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The Tennessean | April 12, 2016

Amid calls for Republican leadership to do more to provide health care to the working poor, House Speaker Beth Harwell announced Tuesday the creation of a legislative task force that will look at ways to improve access to care. The move was billed as an attempt to increase access to care for the working poor, but Democrats branded it a "pathetic" attempt to direct attention away from Gov. Bill Haslam's controversial health care plan....

theborneopost | May 04, 2016

KUCHING: The Sarawak branch of Together Against Cancer (TAC) Malaysia’s task force is pleased that both Barisan Nasional (BN) and PKR are touching on the topic of healthcare in the run up to the state election. Sarawak BN’s point no 9 in its list of 15-point manifesto says ‘Enhance accessibility to health service’ whereas PKR’s 18-point roadmap includes ‘Healthcare for the rural’ in point no 9. “Cancer is in fact a leading cause of death in Malaysia. According to the Global Burden of Disease Stu...

dealstreetasia | May 13, 2016

Singapore and Malaysia-based IHH Group‘s foray into Myanmar has hit a stumbling block with the country’s Parliament putting a spanner on the healthcare major’s first project – a $70-million Parkway Yangon Hospital – which was to be built on government land in Yangon. Myanmar health minister Dr Myint Htwe agreed that the Parkway Yangon’s project on the current land should be stopped when the proposal was discussed in the lower house of parliament on Thursday, said Member of parliament Daw Khin Sa...

| May 18, 2016

Every evening Ange Asquith goes to bed not knowing if she will wake up the next day. In the morning her sister sneaks into her room in her Nelson home and asks: "Are you awake?" I feel so sorry for her," Asquith says. "Just in case I'm gone." If you could know when you were going to die, would you want to? For Asquith there isn't much choice, she knows she is going to die and she knows it's going to be soon....