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  • 17/09/2012 | Argentina

    BA City new Health Minister takes office

    Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri headed the ceremony in which Graciela Reybaud was sworn in as the new Health Minister, replacing Jorge Lemus.

  • 04/01/2012 | Argentina

    Chávez, Lula and Hillary Clinton pay close attention to CFK's health

    Former Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton referred to the Head of State's health and wished her a speedy recovery.

  • 05/01/2012 | Argentina

    CFK is 'recovering well' and in 'good spirits'

    Presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro, announced today that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's recovery showed "no complications," in the medical follow-up from the thyroid cancer surgery she underwent yesterday. He also stated that the President was "in good spirits," and that the next report would be announced tomorrow.

  • 12/09/2012 | Argentina

    City Health Minister Jorge Lemus resigns

    City Health Minister Jorge Lemus resigned from his post and will be replaced by ophthalmologist Graciela Reybaud. She will be the first woman to take on the role, and will begin on Monday.

  • 26/05/2011 | Argentina

    'The media will print anything every time my blood pressure drops,' CFK

    President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accused the media of spreading rumours about her health. “They will print anything every time my blood pressure drops,” she said.

  • 22/06/2011 | Argentina

    Mother in need of double-lung transplant makes desperate appeal

    Thirty-five year old Marcela Alejandra Arroyo has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Favaloro Foundation for a week now, urgently in need of a double-lung transplant. Last Friday, her condition was flagged as a “National Emergency”.

  • 05/10/2011 | Argentina

    'Only economic growth' will allow health coverage for all Argentines, CFK says

    President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner attended to the opening ceremony of the “Principe de Asturias” Hospital in the town of Villa Libertador, Córdoba in which both the governor and governor-elect were absent due to a trip abroad.

  • 23/03/2011 | Argentina

    UCR introduces bill to promote 'transparency in unions, health insurance companies'

    UCR lawmakers in the Upper and Lower houses introduced a bill aimed at “increasing transparency in unions and health insurance companies,” and declaring their funds as “public interest,” for which they would be forced to make information about all transactions available to the public.

  • 13/04/2011 | Argentina

    Lower House to debate health insurance draft bill next week

    The Lower House approved a motion to debate in its next session a draft bill regarding health insurance companies, despite the official bloc urging the opposition caucus to give  table emotion treatment to the bill.

  • 18/04/2011 | Argentina

    CFK announces social benefits in first public appearance since health scare

    In her first public appearance since her low blood pressure scare last week, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced further pharmacy discounts for Pami state-run healthcare affiliates and the implementation of the Universal Child Allowance for pregnant women.

  • 16/11/2012 | World

    OECD report: Rising obesity strains Europe's shrinking health budgets

    More than half of Europeans are obese or overweight, adding significant pressure to healthcare costs at a time when spending is being cut by governments, the OECD and European Commission said today.

  • 28/12/2012 | World

    Egypt's Mubarak's health worsens

    Egypt's deposed leader Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence for his role in killing protesters during a 2011 revolt, will stay in an army hospital for at least two weeks after his health deteriorated, his lawyer said.

  • 12/04/2012 | World

    Rajoy: 'Spain will not be rescued, the alarm is unjustified'

    Spain's government will pass health and education reforms later this month, in the country's latest measures to cut spending and meet difficult deficit reduction targets, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in Warsaw today.

  • 09/10/2012 | World

    US meningitis deaths rise, prompting call for tighter drug rules

    A rare US outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid injections has claimed four more lives with Florida the latest state to report at least one death linked to the illness in a widening health scare, authorities said.

  • 20/10/2012 | World

    US says death toll rises to 23 in meningitis outbreak

    The US death toll from fungal meningitis linked to potentially contaminated steroid injections has risen by two to 23, with North Carolina reporting its first death, health officials said today.

  • 17/10/2011 | World

    Scarce resources, climate biggest threats to world health

    The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned today.

  • 05/12/2011 | World

    Chocolate helps you grow? EU sifts the evidence

    A European Union committee approved more than 200 health claims for use on food products, which could offer a competitive advantage to companies seeking to target health-conscious EU consumers.

  • 10/04/2012 | World

    Attorneys for Martin shooter Zimmerman withdraw from case

    George Zimmerman's lawyers withdrew from his defence after the man who shot and killed an unarmed black Florida teenager telephoned prosecutors directly, contacted a television journalist and set up a website all without their knowledge.

  • 16/03/2011 | World

    WHO says food contamination affects only surrounding areas

    The risk of the contamination of food products from nuclear radiation in Japan is limited to the specific area surrounding the damaged nuclear plant, according to a source from the World Health Organization (WHO).

  • 09/08/2011 | World

    Sleep apnea linked to memory decline, dementia

    Older women who have sleep apnea, which leads to abnormal pauses in breathing or abnormally low breathing during sleep, may be more likely to develop memory problems and dementia, according to a US study.

  • 11/10/2011 | World

    Tuberculosis cases decline for first time ever, WHO says

    The number of people falling ill with tuberculosis declined last year for the first time while the death toll from the disease reached its lowest level in a decade, the World Health Organization said.

  • 13/12/2010 | World

    Judge rejects key part of Obama healthcare law

    A judge in Virginia declared unconstitutional a key part of President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law in the first major setback on an issue that will likely end up at the Supreme Court.

  • 03/01/2011 | World

    Obama signs health bill for September 11 responders

    President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that funds medical care for firefighters and other responders to the September 11 attacks in 2001.

  • 31/01/2011 | World

    US judge strikes down healthcare reform law

    A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law.

  • 02/01/2013 | Latin America

    Venezuela's opposition demands 'whole truth' about Chávez health

    Venezuela's opposition demanded the government tell "the whole truth" about the health of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chávez, who has not been heard from in three weeks after undergoing a grueling operation in Cuba.

  • 28/01/2012 | Latin America

    Fire kills 26 patients at rehab centre in Peru

    At least 26 people died and twelve were injured today, after a fire broke out in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho in Lima, the Health minister in Peru, Alberto Tejada informed.

  • 28/11/2012 | Latin America

    Ecuador says WikiLeaks' Assange suffering lung problems

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering from a chronic lung ailment that could worsen at any time and is being checked regularly by doctors, the Andean country's ambassador to Britain said.

  • 28/12/2012 | Latin America

    Brazil's Rousseff, cancer survivor, pronounced healthy

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who survived lymphoma cancer in 2009, was pronounced healthy by doctors after a routine exam.

  • 02/07/2011 | Latin America

    Uncertainty over Chavez's recovery roils Venezuela

    Venezuela was mired in uncertainty today over how long President Hugo Chavez would take to recover from a cancer operation, despite assurances by allies he will be fit to run for re-election next year.

  • 05/11/2011 | Latin America

    Chávez shows good health on national television

    President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, who is currently recovering from a battle with cancer, went out of his way to show his good state of health today, by running with a group of students of the Military Academy, shown on a Venezuelan television network.

  • 15/11/2011 | Latin America

    Argentina one of the top destinations for immigrants in LatAm; health issues a challenge

    Argentina is one of the top ten destinations for immigrants in Latin America and Caribbean along with Venezuela, México, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia, said representative from the United Nations Population Fund, Elena Zúñiga Herrera.


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