State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Health Care
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Science reveals the magic in herbal cures
Recent studies have brought to light the science behind traditional herbal medicinal systems.
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MONEYMAKERS
• WITH WESTERN governments trying to cut health-care costs and consequently, the pharmaceuticals market becoming more competitive, many companies including Glaxo are keen to move into untapped
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Onions for bronchitis, mangoes for scurvy
Onions and mangoes are just two of the common foods used by Indians to cure a wide variety of ailments.
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Turmeric shields
TURMERIC -- the age-old panacea for headaches, pimples and fractured limbs -- could also keep cancer away, say scientists at the Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition. Kamala
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Litany of disillusionment
Ravaged by ethnic strife, environmental disaster and crushing poverty, Ethiopians anticipate an uncertain future.
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Ambitious cure for an ailing system
US President Bill Clinton has proposed an ambitious and complex programme to lower federal expenditure on health care and revamp the existing system.
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Prevention is cheaper than cure
"ONE OF the best investments the global community can make is in AIDS prevention," says Dr Michael H Mezon, director of the Global Programme on AIDS (GPA) of the World Health Organisation. "Money
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Here come the "number crunchers"
India's attempts at developing supercomputers have not only paid off, they have sparked intense competition.
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Waking up livers with foetal cells
Scientists say foetal liver cells injected into patients suffering from severe liver failure can regenerate the damaged organ
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Healthy, wealthy and wise
WHILE no two health care systems are alike, certain questions are germane to all: How do markets for health care work? Should governments work in the health care market? Why, and to what extent? What