‘We are all exposed to it’: the human face of India’s asbestos timebomb
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor 40 years, Mohammad Younus worked at a factory that manufactured asbestos sheets in the southern Indian city of Coimbatore. Read More
China Covid: Health expert predicts three winter waves
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA top Chinese health official says he believes China is experiencing the first of three expected waves of Covid infections this winter. …
Public urinators will see it splashed back in their face in new scheme
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People who urinate on walls in public could soon be in for a bit of a shock, after the unveiling of…
Military not ‘sufficiently trained’ to cover NHS strikes, unions say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnions have lashed out at plans for the armed forces to cover for striking public sector workers in the run-up to Christmas,…
Fake grass crackdown planned by Michael Gove in war on plastic
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Communities Secretary is moving to ban artificial lawns in housing developments as he continues his war on plastic. Read More
Rise in hypothermia cases as pensioners can’t afford heating
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePensioners too scared to put the heating on are being hospitalised with hypothermia, health chiefs have said. Read More
Now junior doctors are set to join nurses and ambulance workers in historic walkouts as fresh pay row emerges
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJunior doctors are poised to join nurses and ambulances workers in back-to-back strikes that may put lives at risk as the NHS…
Red flags over skin lightening products, users risk developing kidney problems
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE MEDICINES Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has raised concern over beauty salons and wellness shops that are unlawfully selling unapproved skin…
People smugglers are offering £435 cut-price 'Christmas deal' to ferry migrants across the Channel in dangerously overcrowded boats
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople smugglers are offering to ferry migrants across the Channel in dangerously overcrowded boats for less than £500 as a cut-price Christmas…
Would every 1% rise to nurses' pay cost £700m?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpeaking about nurses striking over pay, Health Minister Maria Caulfield said that it would cost the government £700m to increase pay by…