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The head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he wants applications to be checked against a database of bus companies that had been given orders...

The UK government has largely ignored lessons to be learnt from 60 years of NHS reorganisation leading to failures in the system, argues the author of a forthcoming book. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

Hospitals which breach hygiene rules could be fined up to £50,000, says the government.

British taxpayers suffering from life-threatening diseases are being denied many of the latest and most effective drugs because of a government policy disallowing co-funding with private companies.An investigation conducted by The Sunday Times found Britain's taxpayer-funded, government-run National health Service (NHS) is providing some of the sickest patients with medications that are known to be as low as one-fifth as effective as alternatives.read more

Many government efforts to legislate tobacco use have centered on places - as in, where can people puff? We have cautioned against some such measures, particularly Illinois' workplace smoking ban, because they ...

A new United Nations report on infant and child mortality has some blunt messages for governments in the Asia Pacific region.

Some of Jayant Patel's former patients say they are disgusted the Queensland government will not pay for representatives to travel to his court case in Brisbane.

The Federal Opposition says the impact on public hospitals from the government's planned changes to the Medicare levy surcharge will be anything but trivial.

U.S. Secretary of health and Human Services Mike Leavitt and a high-level delegation will visit the African nations of Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Mali next week to review cooperative efforts to reduce the spread of diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria and highly pathogenic avian influenza. Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Tim Ziemer, the President's malaria coordinator, are also traveling to Africa with the Secretary. The U.S.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has handed over its food and logistics support to the provincial government in Aceh, Indonesia, thus ending its three year close partnership with the American Red Cross.