The discrepancy leaves us to parse what sub-segments of health IT are included in those numbers.
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There are other sub-sectors of health care where cash flow is greater than earnings.
Poor sanitation and sub-standard animal health control has been cited as the main reasons for China constantly coming down with the bird flu.
At issue were assured emergency-room access, fuller information from doctors, easier access to clinical tests of new drugs, and, most controversial of all, the right to sue health insurers for sub-standard treatment.
It operates mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and works across health, education, agriculture, peacemaking, emergencies, economic empowerment and the environment.
Riders for Health uses motorbikes to disseminate medicines and other health aids in a handful of sub-Saharan African nations.
Often people living with AIDS live in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa with little access to health clinics and the drugs that could sustain their lives.
Millions of lives are lost needlessly every year from easily preventable and treatable diseases across sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
Proposed regulations to exempt film sets have divided AMs. As a result, the Welsh government has asked a joint sub-committee of the assembly's enterprise and health committees to hear arguments.
With debt high and growth sub-par, every country wants to export its way back to health.
Studies showed that the sub-standard silicone used posed no serious long-term threats to health, but the PIP products were up to twice as likely to burst as other implants.
According to the World Health Organisation, dengue is now endemic in more than 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries around the world, affecting some 50m people a year, mostly in urban or semi-urban areas.
Despite the sub-group report, concerns have been raised that the poisoning did affect people's health.
Health Secretary Frank Dobson has unveiled proposals for an independent body to protect patients from sub-standard care in the private sector.
Encouragingly, the proportion covered in sub-Saharan Africa, the worst-affected area and the one with the least developed health infrastructure, is slightly higher than the global average, at 44%.
The upshot, according to Brian Williams of the World Health Organisation, is that if, in some ideal world, every sexually active man in sub-Saharan Africa were circumcised, 2m new infections would be avoided over the course of ten years, and 300, 000 deaths prevented.
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