Brownback budget-balancing plans rely on Affordable Care Act (KHI - Kansas...
(Source: KHI - Kansas Health Institute) For the third consecutive year, Gov. Sam Brownback is proposing to use money generated by a federal law that he opposes to help balance the state budget....
View ArticleUnite joins forces with European unions to save Alstom jobs (UNITE)
(Source: UNITE) Britain's largest union Unite is joining forces with its European counterparts in a bid to save former Alstom workers from redundancy following the recent takeover by General Electric...
View ArticleImproving cancer survival by understanding how patients are diagnosed (Cancer...
(Source: Cancer Research UK) The NHS's improving data collection over the last few years has revealed a lot about where problems lie in the healthcare system - and potentially how to fix them. In...
View ArticleFlorida legislators have less money to spend this year
TALLAHASSEE – Amid an ongoing tug-of-war over tax cuts and spending, Florida legislators learned today that they are going to have less money to spend in the coming year than they were planning on. The...
View ArticleAbsence of clean cooking fuel sparks health concerns
Absence of clean cooking fuel in large number of households, particularly in the countryside, is a major health worry, according to first set of results from India’s biggest health survey, which...
View ArticleVoice Analytics To Boost Customer Service, Even Save Lives
A healthcare service-focused startup spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is using its voice-based insights into peoples' states of mind to help the U.S. Department of Veterans...
View ArticleChinese companies set for rapid globalisation (Macquarie Group Limited)
(Source: Macquarie Group Limited) Hong Kong, 20 Jan 2016 Chinese companies are set for rapid globalisation over the next two decades as they become more competitive and shift their focus to innovation....
View ArticleThe NHS spends LESS on end-of-life care than the US, Canada, Germany and Norway
A study found that while England spends the least on end-of-life care, more terminally ill English patients die in hospitals than in the US, Germany and the Netherlands - where more is spent per...
View ArticleHeadlines about e-cigarettes don’t mean they’re ‘not safer than tobacco’...
(Source: Cancer Research UK) If your New Year's resolution was to stop smoking, and you were looking for support to help you quit, then recent headlines suggesting e-cigarettes 'aren't any safer than...
View ArticleNew Federal Standards For Marketplace Plans May Reduce Out-Of-Pocket Spending
Some consumers who buy coverage on the health insurance marketplaces in 2017 could see their out-of-pocket costs drop significantly under a federal proposal to create standardized plans, a recent...
View ArticleMotsoaledi accused of trying to control private health prices
The Competition Commission’s private healthcare market inquiry is a “ruse” set in place by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi as a “justification to control prices” in the sector to facilitate the...
View Articlede Poel responds to potential NHS agency spend bill of £4bn this year (de...
(Source: de Poel Limited) The recent headline that NHS provider trusts' agency bill is set to hit £4bn this year - as forecast by NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey and NHS England chief...
View ArticleHow's Europe? Employment and social developments in 2015 (European Commission...
(Source: European Commission - Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) 22/01/2016 Yesterday Commissioner Thyssen presented the annual review of employment and social...
View ArticleApple steps up lobbying amid European tax probe
Apple is pushing back against a European tax investigation that could force the iPhone maker to pay more than $US8 billion ($11.42 billion) in back taxes. CEO Tim Cook met with the European...
View ArticleIsraeli-European Collaboration on Medical Tech R&D Praised
Carlos Moedas -- the man responsible for the European Commission’s 77-billion euro ($83.9-billion) seven-year Horizon 2020 research program -- visited Israel last week, where he named health research...
View Articlede Poel responds to headline that NHS agency spend bill set to reach £4bn...
(Source: de Poel Limited) The recent headline that NHS provider trusts' agency bill is set to hit £4bn this year - as forecast by NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey and NHS England chief...
View ArticleSlovakia, home to snowy peaks and the year's best performing sharemarket
Major markets are rapidly capitulating to the bear's claw, but not so investors in Slovakia: The country's tiny bourse is enjoying a great start to the year. The Slovak Share Index, a group of seven...
View ArticleIndia's greenhouse emission in 2010 more than 2000 mn ton of CO2 equivalent
India's greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in 2010 was more than 2,000 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent with the energy sector being the prime contributor, the first Biennial Update Report (BUR) submitted...
View ArticleDeep dive into the Healthcare System and Medical Device Market in South...
LONDON, Jan. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- This TforG report includes the Surgical Procedures Database with 620 surgical interventions, reported by the ICD-9 coding system in South Africa. To add context to...
View ArticleUK levy may close door on jobs for Kiwis
Kiwis hoping to get a job in the UK could be dealt a further blow after a proposal to introduce a new £1000 ($2205) a year immigration skills levy looks set to be implemented. If introduced, the new...
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