Public health plans 'in disarray'
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Measures to tackle rising public health problems are being scrapped or postponed due to lack of funds, health chiefs say.
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THERE WASN'T a whisper of opposition last week at the state Public Health Council as Massachusetts General Hospital presented its plan to replace some old buildings with a $498 million complex that will include a larger emergency department, 71 surgical suites, and 150 new beds. The council approved the plan unanimously, but the expansion raises the question of whether the ...
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BRUSSELS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Developed countries are failing to live up to their  commitments to fund sexual and reproductive health care leaving  poorer countries to pick up the bill, says a new UN report  released Wednesday.
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The mission is to fix Canada&#39;s much-vaunted, but ailing, health system for a generation, but federal and provincial governments looked hopelessly divided on Friday
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The way cancer services are provided is a shambles and must be drastically reformed, a report by MPs says.
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Life & style: Â£42m scheme has failed to improve health of children.
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THE response to publication of public health proposals yesterday suggests that Government policy may yet turn out to be as much about âsmoke and mirrorsâ as it is about smoking.
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Officials have not reached agreement on either the breadth or the financing of a proposal to extend health coverage to all uninsured Californians.
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The Trust for America&#39;s Health says most states don&#39;t even have a comprehensive response plan for an emergency involving a biological weaon.
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The governors of California, Illinois and Pennsylvania proposed sweeping plans to restructure health care this year, but none will finish 2007 with bills passed and signed.
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VICTORIA&#39;S health system is in crisis with revelations that mentally ill patients are being &quot;shackled&quot; to trolleys in public hospitals.
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TORONTO -- Post-partum depression clinics, breastfeeding clinics and other vital women&#39;s health services are on the chopping block as the province demands that hospitals balance their budgets next year, advocates warned yesterday.
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The Mayo Clinic proposal doesnât advocate a government-run single-payer system, but urges private insurance companies to offer plans with many options.
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NHS management and psychiatrists have combined to attack proposals to reform mental health laws.
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War in Iraq has caused a public health  disaster that has left the country's medical system in tatters  and increased the risk of disease and death, according to a  report released Tuesday.
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New health secretary admits 'emergency approach' to reform has lost confidence of doctors and nurses.
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State budget pressures threaten to undo gains in health insurance coverage for children and the poor, according to two surveys released Monday.