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Pledge to improve healthcare at central prisons
PRISONERS at the central prisons will soon have round-the-clock healthcare Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou and Health Minister Petros Petrides announced on Monday. Following a meeting at the justice...
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US Capitol quiet as federal government shutdown nears
By David Lawder and Richard Cowan With a deadline to avert a federal government shutdown fast approaching, the U.S. Capitol was eerily quiet on Sunday as Republicans and Democrats waited for the other...
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Obama, congressional leaders still deadlocked on shutdown
By Jeff Mason and Thomas Ferraro President Barack Obama met with Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress on Wednesday to try to break a budget deadlock that has shut wide swaths of the federal...
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Washington deadlocked as partial shutdown enters fifth day
By Thomas Ferraro and Caren Bohan Washington entered the fifth day of a partial government shutdown on Saturday with no end in sight even as another, more serious conflict over raising the nation’s...
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US Senate leader sees chance for breaking fiscal impasse
By David Lawder and Tim Reid U.S. Senate negotiations to bring a fiscal crisis to an end showed signs of progress on Sunday, but there were no guarantees the federal government shutdown was about to...
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US Senators hopeful fiscal deal could pass Wednesday
By Richard Cowan and Susan Heavey U.S. senators expressed hope that a bipartisan deal could emerge on Tuesday to end Washington’s fiscal crisis even as Republicans in the House of Representatives said...
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HEALTHCARE (09/12)
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Obama, under political pressure, offers fix to healthcare policy
By Steve Holland and Susan Cornwell President Barack Obama bowed to political pressure from his fellow Democrats on Thursday and announced a plan to let insurers renew for one year the health plans for...
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Even if website works, Obamacare could see trouble ahead
By David Morgan The Obama administration says it is on target to make its problematic health insurance website work smoothly for the “vast majority” of users by this weekend, but some Americans who...
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Obama signs bipartisan budget deal, annual defense bill
President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a compromise budget that reduces the risk of another government shutdown and a defense bill that cracks down on sexual assault in the military and smooths the...
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Making sure health policymakers have the right information
By Bejay Browne A regional chapter of an international organisation that aims to see that healthcare professionals and policymakers take decisions on the basis of sound scientific data, has been set up...
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Roadshows spell out healthcare rights for British expats
By Bejay Browne Changes to NHS availability for British expats returning to the UK and healthcare rights in Cyprus for expats living here were among the top topics of a series of roadshows held by the...
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Unprepared for Alzheimer’s timebomb
By Annette Chrysostomou If healthcare availability in Cyprus is a lottery in general, nowhere is that more true than in the treatment of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Long described as a ticking time bomb...
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Georgiades says economic recovery will help healthcare reform
Finance minister Harris Georgiades said that that “important financial considerations” need to be assessed before planning for the National Health Scheme (NHS) can be implemented, slightly dampening...
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‘Migrant women lack access to heath care’ KISA says, calls on AG to suspend...
IMMIGRANT support group KISA Friday called on the attorney-general to suspend the prosecution of a Filipina who gave birth to a dead foetus which she put in a suitcase to be buried, also calling on the...
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Trump looks to Obamacare critic, Indiana expert to overhaul healthcare system
President-elect Donald Trump will announce on Tuesday he has chosen a vociferous Obamacare critic and an Indiana policy expert to help him overhaul the US healthcare system, a transition official told...
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Little done to reduce private, public debt, reform economy, EU Commission says
Cyprus continues to experience “excessive economic imbalances” after it made limited progress in implementing structural reforms which could have helped address them, the European Commission said....
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Obamacare supporters rally against congressional repeal efforts
By Ian Simpson Supporters of Obamacare staged rallies across the country on Thursday denouncing efforts by President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders to repeal the landmark law that...
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U.S. Republicans divided after second healthcare bill collapses
Republicans in the U.S. Congress were in chaos over healthcare legislation after a second attempt to pass a bill in the Senate collapsed late on Monday, with President Donald Trump calling for an...
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Republicans consider bipartisan healthcare talks (Update)
As their seven-year effort to repeal and replace Obamacare derailed in the US Senate, Republicans faced the prospect of doing the once unthinkable: working with Democrats to make fixes to former...
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