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Friday 26 July 2013
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NHS will not give meningitis B vaccine to all UK's children
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Government’s immunisation advisors say the jab is 'highly unlikely to be cost effective'
How do you vaccinate a badger? Very, very carefully
Tuesday 23 July 2013
A curious Tom Bawden joins David Heath, the Farming minister, on the front line of the battle against bovine tuberculosis
Is Jenny McCarthy the most dangerous woman on US television?
Friday 19 July 2013
Yes, if you think it’s wrong to give a woman who campaigns against child vaccinations a spot on America’s top daytime talk show
As well as cull, contraceptives lined up for badgers in battle against farm TB
Thursday 04 July 2013
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson pledged to eradicate disease from English cattle within 25 years
Health officials 'very disappointed' that most doctors and nurses declined flu vaccinations last winter
Monday 17 June 2013
The majority of doctors, nurses and front line health workers were not vaccinated against flu last winter, official figures have revealed.
Genetic secrets of resistant tree gives new hope over ash dieback disease
Sunday 16 June 2013
The battle against the deadly ash dieback disease has received an important boost after scientists unscrambled the genetic blueprint of a tree with an extremely rare resistance to the killer fungus.
New $1 patch can deliver vaccines without injections
Thursday 13 June 2013
Professor Mark Kendall's Nanopatch was shown off last night to crowds at TEDGlobal
Vets say their professional body was wrong to support Government badger cull
Tuesday 04 June 2013
Veterinary Association accused of being too close to farmers in letter to The Independent
After Michael Douglas' claims, the doctors' verdict on oral sex: There's only a 'very small' risk of cancer
Monday 03 June 2013
Michael Douglas may have been displaying admirable candour when he told a journalist this weekend that his throat cancer had been caused by a virus “which…comes about from cunnilingus” – but he also sparked a minor health scare.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson faces squatting threat over badger cull
Monday 27 May 2013
Radical animal rights activists plan to squat at Owen Paterson’s house in southern France
Scientists create new flu vaccine that works against many different strains of the virus
Wednesday 22 May 2013
New treatment developed by fusing key proteins of the virus with a bacterial protein
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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