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A man crosses a main road as pedestrians carrying food walk along the footpath in central Sydney, Australia, August 12, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray
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Handwashing is important for doctors, and sometimes they need nudges to do it.
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How Behavioral Economics Can Produce Better Health Care
I’m a physician at the end of more than a decade of training. I’ve dissected cadavers in anatomy lab. I’ve pored over tomes on the physiology of disease. I’ve treated thousands of patients with ailments as varied as hemorrhoids and cancer. And yet the way I care for...Caption:
Mumbai’s Saifee Hospital has begun build ing a special facility for the world’s heaviest woman, the 500-kg Egyptian Eman Ahmed, who is scheduled to undergo bariatric surgery at the hospital. – Times of India
Indian Doctor to Operate on ‘500kg’ Egyptian Woman
New Delhi – An Egyptian woman, believed to be the world’s heaviest woman at 500kg, will soon be flown to India for weight reduction surgery. Eman Ahmed, 36, believed to be the world’s heaviest woman in the world, was unable to move for the past 25...Caption:
Obese women in New York. Reuters