NHS apprentice doctor scheme branded risky by medics who ‘lack time to train them’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Plans for NHS apprentice doctors have been branded risky by senior medics, who say they do not have time to provide newcomers…
Lathering up with soap might seem a reasonable mosquito evasion strategy on the basis that if they can’t smell you, they can’t bite you.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Lathering up with soap might seem a reasonable mosquito evasion strategy on the basis that if they can’t smell you, they can’t…
Sexual violence on a ‘catastrophic scale’: 48 victims a day report attacks in DRC
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has become “catastrophic” in scale over the past month, according to doctors on the…
School-leavers could join NHS via apprenticeships in plan to fix staff shortages
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Reading Time: < 1 minute School-leavers could receive on-the-job training as part of an attempt to help address NHS workforce shortages, Read More
"Change the name. End the stigma": Why it's time to rename HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Changing HIV’s name will help to end the HIV epidemic. Read More
Nigeria is world’s second nation with high maternal, child deaths – Report
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A new report has shown that Nigeria accounts for the second-highest number of maternal and child deaths globally. Read More
Poor diabetes care may be behind 7,000 excess deaths
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Delayed health checks among people with diabetes may have contributed to 7,000 more deaths than usual in England last year, a charity…
Faces of 16 smugglers who put £42,000,000 in cash on flights to Dubai
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A London gang of 16 people has been found guilty over a £42 million money laundering scheme. Read More
Women should get mammograms at age 40 rather than 50 amid rising breast cancer rates, according to influential task force
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A leading health panel has recommended the age at which women are regularly screened for breast cancer should be cut from 50…
Online UK pharmacies prescribing weight loss jabs to people with healthy BMI
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Online pharmacies operating in the UK are approving and dispatching prescriptions of controversial slimming jabs for people of a healthy weight, Read…