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Artificial Intelligence Boom To Trigger Thousands Of Deaths, $20 Billion In Health Costs Annually: Study
By 2030, this pollution could lead to 1,300 premature deaths annually in the US and public health costs of nearly $20 billion.
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UK Cost-Of-Living Crisis Set To "Cut Lives Short": Report
The UK's inflation-fuelled cost-of-living crisis is set to "cut lives short" and "significantly widen the wealth-health gap", according to a study published by open access journal BMJ Public Health on Monday.
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UK Government Mishandled Initial Covid Response: MP's Probe
A British parliamentary report published Tuesday said that the government's delay in locking down society when Covid-19 hit last year had cost lives and was "one of the most important public health failures" in the country's history.
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Centre To Bear Vaccination Cost Of 3 Crore Health, Frontline Workers: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that the central government will bear the expenses of vaccinating nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first round and suggested that public representatives, a reference to politicians, should not be part of this initial exercise.
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Centre Ready To Pay For First Phase Vaccination In Maharashtra: Minister
Maharashtra public health minister Rajesh Tope on Thursday said the Centre has agreed to bear the cost of coronavirus vaccination in the first phase where some eight lakh health workers in the state will be inoculated.
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Indian Institute Of Public Health Working On Drone For Medicine Delivery
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad (IIPH-H) are working on a drone delivery system for medical products which is expected to be time and cost effective compared to transportation by road.
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Britain Faces Huge Costs To Avoid Power Shortages With Electric Car Plan
In July, the government said it would ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040. The aim is to reduce air pollution, a source of growing public health concerns, and help Britain to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels - the target it has set itself.
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France To Become One Of Priciest Countries In Europe For Smokers
France will raise the price of cigarettes to 10 euros ($11.35) a pack within three years, the health minister said on Thursday, confirming a strategy that will push tobacco costs to among the highest in Europe.
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Drones Could Cut Vaccine Delivery Costs: Bruce Lee
Senior author Bruce Lee, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, made the statement.
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South Africa to Host 2016 AIDS Conference
South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...
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Brazilians cry foul over football costs, corruption
Protesters in Brazil believe the colossal public costs of staging the Confederations Cup and next year's World Cup, estimated at over $15 billion, should have gone towards health and education.
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Simple measures increase life expectancy
Simple, cost effective public health measures could lengthen the average human life span by five to 10 years, according to the latest World Health Organization's annual review of global health.
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Artificial Intelligence Boom To Trigger Thousands Of Deaths, $20 Billion In Health Costs Annually: Study
By 2030, this pollution could lead to 1,300 premature deaths annually in the US and public health costs of nearly $20 billion.
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UK Cost-Of-Living Crisis Set To "Cut Lives Short": Report
The UK's inflation-fuelled cost-of-living crisis is set to "cut lives short" and "significantly widen the wealth-health gap", according to a study published by open access journal BMJ Public Health on Monday.
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UK Government Mishandled Initial Covid Response: MP's Probe
A British parliamentary report published Tuesday said that the government's delay in locking down society when Covid-19 hit last year had cost lives and was "one of the most important public health failures" in the country's history.
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Centre To Bear Vaccination Cost Of 3 Crore Health, Frontline Workers: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that the central government will bear the expenses of vaccinating nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first round and suggested that public representatives, a reference to politicians, should not be part of this initial exercise.
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Centre Ready To Pay For First Phase Vaccination In Maharashtra: Minister
Maharashtra public health minister Rajesh Tope on Thursday said the Centre has agreed to bear the cost of coronavirus vaccination in the first phase where some eight lakh health workers in the state will be inoculated.
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Indian Institute Of Public Health Working On Drone For Medicine Delivery
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad (IIPH-H) are working on a drone delivery system for medical products which is expected to be time and cost effective compared to transportation by road.
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Britain Faces Huge Costs To Avoid Power Shortages With Electric Car Plan
In July, the government said it would ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040. The aim is to reduce air pollution, a source of growing public health concerns, and help Britain to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels - the target it has set itself.
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France To Become One Of Priciest Countries In Europe For Smokers
France will raise the price of cigarettes to 10 euros ($11.35) a pack within three years, the health minister said on Thursday, confirming a strategy that will push tobacco costs to among the highest in Europe.
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Drones Could Cut Vaccine Delivery Costs: Bruce Lee
Senior author Bruce Lee, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, made the statement.
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South Africa to Host 2016 AIDS Conference
South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...
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Brazilians cry foul over football costs, corruption
Protesters in Brazil believe the colossal public costs of staging the Confederations Cup and next year's World Cup, estimated at over $15 billion, should have gone towards health and education.
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Simple measures increase life expectancy
Simple, cost effective public health measures could lengthen the average human life span by five to 10 years, according to the latest World Health Organization's annual review of global health.
