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Under Age and Alone, Immigrants See a Softer Side of Detention
by ANN FARMER Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $1,200 to sneak him across the border. He made it to Phoenix and started on a long and familiar odyssey as he scratched out a living, first…
Author: The New York Times
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Hospital trauma units under threat
by Melanie Gosling Radical changes to the treatment of emergency patients in the Western Cape will damage the province’s world-class trauma centres and compromise patient care, doctors say. The provincial Health Department’s plan is designed to merge the overloaded casualty sections at tertiary hospitals with…
Author: Cape Times
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Asia's economic transformation puts region's health at risk, warns leading academic
Despite extraordinary progress which has lifted 600 million people out of poverty in Asia since 1990, the basic right to health is under threat and the future looks more uncertain, says University of New South Wales professor of Health and Human Rights, Daniel Tarantola. “The…
Author: Intellasia interactive
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Execution method OK'd
by Michael Kiefer A federal judge Wednesday removed a major obstacle to executions in Arizona, ruling that the state’s lethal-injection procedure is similar to one approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Executions have been on hold in Arizona since November 2007, when the Arizona Supreme…
Author: The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
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South Africa: Total Hospital Shutdown in Five Provinces
by Luphert Chilwane Johannesburg — FIVE of the nine provinces experienced a complete shutdown of public hospitals yesterday as the doctors’ strike for a 50% wage increase intensified. Doctors interviewed by telephone said public hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo…
Author: Business Day
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Doctors offered R1bn package
by Mogomotsi Magome and SAPA The Department of Health has offered to increase some doctors’ salaries by up to 60 percent from next month, in a bid to avert a nationwide strike that could cripple the public health system. The increases proposed by the department…
Author: Pretoria News (South Africa)
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Instead of retiring, seniors are REWIRING
by Mike McLean A job-skills program called Plus 50 that’s geared toward retirement-aged people wishing to remain in the work force is achieving early success at Community Colleges of Spokane and has been named as a model training program for other community colleges. CCS’s Institute…
Author: Journal of Business-Spokane
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Detained immigrants often face harsh, unfair treatment in U.S. hands, study says
by Tyche Hendricks More than 400,000 people a year are detained by immigration officials in the United States – including undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants who run afoul of the law and asylum seekers who come fleeing persecution – but according to a report released today…
Author: The San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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$125 million donation for new UCSF hospital
Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…
Author: The San Francisco Chronicle
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Hanoi meeting marks World Glaucoma Day
A meeting, entitled Glaucoma Detection and Control, was organised in Hanoi on March 11 in response to World Glaucoma Day (March 12). During the meeting, held by the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO), it was revealed that there are approximately 30,000 glaucoma patients in…
Author: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)