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Love-in for health service looms large in British election

Given regular headlines about overflowing emergency rooms, horrendous waiting times and cancer drug rationing, Britain’s love affair with the National Health Service (NHS) can be perplexing to outsiders. Protecting the health service is centre-stage in the run-up to this week’s election, with rival parties locked in a war of funding promises – and warm words – for an overburdened and occasionally chaotic organisation. “It is my life’s work,” Prime Minister

Exclusive: Siemens healthcare unit probed by China regulator for bribery – sources

By Adam Jourdan and Engen Tham SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese regulator investigated Siemens AG last year over whether the German group’s healthcare unit and its dealers bribed hospitals to buy expensive disposable products used in some of its medical devices, three people with knowledge of the probe told Reuters. The investigation, which has not previously been reported, follows a wide-reaching probe into the pharmaceutical industry in China that last

Thai mass grave held bodies of 26 suspected trafficking victims

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre PEDANG BESAR, Thailand (Reuters) – Dozens of police and volunteers have exhumed 26 bodies at a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle, police said on Saturday. The digging site, in Sadao district in Songkhla province, yielded five bodies on Friday and 21 more on Saturday, all believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. “A