is discussed.

Those who maintain that health is an individual responsibility do not want a system that requires them to contribute tax dollars to support fellow citizens who do not act responsibly in protecting or promoting their own health. They argue that they want the freedom to choose their own physicians and treatments, and suggest that government cannot know what is best for them.  These people argue that preserving the current system with improvements to provide better insurance coverage for citizens who remain uninsured or under insured for their medical care needs is the only reform that is needed.

Some Ethical Issues in Health Care - Requirements and Treatments

By Wendy Pan

 

When it comes to health care ethical issues, there are almost as many ethical issues as there are health issues to be treated. There are laws in place to direct the behavior of almost every person in the health care personnel chain, from the nurse to the nurses aide who assists them and the doctor who ultimately gets to try and make the decisions to treat within the confines of the insurance system ruling over the life of the patient in question.

Current Health Care Issues

By Gary Giardina



There are several health care issues that are in the news and in the minds of many people these days. Perhaps because of the push for universal health care, misuses of the current health care system have come to light. The health care issues that plague Americans need to be addressed with intelligent debate and understanding.

One of the health care issues is the overuse of emergency rooms by the poor. It is not their faults. They are simply responding to a situation in which they have no other recourse. For example, a low-income family may have a child with a cut finger. If they had insurance, the parents would take the child to a doctor's office or an urgent care clinic to get the finger stitched up.

Jackson Laboratory's foray into Florida faces murky future

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• Christopher Mims

Journal name:  Nature Medicine  Volume:  17,   Page:   518   Year published: (2011)

DOI: doi:10.1038/nm0511-518b

Published online  05 May 2011

 

Lately, it seems as if the Bar Harbor, Maine–based Jackson Laboratory, famous for its research on mammalian genetics, cannot catch a break in its efforts to build a satellite research facility in Florida. Since 2003, the state has heavily recruited biomedical institutions including Scripps, Max Planck, Torrey Pines, Sanford-Burnham and the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (Nat. Med. 16, 1066–1069, 2010). But its attempts to engage Jackson Labs have been fraught with delays and setbacks.

Report backs pending legislation to investigate disease clusters

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• Alisa Opar

Journal name:  Nature Medicine   Volume:  17,  Page:   518  Year published:   (2011)

DOI: doi:10.1038/nm0511-518a

Published online  05 May 2011

 

In Kettleman City, California, a town of 1,620 people, 11 babies were born with severe birth defects in the last three years. Meanwhile, at least 60 men who lived on the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base in North Carolina from the late 1950s into the 1980s have developed breast cancer. And residents in Wellington, Ohio are three times more likely to develop multiple sclerosis than in the rest of the country.

Russia pledges $4 billion for Pharma-2020 plan

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• Gary Peach 

Journal name:  Nature Medicine  Volume: 17,  Page: 517  Year published: (2011)

DOI: doi:10.1038/nm0511-517

Published online

05 May 2011

 

Russia's biomedical industry is woefully underdeveloped, accounting for only 0.2% of the world market. But plans are afoot to change that. Speaking at the opening of a new birth center in Ryazan on 11 March, for example, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated that the government wants to boost Russia's presence on the world biopharma stage to 3–5% in the next decade. And he emphasized that the country already possesses the necessary academic and research institutions to achieve that. “We need to come up with measures to stimulate demand for Russia-made biotechnological products and remove barriers that often prevent businesses from working,” he said.