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Also: the global cost of cancer; surgery for type 2 diabetics; people are cutting back on routine medical care; complementary therapies for kids with chronic diseases.

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Global health and cancer-care luminaries call for increased attention to cancer in lower-income countries.

See more here: Lance Armstrong, Sanjay Gupta Call for Focus on Cancer in Poorer Countries

MRSA rates are down (good), but a new breed of superbugs has the potential to be a big public-health threat.

Read more: Nasty Bug Watch: MRSA Infections Down, But New Threat Looms

Who do you think eats more — a Namibian game warden or U.S. professional model?

Read the original here: Health Blog Q&A: ‘What I Eat’ Authors Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio

Some 67% of physicians said their patients knew their names. Only 18% of patients could correctly name their doctor.

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Merck isn’t ruling out making outright purchases of emerging-market companies, but competition is fierce.

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Treatment as a means of curbing the epidemic, an end to the war on drugs and the need for funding were all on the agenda in Vienna this week.

Read the original:  A Wrap-Up From the International AIDS Conference in Vienna

Also: hospitals using Tasers; cautious optimism over a possible HIV preventive; end of the line for swine flu pandemic?

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Most of the respondents — 69% — said they felt prepared to deal with colleagues who were significantly impaired, and 64% said the same about incompetent co-workers.

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The U.S. the most on health per capita — $7,290 in 2007 compared to an estimated $3,387 in the top-ranking Netherlands.

Here is the original: Will Health-Care Overhaul Boost U.S. System’s Global Standing?