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  1. offering 3,613 scholarships to train medical specialists. Govt push to improve health services after protest.

  2. Good news on survival rates in the UK. Twice as many alive after 12 months in 2011 as in 1990.

  3. decision to stop paying doctors to promote drugs is welcome but overdue. Earlier would have avoided China probe.

  4. today points to interesting study on links between US doctors' prescribing habits and pharma payments, gifts.

  5. End to saga. gets court go-ahead to buy; setting up Irish holding company to benefit from low taxes.

  6. Asia's ageing population to see an "epidemic of fragility fractures" says IOF report. Hip double by 2050.

  7. The Lancet's report on hits the headlines. Cuts breast cancer by 53% in high-risk post-menopausal women.

  8. A promised winter onslaught on UK &E departments has begun, as they miss their 4-hour targets for seeing patients.

  9. Sweden has the highest number of care workers per capita in the area New report on

  10. Care Quality Commission's trial vetting of UK surgeries suggests full inspection is going to be a big task.

  11. US FDA panel has backed Scientific's anti-stroke device. May avoid long-term reliance on warfarin.

  12. mortality rate has gone down by 45% globally, by 49% in Africa since 2000 - thanks to global efforts to control & eliminate it

  13. Four years in prison for founder Jean-Claude Mas, for his role in France's breast implant scandal.

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