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United Kingdom bans puberty blockers indefinitely: It’s a “death sentence”
The United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care has placed a permanent, indefinite ban on puberty blockers, extending it to include Northern Ireland as well. It is set to go into effect on ...
MPs critical of NHS leaders after ‘disappointing’ evidence session
The chair of the Health and Social Care committee said that MPs were left “disappointed” after Amanda Pritchard, chief ...
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How big is the burden of visual loss caused by age related macular degeneration in the United Kingdom?
1 Department of Public Health Sciences ... in the ageing population of the United Kingdom. Methods: A systematic review, followed by a request for data, was used to establish a pooled prevalence of ...
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The risk to the United Kingdom population of zinc cadmium sulfide dispersion by the Ministry of Defence during the “cold war”
1 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, University of London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK Objectives: To estimate exposures to cadmium (Cd) received by ...
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Chronic effects of air pollution
The quantification report 1 of the United Kingdom Department of Health estimated that particles contribute to around 8500 deaths a year in the United Kingdom when considering the information available ...