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Consumers Making Effort To Buy Healthy Foods But Buyer Beware: "Zero" Isn't Always Zero
Americans trying to eat healthier are looking to nutrition labels to help make better choices at the grocery store. But consumers who take those labels at face value may find they"re not eating as healthy as they think.
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There Is Enormous Waste In The Production And Reporting Of Research Evidence
In a viewpoint published Online First and in a future edition of The Lancet, Sir Iain Chalmers, of the James Lind Library, Oxford, UK, and Professor Paul Glasziou, of the University of Oxford, UK, debate on the unnecessary waste that exists in medical research. This misuse leads many reports to be of no purpose. If there is a lack of functional reports and if they are not easily accessible, research is of no help to patients or their doctors.
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A Compound Found In The Sea Provides Promising New Treatment For Neuropathic Pain
A paper just published in the British Journal of Pharmacology reports that a compound originally isolated from a soft coral (Capnella imbricate) could lead scientists to develop a new variety of treatments for neuropathic pain. This composite is collected at Green Island off Taiwan and could be a new option for treatment. Neuropathic pain is chronic and occasionally follows damage to the nervous system. Presently this type of pain is very poorly controlled by the usual analgesics: aspirin like drugs (NSAIDS) or even opioids like morphine. New treatments are urgently required.
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Guardian Examines U.K. Offer To Help Provide Free Healthcare In 'World's Poorest Countries'

The Guardian examines British Prime Minister Gordon Brown"s offer "to help some of the world"s poorest countries to make healthcare free - starting with pregnant women and children - in a push to widen access to doctors across Africa and Asia." According to the newspaper, the "Department for International Development (DfID) is among the largest donors to many developing countries, and has pledged to spend 6 billion pounds [about $10.2 billion] on health by 2015. Brown hopes to use an expanding aid budget to influence the way public services are delivered on the ground." Brown has written to several governments -- including Kenya, Nepal and Liberia -- "urging them to consider making healthcare free, and offering Britain"s help with the transition," which could mean technical assistance or help with drugs or health worker salaries, DfID said, the Guardian writes. "A spokesman for DfID said the U.K. had been encouraged by the results of efforts to abolish up-front fees for healthcare in several countries, including Uganda, Ghana and Zambia," the newspaper reports. Britain plans to make free healthcare in developing countries a key issue in the run-up to the G20 meeting in September, according to Guardian (Stewart, 8/3). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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