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Bona Lisa:
Bona Lisa: one of the 20 images on show at the Wellcome Trust's Two10 gallery in the sixth of a series of exhibitions 'exploring the relationship between contemporary medical science and art'. This picture shows a 2.8mm sample of bone from an 89-year-old woman with osteoporosis.The biomedical image awards - ...
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Row over cause of ambulance response rate fall
Managers have disputed claims of a sharp decline in ambulance response rates in south-west London following the reduction of accident and emergency services.
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This time next year, a new UK association for public health could be up and running.
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What's in a name?
PHA was set up in 1987, as part of the resistance to the developing agenda of the Conservative government, by a group of people who met at the Health Education Council.
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Target practice
Though recognising their health-promotion role, even GPs in one fairly affluent area are unsure of how to work across agencies to meet targets, reveals a survey by Thoreya Swage and Judi Linney
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POPULATION PROJECTIONS
Predicting demographic change is a tricky business. The one thing certain, says John Appleby, is that people will live longer and this will have a considerable impact on healthcare costs
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on the record
JUNE McKERROW has been director of the Mental Health Foundation since 1992. She previously worked for 25 years in housing and homelessness, most recently at Stonham establishing community-based alternatives to institutional living for people with special needs.
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Mental health groups accuse Labour of going back on election promises
Mental health groups reacted with dismay this week to the government's asyet still-secret plans for a shift in policy on community care backed by £50m a year investment in NHS mental health services.
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Looking into the future
Dr Hywel Lloyd demonstrates equipment from Telediab, a project that uses eye examinations to check for signs of diabetes, at the Wales telemedicine conference in Cardiff.
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Blair picks 'list buster' to crack down on waiting
Prime Minister Tony Blair marked his first year in office last week by stepping up action on hospital waiting lists, which he said were still 'unacceptably high'.
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In Brief: Hospital porters ballot on industrial action
Hospital porters at Leicester Royal Infirmary are threatening to hold a ballot on industrial action following the breakdown of talks over plans by private contractor Serco, which provides portering services at the hospital, to scrap their bonus payments.
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In Brief: Former nurse Gloria Justice
Former nurse Gloria Justice, whose career ended when she injured her back lifting a patient at Newcastle's Walkergate Hospital eight years ago, has been awarded £90,000. Ms Justice claimed she had not been trained in safe lifting techniques.
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In Brief: Values into Action study
Hundreds of thousands of pounds are being wasted keeping people with learning difficulties in residential care when it would be cheaper to help them live at home, a government-funded study by the charity Values into Action says. The Cost of Opportunity: purchasing strategies in the housing and support arrangements of ...
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In Brief: Minimum safe size for units
New acute inpatient units for adult mental health should be limited to between 10 and 15 beds, the Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends. The minimum safe size for units, which should be housed in district general hospitals, is likely to be three 15-bedded wards, its report says. Not Just Bricks ...
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In Brief: Expert consortium set up
An expert consortium has been set up by the NHS Executive and the Department of Health to examine the feasibility of developing occupational standards defining national good practice for scientists and technicians within the NHS.
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In Brief: Campaign for Freedom of Information annual award
Neil Woodward, a medical scientist who exposed the extent of misreporting of cervical smears at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital on Channel 4's Dispatches programme last year, has received a Campaign for Freedom of Information annual award.