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Haiti: Where Building a Hospital Can be Illegal (Time.com)

November 14th, 2010

Time.com - Haiti’s government finds itself caught between the need to house more than a million people displaced by the earthquake, and the rights of landowners

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Thatcher in hospital after flu: govt (AFP)

October 19th, 2010

Former Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher was in hospital Wednesday undergoing precautionary tests as she struggles to recover from a bout of flu, her son and the government said.(AFP/POOL/File/Suzanne Plunkett)AFP - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was in hospital Wednesday undergoing precautionary tests as she struggles to recover from a bout of flu, her son and the government said.


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UK ex-prime minister Thatcher admitted to hospital (AP)

October 19th, 2010

AP - Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been admitted to the hospital following a recent bout of flu, officials said Tuesday.

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German police report shooting at hospital (AP)

September 19th, 2010

AP - A woman opened fire in a hospital in Germany’s Black Forest on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding several others, before fatally shooting herself, German officials…

DomRep probes 16 baby deaths at public hospital (AP)

September 15th, 2010

AP - Health officials are investigating the recent deaths of 16 newborns in the capital’s largest maternity hospital, hinting that unhygienic conditions are to blame.

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Colombian VP out of hospital after heart surgery (AP)

August 15th, 2010

AP - Colombia’s vice president has been released by doctors after undergoing heart bypass surgery.

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Haiti hospital woes show challenges of recovery (AP)

July 10th, 2010

A patient stands as he adjusts his intravenous line at the State University of Haiti Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Friday, July 9, 2010. Haiti's most important general care facility, the State University of Haiti Hospital is struggling to care for patients six months after the earthquake. The American Red Cross has pledged to help pay salaries of long-underpaid doctors.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - It was a simple problem with a novel solution.


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Gunmen attack hospital in Pakistan, kill 8 people (AP)

May 31st, 2010

Pakistani policemen take cover outside one of two mosques stormed by gunmen in Lahore on May 28. Gunmen opened fire at a Pakistan hospital where victims of an attack on Ahmadi mosques were being treated late Monday, sparking a shootout in which 12 people were killed, a doctor said.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)AP - A Pakistani government official says two gunmen have attacked a hospital in eastern Pakistan, killing at least eight people.


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Thai protesters storm major hospital in Bangkok (AP)

April 30th, 2010

Pro-government demonstrators hold the picture of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit and cheer to speech of their leaders during a rally outside a military barrack on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, April 29, 2010. Hundreds of pro-government supporters gathered at the 11th Infantry Regiment, appealing to government officials to carry out their duties and restore peace in the country. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - A major hospital in the Thai capital evacuated patients and suspended all but emergency surgery Friday after anti-government protesters who occupy a nearby zone stormed in to hunt…

Spanish hospital claims first full-face transplant (AP)

April 23rd, 2010

In this image taken from TV shows a computer-generated image released by the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain on Friday, April 23, 2010,  of one of the  various steps undertaken to perform a full-face transplant on a young male patient in late March 2010 . The hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a young man who lost his in an accident a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features. (AP Photo/Vall d'Hebron Hospital, TVE, via APTN ) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world’s first full-face transplant, giving a man a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features after…