No scenario seen for draft of health care workers
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WASHINGTON -- No war or other national emergency would overwhelm the military's medical care system and require a draft of civilian health care workers, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.
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Ontario&#39;s embattled health minister yesterday said he&#39;s ready to talk to the province&#39;s doctors about the tentative deal they rejected, but arbitration is out of the question.
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Pregnant women, babies and toddlers would join doctors, emergency workers and soldiers at the head of the line for scarce vaccine if a super-strain of flu triggers the next pandemic, says a draft government plan to be released Tuesday.
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U.S. health officials said Wednesday they have not inspected a Chinese factory that may be a source of problems with a blood thinner linked to allergic reactions and four deaths, but plan an inspection as soon as possible.
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6 Perspective article on health reform (&quot;A referendum on health care&quot;). Hoff detailed the findings of a recent Commonwealth Fund Survey concerning the public&#39;s view of the health care system and then applied
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Though the governors of California, Illinois and Pennsylvania proposed sweeping plans to restructure health care this year, none will finish 2007 with bills passed and signed.
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Report on D.C. health issues shows one in five residents has no regular source of health care.
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Policymakers and the medical profession need to recognize and take immediate steps to avert a looming shortage of physicians, analysts told a forum on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
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CHANGES IN the training of junior doctors and the introduction of the European Working Time Directive has led to a chronic shortage of qualified staff and warnings that patient care could be compromised, ...
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It still remains unclear whether the United Automobile Workers will agree to the health care overhaul carmakers are seeking.
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A critical global shortage of health workers is getting worse, prompting a &quot;fatal migration&quot; of desperately needed doctors and nurses from poor countries
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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Protesters worried that several  hospitals could shut demonstrate as health chiefs discuss their fate.
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Criminal record checks are not carried out on tens of thousands of NHS staff, the BBC learns.
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By Linda McKee  And the Ulster Farmers' Union has also expressed surprise that the authors of the new Review of Environmental Governance, presented to Environment Minister Arlene Foster last week, have not given a costing of the new proposals.
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Canada&#39;s health ministers failed Sunday to hammer out a way to measure surgical waiting times across the country at the conclusion of a three-day health summit in Vancouver.
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Though candidates suggest adapting the health care program that covers Congress and offering it to millions of uninsured Americans, such a plan would unlikely cut costs.