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Revealed: NHS nurse who earns £100000 - Times Online

Revealed: NHS nurse who earns £100000Times Online, UK - 29 Nov 2008AN NHS nurse has broken the £100000 barrier for the first time as health staff cash in on generous incentive schemes. The nurse consultant in Rotherham, ... (original story)

Swiss approve prescription heroin

Swiss voters overwhelmingly back a radical health policy that offers prescription heroin to addicts on a permanent basis. (original story)

Group therapy 'beats depression'

Group-taught meditation is as effective as medication for stopping people slipping back into depression, say scientists. (original story)

From BBC Health

Educate yourself on the risks of HIV (original story)

Saving lives

How a new trolley may breathe life into resuscitation (original story)

'No water' in cholera-hit Harare

Much of Zimbabwe's capital Harare is without water reportedly due to a lack of purification chemicals, during a cholera outbreak. (original story)

Call for NHS nurses to petition prime minister over car parking - Nursing Times

Call for NHS nurses to petition prime minister over car parkingNursing Times, UK - 1 hour agoNurses are being called on to petition prime minister Gordon Brown to abolish hospital car parking charges across the NHS. Nursing Times is calling on ... (original story)

NHS on target to cut cancer death toll - OnMedica

Daily MailNHS on target to cut cancer death tollOnMedica, UK - 1 hour agoThe NHS is on course to meet its target of a 20 per cent reduction in the number of deaths due to cancer by 2010 but too many cancers still go undetected ...NICE to rethink its ban on life-extending kidney cancer drug... (original story)

Flexible support is key if we are to offer choice in end of life care

Resources need to be moved from curative to caring services to ensure more people can choose where they die, says Peter Beresford (original story)

Web searches feed health fears

Health information online is breeding a generation of cyberchondriacs, say researchers. (original story)

Papua mulls chips for HIV victims

Papua province in Indonesia mulls the introduction of a law allowing microchips to be implanted in people living with HIV. (original story)

Call for more HIV testing on NHS - The Press Association

24dashCall for more HIV testing on NHSThe Press Association - 2 hours agoThe Government must offer more HIV testing on the NHS to tackle the rising number of people in the UK who do not know they are infected, a group of experts ...Action plan could bring automatic screening of all adults The HeraldPlan for blanket Aids screening, as one in four carriers don't ... Scotland on Sundayall 7 news articles (original story)

Magazine lists NHS services - Cumberland News

Magazine lists NHS servicesCumberland News, UK - 2 hours agoBy Phil Coleman VIRTUALLY every home in Cumbria is to be sent a magazine containing essential information about NHS services across the county. ... (original story)

Hospital beds boost over winter - BBC News

BBC NewsHospital beds boost over winterBBC News, UK - 3 hours agoNHS Scotland chief executive Dr Kevin Woods said 210 beds would be provided as part of a drive to tackle winter-related health issues. ...Intensive care beds boost The Press Associationall 19 news articles (original story)

Comment: Sign up to an NHS dentist to beat decay - The Argus.co.uk

Comment: Sign up to an NHS dentist to beat decayThe Argus.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoBy Siobhan Ryan » When the new NHS dental contract was introduced, large numbers of dentists left the NHS and focused on private patients. ...Dentist wanted £1900 for work worth £26 Portsmouth NewsDentists ... (original story)





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