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Bulgaria PM Reassures Doctors over Temporary Wage Cut

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Bulgaria Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev (center) said that essential reform is needed in outpatient care. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has reassured Bulgarian doctors that the ceiling on their wages will only be a temporary anti-crisis measure.
Borisov, speaking to the Bulgarian Medical Association at their annual Council meeting, said that when his government manages to “stop the leaks” and to cope with the losses from energy projects such as Belene NPP and Tsankov Kamak doctors wages will be increased rhtmically.
He said that the ceiling of BGN 3500 placed on doctors wages would only be temporary and that when the crisis is over the best doctors will “again be able to receive BGN 50 000 monthly”.
Bulgaria Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev said that essential reform is needed in outpatient care and added that the government is considering making patients pay partially for appointments with specialists if they want to be seen urgently.
The Bulgarian Medical Association was set to decide Saturday whether or not to take strike action over government health reforms and a reduction of pay, however Chair Tsvetan Raychinov said no decision has been taken yet.

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Source: Chicago Sun-Times (Original Article)

Cook Co. gets $16M to battle obesity

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March 21, 2010

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Cook County was awarded a two-year, $16 million federal
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Media Reports May Paint Overly Optimistic View Of Cancer
Posted on: Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 13:24 CDT

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Source: Irish Independent (Original Article)

RADICAL reshuffle or deckchair shuffle? Rejuvenated Government or same tired faces? Not for the first time Brian Cowen’s handlers are promising that their man is going to deliver decisive leadership, and not for the first time there will be little surprise if he fails to live up to their billing.

Those with a short memory, or those whose eyes simply glaze over whenever big ideas are rolled out, may not recall the address to the nation that was meant to come almost two years ago (instead the best we got was a late-night, low-key address to a Chamber of Commerce function); or the public sector reform that has been promised ever since Cowen first went to the Department of Finance; or even the smart new green shiny economy that spawned a 105-page report more than a year ago.

Cowen’s people can do the build-up — the roll of the drums, the leak to political correspondents — but their master does not follow through. The mood music, though, was building once again last week as Cowen and his coalition partners tried to extricate themselves from two weeks of unrelenting awfulness.

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Source: Salt Lake Tribune (Original Article)

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Source: San Mateo County Times (Original Article)

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Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (Original Article)

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Source: RedOrbit (Original Article)

Defeatism Is Undermining Evidence That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Can Be Treated
Posted on: Thursday, 11 February 2010, 14:12 CST

Editorial: Chronic fatigue syndromeAn air of defeatism exists within the medical profession about chronic fatigue syndrome that is undermining evidence that it can be treated, argue three senior doctors in this week’s BMJ.The recent acquittal of Kay Gilderdale, who had been charged with the attempted murder of her 31 year old daughter Lynn, has led to blanket press coverage. Yet Alastair Santhouse, consultant at The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and colleagues from Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, argue that the media has largely portrayed the condition as a progressive, paralyzing, and commonly fatal illness, and little has been said about the uncertainties and controversies that this diagnosis has always attracted.While not commenting on this specific case, the authors point out that severe presentations of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) such as that of Lynn Gilderdale are unusual, and that, if a diagnosis of CFS/ME is made, data clearly show that mortality is not increased.

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