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An ambulance is parked outside Portcullis House, backdropped by the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben, in London, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.
Jobs
‘Winter of discontent’ for UK as nurses begin strike action
Three women health care workers in uniform, wearing headscarves and masks, stand and listen among a crowd of medical workers.
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘Sometimes I feel like I betrayed my country’: Lebanon’s doctors are leaving in droves
Two people stand outside a window peering inside a facility.
COVID-19
Isolation may be a greater risk than COVID-19 for residents of Canada’s nursing homes
A younger woman looks at an older woman behind glass at The Glass Garden House at the Claris nursing home.
COVID-19
Netherlands nursing home builds ‘glass cabin’ where families can safely connect
Three nurses are shown wearing white coats and hair coverings and walking in a hospital hallway.
Health & Medicine
2020: The year of the nurse and midwife
Three young women from Indonesia smile for the camera
Immigration
Japan eases immigration restrictions to fill chronic care worker shortage
Susan Sorrenti, an ICU nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, nearly died from SARS back in 2003. She says she feels empathy for the nurses in Texas who contracted Ebola from treating a sick patient.
Health
The US Ebola cases remind Toronto healthcare workers of their SARS outbreak in 2003
Business, Economics and Jobs
Why businesses hate English-only laws
Global Politics
Health care bill impact on elder care
Home Health Care Workers and the Business of Compassion
Data on America’s Care Providers
Conflict & Justice
Shortage of nurses in Libya
Human Gardens
Listener Letters
The Eden Alternative: Seems So Simple
East of Eden
Emerging Health Note/Nursing Home Sleep
Health Note/ Nursing Home Sleep
The Living on Earth Almanac
Development & Education
Should nurse practitioners be given more authority?
Health & Medicine
Getting back to healing in Kenya