Other findings have been around gender based violence and malpractice by doctors: basically, “what can’t be measured can’t be improved”. LHR are providing legal support to requesters whose requests are refused, and fighting against the misinterpretation of the law, in the hope that all ...
VIP sections of public hospitals are very good alternatives to private hospitals because costs are much lower, but the treatment is as good as you can get in a private clinic. The main difference is usually that private clinics are better equipped and the environment in some private clinics are...
Myopia (short-sightedness or near-sightedness) has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. The cause of myopia is not entirely clear. Some eye doctors believe it’s due to our increased use of computers, tablets and smart phone devices. They also believe that extended tasks requiring nea...
Perhaps the most interesting part of the Pew report was its finding that the middle class is shrinking, not only because of greater poverty but also because more people are rich. The percentage of lowest-income earners—those earning less than two-thirds of the median income—had grown four p...
While medications are the primary mode of treatment, in less critical stages doctors might ask patients to adopt lifestyle changes, which could even fix your blood pressure problem without medical intervention. Blood pressure is measured using a sphygmomanometer, which consists of an inflatable cuff ...
Most breast cancers are sensitive to estrogen (or, as doctors say, “estrogen-receptor-positive” or “ER-positive,”) which means that estrogen fuels their growth. “So there was a fear that soy could act as estrogen in the body and stimulate cancer cells,” Meyers says. “It was ...
Percentage of the active ingredient Garcinia cambogia extract dose is determined pursuant to the quantity of the active component in it (this active component is called hydroxycitric acid or HCA). Most of the times, the recommended dose is based on an extract or supplement which contains about 50...
Other investors highlight the speed at which developing countries' own savings pools are growing, allowing governments in the more sophisticated Asian, Eastern European or Latin American countries to meet most of their financing needs from local pension and insurance funds. And these local in...
(APPs) like NPs and PAs has helped move the needle on care access. White people are more likely tomeet with an NP or PA as a usual source of carethan Black people, according to a 2024 report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, and doctors are still the most common prov...
In Malaysia, the bumiputra laws ensure that every corporation has to have a certain percentage of Malay directors, but when I was there, it was common knowledge that the Malays often sold their seats on the board to Chinese. Racism in Malaysia was institutionalized in the bumiputra laws ...