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Nurses in the United Kingdom have reached breaking point. As many as 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing will walk out across England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Thursday in the first of two days of strikes this month to protest poor pay and working conditions. Theyplan to walk out …

November 2021 Reuters ;The Omicron coronavirus variant kept spreading around the world on Sunday, with 13 cases found in the Netherlands and two each in Denmark and Australia even as more countries imposed travel restriction to try to seal themselves off. Dutch health authorities said the 13 cases of the …

November 2021 RTE ;A Professor of Anaesthesia and Consultant in Critical Care at Beaumont Hospital has said previously healthy people aged in their 30s are dying each week with Covid-19. Professor Ger Curley said around 60% of patients who are presenting to hospital during this fourth wave of Covid-19 are …

September 2021 New York times; With a Monday deadline looming, thousands of health care workers in the state are risking their jobs by not getting a coronavirus vaccine. In Buffalo, the Erie County Medical Center plans to suspend elective in-patient surgeries and not take intensive-care patients from other hospitals because …

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September 2021 YahooNews; An upstate New York hospital system said it will be forced to “pause” maternity services this month because some employees’ refusal to get vaccinated against Covid-19 has caused staffing shortages. Lewis County Health System is experiencing mass resignations because of its vaccination mandate, putting some services at risk, CEO …

July 2021 BBC; When Simone Biles – four-time Olympic gold medallist, multiple world champion and arguably the greatest gymnast of all time – withdrew from the team and all-around events at the Tokyo Olympics, it was headline news across the US and the world. The American, who is a sexual assault …

July 2021 Npr; A colonoscopy might cost you or your insurer a few hundred dollars — or several thousand, depending on which hospital or insurer you use. Long hidden, such price variations are supposed to be available in stark black and white under a Trump administration price transparency rule that took effect …

July 2021 YahooNews ;More than 100 staff members at Houston Methodist Hospital who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19 appealed a judge’s ruling that sided with the hospital’s right to terminate their employment. “We are going to most likely go all the way up to the Supreme …

April 2021 YahooNews; Israel’s Health Ministry said on Sunday it is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, though it has not yet drawn any conclusions.    Pfizer said it has not observed a higher rate of the condition than would …