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1,000 babies die ‘unnecessarily’ each year due to midwife shortage

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As many as 1,000 unborn babies die each year because doctors and midwives are overstretched or too poorlytrained to spot danger signs, an expert claims.
A quarter […]

‘Country is watching’ Massachusetts insurance plan

BOSTON Little more than a year after it was passed by Massachusetts officials, the nation’s first law requiring people to have health insurance faces its biggest test: Will the remaining 375,000 or so uninsured buy policies?
Signs of the state’s push for people to buy coverage are everywhere. Ads urging people to get policies […]

Coming to a Bed Near You

By Catherine Sharick
One morning a few months ago Sheila White and her boyfriend, Keith O’Neill, woke up with itchy pink raised welts on their arms and legs. Since they often spend hot nights with their windows open, they thought the problem was mosquitoes. But when the bites got worse and no flying culprit appeared […]

Poll: People doubt feds’ ability to handle disease outbreak

WASHINGTON The public has little faith the government is adequately screening visitors to the country or could cope with an outbreak of an infectious disease, according to an AP-Ipsos poll.
Only one in five surveyed said the government is doing enough to scrutinize people crossing the border into the U.S., the poll found. Just […]

vCJD ‘could be endemic in the UK’

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The human form of mad cow disease could become endemic throughout the UK, a leading scientist warned today.
Thousands could be infected with variant CJD without symptoms […]