Switzerland detects case of atypical mad cow disease
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSwitzerland reported a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the eastern region of Grisons, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)…
Exodus of healthcare workers from poor countries worsening, WHO says
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePoorer countries are increasingly losing healthcare workers to wealthier ones as the latter seek to shore up their own staff losses from…
Death toll in Gabon ferry disaster rises to 6 with 31 still missing
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe death toll in the ferry disaster off the coast of Gabon last Thursday has risen to six, with thirty-one people still…
London council first in country to offer free school meals up to 16
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA London council has become the first in the country to offer free school meals to every secondary school pupil up to the age…
Day & Night Nurse and Covonia cold and flu remedies are being WITHDRAWN from UK market over health fears
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCold and flu remedies are being urgently pulled from shelves over fears they could be deadly. Read More
Cyclone Freddy death toll in Malawi, Mozambique passes 100
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than 100 people have been killed in Malawi and Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, returned Read…
Met Police officer coked up and stoned at work claimed he 'had not consciously consumed anything'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA coked up Metropolitan Police officer caught stoned at work tried to fool a misconduct panel by claiming he had ‘consumed nothing…
GPs considering strike action that could see surgeries close and appointments cancelled
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGPs could be left with no other option but to close surgeries for a day and cancel appointments stop after NHS England imposed…
Woman on waitlist for rare double hand transplant refuses to accept man's hands
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA woman seeking a double hand transplant has politely declined to accept a man’s hands after she was asked to accept the…
‘Offering financial incentives encourages men to test for HIV’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteResearchers and HIV experts have always highlighted that men’s reluctance and hesitancy to test for the virus has complicated the war against…