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Battling brain drain: Training doctors in Ethiopia
Brain drain is so severe in Ethiopia that the nation's health minister has complained there are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than in his own country.
Sep 24, 2013
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Croatian doctors, nurses strike over benefits cuts
Thousands of hospital workers went on strike in Croatia on Wednesday in protest at cuts to benefits introduced in response to the economic crisis.
Sep 18, 2013
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Healthcare in crisis-hit Greece under threat, doctors warn
A new round of cuts in debt-hit Greece's troubled health sector could cause irreversible damage to the country's already struggling public healthcare, insiders warn.
Sep 15, 2013
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Overweight & Obesity
New Zealand failing in obesity prevention
A disinvestment in obesity prevention and failure to enact any major healthy food policies is contributing to New Zealand's worsening obesity statistics compared to other OECD countries, according to researcher, Professor ...
Sep 12, 2013
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Spain surgery waiting lists 'longest on record'
Waiting lists for surgery in crisis-hit Spain's public hospitals were the longest on record in 2012 as emergency spending cuts hit home, government figures show.
Aug 26, 2013
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NHS facing a 'deepening financial crisis' says Head of Health Policy at the BMA
Head of the Health Policy and Economic Research Unit at the British Medical Association, Jon Ford, is warning that the NHS is facing a deep financial crisis and by April 2016 the service will have to "make do with only three ...
Jul 10, 2013
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Hard to make us personally or financially responsible for our health
Free and equal access to medical treatment has been a staple of the Danish welfare state, but more and more Danes express the view that people treated for lifestyle diseases like smoker's lungs or obesity should pay for their ...
Jun 18, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New Saudi death from MERS virus
The Saudi health ministry on Thursday announced the death of one of its citizens in the eastern region of Al-Ahsaa after he contracted MERS, a SARS-like virus.
Jun 6, 2013
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Study reveals austerity's harmful impact on health in Greece
In one of the most detailed studies of its kind, a team of Greek and U.S. researchers have vividly chronicled the harmful public health impacts of the economic austerity measures imposed on Greece's population in the wake ...
Apr 18, 2013
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Spaniards protest health care reforms
(AP)—Thousands of people marched in Madrid on Sunday to protest plans to privatize parts of their public health care system, with some questioning the motives behind the government's actions.
Jan 13, 2013
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