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Written by idoxlr8
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Monday, 16 November 2009 13:16 |
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Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.
New guidance drawn up at the request of the Department of Health urges councils and other public sector bodies to “collect data” on properties where children are thought to be at “greatest risk of unintentional injury”.
Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.
The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the “creeping nanny state”.
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Written by idoxlr8
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 10:47 |
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Tags: health | Pharmaceutical
Millions of people will suffer irreversible damage as a result of being vaccinated with the Swine Flu vaccine and Many Thousands Will Die, some immediately, and some more slowly.
How bad it will get depends entirely on how many people take the deadly vaccine. I can only hope enough people will wake up in time.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 10:54 |
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Written by idoxlr8
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 19:21 |
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Tags: health A new headline-grabbing report from the White House(pdf) claims that swine flu could plausibly infect up to 50% of Americans, causing flu symptoms among some 60 to 120 million of them, and leading to as many as 1.8 million hospitalizations and 30,000 -90,000 deaths.
Where, exactly, do numbers like these come from? The new report was put together by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. It turns out the predictions are based on just a couple key facts:
* The virus seems to be transmitted from person to person at the same rate as in previous flu pandemics — a rate that's much higher than that of the regular seasonal flu. Rapid transmission suggests that the total number of infections could be very high.
* The death rate for people who catch H1N1 seems about the same as that for seasonal flu. The White House advisors estimate that, so far, between 1 in 1,000 and 3 in 1,000 people who have needed medical help then end up dying. Assuming that this normal death rate continues during flu season, the total number of deaths is projected to be much higher than normal because of the higher number of infections.
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Written by Snow Crash
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Monday, 10 August 2009 09:41 |
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Tags: health Research has cast doubt on the policy of giving antiviral drugs to children for swine flu.
Work in the British Medical Journal shows Tamiflu and Relenza rarely prevent complications in children with seasonal flu, yet carry side effects.
Although they did not test this in the current swine flu pandemic, the authors say these drugs are unlikely to help children who catch the H1N1 virus.
The government has stuck by its policy of offering them to anyone infected.
The Department of Health said a "safety-first approach" of offering antivirals to everyone remains a sensible and responsible way forward, but promised to keep the policy under review.
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