Bupa health pulls out of Ireland
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Health insurer Bupa is to close its operations in Ireland to avoid making payments to state-owned rival VHI.
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Kaiser Permanente has stopped dispensing Bextra, an arthritis and pain drug made by Pfizer that may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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COSMETICS giant Boots is set to pull the plug on its high street health services. In a major blow to its much-vaunted new approach to treatment and prevention, laser eye surgery and dentistry will be dumped, along with chiropody and laser hair removal.
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GPs are becoming more remote from their patients, an opinion poll has revealed.
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A study concludes the region's largest health insurer is shirking its legal obligation to support public health needs.
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Northern Ireland's major Protestant party broke off relations with the Irish government Monday after Prime Minister Bertie Ahern indicated he had accepted the IRA's refusal to provide photographs of disarmament.
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By Murphy, Tom  Gateway Medical Resource Alliance, a niche health care benefits company, will shut down Aug. 30, more than 4 month after losing the lone Indianapolis hospital in its network.
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Novo Nordisk discontinues development of the troubled diabetes treatment.
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DUP leader Ian Paisley has said that he is breaking off relations with the Irish government over the taoiseach's comments on IRA arms decommissioning.
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One of the world&#39;s largest manufactures of flu vaccine was banned from producing the vaccine yesterday, amid safety fears. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory
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DUBLIN, Ireland  - Ireland has become the first country to cut off direct-dialled calls to entire countries in a bid to crack down on Internet-based fraud.
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IBA Health Ltd., Australia&#39;s largest listed health information technology provider, withdrew its bid for Health Communication Network Ltd.
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Almost half of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's full-time reserve is to be axed over the next 18 months.
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A leading cigarette company has revealed that its sales have fallen sharply in the Irish Republic since smoking was banned in workplaces earlier this year.
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Britain has pulled license for Chiron, which was to provide half of U.S. stock of flu vaccine.
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Public reaction forced the drug manufacturer to ends its lobbying efforts in state legislatures on behalf of a vaccine.
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Allergan Inc., the US drug company that makes the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox as well as contract lens solution at its Irish factory, plans to lay off more than a third of its Irish workforce as it ends its lens solution operations and