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How e-cigarettes can reduce the harm caused by smoking
Sometimes it is simply impossible to persuade some smokers to quit, which is where the concept of harm reduction comes in.
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Sometimes it is simply impossible to persuade some smokers to quit, which is where the concept of harm reduction comes in.
From mental health institutions to children’s home, and covering a period of nearly 50 years, the investigation into Sir Jimmy Savile grows more complicated by the day. So what is alleged?
As the BBC and government struggle to contain the fury surrounding Jimmy Savile, the head of child protection agency Ceop tells Channel 4 News there could be a probe into the police’s response.
Strangers who abduct children are difficult to spot in a crowd and hard to profile. Most of the tabloid cliches about “monsters” are untrue.
The new health secretary was not at his most assured in his speech to the Conservative Party conference. But he had messages for the social care and charities sectors.
GPs should give teenagers’ health needs a higher priority, the former children’s commissioner for England tells Channel 4 News.
The debate over lowering the time limit for abortions from 24 weeks could be reopened, after the health secretary became the latest cabinet minister to back a sharp tightening of the law on abortion.
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Bad news for the newly installed health ministers from the Royal College of Physicians which warns in a report that patient care is threatened by hospitals under strain.
The laws on assisted suicide in the UK are criticised as “ridiculous” by a newly-promoted health minister.
It is likely that few people have read the NHS constitution or, indeed, even know that it exists. But there is an important section that patients should memorise.
Existing health quangos Monitor and the Care Quality Commission, expanded under the Lansley reforms, have seen staff costs rise by £28m in the last year alone.
What’s the difference between the government’s new “Healthcare UK” plan to export NHS experitise abroad, and Labour’s NHS Global plan? Plagued by a sense of déjà-vu, FactCheck dons its white coat.
NHS hospitals are to be invited by the government to set up profit-making branches abroad to raise funds for patients at home and raise the international profile of the health service.
With the promise of a government review into the cosmetic surgery industry in the wake of the PIP scandal, the NHS medical director tells Channel 4 News vets could administer Botox.