Doctors seek more rural hospital funding
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Rural doctors are calling on the coalition and Labor to guarantee enough funding to ensure small rural hospitals can keep their doors open.
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A mushrooming number of poor people who need medical care will push up the state&#39;s Medicaid costs another $119 million next fiscal year.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Major health care providers are competing for the chance to build a hospital in Maple Grove, the fast-growing northwestern suburb.
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TORONTO (CP) - The association representing Canada&#39;s doctors is calling on Ottawa to provide a whopping $1 billion to address the shortage of physicians and develop a strategy to ensure the country has enough health providers to care for patients in the ...
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Biotech companies, medical device   makers and food manufacturers joined patient groups and three   former U.S. health secretaries on Monday in calling for   increased funding for the Food and Drug Administration.
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New research suggests that suicide risk factors are heightened in rural areas by social isolation, lack of mental health care and the easy availability of guns.
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The federal government today launched a program that provides increased Medicaid payments to doctors that use electronic health records.
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US cancer specialists issued an urgent appeal this weekend for more budget allocations for cancer research, which have been decreasing in the country for four years threatening to delay introduction of new treatments.
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Money to wire schools and libraries  to the Internet and help fund rural health care should resume  flowing soon, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman  Michael Powell said on Wednesday, a day after lawmakers  attacked the agency for stopping funds.
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According to a survey of low-income, rural women over age 40, nearly 7 out of 10 say their physicians have never prompted them to get a mammogram.
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NEW YORK  - According to a survey of low-income, rural women over age 40, nearly 7 out of 10 say their physicians have never prompted them to get a mammogram.
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Enthusiasm for rural giving springs in part from concern for the future of small towns.
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Canada needs to invest $1 billion over the next five years to reverse its serious shortage of doctors and ensure there will be enough health-care providers in future to reduce long waiting lists plaguing hospitals, the Canadian Medical Association says.
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Rural scientists have hit the road for a series of seminars on record reproductive performance in dairy cows with information they say could bring each dairy farmer $12,000 more each year.
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Facing cutthroat competition, escalating expenses, and declining revenues, some of the region&#39;s hospitals are trying to boost their bottom lines by offering
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The Cumbria Farmer Network has taken over the work of the Rural Futures project.   Since the foot-and-mouth epidemic, Rural Futures has helped farmers gain grants to improve their businesses.
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People with cancer should get more help with the financial costs of dealing with the condition, campaigners say.