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Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

...e Journal of clinical oncology has come out with a damning indictment of smoking. It says smokers have a three-fold chance of developing skin cancer than people who have not smoked before. The report is based on a study conducted by Dr. Jan N. Bouwes Bavinck from Leiden University Medical Center in the Nethe...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

The world health organisation has come out with a damning disclosure that half the world's children are passive smoke. In a message on "No Tobacco Day 2001," World Health Organization chief Gro Harlem Brundtland said 700 million children were exposed to the health hazard because most governments still allow...

Wearing High Heels May Be Dangerous To Health

...elation to it". Flensmark boils the matter into a damning statement: "After heeled shoes are introduced into a population, the first cases of schizophrenia appear and then the increase in prevalence of schizophrenia follows the increase in use of heeled shoes. "I have," he writes, "not been able to find an...

UK public misled over downgrading cannabis: Govt

...between cannabis and mental illness. He made these damning remarks in an interview with The Times, just weeks before he must decide whether or not to execute an embarrassing about-turn and restore the drug’s Class B status. Clarke said there was an alarming lack of knowledge about the health dangers posed...

Minster Apologizes To Women Involved In Breast Cancer Screening Scandal

... was not picked up during initial screening. The damning report states: ‘The review panel are concerned that management at the most senior level within Antrim Area Hospital failed to recognize the significant risks being taken in continuing to provide breast screening services where there was an element of...

Overspending in Hospitals to Lead to Cutbacks

... country that has over 30,000 millionaires it is a damning indictment of the Government’s commitment to our health services that we are faced with cutbacks in this already depleted servie.’...

Billions of Pounds Squandered on NHS

...w Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: “This is a damning summary of mismanagement.” However the Department of Health has defended the expenditure saying that NHS patients were receiving better care across the board....

Government Failed to Prevent Rising Teen Pregnancies

... on reducing unplanned pregnancies. This was the damning handed out by sexual health expert Professor Anna Glasier, an advocate of the strategy in the early 1990s However she now admits that she was mistaken. She says, "Emergency contraception has been heralded as the solution to rising abortion rates - it...

Social Care for Elders to Be Limited

...elders) director general Gordon Lishman "This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people.Not providing services for people with so-called moderate needs causes much anguish for the individual - but can also result in much higher and more expensive care needs in the future." ...

Mental Health of Kashmiris Needs Urgent Attention: Survey

New Delhi: A damning report on Jammu and Kashmir by humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says a third of its respondents suffered from psychological// distress and more than one in 10 had been victims of sexual violence since the beginning of the conflict. ...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...provide those affected necessary statement. In a damning revelation, the Defense Department's Task Force on Mental Health chaired by Navy Surgeon General Donald Arthur said more than one-third of troops and veterans currently suffer from problems such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress di...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

More and more damning indictment of the public health system in the US keeps tumbling out every other day. In the latest, it has been stated that adults// with serious mental illness and treated in public systems die about 25 years earlier than Americans overall. The ga...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

More damning evidence is out on the callousness of the Bush administration towards its own soldiers returning from battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. The veterans are finding it evermore difficult to get mental health treatment because military insurance is...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

More and more damning indictment of the public health system in the US keeps tumbling out every other day. In the latest, it has been stated that adults with serious mental illness and treated in public systems die about 25 years earlier than Americans overall. The gap...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...provide those affected necessary statement. In a damning revelation, the Defense Department's Task Force on Mental Health chaired by Navy Surgeon General Donald Arthur said more than one-third of troops and veterans currently suffer from problems such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress di...

Australia is Shamed by an Inquiry Report on Child Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities

...e shocked and sickened all Australians. ``It is a damning indictment of our failure to protect children,'' said Mal Brough, Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister. ``This is a national disgrace, it is a disaster and it is something that should never happen in this country.'' Brough was reacting to the report ...

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