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Healthcare Locums profits up 135%

Healthcare Locums Plc has reported a 108 per cent growth in sales for the full year 2007, from £65 million to £135 million. The company said that its organic like-for-like profit growth rate was up to 21 per cent, a rise from the rate of 16 per cent in 2006.
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Gates calls for creative capitalism

Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates called on Thursday for a new creative capitalism to help the world's 1 billion poorest who live on less than $1 a day.
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India's Ranbaxy ups Zenotech stake to 45 pct

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, India's top drugmaker by sales, will raise its stake in Zenotech Laboratories Ltd to 45 percent to expand into the global biogenerics market, it said on Wednesday.
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Clinton proposes universal health care plan

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, whose first attempt at a health care overhaul fell flat 13 years ago, unveiled a broad proposal on Monday to require health insurance for all Americans and make it more affordable.
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Top Indian Heart Doctor Leaves Longtime Home

Last week, Dr. Naresh Trehan, the top cardiologist at one of India’s largest corporate hospital groups, playing the role of a modern-day Moses, quit the research center he had led for the last 20 years, triggering an exodus of sorts, with about 50 doctors set to follow him to a rival hospital.
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Women Have Mixed Success at Drug Companies: Study

Top women executives do slightly better at U.S.-based healthcare and pharmaceutical companies than in other industries, but 35 percent of big drug companies do not have a single female director, according to a new survey.
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Baby boomers face care bill timebomb

Two thirds of the baby boom generation have made no provision for their future care, despite warnings that care homes cost an average of 21,000 pounds a year

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