Press Releases
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2003
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Health visitors play key role in tackling relationship problems reported by one in five new mothers
11 November 2003
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Governments called upon to tackle invisible suffering of Europe's trafficked women
21 October 2003
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Benefits of improved access to day care cancelled out by low-pay trap
17 October 2003
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Campaigners abandon health education for marketing in drive to promote lifesaving properties of soap
02 October 2003
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Cancer survival: gap between Western Europe and poorer Eastern European countries 'substantial and increasing'
25 September 2003
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Long-term use of inhaled steroids for asthma could increase risk of cataracts
17 September 2003
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UN Decade of awareness fails to advance indigenous peoples' health or rights
08 August 2003
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Doctors need re-educating in attitudes to death and dying
26 July 2003
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Stability in South Eastern Europe hinges on improving public health
11 July 2003
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Virtual consultations cheaper for patients, but not the NHS
11 July 2003
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Five million under 5s a year still dying because of malnutrition
27 June 2003
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Child deaths target could be achieved easily, but time is running out
27 June 2003
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Demographic trends and family support for older people - no need to panic yet
26 June 2003
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Can handwashing with soap prevent transmission of SARS as well as diarrhoea?
21 May 2003
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School exhibition highlights stark reality behind glamorous tobacco ad messages on World No Tobacco Day
14 May 2003
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Handwashing programmes could be intervention of choice for diarrhoeal diseases
09 May 2003
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Hospitals criticised for failing to go smoke-free
02 May 2003
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'Safer smoking' debates need to be informed by history, warn health experts
15 April 2003
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Simple Intervention Halves Global Blindness and Saves Millions
01 April 2003
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Feminist campaigning, rather than scientific advances, led to recognition of gonorrhoea in women
20 March 2003
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100 calories a day enough to stop obesity epidemic in its tracks, advises US nutritionist
17 March 2003
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Call for urgent action to bring about fundamental improvement in Scottish health - the worst in Europe
17 March 2003
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Diet of fruit & fish could lessen risk of asthma & cough in children
03 March 2003
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German Government urged to stop holding the world's health to ransom by continuing to oppose ban on tobacco ads
11 February 2003
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School joins call for tougher measures to tackle speeding motorists
01 February 2003
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Bigger babies at greater risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer
30 January 2003
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School calls for expansion of traffic calming schemes after review reveals their effectiveness in saving lives
16 January 2003
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Health professionals to give Commons stark warning of health costs of war on Iraq
14 January 2003
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Aid and health experts call for Government to support humanitarian capacity to respond to weapons of mass destruction
10 January 2003
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Leading editors join forces to explain 'prior publication' to new researchers
09 January 2003
