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Put hundreds of thousands of people in any environment and some are bound to get sick. Surely the 2012 London Olympics will be no exception. Hence, a Canadian-led team headed by Dr. Kamran Khan is working with British authorities to anticipate and track risk for the games. The project will integrate research on both the local [...]
Malaria is the world’s deadliest disease, posing a serious health threat in African and South American countries. Even expats are at risk for catching it. All it takes is one mosquito bite, which is why many countries in sub-Saharan Africa recommend courses of anti-malarial drugs before arrival. Now a multinational team of researchers has created [...]
Back in November Cigna announced a joint venture agreement with India’s massive TTK Group, which would sell private medical insurance in that country. At the moment both companies are still awaiting regulatory approval from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. They expect to have it by 2013. But that hasn’t stopped them from developing their [...]
When it comes to food safety, E. coli is a constant threat. Not a year goes by it seems without at least a handful of deaths from infected meat or produce. Case in point: last summer a European E. coli outbreak killed more than 50 people, including several travelers. But now researchers have found a [...]
One of the top stories in expat-dom over the last year has been changes to China’s social welfare system. Specifically, the amount expats and employers must pay into it. Put simply, the new rules are eating expats’ salaries alive. Starting in 2011, all 200,000+ foreign workers were required to pay into China’s public health, unemployment [...]
Possibly the last place anyone would want to die is at work. Unfortunately, the number of workplace deaths in Europe rose 15% in 2011, increasing for the second straight year. Across Europe, 55 people died on the job, compared to 48 in 2010. 22 of those deaths occurred in agriculture. 8 transport and storage workers died, [...]
If you’re seriously injured while living abroad, you may well need to be evacuated to a different country. This is especially true in the developing world, where medical facilities are sometimes low quality. And if you do have to go, you’re most likely to travel by air. The company AirMed is counting on it. It [...]
An outbreak of hepatitis C in two Chinese towns may have been caused by a medical clinic re-using dirty needles. According to a report on ChinaDaily.com, there have been 86 confirmed cases so far–but the total could be much higher. Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver. It can cause scarring and cirrhosis, which may [...]
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