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Health
Officials Sound Warning on Bird Flu
NPR (audio) - Washington,D.C.,USA
Description: International health officials meeting in Vietnam Wednesday
express concern about the potential for a bird flu pandemic in Asia. ...
Medco Agrees to Buy Accredo Health for $2.2 Billion (Update9)
Bloomberg - USA
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Medco Health Solutions Inc., the largest US
provider of pharmacy-benefit services, agreed to buy Accredo Health Inc.
...
Health-care costs expected to soar over next decade
Kansas City Star (subscription) - MO,USA
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - US health-care spending will outpace overall
inflation and wage growth over the next 10 years, making medical care harder for
the ...
Health Board Deficits Ballooning
Xtra News - New Zealand
Latest figures show the combined District Health Boards deficit for the
December quarter was more than $30 million - a 100 percent rise on the same
period the ...
States 'starving' mental health sector of funds
ABC Online - Australia
The Federal Government has accused the states and territories of failing to make
mental health a priority and of starving the sector of funds. ...
HEALTH REPORT - India Begins AIDS Vaccine Study / Unusual AIDS ...
Voice of America - USA
... This is why, in the United States, some health experts
recently suggested that almost all Americans get tested, not just those at high
risk. ...
Migraine linked to risky heart health
Medical News Today - UK
... with risk factors associated with cardiovascular conditions," said
lead author Ann Scher, PhD, of Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences and the ...
Health board looks to ban smoking
BBC News - E,UK
Greater Glasgow Health Board is to consult on the strictest no-smoking
policy of any Scottish health body. Officials say they can ...
Older diesel equipment will still pose health problems, group says
Kansas City Star (subscription) - MO,USA
... While an industry representative questioned whether the health
effects are that widespread, there is little scientific doubt that soot and
other particle ...
Health service to investigate surgery waiting times claims
ABC Online - Australia
Claims that patients have died while awaiting cancer surgery at St George
Hospital are to be investigated by the New South Wales South East Area Health
Service ...
Health Highlights: Feb. 20, 2005
ABC News - USA
The Bloomberg News Service reports that Canadian Health Minister Ujjal
Dosanjh told reporters in Ottawa Friday that the ban on exporting patent
medicines is ...
Mental health teams 'short on cash'
NEWS.com.au - Australia
SOUTH Australia's mental health services desperately needed up to $100
million a year in extra funding, the head of the state's Mental Health
Coalition said ...
Canada Drug Exports Ban
Boost Marketing - UK
... Health minister Ujjal Dosanjh is due to decide soon whether to
take the total ban option, or add more robust rules of sale to the pharmacies
operating in Canada ...
Vatican officials decry 'religion of health' in affluent countries
Canada.com - Canada
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Vatican officials on Thursday decried what they called a
"religion of health" in affluent societies and held out Roman Catholic
Pope John ...
Arab Health 2006 to rival the best in the world
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
Arab Health 2006, the Middle East's leading hospital, medical equipment
and services exhibition is expected to reach unprecedented levels of
participation from ...
