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Health care providers across America are allowed to collect millions of dollars in federal Medicare payments each year despite owing the government more than $2 billion in back taxes, congressional investigators said today.

The number of elderly people who killed themselves in Japan rose sharply in 2007, government figures show.

The number of elderly Japanese killing themselves surged 9 percent to a record high last year, fueled by mounting health and economic worries among seniors in a rapidly aging society, the government said.

Responding to the Department of Health's announcement that the government and the pharmaceutical industry have made an agreement on some parts of the new Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, David Pruce, Director of Practice Quality and Improvement at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Grea

The Mexican government should declare HIV/AIDS a national emergency to ensure 'universal, permanent and sustainable' access to antiretroviral drugs, a coalition of about 60 nongovernmental organizations said Tuesday, EFE News Service reports. According to the coalition, antiretrovirals cost up to 30 times more in Mexico than in other countries with comparable per capita incomes.

In advance of the publication of the government's consultation on the National Dementia Strategy tomorrow, Help the Aged has called on the government to be 'bold and ambitious'Elizabeth McLennan, Policy Officer at Help the Aged said: 'Research conducted by Help the Aged has revealed that the UK public rank mental decline higher than any other worry about ageing - more important even than money worries.

A summit hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California brought together addiction experts, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control as well as leaders from business and state government to address the continuing epidemic of smoking addiction in California. Moderated by Dr. Nancy Snyderman, participants examined why, after 30 years of widespread efforts to end tobacco use, 4 million Californians still smoke.

The British Association for Sexual health and HIV (BASHH) today expressed disappointment that the government has missed the opportunity to eradicate a common STI, genital warts, from the medical map, as today's announcement by the Department of Health on the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), 'Department of Health awards contract for HPV vaccine', saw GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine Ceravix awarded the government contract.

In an open letter to the health Secretary Alan Johnson, a coalition of leading scientists, including Professor Seth Love at Bristol University, slammed the government's underinvestment in dementia research amid warnings of 'catastrophic' economic consequences.

The Manitoba government is moving to ensure that cancer patients wait no more than four weeks for radiation therapy.