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Labour has established a clear lead over the Tories in more than 100 battleground seats that will decide the next election, according to a new analysis seen by the Observer.In a rare insight into marginal constituencies at next year's election, Keir Starmer's party has now secured a 10% swing from the Conservatives in a set of 144 seats in which the vote will be won and lost.

Italy is well-known for having one of the best healthcare systems in Europe: skilled physicians, advanced technology, and quality facilities available free of charge to every citizen.But is that actually the case?In reality, across the country, access to quality healthcare varies widely and since the 1990s, Italy's world-famous public system has gradually given ground to a growing number of private providers who offer top-notch services at a top-shelf cost.

Italy is well-known for having one of the best healthcare systems in Europe: skilled physicians, advanced technology, and quality facilities available free of charge to every citizen.But is that actually the case?In reality, across the country, access to quality healthcare varies widely and since the 1990s, Italy's world-famous public system has gradually given ground to a growing number of private providers who offer top-notch services at a top-shelf cost.

Junior doctors in England are to hold a new round of strikes after talks with the government failed to resolve a bitter row over pay.The British Medical Association (BMA) said a 96-hour stoppage would take place for shifts starting between 6.59am on Tuesday 11 April and 6.59am on Saturday 15 April.The BMA said the health secretary, Steve Barclay, had failed to make any credible offer, and it accused the government of not being serious about resolving the dispute.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is seeking information on university students who have sought gender-affirming treatment, according to a survey released Wednesday.In a request sent to 12 state universities, top officials with the Republican governor requested data on the number of students who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria or who have received treatment in university clinics across the state.

Doctors on the frontlines of reproductive rights debates say these challenges are already having a devastating impact on the profession and on people who seek care.Experts on Friday's panel said that many medical students are traveling to California, which has been investing in building its abortion training programs, or to other states that support abortion rights, like Maryland and New York, where Mamelson is heading to continue her education.

Eight candidates vying to become Toronto's next mayor traded barbs at a debate partly focused on seniors' issues Wednesday, with the roundtable format often descending into heated cross-talk.The 90-minute contest, hosted by the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) and Zoomer Radio, was held on the eve of the advance voting period, which runs from June 8 to 13.

A stealth tax raid by Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt will force almost 5m healthcare workers to pay hundreds of pounds more in tax, analysis shows.The government's decision to freeze income tax and national insurance thresholds will cost health workers an additional 1.5billion per year, the figures reveal.

A barge set to house 500 asylum seekers has arrived in the UK as the government struggles with efforts to move migrants out of hotels.The Independent understands that people will not be transferred onto the Bibby Stockholm until July, following refurbishment to increase its capacity and safety checks.

Britain broke all the wrong records in 2022, with its currency tumbling to an all-time low, the biggest-ever spike in government bond yields and the shortest-serving leader in history.The blowup was triggered in September by Prime Minister Liz Truss's unorthodox plan to cut taxes and increase borrowing in an effort to boost economic growth.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay has refused to give a deadline for the release of the long-awaited NHS workforce plan, but insisted it will be published before the next general election.Health bodies have said it is incredibly disappointing that new long-term proposals, which many were expecting to feature in the Chancellor's spring Budget, have not yet been announced.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has accused the First Minister of failing a family whose son has waited years for mental health treatment, asking how will First Minister Humza Yousaf be any different?At the newly-minted SNP leader's debut appearance at First Minister's Questions, Mr Sarwar raised his record while in charge of the NHS, claiming 11,000 children had waited longer than the 18-week target time between referral and access to mental health treatment and 14,000 had their referrals rejected during Mr Yousaf's tenure.

Many of those who died in the Covid-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland were ultimately victims of the dire state of the region's health service prior to the pandemic, the chair of the UK inquiry has been told.The coronavirus emergency hit a health system that was already near collapse due to years of underinvestment and political dysfunction, a group representing bereaved relatives claimed.

