In recognition of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's 10th anniversary, Sisonke Msimang, executive director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, recounts the Fund's history and development in this Project Syndicate opinion piece, stating that the organization is "driven by the idea that people need ...

PlusNews reports on the results of the Zambia-South Africa TB and AIDS Reduction (ZAMSTAR) study released on Monday at the International Lung Health Conference in Lille, France, which show that "home-based tuberculosis (TB) education and testing reduced community TB prevalence by about 20 percent."

The global economic downturn caused the growth in wages worldwide to be halved in 2008 and 2009, according to the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) recent Global Wage Report, Agence France-Presse reports (12/16).

The Los Angeles Times: Although healthcare has been one of the most reliable "generators of new jobs in California," the situation is changing. A "lousy economy has caught up with an industry once considered virtually immune to downturns. The sector, which employs about 1 in 10 Californians, has stalled at ...

A new poll from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Knowledge Networks shows that many people with heart disease, diabetes or cancer believe the economic downturn is hurting their health and will have further negative impacts in the future. Many Americans with these illnesses face financial problems ...

A new poll from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Knowledge Networks (KN) shows that many people with heart disease, diabetes or cancer believe the economic downturn is hurting their health and will have further negative impacts in the future. Many Americans with these illnesses ...

Boston, MA A new poll from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Knowledge Networks (KN) shows that many people with heart disease, diabetes or cancer believe the economic downturn is hurting their health and will have further negative impacts in the future. Many Americans ...

(Harvard School of Public Health) A new poll from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Knowledge Networks shows that many people with heart disease, diabetes or cancer believe the economic downturn is hurting their health and will have further negative impacts in the future.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /- The US and European medical technology industry struggled to sustain historic rates of revenue growth in 2009 but managed to improve overall net income by nearly 11% as companies realigned to achieve improved financial discipline. While medtech has fared better than many industries in the current ...

The private equity backed manufacturing firm, Sepha , has bucked the economic downturn with a 33% increase in sales for 2009. Sepha Ltd which is based in Northern Ireland, manufactures innovative non-destructive leak testing , deblistering and lab-scale blister packing machines for the pharmaceutical industry. Much of its ...

Impact Consulting Business Psychologists will host a professional forum on how organisations can manage workplace bullying on 14th January 2010 at the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference. Prior to the recession, costs of workplace bullying to society were estimated at £13.75 billion in 2007. Current ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. , Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) calls 2009 a year of success in advocacy, research support and awareness, even in a year plagued by the economic recession. PF is a fatal disease that has no known cause, no FDA-approved treatment, and no ...