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Cabinet to revise price caps on medicine The Ukrainian cabinet plans to revise its decision on setting ceiling prices for some medicines and medical products.
Nov 3, 2009 at 11:56 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko comissioned 2 million face masks to be made in nation's prisons Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that her government two days ago has comissioned 2 million face masks to be sewn by the nation's prisoners. "Soon, every family will be able to have one or two masks,"she told the parliament on Nov. 3 to hear the government's report on flu epidemic in the country.
Nov 3, 2009 at 11:40 | Nataliya Bugayova
Chernovetsky to football authorities: Ask fans not to come to Dynamo-Inter game Kyiv authorities are planning to propose that the organizers of a Champions League match between Dynamo Kyiv and Inter Milan, which is to be held in Kyiv on November 4, hold the match in an empty stadium in order to prevent the spread of flu among fans.
Nov 3, 2009 at 11:35 | Interfax-Ukraine
Health minister asking politicians to refrain from commenting, giving advice on swine flu epidemic Ukrainian Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych has asked politicians, including those with a medical education, to refrain from making any comments and recommendations on the epidemic of the A(H1N1) influenza.
Nov 3, 2009 at 11:16 | Interfax-Ukraine
BRUSSELS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The Czech constitutional court's ruling on Tuesday against a legal challenge to the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty cleared one of the final hurdles to the charter's ratification.
Nov 3, 2009 at 11:03 | Reuters
Czech court lifts last barrier to European Union treaty BRNO, Czech Republic, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The Czech Constitutional Court threw out a complaint against the EU's Lisbon Treaty on Tuesday, removing the last obstacle to its ratification.
Nov 3, 2009 at 11:01 | Reuters
According to a Nov. 3 report by Euronews, police and customs officers on Romania’s border with Ukraine have stepped up their anti-H1N1 measures after Kyiv claimed the virus in the west of its country had reached epidemic levels.
Nov 3, 2009 at 10:57
Ivano-Frankivsk, November 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ivano-Frankivsk region received 18, 500 packs of Tamiflu, a medicine used to treat or prevent flu, on Monday, November 2, according to Roman Ostiak, the main doctor of the regional emergency epidemiological commission.
Nov 3, 2009 at 10:54 | Interfax-Ukraine
Strauss-Kahn: 'The big problem for me is Ukraine' According to a Financial Times report, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, described Ukraine as the 'big problem.'
Nov 3, 2009 at 10:40
Lviv, November 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Thirty-seven people have died of flu and acute respiratory infections in Lviv region as of 0700 on Tuesday, the press service of Lviv Regional State Administration has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Nov 3, 2009 at 10:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv, November 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Seventy people, among them three children and two pregnant women, have died of flu and respiratory diseases in Ukraine, the health ministry has confirmed.
Nov 3, 2009 at 09:29 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lviv, November 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Lviv region receives 18, 040 doses of Tamiflu, a medicine used to treat or prevent flu, out of the batch, which arrived in Ukraine on Monday night, the regional state administration's press service reported.
Nov 3, 2009 at 09:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 billion cited by President Barack Obama as a price tag for his reform plan.
Nov 3, 2009 at 09:21 | Associated Press
TAIPEI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - For hundreds of diners in Taiwan, 22-year-old Sheena Tsai is the billboard for Carlsberg, a Danish beer vying for a slice of Asia's competitive lager market.
Nov 3, 2009 at 09:19 | Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and agent Bryan Lourd were among big Hollywood names named on Monday as members of U.S. President Barack Obama's Committee on Arts and the Humanities.
Nov 3, 2009 at 09:16 | Reuters