Tag: loss
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Charlie robot new best buddy for kids with diabetes
Cheeky Ruben is just seven and learning to read. Such skills could be life-savers for the blonde Dutch boy diagnosed with childhood diabetes just over a year ago. There are roughly some 6,000 children across The Netherlands with Type 1 childhood diabetes.
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China healthcare costs forcing patients into crippling debt
By Adam Jourdan and Ben Hirschler SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) – As China's medical bills rise steeply, outpacing government insurance provision, patients and their families are increasingly turning to loans to pay for healthcare, adding to the country's growing burden of consumer debt. While public health insurance reaches nearly all of China's 1.4 billion people, its coverage…
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The 3 Biggest Health Mistakes Men Make In Their 30s
So you're mourning the loss of the weekend warrior you were in your 20s. Never fear. The decade of the 30s is also a good time for remarkably good health, especially if you took care of yourself in your 20s.
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Doubling numbers on HIV drugs could ‘break’ epidemic: UN
The UN on Tuesday urged countries to “break the AIDS epidemic” by doubling the number of people receiving HIV treatment within the next five years. In a new report, UNAIDS hailed “extraordinary” progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS over the past 15 years, insisting the world had a chance of meeting the UN…
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With Millions On HIV Treatment, AIDS Pandemic Tide Turns
Some 15.8 million people are now on HIV treatment and a five-year strategy to end the threat of a never-ending AIDS pandemic is starting to show results, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday.Estimates show new HIV infections have fallen by 35 percent since the peak of the three-decade-old pandemic in 2000, and AIDS-related…