WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has plastered tariffs on products from almost every country on earth. He’s targeted specific imports including autos, steel and aluminum. But he isn’t done yet. Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category of products he’s largely spared in his trade war. For decades, in fact, imported medicine has mostly …
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Read More »Northern Ireland children’s cancer unit staff shortages ‘left me broken’
Marie-Louise Connolly Health correspondent, BBC News NI BBC Hannah Farrell was a nurse at the Children’s Cancer Unit until she resigned in 2019 A whistleblower who resigned from the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children over staff shortages has said the system left her broken, disillusioned and burnt out. Hannah Farrell, who left the Children’s Cancer Unit in 2019, said …
Read More »‘Severe’ staff shortages at US veterans’ hospitals, watchdog finds | Trump administration
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is experiencing “severe” staff shortages at all its hospitals, with the number of shortages increasing by 50% this fiscal year, according to a new report from the agency’s independent watchdog. The report, released on Tuesday, came a day after the Guardian revealed the department had lost thousands of healthcare professionals deemed “core” to …
Read More »VA’s severe health care staffing shortages are on the rise, watchdog finds
Severe health care staffing shortages at the Department of Veterans Affairs are on the rise, according to an annual watchdog report. VA’s Office of Inspector General found that Veterans Health Administration facilities reported more than 4,400 severe staffing shortages so far in fiscal year 2025 — a 50% increase compared to the previous year. At least 20% of VHA facilities …
Read More »US workers say Trump’s immigration crackdown is causing labor shortages: ‘A strain on everybody’ | US news
Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to leave their jobs. As economists warn the administration’s full-scale deportation ambitions could ultimately cost millions of jobs, workers at two sites – in Michigan and Kentucky – told the Guardian that industrial giants are grappling …
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