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TV diet guru told to stop selling sex products
A firm fronted by TV health adviser Gillian McKeith has been forced to remove two products from sale by the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency.The MHRA decided that Fast Formula Horny, and Fast Formula Wild Pink, for men and women respectively, should be classed as medicines and therefore could not ...
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How to create real sustainable change in your community
To mark the launch of this year's Sustainable Development Awards, Penny Harding explains how her project to create social inclusion in a deprived rural area won one of the categories
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Oldham - The programme starts with who you are
'It's the best thing to happen to me since Warburton's marketed sliced bread'
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Employ health trainers
The government has ditched its fear-factor advertising in favour of a more personal approach to keeping people alive. Jo Stephenson reports
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Bradford - Planning, encouraging, boosting confidence
Health trainers spend up to an hour with clients, and see them for up to six sessions
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Detect cancer early
Early diagnosis of cancer is often hampered by deprivation. But how is the DoH tackling the inequalities gap? Ingrid Torjesen finds out
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Leeds - Increasing take-up of screening
Practices that had the closest relationships with educators benefited most from the programme
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Focus on CVD
Despite the successes in fighting cardiovascular disease, the NHS is still to tackle the inequalities gap that can be responsible, says Victoria Hoban
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North Fulham - In the heart of the community
We worked hard to hold sessions in venues where we weren't used to holding sessions
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Make smoking history
As the deadline for banning smoking in public places nears, Frances Perrow looks at some shocking statistics, and finds out what PCTs are doing to help get the country smoke-free
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Lambeth - Using health-needs mapping
There was a 500 per cent increase in the volume of calls to the smoking cessation helpline that month
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Know your gap - life expectancy
The real issue for PCTs is not the gap between regions, but between different groups within their own area. Frances Perrow investigates
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Blackpool - a partnership approach
Men in Blackpool have the second worst life expectancy for males in England and Wales
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Margaret Mythen on the missing millions
Frank was one of the missing millions - the individuals who don't access smoking cessation clinics, weight-reduction programmes or exercise prescription schemes because they don't believe they are at risk
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In the balance - a starting point to close the poverty gap
Tackling the gap between good health and poor health can only be achieved by utilising all powers to close the poverty gap. But where do PCTs and councils start, asks Colleen Shannon
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Donna Covey on equalising outcomes
Socio-economic status can have a profound effect on outcomes, and asthma mortality is higher for people in lower social classes
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Health aspiration - Old is not ill
With more and more people living longer, the health service and its partners must address some communities' low expectations on quality of life, says Claire Laurent
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Mike Atwood and Stephen Jones on harnessing powers
Leadership of the Coventry Partnership is inclusive and devolved across agencies, with different sectors chairing different groups, whether co-ordinating or commissioning.