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...last stop before the hospital bed - the last opportunity to connect people back to a primary-care provider," where regular monitoring costs less than an expensive hospital stay for a more serious condition. "I can spend tens of thousands of dollars on an ICU bed [for a stroke patient], and nobody questions it, but if I try to get them an office visit and routine blood-pressure medication, it's a much bigger challenge." (See pictures of the end of the TV show...
Today CNCDs such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and cancer are responsible for about 44% of all premature deaths. Globally, twice as many people die from CNCDs as from infectious diseases, maternal and infant problems and malnutrition combined. "These disorders are becoming more and more important as we see better longevity and economic improvement around the world," says Abdallah Daar, a professor of public-health sciences at the University of Toronto. (See how not to get sick...
...lesson can be learned from health care in the developed world, it's that chronic diseases are a lot less costly when they're prevented from the start: up to 80% of premature death from heart disease, stroke and diabetes can be avoided with basic behavioral changes and inexpensive drug treatments. But so far there has been little effort to tailor those interventions to low- and middle-income nations, such as China and Brazil, where chronic diseases are expected to take a serious toll in coming decades. "Avoiding tobacco, improving nutrition and getting more exercise - we know this works," says...
...caught Cal with about 250 meters left and pulled ahead in the final 100 meters to win by nine tenths of a second. “They’re really strong people, people who have raced at senior world championships…even Olympians,” Crimson stroke Simon Gawlik said of the caliber of rowers at the regatta. “That’s a level of athlete that Harvard right now, at least, doesn’t have.”Harvard’s fifth place finish, nearly eleven seconds behind the leader...
North Korean leaders have long cited the year 2012 as being particularly significant. It will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder and Kim Jong Il's father and predecessor. Kim Jong Il, now 67 and ailing since a stroke last summer, is thought to be arranging his succession: analysts believe he wants to pass power to his youngest son, 26-year-old Kim Jong...