All Public health articles – Page 126
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Graphic pictures illustrating the effects smoking can have on health will be printed on all cigarette packets from next year, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.The 15 images to be used were chosen following a consultation in 2006, market research and a public vote. The move makes the UK the ...
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alcohol
There are more binge drinkers in Yorkshire and the Humber than in any other English region a report has shown.The report has been written by the North West Public Health Observatory as part of a series of Indications of Public Health in the English Regions from the Association of Public ...
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Deadly E. coli outbreak
The public health protection unit at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is working with environmental health at Renfrewshire Council, the Food Standards Agency and Health Protection Scotland to identify the source of a deadly outbreak of E.coli in Paisley. It had killed one woman and infected six others at the ...
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A game for two players
The Healthy Schools initiative continues to be a thriving joint programme, reports Varya Shaw
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Inequality targeted
The most deprived areas of the country are to get help to raise life expectancy and meet 2010 targets to reduce health inequalities with a health inequalities intervention tool.
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Cases of invasive pneumococcal disease down
The number of cases of invasive pneumococcal disease in children has fallen since the introduction of a new vaccine a year ago, figures show.
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Vaccine could cut cases of cervical cancer
A new vaccine could reduce cases of cervical cancer and genital warts if introduced into the national immunisation programme, the Health Protection Agency has said.
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children's health
The UK can do more to stop children being harmed by environmental hazards such as air pollution, says a new report by the Health Protection Agency.The document is a first step towards a UK Children’s Environment and Health Strategy, which will be put into action by local and regional public ...
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New public health director appointed
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Agency chief executive Angela McNab has been appointed on a six-month secondment to the Department of Health as Director of Public Health Performance and Delivery.
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Two million babies screened for hearing
Two million babies inEnglandwill have had their hearing screened thanks to the NHS newborn hearing screening programme, the Department of Health has announced.The programme, which was rolled out across England in 2001, screens 1,700 babies each day.
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Research proposals to get government cash
Seven health research proposals are being funded by the Department of Health, as part of a new National Institute for Health Research funding programme called Research for Innovation, Speculation and Creativity.
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Call for HIV test kit review
The Terrence Higgins Trust is urging the government to change the law and allow people to buy and use home test kits for HIV.
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New study claims that the pill may cut cancer risk
The contraceptive pill may reduce the risk of cancer for most women, according to a study published by the British Medical Journal.
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Maggie Rae
The head of the local delivery and health inequalities unit has become the latest senior Department of Health employee to return to the frontline.Maggie Rae has become the director of health at Wiltshire primary care trust.Ms Rae was seconded to the DoH for two years from the National Institute for ...
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Pioneer teams are overcoming anger
A programme for aggression management in secure psychiatric settings trials the latest international research, reports Louise Hunt
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David Woodhead on community hooks
'New research seeks to assess the importance of incidental people in our lives - the local taxi driver, the neighbour who gives out hymn books at church or the shopkeeper who engages us in trivial conversation'
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Suicide prevention at all ages, urges WHO
Suicide prevention should focus on all ages from youth to old age, the World Health Organisation has said.
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Scottish Smoking ban nib
The Scottish smoking ban has led to a significant advance in public health, according to a study of the measure.Comparisons at nine hospitals revealed that there was a 17 per cent year-on-year drop in heart attack admissions since the ban was introduced in March 2006. It says that the ...
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Smoking ban has improved Scottish health
The number of heart attack hospital admissions in Scotland fell by 17 per cent in the first year after its smoking ban came into force, it has been claimed.According to research presented at a conference to discuss the impact of the ban, there has also been a 39 per cent ...
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Expectant mothers grant
Pregnant mother will receive£200 from government to spend on healthy food from April 2009.Expectant mothers will receive the one-off payment in their 29th week of pregnancy to encourage them to eat healthily. The Department of Health hopes that the grant will cut infant mortality and close the health inequality ...