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Springborg ambivalent about science and technology policy
THE spectacular rise of the bioscience and medical innovation sector in Brisbane did not rate a mention in Queensland Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg’s speech to the Committee for Economic Development yesterday. The omission followed a day after the potential premier and Liberal National Party candidate…
Author: The Australian
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Another Letter from South Africa: A Young Man’s Journey Out of Poverty Lifts Others Along the Way
Themba Mngomezulu stood on a hillside on his family’s land, in Ingwavuma, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, not far from the border of Swaziland, and told us his story. Not far away, his grandmother sat on a straw mat on the floor of her one-room…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Connecting Children and Families to Health Insurance: Why Are Cities Involved?
By Chuan Teng With all of the attention on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), some people may not know that millions of children and families are currently eligible for but not enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Although there are provisions in the…
Author: CitiesSpeak
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Global Health to Launch Hub at UCSF With $20 Million Gift
Jaime Sepúlveda, who leads UCSF Global Health Sciences, discusses the impact of philanthropist Chuck Feeney’s $20 million gift on students, Mission Bay and health worldwide. Click here to watch a version of the video in Spanish. By Kristen Bole The University of California, San Francisco…
Author: University of California San Francisco
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Finally, some good news on the uninsured
By Anne Dunkelberg and Eileen Garcia and Laura Guerra-Cardus New data from the U.S. Census Bureau on health insurance coverage confirm what parents all over Texas will tell you: Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are lifelines for our state’s children. While unemployment has doubled since 2007, the…
Author: The Houston Chronicle
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Health care advocates protest cuts at Capitol
Engage Texas, an Atlantic grantee, organised the 30 March 2011 “Cover Texas Now!” Rally highlighted in this article. Their mission is to protect and expand health care for those who need it most. AUSTIN, Texas — Teresa Little needs Texas Medicaid services if she doesn’t…
Author: The Associated Press
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Drug shortages heap more woes on ailing healthcare system
Public health is in disarray as many hospitals and clinics countrywide experience medical supply shortages. The stock shortfall is so grave that some patients have had to leave the health facilities empty-handed, writes S’THEMBISO HLONGWANE. FOR four hours, Prudence Mnyandu shifted from one wooden bench to…
Author: City Press (South Africa)
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Nurses Should Be Backbone of ARV Treatment
by Kristin Palitza DURBAN, Apr 2 (IPS) – Effectively scaling up South Africans’ access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment will require decentralisation of health services from hospitals to clinics and allowing nurses to manage and eventually to initiate ARV treatment and care. Doctors, researchers and activists…
Author: Inter Press Service
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33000 hospital doctors to strike - they demand 50% increase or else
Underpaid state doctors have threatened to strike next week unless they receive a 50 percent salary increase. The action could leave hospitals paralysed as well as embarrassing new Health Minister Barbara Hogan. It will also leave hundreds of thousands of patients without treatment. The doctors…
Author: Sowetan
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Gauteng health minister: R5bn needed for turnaround
Gauteng needs at least R5-billion to turn around its health system, a local government minister said on Wednesday. Gauteng health minister Brian Hlongwa said many people did not realise the “scale and scope of the challenges” the department faced. “If you ask me a ballpark…
Author: Mail & Guardian
