Shortage of Doctors Affects Rural U.S.
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GREENWOOD, Miss. -- A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Alaska could use 375 more doctors and a group studying the shortage recommends subsidizing students to close the physician gap.
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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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Limits on federal spending will "place rural America at a tremendous disadvantage," say pro-tax senators in rural states.
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A crisis is looming in upstate New York unless cities like Binghamton can do a better job of recruiting doctors, according to a recent report.
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By Angie Herrington, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 9--From nurseries and golf courses to carpet mills and farmers, the list of those affected by the severe drought gripping the tri-state region is growing longer.
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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The Rural Doctors Association of South Australia has called on the major political parties to quarantine federal funding for the state&#39;s small rural hospitals.
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Smaller cellphone companies are feeling pressures from national carriers entering rural areas now that urban markets are saturated.
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Nearly half of District residents, many with chronic diseases, live in areas with a critical shortage of doctors to provide basic care.
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Doctors eager to pare back their hours and find more time for themselves and their families are helping fuel an &quot;alarming&quot; trend toward even greater doctor shortages, concludes a major new study.
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Wanted: small-town students who want to become country doctors. Tulane University is mounting an effort to bring more doctors to underserved rural Louisiana.
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Throughout rural America, breast cancer screening is significantly underused, especially among poor minority populations, a new study finds.
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TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- The United States will suffer a significant shortage of cancer doctors over the next two decades, coinciding with an increased need for these specialists by aging Americans, a new report warns.
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The world is suffering an acute shortage of doctors, nurses, and other health workers, according to a global group of health leaders.
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Heart disease rates are twice as high in certain rural states and among people who did not finish high school, federal researchers said on Thursday after the first state-by-state survey in the United States.
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Americans have a harder time than residents of several other countries getting after-hours appointments with a nurse or primary care physician without going to an emergency room, a study released yesterday found.