Health secretary Steve Barclay has privately conceded that he will have to offer a higher pay rise to NHS staff.Mr Barclay has admitted that more than one million NHS staff members deserve more money despite previously insisting that existing pay increases were all the government could afford.But, he also made clear that any new pay rises would come from the current health budget meaning potential cuts to key services, according to The Guardian.

A "considerable" number of young people in England - about 170,000 aged 16 to 24 - unknowingly have risky high blood pressure, experts are warning.That is about five in 100 young men and one in 100 young women, says the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Although it may not cause symptoms or problems to begin with, it puts extra strain on the heart and blood vessels.

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A high school student went to a pharmacy to purchase condoms but was turned away because of his age.A student wanting to buy condoms to prevent sexually transmitted diseases was shamed at the store.Another student couldn't afford the contraceptives and became pregnant.

Nate Courtney, who is autistic, told the country's leader he feels sad due to his parents having to fight for everything for him and his disabled sister.The letter comes as a survey suggested just one in five parents of disabled children felt their family received the support needed to enable their child to fulfil their potential.

A nine-year-old boy has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak telling him his parents feel failed and forgotten as he pleaded for better support for disabled children and their families.Nate Courtney, who is autistic, told the country's leader he feels sad due to his parents having to fight for everything for him and his disabled sister.

TDs have raised concerns that child and adolescent mental health services have to "compete" for basic funding, in the wake of a "damning" report published by the Mental Health Commission.here have been calls for action since a report into Ireland's child mental health services found it to be disjointed, difficult to access and lacking in monitoring and follow-up care in some cases.

The Labour leader has set out how his party would change the NHS if it got in to power at the next election.After his speech in Essex, BBC political correspondent Helen Catt asked Sir Keir Starmer if more money would go into health services.He said that money was "part of the solution", but added that change and reforms were "hugely important".

The health secretary has said people should use their common sense on what activities they do on Wednesday during ambulance worker strikes in England and Wales.Steve Barclay, asked on Times Radio whether the public should change their behaviour to avoid ambulance callouts, said: We're saying to people to use their common sense.

Business Secretary Grant Shapps has set out plans to enforce minimum service levels during strike action, including for ambulance staff, firefighters and railway workers.Under the bill, some employees would be required to work during a strike and could be sacked if they refuse.Mr Shapps said the aim was to protect lives and livelihoods.

Health spending over the next two years will grow less than during the austerity era of the last decade, according to a new analysis of the autumn statement.The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, a former health secretary who previously campaigned for greater resources from the backbenches, announced last week that the NHS would receive an extra 3.3bn in each of the next two years.

Thousands of Sudanese refugees watched as the first emergency aid workers reached a village in Chad, days after escaping from their embattled country.Mothers tended to toddlers, while men listed their most urgent needs water, vaccines, tarps for the looming rainy season.The fighting that erupted in Sudan's capital last month has ricocheted far beyond the city's borders, worsening instability in the restive western region of Darfur and sending tens of thousands of people fleeing to neighboring countries, including Chad in Central Africa.

National pharmacy network PharMerica last week started sending out notification letters to more than 5.8 million individuals to disclose a data breach that occurred in March.Owned by BrightSpring Health, a provider of home and community-based health services, PharMerica operates over 2,500 facilities across the US and offers more than 3,100 pharmacy and healthcare programs.

If you're an American looking to move to Spain, healthcare may be one of the main factors you look at when making your decision.It's true that the system in Spain is very different to the US and that can have both its advantages and disadvantages.Here are some of the main differences and points to keep in mind.

The Covid-19 pandemic revealed some stark health and wealth inequalities throughout London's communities, with the poorest hit the hardest.Now, the cost of living crisis could widen the gulf in fortunes between the city's highest and lowest earners.The capital's public health chief fears those struggling for money could soon face a struggle with their health, too.

