Social care reform plan will be out 'within weeks' as millions struggle with funding
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Plans to reform Britain’s broken social care system will be unveiled within weeks. Read More
‘28 women die daily of cervical cancer in Nigeria’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Prof. Oliver Ezechi, has said 28 women die daily of cervical…
Stop converting treated nets to fishing facilities, body urges Nigerians
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunisation and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has said poor sanitary conditions in most communities across the country are hindering…
Typhoid outbreak on refugee ship in Netherlands traced to raw sewage
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A major outbreak of typhoid among asylum seekers living on a ship in the Netherlands has been traced to raw sewage which was…
Women's health: Body part names taboo a risk to health
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Doctors are warning that embarrassment about naming parts of the female anatomy is putting women’s health in jeopardy. Read More
Hundreds of thousands to suffer in new NHS strikes as more than half a million operations and appointments are set to be halted when junior doctors walk out this month
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The looming junior doctors’ strike means more than half a million operations and appointments will have been halted by walkouts, NHS chiefs warned…
Paris says NON to e-scooters: French capital becomes first city in the world to ban self-hire vehicles in a referendum after string of crashes and deaths across Europe
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Paris has become the first city in the world to vote to ban self-hire electric scooters after a series of fatal crashes…
Firefighters diagnosed with cancer at shocking rate 1.6 times higher than average
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The mortality rate for all cancers among firefighters is 1.6 times higher than in the general population, a report has revealed. Read…
Gary Glitter prison recall was sparked by paedophile watching videos of ballerinas aged 8
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Gary Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was sent back to jail after he was found watching videos of eight-year-old ballerinas. Read More
More Ghanaian nurses in NHS than in Ghana
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Reading Time: < 1 minute THERE ARE more Ghanaian nurses working in the NHS than in Ghana, raising concerns about health worker shortage in the west African…