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An aerial view of Malva-Rosa beach in Valencia May 9, 2007. Britons living in the southeastern Spanish region of Valencia have forced the local government to drop plans to strip thousands of expatriates of the right to public healthcare, campaigners said on Friday.

Expats force Spanish healthcare rethink

Reuters - Friday, July 4 05:57 pm

MADRID (Reuters) - Britons living in the southeastern Spanish region of Valencia have forced the local government to drop plans to strip thousands of expatriates of the right to public healthcare, campaigners said on Friday. More »

  • U.S. transgender "man" gives birth

    Reuters - Thursday, July 3 11:27 pm

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but after surgery and hormone treatment lives as a man, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital, People magazine reported on Thursday. More »

  • Man sentenced for dealing in fake medicines

    Reuters - Thursday, July 3 10:45 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - A man caught dealing in counterfeit medicines worth at least 1.8 million pounds has received a 51 week suspended prison sentence, the country's drugs regulator said on Thursday. More »

  • A zoomed picture shows two surgeons performing an operation to implant an artificial heart valve in the operating room of a Berlin hospital August 15, 2003. Luxembourg and France topped a European survey on Thursday that ranks countries by the quality of cardiovascular care.REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

    Luxembourg and France are top for European heart care

    Reuters - Thursday, July 3 09:11 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - Luxembourg and France topped a European survey on Thursday that ranks countries by the quality of cardiovascular care. More »

  • Dr Martha Martin Dar, a southern Sudanese doctor trained in Cuba, attends to a patient at Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba June 14, 2008. They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud.

    Sudanese doctors come home from Cuba

    Reuters - Thursday, July 3 02:58 am

    JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud. More »

  • "Spiritual" effects of mushrooms last a year

    Reuters - Wednesday, July 2 01:05 am

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "spiritual" effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. More »

  • A note (L) is placed under a candle during an AIDS International Candlelight Memorial in Belgrade May 18, 2008. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

    Study finds people with HIV living longer

    Reuters - Wednesday, July 2 01:01 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - People with HIV in the developed world are no more likely to die in the first five years following infection than men and women in the general population, British researchers said on Tuesday. More »

  • A cyclist in Denmark in an undated photo.

    Survey finds Denmark world's happiest country

    Reuters - Tuesday, July 1 05:02 am

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Denmark, with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, is the happiest country in the world, researchers said on Monday. More »

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks to district nursing team leader Eileen Sullivan while visiting Leatherhead Community Hospital in Leatherhead, south of London, June 30, 2008. REUTERS/ Eddie Keogh

    More private health care expected

    Reuters - Monday, June 30 03:46 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - Private companies could have a greater role in providing state-funded health treatment under plans to be announced on Monday after a review of the 60-year-old National Health Service. More »

  • A couple in a file photo.

    Sex diseases among over 45s rocket

    Reuters - Monday, June 30 10:27 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Britons aged over 45 has more than doubled in less than a decade with Internet dating and drugs that counter erectile dysfunction partly to blame, a report said on Monday. More »

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