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Latest figures show that roughly 135 000 African-born physicians and professional nurses practice overseas in developed countries. This finding, published in the online open access journal Human Resources for Health, suggests that approximately one-fifth of doctors and 10% of nurses born in any of the 27 African states are currently working in a developed nation.

Employees who lose their jobs because of their health suffer more significant depression and detrimental health outcomes than people who lose their jobs for non-health reasons, new research shows.The study also suggests that people who are reemployed quickly have better health outcomes than those who remain unemployed.

Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing phenomenal population growth since the beginning of the XXth Century, following several centuries of population stagnation attributable to the slave trade and colonization. The region’s population in fact increased from 100 million in 1900 to 770 million in 2005. The latest United Nations projections, published in March 2007, envisaged a figure of 1.5 to 2 billion inhabitants being reached between the present and 2050.

With ‘health tourism’ rising across the European Union, consumers, insurers and Governments are increasingly interested in the relative cost of common procedures in different countries.

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that hospitalists, physicians who care for hospitalized patients, reduce a patient’s length of stay in the hospital by almost half a day.The study looked at 76,926 patients at 45 hospitals between September 2002 and January 2005, treated by hospitalists, general internists, and family physicians. Those patients cared for by hospitalists showed a .

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned of the need to ensure that the operators of equipment are suitably trained and risks fully assessed before they start work. The warning follows HSE’s prosecution of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council after a dumper truck driver was injured when his truck overturned and landed on top of him. Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council were fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £3,343.

A disease most Americans have never heard of could soon become more prevalent if dengue, a flu-like illness that can turn deadly, continues to expand into temperate climates and increase in severity, according to a new commentary by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and David M. Morens, M.D., Fauci’s senior scientific advisor.

A new scientific review of the most current research shows the link between eating oatmeal and cholesterol reduction to be stronger than when the FDA initially approved the health claim’s appearance on food labels in 1997.Dr. James W.

Eating out instead of cooking at home continues to increase as a factor impacting the American diet. Americans face a large variety of food options and food establishments when choosing to eat out.

Commenting on the launch of the consultation for a Local Healthcare Bill, Dr Peter Terry, chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said: “Encouraging greater involvement and promoting effective governance are both laudable aims for the Scottish Government. The BMA supports greater public involvement but remains unconvinced that direct elections to NHS Boards will deliver the desired outcomes.