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<description>Achieving universal healthcare would secure Barack Obama’s legacy but the goal could be set back if the Texas governor refuses federal funds to expand insurance for the poor. By Stephanie Kirchgaessner</description>
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<description>Those in private homes may have to spend more as local authorities will only count costs incurred in meeting ‘reasonable care needs’</description>
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<description>The former cricket star turned politician will make a live video address despite his injuries as Pakistan prepares to go to the polls on Saturday</description>
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<title>Giving is a must for successful founders</title>
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<description>The reasons why the wealthy donate are irrelevant. What matters is that they put their cash to work in areas such as education and medicine</description>
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<description>The privately owned company has won its fifth deal worth £6.6m over three years to run services, this time at HMP Bullingdon, near Bicester in Oxfordshire</description>
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<description>Antivaccination campaigners have existed for as long as vaccination, but scientific institutions can help counter panic, Ben Goldacre says</description>
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<description>The S&amp;P 500 rose 0.3 per cent to 1,597.57 in New York, as stocks on the benchmark recovered from a slow start to begin the day’s trader</description>
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<title>Hopes gene therapy will treat heart failure</title>
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<description>Trial set to begin of technique that uses a harmless virus to carry genes to improve the heartbeat of people weakened by heart attack or disease</description>
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<title>Spire Healthcare doubles sales to NHS</title>
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<description>UK private hospital provider says about 23% of total sales in 2012 came from the NHS, up from 20% in 2011 and double the proportion in 2007</description>
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<title>Call to regulate ‘cosmetic interventions’</title>
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<description>Review proposes controls for every aspect of cosmetic practice, a market that shows ‘explosive growth’ worth a projected £3.6bn in 2015</description>
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<title>Philips: the big chill</title>
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<description>How much should investors worry? Philips’s story has been more about bottom-line profits than top-line sales recently, as confidence in a big, cost-focused overhaul has risen</description>
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<description>Founder of Healthcare Locums, the medical staffing agency, wants it to pay her £1.12 a share, or £2.24m, for the few thousand shares she has left</description>
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<description>Kate Bleasdale, the group’s former executive vice-chairman, has written to the board demanding that it buy her remaining shares at £1.12 each</description>
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<description>Research into public views on healthcare funding suggests that taxpayers would be willing to allow user charges in some circumstances</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:59:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Solid demand for bonding and adhesive products by the industrial, medical and electronics sectors set to boost revenues</description>
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