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Greece is close to reaching a central target of its bailout agreements with international lenders, after beating expectations for its budget performance in the first 11 months of the year, the Finance Ministry said Thursday.

Buy this photo Freddy Stevens will raise funds for the hospital where his son Thomas was treated.

The Rural Health Initiative currently serves Shawano, Outagamie and Waupaca counties in central Wisconsin.

It required 10 months, 945 hours of classes, 540 clinical experience hours but now 23 graduates of McCann Technical School's Practical Nursing Program are ready for their licensing.

The Chiranjeevi Yojana program in Gujarat, a state in northwestern India, received the Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award in 2006 and has been hailed by some as a model for wide adoption throughout India.

The hospital is part of Arbour Health System, which has been cited repeatedly in recent years for understaffing and is part of a national chain that has faced scrutiny for the same problem.

FRAZER A burst pipe inundated its brand-new building in Frazer just a few weeks before its dog-training and boarding business was to occupy it.

People in Wiltshire with dementia are now diagnosed and referred to a memory clinic in less than four weeks - eight months sooner than the start of the year.

A WIRRAL medic has been named nurse of the year for her work improving patient access to care and commitment to training others.

Submitted Photo Linda Summers, left, and Conni DeBlieck, right, assistant professors in the NMSU School of Nursing, work with the Student Success Keeper application, which they created in conjunction with 2Morrow Inc. LAS CRUCES, N.M. >> Two New Mexico State University School of Nursing professors, in conjunction with 2Morrow Inc., have created an ... (more)

Angry nurses will hold candlelight rallies Friday to protest what they say is a threat by Dignity Health to roll back monthly pension benefits for retirees by 30 percent in violation of a new contract signed three months ago.

Women, the elderly and some of Utah's most vulnerable populations in need of specialty care from nurse practitioners now will be able to receive those services, thanks, in part, to a faculty member from USU Eastern.

TV commercials and billboards are part of how local hospitals work to attract patients, but the facilities also are striving to bring back the patients who gave them a try.

When Janet Wagner and the roughly 400 employees of Sutter Davis Hospital set out to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2003, they could not have known the award was not the reward.

Regular exercise can help people with dementia think a little more clearly, and care for themselves a bit more, a new study finds.

The Day of New London reports that a state Department of Labor spokeswoman says the hospital is self-insured and does not have to provide 20 days' notice before dropping coverage.

A TEAM of up to 25 inspectors, including doctors and nurses, will descend on Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital for an inspection.

Ontario's auditor general focuses on services in health care, education and energy in her annual report on the provincial government to be released later today.

The program begins in January 2014 to train professional nurses with devotion to healthcare.

Shortages of senior medics, delays, and out-of-date medicines meant the trust was unable to stop epileptic Arina Durbazeva fitting before she suffered a heart attack, Chelmsford Coroners' Court heard.