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GPs' poor asthma training 'risks lives'
Tuesday 03 May 2011
Lives of asthma patients are being put at risk due to a lack of adequate training among GPs, a charity has warned.
Doctors baffled by sharp rise in terminal lung disease
Sunday 01 May 2011
Scientists ask for funding to research idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which kills 5,000 people a year
John Rentoul: Labour has a nasty dose of self-delusion
Sunday 01 May 2011
The coalition is unpopular, but a lack of policies will wipe out any gains Ed Miliband makes in this week's local elections
Tips and deals of the week: 01/05/2011
Sunday 01 May 2011
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Simple blood test could save hundreds from ovarian cancer
Wednesday 27 April 2011
A £20 blood test given to women with suspected ovarian cancer could save hundreds of lives a year, experts said yesterday.
GPs 'may exploit health reforms to boost pay'
Wednesday 27 April 2011
GPs may demand more money before they agree to participate in the Government's health reforms, ministers have been warned.
Tories accused of NHS promise smokescreen
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's promise to "pause and listen" to concerns over his planned NHS shake-up were dismissed as a smokescreen to protect the coalition from an electoral backlash in the run-up to next month's polls.
You Are Here: Why location is the next web battleground
Saturday 23 April 2011
Despite controversy this week that iPhones track their unwitting users, location-based services are set to soar. Nick Clark reports
Adrian Hamilton: Time to bring back the family doctor
Tuesday 19 April 2011
Patients aren't items or numbers, let alone 'customers'. They're living people, each with their own fears and frailties
No 10 tries to buy off doctors over NHS reforms
Monday 18 April 2011
David Cameron signalled yesterday that the overhaul of the National Health Service could be delayed in the face of resistance from doctors and nurses.
Alan Johnson: Lansley's not a bad surgeon, but he's fixing the wrong leg
Sunday 17 April 2011
The Labour politican ran the NHS too, and he can spot a bad remedy
Leading article: The health service needs evolution, not revolution
Thursday 14 April 2011
These reforms are not going to be successfully enacted without the support of health workers
Expensive drugs on GP blacklist
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Expensive drugs are being blacklisted by health trusts in an effort to save money, the GPs' newspaper Pulse has reported. It found that of 134 primary care organisations, half had lists of drugs that GPs are banned from prescribing, and 73 had added to the list in the past year or brought in additional restrictions on prescribing.
Between The Covers: 10/04/2011
Sunday 10 April 2011
Your weekly guide to what's really going on inside the world of books
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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