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Few benefit despite card climbdown by Harney
by Eilish O’Regan, Senan Molony and Aine Kerr Most of the 140,000 pensioners affected by the controversial Budget measures will still lose out on a full over-70s medical card, despite an embarrassing government climbdown last night. In the face of a blistering backlash, Health Minister…
Author: Irish Independent
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Infant Deaths Decline in U.S.
by GARDINER HARRIS WASHINGTON – Infant deaths in the United States declined 2 percent in 2006, government researchers reported Wednesday, but the rate still remains well above that of most industrialized countries and is one of many indicators suggesting that Americans pay more but get…
Author: The New York Times
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Scheme marks the beginning of a two-tier health system
by Eamon Timmins THE publication yesterday of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 marks a dramatic development in the way this country charges for essential health and nursing care services. Once it becomes law, those with dementia, paralysed by stroke or incapable due to…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Tennis star, philanthropist celebrated in 'Great Fletch' bio
Original Source The late Ken Fletcher was widely known in the 1960s as a larrikin tennis player with the best forehand in the world, who never fulfilled his potential. But his death three years ago hardly made the headlines, and his friends fear his role…
Author: ABC Brisbane
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Minister publishes 'fair deal' nursing-home Bill
by JASON MICHAEL, OLIVIA KELLY and EITHNE DONNELLAN The Minister for Health today published the long-awaited Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 amid criticism from Opposition parties and Age Action. The Bill published by Mary Harney underpins the fair deal nursing home funding scheme and…
Author: The Irish Times
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More Traveller pupils in second level
by Niall Murray THE numbers of Traveller children making it to second-level education has more than doubled in six years but the vast majority still never make it to the Leaving Certificate. Figures revealed by Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe show that 2,317 students from the…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Nurses: The Critical Link in Improving Health Care for the Underserved
Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Troubles past: Northern Ireland conflict remembered
by Stephen Bates As a memorial it may have somewhat lacked the poignancy of a Remembrance Sunday or the sense of devastating loss from the trenches of the first world war, but yesterday, with due ceremony, the longest British military deployment in history – the…
Author: The Guardian (London)
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NYUCN's Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Launches REASN Initiative
The Next Phase of the Hartford Institute’s work with Specialty Nursing Organizations Will Reach 200,000+ Nurses The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing announces the launch of REASN (Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing), a continuation of its work with specialty…
Author: New York University (Release)
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Lining Up That Second Career Takes Focus
by Kerry Hannon A New York investment banker becomes a small-town chef. A techie turns acupuncturist. An entrenched corporate exec accepts an early retirement package and converts to the ministry. Longer life spans, concerns about outliving retirement savings, and a desire to stay productive are…
Author: U.S. News & World Report