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The Liz Truss Manifesto – POLITICO

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LONDON — Liz Truss has not published her plan for government, but this is the closest thing to it.

Over nearly eight long weeks of hustings, interviews, articles and debates, the two contenders for the Tory leadership have made their respective cases for why they should succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Among all the campaign jibes and blue-on-blue attacks have been scores of pledges and promises for how to deal with the urgent problems facing the country.

The

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What you need to know (and worry about) – POLITICO

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Welcome back! After a scorching summer, Brussels people are trickling back into the office or, for many of you, the home office setup.

A word of warning: It’s going to be an intense rentrée.

From the war in Ukraine to spiking energy prices, EU officials will have their hands full keeping their policy agendas on track amid escalating geopolitical crises. The most obvious field to be disrupted is energy, as leaders scramble to fill up gas reserves and keep

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NHS Confederation draws up ‘trans guide’ for hospitals to use ‘inclusive terminology’

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Matthew Taylor, chief executive of NHS Confederation (pictured) said health bosses were forced to get involved in the energy bill crisis because it is ‘absolutely clear’ that fewer people being able to heat their homes ‘will drive additional demand’

NHS leaders are drawing up a trans guide for hospitals that will include how to fight ‘anti-trans’ groups and use ‘inclusive language’. 

NHS Confederation — a charity representing health service bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland — is advertising a

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Texas Children’s Hospitals hilft bei der Bekämpfung des Mangels an Säuglingsnahrung mit Spendenstellen von Milchbanken

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HOUSTON – Es gibt massive Anstrengungen, um den Mangel an Säuglingsnahrung im ganzen Land zu bekämpfen. Bis zum 19. Juni werden voraussichtlich über 4 Millionen 8-Unzen-Flaschen Babynahrung in den USA eingetroffen sein, einschließlich Lieferungen in Fort Worth, Texas, und Dulles, Virginia. Trotzdem ist es nicht genug.

Der derzeitige Mangel an Säuglingsnahrung betrifft Krankenhäuser und Neugeborenen-Intensivstationen im ganzen Land. Während die neuesten Lieferungen zur Bewältigung des Mangels beitragen, ist Formel für Säuglinge mit Verdauungsproblemen

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A hot summer is coming for European hospitals – EURACTIV.com

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Health systems are in crisis following two years lived under the weight of the pandemic. With summer approaching, tensions are rising once again as health professionals fear that demand will overwhelm capacity, and they will not be able to care for all patients.

In most EU countries, health spending has declined since 2019, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

For instance, figures show that, before the pandemic, France spent 12.4% of its gross domestic product (GDP)

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A Pandemic Tragedy in Guayaquil

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The problem with any story, big or small, is that you’re always starting in the middle. All beginnings are constructions we use to make sense of what is mostly incomprehensible. Of course, there are facts. For example: during one particularly violent twenty-four-hour period in January, eighteen people were murdered in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city and its commercial and industrial capital.

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Up to 60% of Covid ‘patients’ in London’s hospitals are not primarily being treated for the virus

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Six in 10 hospitalised Covid ‘patients’ in London are now primarily being treated for other ailments, according to official statistics. 

NHS England’s most up-to-date figures, released today, show almost 3,000 beds were occupied by patients who were infected with the virus on January 18. But just 1,200 were mainly unwell with the coronavirus, with the others treated for separate conditions. 

The proportion of patients who are incidentally infected has fallen in line with explosion of Omicron, illustrating how the current

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Omicron Isn’t Mild for Hospitals

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When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like. Much of what’s wrong happens invisibly. At first, there’s just a lot of waiting. Emergency rooms get so full that “you’ll wait hours and hours, and you may not be able to get surgery when you need it,” Megan Ranney, an emergency physician in Rhode Island, told me. When patients are seen, they might not get the tests they need, because technicians or necessary chemicals are in short supply.

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Europe remembers its forgotten war – POLITICO

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PISKY, Ukraine — Machine gun fire pulsed in the distance as Elgard, a 23-year-old junior lieutenant in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, walked a muddy road lined with bombed-out houses in this wrecked, abandoned village on the edge of Donetsk, the regional capital held by pro-Russian separatists.

Clutching his Kalashnikov at the ready, Elgard, who goes by the call signal “Svan,” pivoted instinctively at an intersection and scanned for danger in the direction of

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Michigan hospitals are being overwhelmed as the early signs of Covid surge begin to form

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Michigan hospitals are being swarmed by Covid patients, and many are having trouble dealing with stress put on the state’s health care system.

The Great Lake state currently leads the nation in rate of Covid hospitalizations, with 46 out of every 100,000 residents currently receiving treatment for a severe case of the virus – a rate nearly 20 percent higher than any other state.

Officials from one hospital in Lansing, the state’s capital city, tell CNN that almost all of

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