Health
UK doctors suspend planned two-day strike amid talks
Junior doctors in England have called off a two-day strike as union leaders continue talks with the government over a bitterly-disputed contract.
Jan 19, 2016
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News tagged with protest
Health
French doctors stage massive protest rally in Paris
Angry French doctors and health workers staged a protest march across the capital Sunday, gathering more than 40,000 people according to organisers and 19,000 according to police.
Mar 15, 2015
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Health
Religion and support for birth control health coverage can mix
New research debunks the assumption that a woman's religion predicts her views on policies affecting reproductive health care such as insurance coverage for birth control.
Mar 11, 2015
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French Parliament debates legalization of terminal sedation
France's Parliament started debate Tuesday on a bill aimed at allowing doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, amid national debate about whether to legalize euthanasia.
Mar 10, 2015
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Health
Managers' religious affiliation impacts hospital strategy
Protestant non-profit hospitals in Germany offer fewer treatment types, but focus more on complex treatments. By contrast, Catholic German hospitals offer more treatment types but focus on less complex treatments. This is ...
Dec 17, 2014
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Neuroscience
Influenced by self-interest, humans less concerned about inequity to others
Strongly influenced by their self-interest, humans do not protest being overcompensated, even when there are no consequences, researchers in Georgia State University's Brains and Behavior Program have found.
Aug 21, 2014
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Medications
China cracks down on medication of schoolchildren (Update)
China's education ministry ordered a nationwide investigation on Tuesday into whether schools are giving students medication without permission after a protest by parents of kindergarteners who were given an antiviral drug.
Mar 18, 2014
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Health
Perry signs sweeping Texas abortion restrictions
(AP)—Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed sweeping new abortion restrictions on Thursday that could shutter most of the state's clinics that provide the procedure, a final step for the Republican-backed measure after weeks of sometimes ...
Jul 18, 2013
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Texas House provisionally approves abortion law
(AP)—The Texas House has given provisional approval to tough new abortion restrictions, making good on a third attempt to pass the measure this year.
Jul 10, 2013
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Health
Big protests in Spain against health care reforms
(AP)—Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of 16 Spanish cities Sunday to protest plans to part-privatize the public health care system, with some questioning the government's motives.
Feb 17, 2013
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