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Battle of the bulge
As waistlines grow, so does the fight against junk food
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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Bribery Serves as Life-Support for Chinese Hospitals
Bribery is the lubricant that helps keep China’s public hospitals running, and the health system would struggle to function without illegal payments to poorly paid doctors and administrators, say medical practitioners and industry experts.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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What healthcare leaders can do to nurture innovation
The five top tips to harness potential and give staff a licence to suggest changes
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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3D imaging could cut health care costs
Upstate company Qmetrics has developed technology that can take medical images like MRIs and turn them into a three-dimensional image or model.
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- Health Care
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Slow Ideas
Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?
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- Health Care
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Dirty Business
Singaporean Jack Sim wants nobody to be embarrassed by toilets as he seeks to clean up sanitation throughout the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Corporations and the fight against hunger: why CSR won’t do
There is an opportunity for the private sector to lead in tackling chronic malnutrition, but seeing it as corporate social responsibility or charity is damaging.
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Under the weather? Climate change effect on public health getting new emphasis
Global warming often seems distant and abstract, especially things like shrinking sea ice. But a turbulent climate also poses lots of relatable risks to human health, from allergies and asthma to algae blooms and animal-borne diseases. And according to George Luber, chief of climate research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these are the risks that need public attention - even if it means less publicity for polar bears.
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