Profit-seeking hospitals were charging exorbitant fees and prescribing unnecessary and expensive medications. Official said health institutions putting profit ahead of other functions not only adds burdens to patients, but seriously undermines the image of both medical personnel and public health departments.
Many consumers simply do not look at labels when making purchases and , of those that do, a good proportion do not understand the information. According to the survey results, the countries like Japan, Finland and Dutch, their consumers were the least likely to check the contents.Those iving in India, Thailand and Malaysia, however, topped the list by checking labels the most often.
In an interview with Vatican
Radio, the Pope said there was
a widespread idea that
"Christianity is composed of
laws and bans which one has to
keep”. "I want to make clear
that it is not a burden to be
carried with great love and
realization, but it is like
having wings”.
Experts urged parents to limit children's television viewing to no more than one to two hours per day- and to try to keep younger children away from TV altogether, and said children and adolescents who watched more television was less likely to go on to finish high school or earn a college degree.
The world's first treaty on reducing tobacco consumption which is said to be causing five million deaths a year becomes binding international law recently. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control aims to curb what has become the second biggest killer of our times.
Data in China shows that the male to female ratio of infections has
changed dramatically in just a few years from 5:1 in the 1990s to
the current 2:1, in some areas, the ratio have reached 1:1.Most of
the recent infections in women have been sexually transmitted; some of
them belong to the high-risk group of prostitutes, while others are
just ordinary housewives or career women, infected by their husbands.
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