Month: November 2016

Healthcare is the top issue Americans want Donald Trump to address during his first 100 days in the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, reflecting apparent frustration over rising costs for prescription drugs and medical coverage. Some 21 percent of Americans want Trump to focus on the healthcare system when he enters the White House on Jan. 20, according to the Nov. 9-14 poll, conducted in the week after the Republican won the U.S. presidential election. Jobs took second place with 16 percent of Americans hoping it would be Trump's first agenda item, while immigration came third – picked by 14 percent of Americans, according to the poll.

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Hayley Jones has surely achieved the impossible dream – eating more than when she was overweight AND keeping a svelte size eight figure.
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Yo-yo dieting, the practice of constantly gaining and losing weight of 10 … Those levels drop in the weight–loss phase, but not to a healthy baseline …
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France, Europe’s largest poultry producer, imposed additional precautions at farms and restricted hunting and bird gathering on Thursday after a severe strain of bird flu virus was found in several neighboring countries in the past few weeks. No case of H5N8 avian influenza, more commonly called bird flu, has been found in France so far but the virus was found in eight European countries, including Switzerland and Germany, mainly in wild birds but also at farms. Poultry farmers located in these “high risk” zones will have to keep poultry flocks indoors or apply safety nets preventing contact with wild birds, it said.
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Stunning actress, Olivia Wilde, seems to have chocolate cravings. She is seen holding a Toblerone Swiss chocolate bar in a recent Instagram photo.
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By TJ Strydom JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s No. 3 private hospital firm Life Healthcare will acquire 95 percent of Britain’s Alliance Medical, it said on Wednesday, but its shares fell sharply over its plans for a rights issue. Seeking growth outside its home market, Life Healthcare will spend up to 10.4 billion rand ($727 million) in cash for the controlling stake in unlisted Alliance Medical, which also operates in Italy and Ireland. South African private healthcare providers, which also include Mediclinic International and Netcare, are in a race to expand by making acquisitions in more developed markets as an anti-trust inquiry has constrained growth at home.
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By Stephen Kalin DEBAGA, Iraq (Reuters) – Ali and Sara, born in Islamic State’s self-styled caliphate in northern Iraq, escaped to a camp for displaced people only to confront a new challenge — with no identity documents, they risk joining a generation of stateless children. After seizing large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, Islamic State imposed its strict interpretation of Islamic law and began to establish the basic frameworks of statehood such as taxes and regulation.
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It may be unseasonably warm, but fall is here and with it the “season of eating” has arrived. The run-up to the holidays brings office parties, pot-luck …
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