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  Keeping Workers Safe From Cancer - Will EU Proposals Cut Cancer Rates?

  By Dr. Chris Ball |January 25, 2017|English

  Cancer arising from workplace exposure has a long history. The earliest recognised form of occupational cancer in the world is Chimney sweep’s carcinoma, cancer of the skin of the scrotum, first described in England in 1775. In many workplaces...

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  Trends in Life Insurance - How Can the Industry Stay Fit for the Future?

  By Peter Temple |January 09, 2017|English

  Life insurers are facing a new world in which the nature of uncertainty itself is changing. The future is collapsing into the present faster than past data can be used to extrapolate the future. However, we shouldn’t be fearful. InsurTech (insurance...

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  How You Sleep Matters to Insurers

  By Ross Campbell |January 05, 2017|English

  Sleep allows the body and the brain vital repair and recovery time, giving hormones the opportunity to replenish. Both inadequate and excessive sleep have been associated with early death.1 We are getting a better understanding of the health consequences...

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  Tis the Season To Be (Not Too) Merry - Safe Levels of Alcohol

  By Ross Campbell |December 01, 2016|English

  We often link alcohol abuse with liver damage but it’s also associated with cancers and diseases of the cardiovascular, neurological and gastrointestinal systems.1 While past research pointed to the beneficial effects of light-moderate, non-binge...

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  Breast Cancer in Asia – A Look at the Incidence Rates and Trends

  By Dr. Himanshu Bhatia |November 28, 2016|English

  Almost one in four cases of female breast cancer diagnoses around the world are in the Asia-Pacific region – the highest proportion of new cases in China (46%), Japan (14%) and Indonesia (12%). The global total of new cancer cases is projected...

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  Surgery for Diabetes – No Longer Sugaring the Pill

  By Dr. Chris Ball |November 14, 2016|English

  Bariatric surgery was originally designed to induce weight loss and treat severe obesity in patients – most of whom have been young females with a relatively low prevalence of Type 2 diabetes (T2D). The aim of the surgery is to reduce the risk...

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