If you're an American looking to move to Spain, healthcare may be one of the main factors you look at when making your decision.It's true that the system in Spain is very different to the US and that can have both its advantages and disadvantages.Here are some of the main differences and points to keep in mind.

A landlady who held a vulnerable woman captive in domestic servitude for seven years has been jailed.Farzana Kausar, 58, took control of her victim's finances, cut her off from her relatives and forced her to cook and clean.The victim, aged 62, rented a room from Kausar's mother, who later died.Kausar trapped her in isolation and servitude.

With a wave of recent medication abortion court rulings in the national spotlight, the city council in downstate Danville on Tuesday narrowly approved a controversial ordinance that bans the mailing and shipping of abortion pills - despite repeated warnings from civil liberties experts and state leaders that the measure violates Illinois law.

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY - What do Copernicus and Calvin & Hobbes have in common?You can find both of them side by side this weekend at the 63rd annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory this weekend, where bibliophiles and casual browsers can browse rare collections at all sorts of price points.

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Los Angeles County recently set out on a landmark effort to protect the types of vulnerable concrete buildings that collapsed in the earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria last month.As part of the push, the Board of Supervisors asked officials to craft new rules that would require "non-ductile" concrete buildings owned by the county, as well as any in unincorporated areas, to be retrofitted.

EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday endorsed a deal to ramp up the supply of artillery shells to Ukraine as the country defends itself against Russia's unprovoked invasion."Taking into account the security and defense interests of all member states, the European Council welcomes the agreement ... to deliver ground-to-ground and artillery ammunition to Ukraine and, if requested, missiles," the meeting's conclusions on Ukraine read.

Over 165,000 displaced persons from Ukraine have been granted temporary protection in the Nordic countries during the last nine months.Published: 8 December 2022 14:10 CET The foreign ministers of Ukraine and the Baltic and Nordic countries (minus Denmark) at a press briefing in November 2022.Photo: VALENTYN OGIRENKO / POOL / AFP A new report from the UN's refugee agency UNHCR breaks down the number of Ukrainian refugees granted asylum by each of the Nordic countries since their country was invaded by Russia in February.

Russian strikes on infrastructure in Ukraine is making life "uninhabitable" for people in the country, the Taoiseach has said.icheal Martin said the the attacks on the country's energy network is "terrorising" civilians in Ukraine.Russia has been attacking the power grid and other facilities with missiles and exploding drones for weeks.

OAKLAND Kaiser Permanente has sketched out plans to relocate more than 1,000 workers from Oakland to the health care provider's big campus in Pleasanton as part of a recalibration of its administrative operations.The move portends a fresh blow to Oakland's economy as the city attempts to recuperate from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Experts have warned that Europe faces a cancer epidemic unless urgent action is taken to boost treatment and research, after an estimated 1m diagnoses were missed during the pandemic.The impact of Covid-19 and the focus on it has exposed weaknesses in cancer health systems and in the cancer research landscape across the continent, which, if not addressed as a matter of urgency, will set back cancer outcomes by almost a decade, leading healthcare and scientific experts say.

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a new case testing constraints on the power of US regulators to delve into American businesses and individual lives.The justices agreed to a Biden administration request to take up the case involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.However, it will be heard next term, with a decision unlikely until spring of 2024, a timeline the administration opposed.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation allowing non-profits to open and operate overdose prevention sites with private funding, Mayor London Breed announced in a news release.Ordinances require two rounds of voting: a first read and final passage.Jeff Cretan, a spokesman for the mayor's office, said the board will convene on Tuesday to cast a final vote, which is expected to pass, and that Breed will have 10 days to sign it after that.

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has checked himself into the hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression.In a statement, Fetterman's chief of staff Adam Jentleson said: While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks.Fetterman was evaluated on Monday by the attending physician for Congress, who recommended on Wednesday that the senator receive inpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the statement said.

