THURSDAY Jan. 23, 2014, 2014 -- Race and gender affect whether heart attack patients still take recommended medications a year later, a new study finds. And black and Hispanic women are least likely to continue using the drugs meant to ...
Tags: ACE, ARBs, heart attack, patient
In January this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) decreased to 49.6, the lowest level of the past six months, down from December's final reading of 50.5, as announced by the HSBC on January 23. In ...
Tags: HSBC's China, Manufacturing PMI
Australia's mid-market businesses are experiencing a sharp increase in confidence and renewed optimism around future performance, according to the Commonwealth Bank Future Business Index. The index reveals confidence reached the highest ...
Tags: Service
Children around the world who grow up in dangerous neighborhoods exhibit more aggressive behavior, says a new Duke University-led study that is the first to examine the topic across a wide range of countries. Many U.S. studies have ...
A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll was released today on the views of Latinos in America about their health and health care, communities, financial situation, and discrimination in their lives. The ...
A selection of health policy stories from New York, California, Washington and Georgia. The Associated Press/Wall Street Journal: Medicaid Waiver Called Essential For NY Hospitals New York's health commissioner says the state has been ...
A selection of health policy stories from Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota. Providence Journal: Chafee's $43-Million Cut In Medicaid Program Touches Many Sectors Of Health Care ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Americans blame individuals for being overweight, not the government, restaurants, grocery stores or farmers, U.S. researchers say. Researcher Brenna Ellison of the University of Illinois and Jayson Lusa ...
Tags: individualistic-based society, Obesity, Overweight, Appetite
Although a voluntary shopping cart safety standard was implemented in the United States in 2004, the overall number and rate of injuries to children associated with shopping carts have not decreased. In fact, the number and rate of ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Children Head Injuries
A new survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit finds that nearly all respondents’ businesses have seen a positive economic return from investment in data analysis for the strategy area. Also, the single biggest barrier to retailers ...
Tags: Use of Analytics, Textile
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has stated that there is nothing effective about the existing European climate policy which is highly damaging to the competitiveness of European industry, forcing the shift of industrial production ...
Tags: steel industry, climate change
The stable and good momentum of economic growth in recent months will ensure that China is able to fulfill its expected growth target. The question is how long this growth momentum can last. The consensus is that China’s economy is ...
Tags: Economic Growth, China's economy
China is aiming high on the industrial ladder. Getting there requires advanced equipment such as robots that is still firmly in the hands of foreign enterprises. Industrial robots are used to do things like bolt panels on cars or ...
Tags: Chinese Robotics, Foreign Firms
China's economic reform is one of the key issues that will impact sovereign ratings and growth prospects of developing Asian economies this year, according to a global credit rating agency. In its latest reports "2014 Outlook: Emerging ...
Tags: Sovereign Rating, economic reforms
Coop, a Sweden-based retail chain, has selected paperboard material Invercote Bio for its own-brand frozen berries. Manufactured by the European Iggesund Paperboard, Invercote Bio is a virgin-fiber-based board coated with bioplastic ...