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Italian Health Workers Strike Over Pay, Under-Investment
Date: November 20, 2024
ROME (Reuters) – Thousands of Italian doctors and nurses stayed at home on Wednesday to protest over their pay and conditions in the latest sign of malaise in the country’s struggling health sector. Unions representing health workers say funds in the government’s 2025 budget are insufficient for necessary hiring and salary increases as Italy, like...
Bavarian Nordic Has $340 Million Orders for Its Mpox, Smallpox Vaccine in 2025
Date: November 16, 2024
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic said on Friday the order book for delivery of its vaccine for mpox and smallpox in 2025 currently totals around 2.40 billion crowns ($340 million), including previously announced deferred revenue. The World Health Organisation in August declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in...
Many Long Covid Patients Adjust to Slim Recovery Odds as World Moves On
Date: November 14, 2024
By Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON (Reuters) – There are certain phrases that Wachuka Gichohi finds difficult to hear after enduring four years of living with long COVID, marked by debilitating fatigue, pain, panic attacks and other symptoms so severe she feared she would die overnight. Among them are normally innocuous statements such as,...
Vital Signs Improve for English Healthcare Productivity, Think Tank Says
Date: November 12, 2024
(Reuters) – Productivity in England’s health service, which fell sharply after the COVID-19 pandemic and is a top priority for the new Labour government, is showing tentative signs of improvement, a think tank report showed on Tuesday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said growth in hospital activity had far outstripped increases in staffing over the...
US Minority Veterans Face Unequal Access to Ozempic and Wegovy, Study Finds
Date: November 11, 2024
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – U.S. military veterans face racial and ethnic inequities in access to Novo Nordisk’s highly in-demand drugs for diabetes and weight loss, according to a review of patient data published on Monday, the U.S. Veterans Day holiday. In the U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical System, Black patients and those of Asian or...
Spain’s Flood Disaster Was Its Worst in Recent History. Here’s What Went Wrong
Date: November 9, 2024
By David Latona, Corina Pons, Pietro Lombardi and Aislinn Laing PAIPORTA, Spain (Reuters) – The water was already knee-high on the ground floor of the hotel where Aitana Puchal had taken refugee when she received a text alert from the regional government of Valencia at 8 pm on Oct. 29 warning people to shelter in...