0325 GMT May 23, 2022
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China’s economic growth is sputtering. The official forecast of six percent to 6.5 percent is the slowest on record, and the 6.2 percent growth actually reported in the second quarter is the weakest since the government began releasing quarterly data in 1992.
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Although one-third of children experiencing mental health issues see a GP, the majority are not accessing care at all, according to a new study.
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England's top doctor said practitioners offering cosmetic procedures should have training to help them protect vulnerable clients from ‘quick fixes’.
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One of UK’s biggest providers of agency health workers has been accused of ‘profiteering’ after trying to charge care homes up to £2,700 to supply a staff member for a single shift.
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Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Koro Bessho on Friday kicked off the first multinational meeting aimed at drumming up support and laying the groundwork for a high-level push later this year towards achieving universal health care coverage.
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About 186,000 elderly people in Shanghai, on China’s central coast, have benefitted from the city's long-term care insurance pilot program, according to the Office of the China National Working Commission on Aging.
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Kieran Wilding never imagined he’d have a career in care, despite helping out at the residential home where his mum worked when he was younger.
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The number of people aged 85 and over needing 24-hour care in the UK is set to double, said a new study, as an expert warned the care system is ‘at breaking point’.
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Nearly 75 percent of Europeans live in cities, and they emit about the same proportion of the continent’s greenhouse gases. And, yet, more than a third of the cities don’t have a plan to cut emissions and mitigate climate change, according to a new study.
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When young people are ‘looked after’ by the state, they can live in a variety of care placements including children’s homes, foster parents or with friends or birth family relatives. These young people are known to be especially vulnerable to poor mental health. Many share too much with people who may do them harm — and too little with carers who are trying to help.
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The more deprived the area a child lives in, the greater their chances of being taken into care, with poverty and domestic abuse ‘key drivers’ of demand for child protection services.
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Women in developing nations suffer from eye disease, but often for different reasons than those in the developed world.
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Ninety children are being taken into care every day in England and Wales and it's claimed social workers are ‘firefighting’ the most serious cases late into the night.
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Cancer patients should be routinely offered DNA tests to help select the best treatments for them, according to England's chief medical officer.
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We live in an age when you cannot do with staring at the computer screen, or your smartphone.
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