Three foreign aid groups restore work in the health sector after the Taliban bans women from working with NGOs in Afghanistan.Several aid organisations have restored some operations in Afghanistan after they received assurances from Taliban authorities that women could work in areas such as health, in spite of restrictions last month barring female workers in nongovernmental organisations (NGOs).

Plans to build the UK's first nuclear medicine facility producing cancer-fighting substances have been unveiled by the Welsh Government.The laboratory in north-west Wales would produce medical radioisotopes which are critical to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer as they are used during scans and in radiotherapy.

Six out of every 100 people are currently ill in Austria, be it with influenza, a flu-like infection or Covid.So why is this happening and how can you prevent infection?Published: 28 December 2022 14:30 CET Data from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (Ages) shows an increasing number of people sick with viruses such as the flu or Covid.

Norway's response to the Covid-19 pandemic was given an overall positive scorecard in an official commission report published on Tuesday.Published: 26 April 2022 16:33 CEST The Corona Commission, appointed to scrutinise the response of authorities and health services, on Tuesday published its final report on the country's management of the pandemic.

Around half a million people died of tuberculosis in India in 2021  an increase of over 5% compared to 2020 for the country that shoulders the highest share of the global TB burden.India's TB death toll makes up for just under a third of global TB deaths, according to the data gathered by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members at 14 companies and Network Rail again walked out on Friday, crippling services across the country a day after an unprecedented nursing strike.However, some planned strikes have also been called off in recent days.Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) union at Network Rail have voted to accept the firm's pay offer, it was announced on Thursday.

Redbridge and Havering continue to struggle with an NHS GP shortage compared with the rest of London, though there are signs of improvement.As of October, the two boroughs had an average of one doctor for every 2,150 residents  190 more than the London average.NHS North East London's (NHS NEL) director of strategy and partnerships Jo Moss said there is quite a bit of variation in the number of GPs between boroughs, which is an issue the local health service needs to collectively address.

As the UK's National Health Service strains under the burden of the winter crisis, a new study has revealed that more than 13.5 million working hours are lost yearly in England's health service alone due to inadequate IT systems and equipment.The research [PDF] by the British Medical Association - the doctors' union with rights to negotiate with the government over health service pay and conditions - just 11 percent of UK doctors reported they "completely" had the necessary equipment to perform their job role.

The Spanish coastguard has rescued three migrants who stowed away on a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria by balancing on its rudder just above the waterline.In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday, the three stowaways are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Alithini II.

The Government will examine revenue-raising options in Northern Ireland including the introduction of water charges if Stormont does not return, Chris Heaton-Harris has said.The Northern Ireland Secretary delivered the warning as he set a budget to bring public finances in the region under control.Outlining his spending plans in a written ministerial statement, Mr Heaton-Harris delivered a sharp message to Stormont parties  if they disagree with his budget, then restore the powersharing executive.

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he has set a budget to bring public finances in the region under control.Outlining his spending plans in a written ministerial statement, Mr Heaton-Harris delivered a sharp message to Stormont parties  if they disagree with his budget, then restore the powersharing executive.

There is "unfinished business" and "serious work to be done" around the area of open disclosure in Ireland's healthcare system, Dr Gabriel Scally has said.ublishing his 39-page report on the implementation of recommendations from his 2018 scoping inquiry into the Cervical Check screening programme, Dr Scally said issues remain around resolution and other areas.

Leaders in NHS Scotland have discussed the creation of a two-tier system that could lead to the wealthy paying for medical treatment, a report based on leaked meeting minutes has suggested.The document, seen by BBC Scotland, details a September meeting with high-ranking health officials that were given the green light by NHS Scotland chief executive Caroline Lamb to discuss reform of a service which finds itself in crisis.

When Mayor Eric Adams took office in January on a platform of reducing crime, some left-leaning Democrats feared that he would prioritize policing efforts over some of the root issues in crime, like mental illness or joblessness.As he nears the end of his first year as mayor, Mr. Adams has indeed emphasized policing, flooding the subway with officers and focusing on quality-of-life offenses.