| The Quitting Business
The cost of smoking goes beyond the price of the pack. Businesses and the government are feeling the effects in terms of health care costs, setting the stage for new products and therapies to help smokers quit. By Kimberly Adams Think the price of that pack of cigarettes doesnt exceed the LE 10 bill you just handed over? Think again. Smoking costs far more than the price of the pack and were not just talking about the health effects. Smoking is no longer a personal habit financed solely by the smoker. Government subsidies on medical care for smokers translate to increased overall health costs. Individual businesses may also soon feel the impact of nicotine-addicted employees in terms of increased healthcare and insurance costs. In a country with 16 million smokers, there is certainly a business for quitting, yet very few have capitalized on the growing niche market for products and services to help people quit.
WB Left finds international conspiracy in Nandigram
From the removal of the Communist government in Kerala in 1959 to the present situation at Nandigram, everything is part of a conspiracy for Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and CPI (M) state secretary Biman Bose. And they reiterated as much, while attending a function to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Communist government in the country, starting with the state government of EMS Namboodripaad at Kerala in 1957, which was in power for 28 months. State labour minister Muhammad Amin, Krishak Sabha leader Benoy Konar and senior leader from Kerala, E. Balanandan also attended the ceremony. While Bose said that the US counterintelligence agency CIA has paid money to topple EMS' government in 1959, even the present incidents at Singur and Nandigram have hands of “domestic and foreign reactionary agencies." Quoting from A Dangerous Place, a book by former CIA chief Patrick Moyhnihan, Bose said, “It is time to realise that reactionary forces have always stood between Communists and social development.
Khushhali bank Launches Scholarship Program for students of Tribal ...
ISLAMABAD, Apr 4 (APP): Khushhali Bank on Wednesday launched its scholarship programme for deserving students of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The event was organized at the Governor House Peshawar in the presence of Lt. Gen. ® Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai and a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Khushhali Bank and the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar. The Governor NWFP later distributed certificates of scholarship among 30 students belonging to Federally Administered Territories. President Khushhali Bank Ghalib Nishtar in his briefing to the Governor highlighted the bank’s contribution in terms of promoting economic growth at the grassroots level through provision of financial services to low income households for Income generating activities. Over the past six years the bank has extended over a million loans to low income households across Pakistan with particular focus on less developed regions of the country, he added.
200th Anniversary Sermon on the Abolition of the British Slave ...
Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, 'we see,' your sin remains." (John 9:41)As we gather to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, there is much to be thankful for. That Atlantic trade of slaves deprived millions of people - the estimates range from 5 million to 20 million - of their dignity, freedom, and ultimately of their lives.The physical and psychological horrors of this, the greatest relocation, enforced and cruel, of human beings in the history of the world, are beyond imagination for us. 1807, for all its limitations, marked a decisive step in the redemption of human degradation. There has been a proper concern, however, during this anniversary, that it not become a self-congratulatory affair. Not only was the entire process of abolition, of which 1807 was only a moment (however significant) fraught with deep moral ambiguities.
Seasonal jobs fold; Arizona exports solid
No surprises here. Seasonal layoffs in the service industry played the largest part in upping Arizona's unemployment rate by a pinch in January, to 4.2 percent, from 4.1 percent in December.
The state shed a little more than 44,000 non-farm jobs. .
Germany's Industrial Production Probably Declined in February
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- German industrial production probably declined in February for the first time in four months after export orders sagged early in the year, a survey of economists shows. Production may have fallen a seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent from January, when it rose 1.9 percent, according to the median of 39 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey. The Economy and Technology Ministry will release the figures at noon today. ``We see a U.S. slowdown, that's clear, but there is growth in a lot of other regions, especially Asia,'' said Stefan Muetze, an economist at Helaba Invest GmbH in Frankfurt. ``Domestic demand in Germany is also robust. German manufacturers are still in a very positive situation overall.'' Germany's economy is showing few signs of cooling after growing last year at the strongest pace since 2000.
The Future of Health Care in the United States
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is involved in health care in various ways that include (1) providing services to veterans, (2) paying for care received by Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, (3) assuring quality through regulatory activity, (4) financing the discovery of medical breakthroughs, and (5) training members of the health workforce and assuring that the nation has an adequate supply of them. None of these functions would appear to be in any immediate danger of disappearing. Moreover, with the aging of the population, it is reasonable to assume that the role of the government in these endeavors will increase over time. The aim of this essay is to consider some ways in which the health care of tomorrow will be affected by the intermingling of several different kinds of factors such as demography, epidemiology, economics, technology, globalization, and individual health behavior.
Huggins takes detour on the way home
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Thirty years after playing his last game for West Virginia, Bob Huggins has come home to coach the Mountaineers. Just two days after coach John Beilein left West Virginia for Michigan, WVU found a replacement in Huggins, a Morgantown-born alum who left Kansas State after one season to return to his roots. .
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