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...On Monday, US college football will crown a national champion, when the University of Michigan takes on the University of Washington....
...The British Medical Association, the main doctors’ union, said on Tuesday that junior doctors would walk out between December 20 and January 9....
...Economic data: The University of Michigan releases its US consumer sentiment survey and Canada updates on the unemployment rate and new hiring. Tomorrow China reports April inflation data....
...“I feel a real sense of decline,” said Enid, a 74-year-old retired nurse who had voted both ways in the past. “I am thinking about it a lot but wondering: what will change?”...
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...The deal on Monday will also be put to a vote by members of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, a smaller trade union for hospital doctors....
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...“Donald has had a few tough days lately, you might call it ‘stormy weather’,” he joked at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner....
...When Angela, a nurse who lives in Wisconsin, went looking for a new mortgage last spring her timing could not have been worse....
...Now, the British Medical Association is locked in a battle with NHS England to stop patients getting hold of their own electronic health records, although sharing data is critical to modernising the service...
...consumer confidence survey Japan: latest monetary policy decision plus outlook report UK: monthly insolvency statistics for England and Wales, plus GfK consumer confidence survey US: revised University of Michigan...
...Emergency rooms at military hospitals have been made available for civilian use, while the government has authorised nurses to conduct medical procedures usually performed by doctors....
...Headline PCE is projected to be 3.5 per cent in August, up from 3.3 per cent in July.Consumer sentiment: The University of Michigan will release the final September reading of its consumer sentiment index...
...A study by the US-based National Bureau of Economic Research found a bigger issue: robots reduced the wages of nurses and created more opportunity to undertake irregular work with fewer benefits....
...Nurses and other health staff including ambulance workers, nurses, physiotherapists and porters settled their pay disputes in May after unions backed a deal....
...It encourages the sense that the government’s aligned with you and not opposed to you,” he said at the Futures Industry Association’s annual conference in Florida....
...Consultants and junior doctors represented by the British Medical Association have walked out since December last year in a bid to force the government to improve its pay offer to all doctors....
...On the north side of the main quadrangle at Hillsdale College in Michigan, a recent oversize building symbolises the growing influence of this tiny US educational institution....
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