The Great Consolidation
What more can the government shut down? Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.
Archive for the 'health' Category
The Patient Stalkers
Beware of privatisation schemes dressed up as customer choice.
Pro-Death
Religious conservatives are responsible for high abortion rates
The Fat Cats Protection League
Wherever you hear the words “free market”, you’ll find massive state handouts to corporations
Not What It Says on the Tin
Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding
Breast Beating
The G8 has the interests of the rest of the world at heart - until they conflict with its own.
Willy Loman Syndrome
Young people are being torn apart by the gulf between expectation and reality. Is it any wonder that rates of mental illness are rising?
Passive Driving
Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?
The Patient is Dying
The Labour Party has 24 hours to save the National Health Service
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A Challenge to the Chancellor
Refute these charges, or admit that the private finance initiative is built on fraud and false accounting
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Bleeding Us Dry
Money is being siphoned out of our new hospitals before they receive a single patient
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Mad Cows Are Back
Mark Purdey’s explanation of the origins of BSE is gathering weight
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No Blood Please, We’re British
Older mothers have been judged an offence against Nature
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The ministry that hides from truth
Gulf war veterans deserve better treatment and we need honesty.
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A Cancer in the System
Why are the government and the big charities ignoring the environmental causes of cancer?
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The NHS is Being Privatised
But so subtly that even ministers don’t seem to know what’s going on
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The Most Polluted Place in Europe
The Public Health Emergency No One Has Noticed
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The Pope Spreads AIDS
The Holy Father is responsible for the deaths of thousands
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A Murderous Conspiracy
The US government is trying to destroy South Africa’s AIDS prevention programme
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A Cancer at the Heart of Government
Britain’s public health policies stop where corporate interests begin.
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Poisoning the Poor
The poor are dying younger because they are being systematically poisoned
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Don’t Get Sick!
The Private Finance Initiative is forcing doctors to work dangerously long hours
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New Threats from the Killer Cars
Traffic pollution might be responsible for the surge in both blindness and lung cancer
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Cuckoos in the Nest
The corporate capture of the National Health Service means that it can only shrink, not grow.
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Warm Words, but no Action
30,000 old people are dying of cold each year, and the Government does nothing
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Lagging Behind
The thousands of extra deaths each winter are just one symptom of a massive national housing crisis
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Crossing the Species Barrier
We desperately need a public debate about xenotransplantation
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