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HEALTH workers sue after lockout
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Health care workers who participated in a strike
against Sutter Health hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area took legal action
Friday ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/10334648.htm


MICHIGAN health department could lift order restricting flu ...Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan health officials could remove the state's order restricting doses of the flu vaccine to high-priority groups as early as next ...
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw108132_20041203.htm

WA health chief rejects bed shortage claimsABC Online - Australia The chief of the Western Australian Health Department has rejected a number of proposals in a newly commissioned report aimed at easing the pressure on public ...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1257873.htm

CABINET team now rejects free health plan East African Standard - Nairobi,Kenya The Government is set to cross into the New Year with cracks within its ranks as the controversial National Social Health Insurance Scheme Bill has been ...
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=7476
DRUG companies spend more on ads than innovation Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA ... advertising in 2003, a 24 percent increase from 2002, according to marketing research firm TNS Media Intelligence/CMR. AstraZeneca's heartburn
drug Prilosec ...
http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1132331,00.html

VIOXX fall is gain for Abbott Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA ... may work for many patients as long as they are taken with heartburn medications to ... to Mobic following Vioxx's exit from the market, market research firms say. ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0412040269dec04,1,4921767.story?col l=chi-business-hed

NEW drugs set to cure GSK woes, say chiefs The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... recent setbacks, the company is confident about prospects for two key drugs - one an anti ... GSK's new drug pipeline is one of the largest
in the pharmaceutical ...
http://business.scotsman.com/technology.cfm?id=1351162004
 
NEW drugs heralded as breast cancer hope Onlypunjab.com (press release) - Punjab,India New treatment guidelines for breast cancer patients in the United States could spark changes to management of those with the disease in Australia.
http://www.onlypunjab.com/real/fullstory1004-newsID-2903.html

JOBS, services at tribe's health center in jeopardy Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA -- Puyallup Indian health officials are planning severe cuts to services and staff levels to counter decreasing federal funding and rising patient levels. ...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20 Tribal%20Health%20Care

HEALTH Canada to require ingredients listed on cosmetics within ... Canada.com - Canada OTTAWA (CP) - Cosmetic manufacturers will be required to list the  ingredients of their products on labels within two years, Health Canada will soon
announce. ...
http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=bc12f626-416b-4ebe-8311-721064cdbed7

SPLIT in Cabinet over Health Bill widens East African Standard - Nairobi,Kenya ... Ntimama, who addressed a rally at Suswa, said the Health Minister's hosting of MPs at the Coast was "the height of irresponsibility.". ...
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=6836

GIVING doctors more support crucial to health reform, council head ... Canada.com - Canada HALIFAX (CP) - Giving family doctors more support by spreading out the burden of primary care is crucial to reforming Canada's health-care system,
says the ...
http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=6fc2c521-1da5-4f15-8c76-6d97 ea908b1e

CRITICAL mass builds for health care reform after years of ... Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
By Associated Press. BOSTON - Talking about health care has become an  annual ritual each winter as lawmakers begin to plan for the next legislative session. ...
http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=56011

GLAXOSMITHKLINE'S new drugs boost investors Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA
... a preview of its pipeline of central nervous system drugs. Tachi  Yamada, the company's head of research, says as many as 22 of the 90 "new chemical entities ...
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/11/27/build /business/52-investors-drug.inc
HEALTH care costs to slow, firms say Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA Companies around the country expect their health care expenditures to rise in 2005 more slowly than they have in recent years, in part because they plan to ...
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/1128healthcosts28.h tml

HEALTH services to get impetus: CM Hindustan Times - New Delhi,India EXTERNAL-AIDED projects worth Rs 80.5 crore to improve health services in Himachal Pradesh were on the anvil. This was stated by ...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1125765,0015002000000073.htm

COSMETICS must list ingredients: Health Canada CTV - Canada OTTAWA -- Health Canada says cosmetic manufacturers will be required to list the ingredients of their products on labels within two years. ...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1101564948071_23/?hub=Health

HEALTH and Welfare to drop postal boxes Idaho State Journal - Pocatello,ID,USA POCATELLO - Region 6 Department of Health and Welfare has made a decision to have its mail delivered to the physical address, according to a press release from ...
http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2004/11/27/news/briefs/briefs01.txt

HEALTH busts budget Fiji Times - Fiji Health Ministry chief executive Doctor Lepani Waqatakirewa said it was
a norm every year for the ministry to overspend its airlifting budget. ...
http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=12324
 

HEALTH care costs to slow, firms say Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA Companies around the country expect their health care expenditures to rise in 2005 more slowly than they have in recent years, in part because they plan to ...
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/1128healthcosts28.html
 

ONTARIO government on right track with doctors, health reforms ... Canada.com - Canada TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario government must implement its planned  health-care reforms, even if that means "taking action" with doctors who have already
rejected ...
http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=22bcf926-d932-4cc3-b07b-1c1ce93b2579

HEALTH Ministry also finds flaws at Dizengoff Center Ha'aretz - Jerusalem,Israel By Dafna Lutzky. "The ministry inspects the food fairs under the Business Licensing Law," says a Health Ministry spokesperson, "but the direct  supervision of ...
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/507223.html

HEALTH the 'top worry' as we age BBC News - London,England,UK Health rather than money is the issue worrying people most about old age, a poll for the BBC News website suggests. Asked to name ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4043187.stm

ALGAL bloom still poses danger: health deptABC Online - Australia WA's Health Department says the massive algal bloom that has appeared off the coast of Perth still poses a danger to swimmers and should be avoided.
.http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1253606.htm

DEPARTMENT of Health Responds to Healthcare Commission ...The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
"I welcome the thrust of the HC's proposals for assessing the performance of healthcare provided under the NHS. These take full ... http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3817047