All articles by MARK CRAIL – Page 4

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-09-30T00:00:00Z

    'For many years all that could be seen of the new British Library was the building site through a hole in the boards thoughtfully created by the builders, knowing how fascinating most of us find the creation of a large building,' writes the development team for the new National Electronic ...

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    Hard labour

    1999-09-30T00:00:00Z

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    1999-09-23T00:00:00Z

    How far would you go to boost your flagging showbiz career? Bare your soul to the world? Bare your body, perhaps? What about having bits of it chopped off in public?

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    Constructive thinking

    1999-09-23T00:00:00Z

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    Weighing up the odds

    1999-09-16T00:00:00Z

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    Move over, darling

    1999-09-16T00:00:00Z

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-09-09T00:00:00Z

    How far would you go to boost your flagging showbiz career? Bare your soul to the world? Bare your body, perhaps? What about having bits of it chopped off in public?

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    Constructive thinking

    1999-09-09T00:00:00Z

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    1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Wisconsin is not exactly the Wild West by any stretch of the imagination. Its firearm mortality rate puts it 37th among 50 US states. But at 5.4 deaths per 100,000 people, that is still getting on for 10 times the rate for England and Wales. According to Home Office crime ...

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    The dying game

    1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

    The chilling case of a man with paranoid schizophrenia on death row highlights how the US judicial system is failing mentally ill people, writes Mark Crail

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    1999-08-26T00:00:00Z

    When health secretary Frank Dobson issued the National Institute for Clinical Excellence with its first two years' work programme recently, the list of drugs to be reviewed included a number which have yet to see the inside of an NHS doctor's surgery.

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    1999-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Fun things to do when you're at the psychiatrist: take random objects in his office and glue them to the floor; refuse to co-operate unless he trades his trousers; try to talk him into sitting on the floor; after everything he says, ask, 'And how does that make you feel?'

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    Nigh mayor scenario

    1999-08-19T00:00:00Z

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    Wish you were here?

    1999-08-05T00:00:00Z

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    Shutting up shop

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    The government's mission to head off private walk-in clinics with its own NHS version is being accomplished most efficiently, writes Mark Crail

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    Mind the gap

    1999-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Fluoridation campaigners believe they have won the argument, but the detail remains to be resolved. Mark Crail reports

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    Watching expiry dates

    1999-07-15T00:00:00Z

    The public health white paper sets out ambitious targets for reducing deaths by 2010. Mark Crail canvassed responses to it and found widespread scepticism that it would reduce health inequalities

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    What we really, really want

    1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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    Outside in

    1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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    1999-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The French physician FJV Broussais bestrode Parisian medicine at the turn of the 19th century just as the new medicine of the Napoleonic capital, with its vast public hospitals and salaried hospital doctors, dominated scientific medicine then and for many years to come. And what a bleeder he was.