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Carbon footprint health risks

3rd March 2010

Dr Tony Waterston, consultant paediatrician and chair of the Advocacy Committee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, says reducing global warming has crucial health benefits.

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NHS must be held to account over Mid Staffs

26th February 2010

A damning report shows negligent staff caused several hundred deaths between 2005 and 2008.

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Cyberchondriacs should not be dismissed

24th February 2010

Medical law expert warns doctors not to dismiss all web-wise patients as 'cyberchondriacs'.

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Pregnancy key changes timeline

22nd February 2010

A timeline of some of the key changes during pregnancy to mother and baby.

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Well spent aid is good for us and saves lifes

18th February 2010

Well-spent aid has helped to eradicate smallpox, reduce polio cases and increase the number of people on lifesaving anti-AIDS drugs.

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Rise in anorexia hospital admissions

17th February 2010

Obsession with being a size zero is damaging our health.

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Dyslexia should not be eradicated

12th February 2010

Dyslexia can make people more creative, according to associate director of learning at Portsmouth PCT.

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Drug companies are not villains

10th February 2010

Drug companies are responsible for most medical breakthroughs, so why do we make life so hard for them?

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Why don't we grow our own GM food?

10th February 2010

Britain should be leading the way on new technology.

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Where is the cure for Alzheimer's?

27th January 2010

Chief executive of Alzheimer's Research Trust argues the lack of funding is holding back finding a cure.

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Latest Comment and Opinion

Mental healthcare has changed

Mental healthcare has changed alot over the past decade says Andy Young writing in the Nursing Times.

Nursing Times

The weather really does make you ill

Cold temperatures and grey skies really can affect your health, and sometimes can be fatal.

The Independent

The harm alternative medicine can do

Jeremy Laurance comments on the fatal harm alternative medicine can cause.

The Independent

Why do we allow drink-sponsorship in sport?

Alcohol abuse and binge-drinking is a big thing, so why do we allow sports to be sponsored by alcohol producers?

The Independent

Cancer genetics mapped

Nursing Times goes in-depth behind the recent news headlines.

Nursing Times

What a waste

How supermarkets are wasting food.

The Times

NHS should be renamed 'WHS'

Public services are buckling under strain of immigration.

The Daily Express

Alzheimer's takes memory and selves

Andrea Gillies has spent two years living with a mother-in-law suffering with Alzheimer's.

The Times

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