WHO seeks improved funding for health in Nigeria
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The World Health Organisation has said Nigeria is still far from meeting the 2001 15 per cent Abuja Declaration on improving the…
Junior doctors' strike could hit up to 250,000 appointments, health bosses warn
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Up to quarter of a million operations and appointments could be postponed due to next week’s junior doctors’ strike, the NHS Confederation…
Vaping: New measures to crack down on illegal sale of e-cigarettes to teenagers
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Plans to make it more difficult for children to illegally buy e-cigarettes in England are to be laid out by the government…
At just 28, Kirsty has achieved something that hasn't been done for nearly 40 years - created a new class of antibiotics - but devastatingly, she now has just months left to live
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Kirsty Smitten harbours fantasies of one day collecting a Nobel Prize for her scientific work – and rightly so, given that it…
Kidney failure drugs for diabetics given go-ahead in England
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Reading Time: < 1 minute More than a million people who have both type 2 diabetes and kidney disease could benefit from a daily pill that slashes the…
Nutritionist shares the 'biggest risk' of drinking tap and bottled water
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Le Feuvre pointed out that fizzy and soda water is “actually very acidic”. Read More
Fishing industry outraged by plans to ban ‘fat fishermen’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Fishermen are rushing to the gym, dieting and seeking legal advice over new rules that will require them to get a doctor-approved…
Inside London's Romanian gang who drop 'homeless' beggars off in a Mercedes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Gangs of “Romanian” beggars can earn £100-a-day ferried to hotspots around exclusive parts of London by wealthy handlers driving Mercedes, an investigation …
Zimbabwe to criminalise foreign recruitment of health workers
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Zimbabwe’s Vice-President, Constantino Chiwenga, announced that the country intends to introduce a law that would make it illegal for other nations to…
Africa: World Health Organization at 75 – Science, Solutions and Solidarity
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Turning history’s page on its deadliest conflict, countries came together in 1948 to heal a bloodied world. Read More