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GENEVA (Reuters) - Nearly 60 million women will give birth without any medical assistance this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday in a report calling for an overhaul of how health care is financed and managed globally.
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Nearly 60 million women will give birth without any medical assistance this year, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday in a report calling for an overhaul of how health care is financed and managed globally.
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In a Nairobi slum, more than one in four children under 5 will die, but in a wealthier part of the Kenyan capital, the mortality rate is one in almost 67, according to a World Health Organization report released Tuesday.
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14 October 2008 -- There are striking inequities within and between countries in health outcomes, in access to care, and in what people have to pay for care, says the World Health Report 2008 launched today. To steer health systems
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National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has decried the situation at the primary health level, describing it as "very pathetic" and therefore called on the three tiers of government to intervene immediately before the total collapse of the sector.
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Its hospitals are among the greatest in the world, attracting patients from around the country and across the globe. Yet London's health service is getting worse while the NHS in the rest of the country is rapidly improving.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Operating room nurse Pauline Taylor knows her refusal to get a flu shot is based on faulty logic....
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Operating room nurse Pauline Taylor knows her refusal to get a flu shot is based on faulty logic.
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HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched....
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Obama: "Senator McCain would pay for part of his plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare -$882 billion worth." Roanoke, VA., October, 17
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Following up on themes they pushed at their debate earlier in the week, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama focused their attention on a couple of battleground states on Friday as the weeks until the November 4th election tick down.
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Scott Serota, president and chief executive of The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, recently discussed its new goals.
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A new advertisement mischaracterizes John McCain’s Medicare plan by stitching together vague language from a news report with calculations by a partisan policy group.
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The Irish Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, has launched an emergency attempt to cope with a phenomenal wave of public and political criticism of health cuts for the elderly in his budget. Political turmoil erupted on a major scale after the government announced an end to the system of free medical cards for the over-70s, triggering anxiety among the elderly Irish population.
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Both domestic and foreign experts warn that the Chinese government must do more to provide health care for everyone, especially the rural poor.
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Dan Arnall offers tips for making the right choices during open enrollment.
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THE World Health Organisation has called for the revival of the primary health care approach where countries are encouraged to implement people-centred, fair, affordable and efficient systems.
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The South African division of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the world's largest health care company, played a leading role on the corporate front to topple the apartheid regime and plays a vigorous part now in efforts to defeat the HIV/AIDS
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Uganda and other developing countries must treat the need to shift some tasks from senior to junior health workers as an emergency, a Health Ministry official has said.
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The Minister of Health, Mr. Saleh Meki, participated at the International Conference on Basic Health Care that was held in Alma Ata city, Kazakhstan, from October 15 to 16.
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One of the campaign themes this election cycle is "affordable" health care. Shouldn't we ask ourselves whether we want the politicians who brought us the "affordable" housing, that created the current financial debacle, to now deliver us affordable health care? Shouldn't we also ask how things turned out in countries where there is socialized medicine?
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Coventry Health Care (CVH) dropped in pre-market trading, after the company reported a plunge in third quarter profit and cut its 2008 fiscal year earnings outlook.
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SENECAVILLE, Ohio -- Even if the issue doesn't often get star billing on the campaign trail, health care remains a huge issue for voters. It seems like everyone's got a story to tell about their medical challenges and how they do _ or don't _ get insurance coverage.
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Health care remains a huge issue for voters. It seems like everyone's got a story to tell about their medical challenges and how they do — or don't — get insurance coverage.
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Ukraine requires intensification of propaganda among physicians and population about necessity of vaccination as at present the anti-vaccination campaign is spreading, the meeting of the academic medical council of the Ukrainian Health Care Ministry noted
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An ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy is trying to lay the groundwork for a breakthrough on health care reform next year, though many believe the enormous undertaking has been made even more difficult by the troubled economy.
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Kennedy is holding video conferences with lawmakers over the debate
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board takes a look at Sen. Barack Obama's attacks on Sen. John McCain's health care proposal -- and how some of his arguments seem to contradict principles outlined by a couple Obama advisers. Obama's...
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47 Million Americans lack health insurance, and every year more than 20 thousand die because they don't get care. Rita Braver went to South Carolina and met people dealing with this issue every day.
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The French health care system has been dubbed "the best in the world." David Turecamo finds out why the French can afford to get sick.
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The presidential candidates are offering different proposals for improving our health care system. What changes can Americans look forward to, particularly those not insured? Our cover story is reported by Rita Braver.
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Offering free flu shots to everyone may help reduce influenza-related deaths and visits to emergency rooms, according to a study that compared the results of Ontario's campaign with other provinces.
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None of the 16 nations of West Africa will achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of reducing child mortality or improving maternal health without serious efforts to improve their health care systems, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Kenyans are set to get better healthcare after reforms in management of workers are put in place.
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