Daily Archives: July 6, 2012

New care objectives for improving our health and healthcare

Posted on July 6th, 2012

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley today set out his new care objectives for the improvement of health and healthcare, with the publication of his draft mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board. “Our NHS care objectives: a draft mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board”, sets out the Health Secretary’s expectations for the health service and marks the [...]

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Five babies die from whooping cough

Posted on July 6th, 2012

The Health Protection Agency has urged parents to ensure they get their babies vaccinated against whooping cough after five deaths from the condition. In what is thought to be the biggest outbreak in two decades, 1,781 adults and children have had the illness, according to HPA figures, compared to 2010 when there were just 137 [...]

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Home testing for HIV ‘is now a reality’

Posted on July 6th, 2012

“US approves first over-the-counter HIV home-use test,” BBC News has reported, adding that the new test could go on sale in the US “within months”. The BBC said that 1.2 million people in the US are estimated to be living with HIV infection, with about 50,000 new HIV infections being diagnosed every year. About one [...]

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