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UK Faces Growing Threat of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
8th May 2008
Having examined nearly 30,000 people infected with TB in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over the last seven years, the Health Protection Agency found a 2.3% rise (from 5.6% to 7.9%) in the...
Welsh Teachers Face Redundancy
7th May 2008
The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) has said that up to 300 teachers in Wales may be face redundancy across ninety schools over the next few months. This is...
Job Security in Ireland Shaken by Economic Downturn
7th May 2008
Latest 'notified redundancy' figures show that the Irish workforce has been hit by just over eleven thousand redundancies since January this year, which is a marked increase in figures drawn from the...
CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
7th May 2008
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is so called because it was first diagnosed by two German neurologists, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob. Like fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and...
When Insurance Can Save
6th May 2008
One in three people will be positively diagnosed as having cancer within our lifetimes. The disease can hit at any time, although it does tend to affect the older people more critically. With some...
'Missing' Angina in Women
5th May 2008
In 2006 a team of medical scientists from University College London (UCL) found that although Angina is as common in women as it is in men, doctors routinely under-estimate the severity of their...
