Manchester Health Newswire Archive

poor and partialy sighted....so we will take your baby into care

stephenc, 20-08-2007 18:37

A couple living in calderdale council area are being threatened to have there unborn baby snatched from them at birth. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Iraq Trauma: "children grow up, people grow old"

Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign, 17-08-2007 09:19

One doctor recalled "a more fearful incident, when three militiamen walked into the hospital and, unchallenged by the security guards, demanded one of his patients by name." Read more >>

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The expression of the subversive love of the Cuban revolution

posted by F Espinoza, 02-08-2007 21:01

Not only have you graduated as medical doctors, but also as humanists. You have learned what it means to practice international solidarity and have understood the reality of preventive and healing medicine in a socio-political context. This brings to reality the much celebrated phrase of Jose Marti: Homeland is humanity. Read more | 15 comments >>

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Asbestos campaigners support call for investigation into PPG Group

Save Spodden Valley, 01-08-2007 12:45

Rochdale asbestos campaigners are backing calls for an inquiry into allegations of “bribing, bullying and bugging” regarding residential planning applications. The claims have just been made by the Channel 4 Dispatches programme “Britain’s Bad Housing”. Read more | 2 comments >>

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The brain drain

posted by F Espinoza, 18-07-2007 11:56

Our world order appears to have been designed to foster the egoism, individualism and dehumanization of humanity... Read more | 16 comments >>

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Bush, health and education

posted by F Espinoza, 16-07-2007 12:38

I will not refer to Bush's health and education, but to that of his neighbors. It was not an improvised declaration. The AP agency tells us what his opening words were: "Tenemos corazones grandes en este país" (We have big hearts in this country); he said this in Spanish in front of 250 representatives of private and religious groups, foundations and NGOs who had come to Washington with all expenses paid by his government... Read more >>

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Alimta approved by NICE for asbestos cancer mesothelioma

Forum of Asbestos Victim Support Groups UK, 08-07-2007 23:34

The Forum of Asbestos Victim Support Groups welcomes the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Final Appraisal Determination which has today approved the use of Alimta to treat the terminal asbestos cancer, mesothelioma. Read more >>

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Mental Hill Bill

Bill, 06-07-2007 13:24

The debate in the House of Lords earlier this week on the highly contested Mental Hill Bill lacked vital information from the CRE, but ended with a call for a legal challenge to be mounted, on account of the Bill’s failure to meet the legal requirements of Race Relations laws. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Call for a Public Enquiry - Just sign and send!!!

Save The Festival Garden Site Campaign, 05-06-2007 21:52

We have till 19th June to reverse the despicable decision of Liverpool City Council to destroy our wild Green Space, line the pockets of property speculators and expose us and workers to the risks of a toxic waste site. The letter below can be emailed to  michael.ashton@gonw.gsi.gov.uk Please support our campaign!!! Read more >>

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The English Submarine.

posted by F Espinoza, 22-05-2007 11:05

The press dispatches bring the news; it belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain in more than two decades... Read more | 2 comments >>

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Department of Health Leak: Government Can't Be Trusted With Your Details

Dave Page, 29-04-2007 17:13

NO2ID campaigners recently condemned the Department of Health's mass exposure of student and junior doctors' private information over the internet [1].
Highly sensitive personal details - including ethnicity, sexuality and religion - held on the controversial Medical Training Application Service system were openly available online. Read more >>

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Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet

NBS SOS, 13-04-2007 12:23

Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Privatising the NHS

Free healthcare for all..., 02-04-2007 22:12

A private GP practice on Merseyside. Private health care for the paying patients only. Can we afford to let it happen? Read more | 1 comment >>

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Bhopal survivors risk starvation for justice

Percy Flage, 16-03-2007 10:54

Survivors of the world’s largest peacetime massacre – the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India, which killed over 20,000 people and maimed 120,000 more– are still battling for justice while, incredibly, being poisoned a second time by the same murderous factory. As you read this, six hunger strikers are heading into their third week without food and have already lost kilos in weight. Read more >>

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Demo against the privatization of the NHS, in Preston

David, 04-03-2007 10:29

Against profiteering in the health service. Read more >>

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Rally in support of striking mental health workers

madashell, 27-02-2007 13:51

Mental health workers in Manchester are striking over cuts and the threat of privatisation, a rally to support them has been called as a part of the TUC's national NHS Together Day of Action. Read more >>

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Ginster pieman/Nottingham Uni bid for William Sharp city Academy

Education Worker, 25-02-2007 22:38

The East Midlands meat pie industry has helped many a student through their degree with part-time work at Pork Farms. Now 'Nottingham businessman' Andrew Samworth will link up with Nottingham University to run William Sharp school in Bilbourough. The business? None other than Samworth Brothers, prior owners of Pork Farms (now sold to Northern Foods) and continuing owner/suppliers of fine cooked meat pie brands such as Ginsters. Read more | 3 additions | 5 comments >>

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Action Mesothelioma Day 2007...

ActionMeso, 24-02-2007 21:41

Tuesday 27th February is Action Mesothelioma Day.

The Forum of Asbestos Victims' Support Groups are working with other organisations and charities by marking the day with a series of public events throughout Britain.

To raise awareness of the the terminal cancer, a short film has been produced:

Mesothelioma- The Human Face of an Asbestos Epidemic... Read more >>

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Manchester Bicycle Exhibition

nes, 05-01-2007 18:12

Manchester Bicycle Exhibition will be taking place from Friday 30th March to Friday 20th April at The Basement, 24 Lever Street Manchester M1. Read more >>

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Critical mass this Friday 29th Dec

nes, 27-12-2006 16:29

The next critical mass bike ride in Manchester is Friday 29th December
We suspect lots of santa's will be on bicycles! Read more | 1 comment >>

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