Archives: Morning Breakouts

Diabetes and peripheral artery disease cost billions each year in medical expenses. Diabetes rates are expected to double in the next 20 years, while the market for PAD-related medical devices is thriving.

A New York Times Magazine article by the newspaper's Op-Ed columnist Nicolas Kristof examines a "revolution" that is "just beginning" and "might be called Do-It-Yourself Foreign Aid, because it starts with the proposition that it's not only presidents and United Nations officials who chip away at global challenges. Passionate individuals with great ideas can do the same, especially in the age of the Internet and social media."

"Malaria kills around 205,000 people in India each year, more than 13 times the estimate made by the World Health Organization, researchers said on Thursday," Reuters reports (Ee Lyn, 10/20).

One poll finds the public evenly split on which party they support on health care, another finds the Democrats with an advantage. Meanwhile, Ginni Thomas' public opposition is raising conflict-of-interest questions.

Two U.N. reports released on Wednesday examine the conditions faced by women around the world, the New York Times reports (MacFarquhar, 10/20). The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics report, which is published every five years, offers a compilation of "the latest data documenting progress for women worldwide in eight key areas: population and families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment and poverty," according to a U.N. Statistics press release (.pdf).

The health overhaul is having an impact in political races around the country, both in the races for federal office as well as at the state level.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday during the launch of the Third World Academy of Sciences meeting (TWAS) in Hyderabad, India, called for developing countries to place greater emphasis on scientific research and application, the Economic Times reports.