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Ontario Doctors Ratify New Deal - Globe And Mail
toronto — without a contract since the end of march, the ontario medical association has ratified a $1-billion deal with the province after 79 per cent of its members voted in favour of the agreement. the new contract, tentatively agreed to in ...
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Doctors Often Overestimate Patients' Health Literacy
friday, oct. 17 (healthday news) -- many patients misunderstand the written questions american doctors have them answer before physical exams, a finding that calls into question the usefulness of these screening tools, new reports say.
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Expert: Quality Health Care In Demand
palmyra, maine — mainers who use high-quality doctors and hospitals are more likely to be satisfied with the care they get, and their employers are more likely to have healthy workers to show for their investment in health insurance, a health quality expert told local business leaders friday.
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Doctors Paid Thousands Not To Send Patients To Hospital For Treatment - Daily Telegraph
dozens of incentive schemes have been uncovered which allow gps to profit by slashing the number of patients they refer for hospital care. under one scheme, gps stand to gain £59 for every patient not referred to hospital, if they cut an average ...
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In Iraq, The Doctors Are Out - Newsweek
doctor wasim bickers with his wife over where to raise their three kids. a pharmacist by profession, she longs for her friends and relatives back home in baghdad . he suggests she settle in where they live now, amid the gleaming skyscrapers and ...
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Most Health Workers Skip Flu Shot
nearly 60% of health care workers fail to get a flu shot. that's despite recommendations from the cdc that all health care workers get vaccinated, from hospital volunteers to doctors.
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Health Highlights: Oct. 18, 2008
here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of healthday:
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Britain On The Breadline: Families Join Food Queue - The Independent
the woman stands in a snaking queue, waiting stoically for a food parcel. with this she can make it through the week, feed her husband, herself and her five children. maybe it will be gone after a few days, but it's a lifeline. and it's not like her ...
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Abortion Ban Returns To South Dakota Ballot - Time
the initiative would outlaw abortions but includes exceptions for rape, incest and pregnancies that threaten the life or health of the woman. some voters said they wanted those exceptions when they rejected the tougher 2006 measure 56 percent to 44 ...
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How Doctors In Business Give Back
iloilo city, philippines—teachers are the best people to put up schools; artists, galleries; engineers, construction companies; pharmacists, drug stores. by the same token, doctors are also the most qualified to go into a medical service enterprise.
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Doctors Warn Of Rash From Mobile Phone Use
london (reuters) - doctors baffled by an unexplained rash on people's ears or cheeks should be on alert for a skin allergy caused by too much mobile phone use, the british association of dermatologists said on thursday.
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Abortion Ban Returns To South Dakota Ballot 2 Years After Voters ... - Chicago Tribune
sioux falls, s.d. (ap) _ two years after south dakotans rejected a nearly total ban on abortion, voters on nov. 4 will decide another sweeping but less restrictive ballot measure that would probably send a legal challenge of roe v. wade to the u.s ...
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Doctors Accept $1b Deal With Province - Toronto Sun
without a contract since the end of march, the ontario medical association has ratified a $1-billion deal with the province after 79 per cent of its members voted in favour of the agreement. the new contract, tentatively agreed to in september, runs ...
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Addabbo Advocates For 3-point Health Care Plan
city councilman joseph addabbo jr., center, joined by pharmacist john rossi, right, and dr. frank proscia, executive director of the doctors council seiu.
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Campaigns Tangle Over Health Care
senator barack obama has charged that senator john mccain would make $882 billion in ?drastic cuts to medicare? to pay for his health care proposal.
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Legalise Assisted Suicide, For Pity's Sake - Guardian Unlimited
the death of daniel james, the 23-year-old rugby player who visited a swiss euthanasia clinic last month, is the most appalling burden his parents will ever have to bear, whether or not they are prosecuted, and whether or not they are sent to prison ...
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Bee Gees Hit Could Save Your Life - Bbc News
us medics have found the bee gees' 1977 disco anthem, stayin' alive, provides an ideal beat to follow when performing cpr on a victim of a cardiac arrest. a university of illinois medical school study said it contained 103 beats per minute, close to ...
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Internal Memo For South Dakota Health System Raises Legal Concerns About Proposed State Abortion Ban
an internal memo by lawyers for south dakota health system sanford health says that a measure to ban abortion on the state's november ballot would impose "a standard that is not clearly defined" and would have "substantial legal implications" for the health system and its doctors, the sioux falls argus leader reports (woster, sioux falls argus leader, 10/15).
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Family Doctors Could Cut Costs, Expert Says
charleston, w.va. -- if west virginia adopted a new health-care approach that steers patients to family doctors, medical costs would drop significantly and treatment would improve, a health policy expert told state business leaders, lawmakers and physicians thursday.
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Doctors Receive New Guidelines For Testing Patients After Deathbed ... - Scotsman
ilar routine, health chiefs say the new code will stamp out occasional "idiosyncratic" diagnoses by doctors and the bitter rows with families that follow. the new rules also follow lurid stories around the world about patients waking from 'death ...
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