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The unofficial pre-general election campaign got under way
this week with both Labour and the Conservatives targeting specific groups,
suggesting that social care could have a more visible presence over the months
ahead. Read More...
Could this really happen? There is a move to introduce a law
- or at least Whitehall has refused to rule one out, according the Daily
Telegraph - to ban parents from smoking in front of their children. Read More...
British Red Cross marked World Aids Day 2009 by releasing
the findings of a survey of young people's attitudes towards the virus - with some paradoxical results. Read More...
Which is the best way to spend public money: by developing
treatments for dementia and cancer or in counselling couples at breaking point? Read More...
It is a poor indictment on the quality of care when a
patient leaves hospital in worse shape than when they went in. Read More...
You may remember PY Gerbeau : professional Frenchman, committed Anglophile, the former EuroDisney chief who saved the Millennium Dome. Read More...
Funny how social workers are suddenly flavour of the month
now that the UK faces a swine flu epidemic. Read More...
A ruling by appeal court judges that ended the life of a seriously ill baby contrasted with the battle fought in the courts by multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy . Read More...
Debbie Purdy is satisfied that the court system has done all
it can to answer her call for clarification on the law regarding assisted suicide. Read More...
The recent publicity given to the health-related battles
being fought by Terry Pratchett, John Suchet and Jade Goody is forcing me to
revise my generally negative stance on celebrity culture. Read More...
All hail the reduction in alcohol-related deaths. All hail -
or should that be inhale? - the efforts to cut cannabis use. Read More...
Just how many taboo subjects can there be? Death is the
obvious one for many. And there are others that I can't mention here
because they are, of course, taboo. But I was not aware that obesity was among
the genre. Read More...
The fit notes that are to replace GPs' sick notes are a sound idea in principle, saddled as we are with a system that, in theory, can keep employees away from the workplace in perpetuity. Read More...
Stressed? You might well be, because figures from the
Employers Organisation show social services departments to be riddled with the
condition. Read More...
Hospital admissions for serious conditions related to
alcohol have doubled in the past 10 years but a report reveals that a quarter
of primary care trusts have failed to fully assess misuse in their areas. Read More...
Man cannot live by rice cubana alone, although many of us
get by on burger and fries alone (with large diet Coke) and expand our
waistlines accordingly. Now some of Europe's top footballers have teamed up to
tackle obesity among young people. Read...
With so much sniping recently about portly people , it is
easy to forget those whose weight barely registers on the scales. Read More...
It's definitely catching. Last month Call-me-Dave Cameron
launched a verbal blitz on overweight people. Now his health spokesman Andrew
Lansley is at it . Read More...
BBC journalist Kate Adie once described her style of
reporting as "telling it like it is". The maxim is not one recognised by the
Department of Health in its fight-the-flab campaign (my description, not the
DH's). Read More...
By Mike McNabb On holiday recently, the wife of my oldest friend presented
us with a quartet of superb cigars from the Dominican Republic. The box assured
us, in a typesize normally seen on the pages of red-top newspapers, that the
contents would cause...