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The 64-year-old used to have five angina attacks a week, each involving a sharp, acute pain that reminded him of the heart attack he once had. Now he has an attack every week or two. He used to have to limit the amount…
Read moreFoundation apprenticeships opening entry routes for young people. Fully funded training for under-25s at small and medium sized employers . A national commitment to parity between academic and technical education: the…
Read moreData analysed by the Nuffield Trust found that nearly 600 practices in England have withdrawn from NHS dentistry over the last 10 years. The decline has been particularly sharp in parts of the South West and East of…
Read more"Last night Lillian ran from our arms to the arms of Jesus," her family said in the post. "The injuries to her brain were too severe for her little body to recover from. Everyone did everything they could to keep her…
Read moreAs a former health professional and principal nursing educator, I have brought years of experience to the role, for which I have been elected locally. For any organisation to wilfully remove hundreds of such skilled and…
Read moreThe testing of more than 110 items ranging from shampoo to baby lotions found evidence of unlabeled toxic chemicals in about 85%. Many contained multiple ingredients known to be carcinogens or health hazards, and even…
Read more"My phone started buzzing," he said. "I took the call, and then told the room I needed to leave immediately. "I had to get to UCLH [one of London's major hospitals]. My own child was headed there in a blue-lit ambulance…
Read moreThe FDA classified the action as a Class II recall, defined on the agency's website as a moderate-risk situation "in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse…
Read moreThe drug allows pregnancies to be terminated with a shocking degree of reliability and ease. Gone are the concoctions of ergot and Spanish Fly dispensed by 19th century midwives, which only sometimes worked to induce a…
Read more"There's been a decrease in immunization rates in all vaccines. There's a decrease in immunizations in more than half the states, as opposed to the year before. There are at least 280,000 kindergarteners who did not get…
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