California lawmakers OK emergency loans to failing hospitals
SACRAMENTO — Alarmed by the closure of a rural hospital earlier this year, California lawmakers on Thursday voted to lend $150 million to struggling medical…
Strike by NHS nurses brings severe disruption to hundreds of English hospitals
Tens of thousands of members of the Royal College of Nursing walked out on strike Monday in a dispute over pay but the action was…
Sudan doctors caught in fighting recount horrors at hospitals | News
When Alhindy Saad Mustafa, a 40-year-old Sudanese doctor, heard the first blasts of heavy artillery pierce the sunny blue skies of Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum,…
Royal Darwin and Palmerston hospitals enter ‘code yellow’ protocols as patient demand spikes
The Northern Territory's Health Department has declared a "code yellow" at Royal Darwin and Palmerston hospitals due to a peak in demand over the past week.Key points:A…
Junior doctors say they’re expected to work overtime for free. Now they’re suing hospitals
A string of class actions against health services in Victoria, NSW and the ACT is underway over claims junior doctors have been underpaid.Key points:Ten class actions…
In Irpin, Ukrainians slowly rebuild their burned out homes – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. IRPIN, Ukraine — Volodymyr Yukhymchuk thinks it was God who saved him and his…
Beyond the pale? Why the EU is regulating breast milk – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The European Union regulates all sorts of banks: money banks, blood banks, sperm banks. …
Feds are seizing coronavirus supplies, hospitals say
WASHINGTON — Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers…
How Vladimir Putin sells his war against ‘the West’ – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. MOSCOW — Every year, during the anniversary of the battle that turned back the…
Man tasered in ‘terrifying’ incident at Wallaroo Hospital, after windows smashed
Staff at a South Australian regional hospital were left terrified by an early morning incident in which a man smashed a dozen windows before being tasered by police,…
Turkey, Syria earthquakes ‘worst natural disaster’ in European region in a century – POLITICO
The powerful earthquakes that struck central Turkey and northwest Syria just over a week ago are the "worst natural disaster in the WHO European Region…
Ukraine army discipline crackdown sparks fear and fury on the front – POLITICO
KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to veto a new law that strengthens punishment for wayward military personnel on Thursday, rejecting a petition signed by…
US aid worker killed while evacuating civilians in Bakhmut, Ukraine – POLITICO
KYIV — Pete Reed, an American volunteer medic and founder of the NGO Global Response Medicine, was killed while helping to evacuate civilians in the…
Rishi Sunak braces for biggest UK strike in 12 years – POLITICO
LONDON — Public sector workers on strike, the cost-of-living climbing, and a government on the ropes. “It’s hard to miss the parallels” between the infamous…