UK Health Newswire Archive
Patients Must Travel Further To See GPs
16-06-2006 21:33
In the ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’ White Paper, the government has published details of how you must travel further to see your doctors and dentists, spending more time and money whilst damaging the environment with increased exhaust emissions that poison us all.Dirty Tricks from the Dirty Incinerator!
16-06-2006 19:00
No M1 Widening Protest
15-06-2006 18:09
Perrier Comedy Award ends as Nestle bows to boycott pressure
14-06-2006 22:40
A boycott of the Nestlé Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe was launched in 2001. Today Nestlé announced it was no longer sponsoring the Award and the organiser announced a new sponsor. The demonstration outside the event was part of the protest calendar, but good riddance to Nestlé.End University and Other Cat Torture
14-06-2006 08:34
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Emory, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Univ of Wisconsin
Ohio State
Keep Our NHS Public Demo & Meeting
13-06-2006 11:03
Cuts and job losses will devastate health services. The NHS debt of £800m is less than 1% of its total budget. The government could easily afford to cancel the debt and cancel job cuts. Join together to make them give us the money to run the NHS.More McHospitals for Merseyside!
12-06-2006 16:46
Following hard on the heels of the Liverpool Women's and the Countess of Chester hospitals, two more local hospital trusts have applied for 'foundation' status - opening healthcare up for private profit.The Final Push to Stop The Expansion of Eastcroft Incinerator
09-06-2006 20:48
This decision will in all probability be put to the vote at the Development and Control Committee meeting on 19 July at the Council House Nottingham.
(BAYER)Chemical Pollution: Abnormal Birth Rates in Canadian Native Reserve
09-06-2006 12:58
There's something is in the air at the Aamjiwnaang First Nations reserve near Sarnia, Ontario. But it's not just in the air. It's also in the water, the soil, and in the residents themselves: alarming levels of toxic chemicals, believed to be behind the area's skewed birth ratios. In Aamjiwnaang, two girls are born for every boy.Europe’s Biggest Corporate Responsibility Summit London: A Family's Plea For Help
09-06-2006 06:36
Mersey Ambulance Staff Fight Employers' Hypocrisy
08-06-2006 14:29
Ambulance staff on Merseyside are considering strike action after their employers - the Merseyside Regional Ambulance Service Trust - double-crossed them over a new pay deal.Wirral NHS Cuts Boost Private Sector
08-06-2006 13:48
Following yesterday's publication of the NHS deficit figures (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5055602.stm), Wirral Hospital Trust has announced it will slash its budget by £21.5 million over the next five years.
AXE Protest at So'ton Airport
08-06-2006 11:11
BAA Southampton are proposing a massive expansion of Southampton Airportwhich would increase the already chronic noise pollution experienced by
residents of Bitterne Park, as well as increasing air pollution and
carbon dioxide emissions. In response, residents and environmental
groups have joined forces to create AXE specifically to campaign against
any expansion of the airport or increase in flights.
Why Retroviruses Appear in AIDS, Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases
08-06-2006 05:23
An overview of what retroviruses are and how our own retroviruses turn up in disease due to DNA hypomethylation.It also explains why pregnant women test positive in the HIV antibody test.
This was first put on a website in Ireland.
Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements and the US C B A
07-06-2006 23:09
FTSE 100 company to 'help' run Liverpool hospital
07-06-2006 14:54
On the very day that the government announced a £500 million 'overspend' on the NHS ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5055602.stm), it has been revealed that an as yet unannounced FTSE 100 company will be invited to 'help' run the Liverpool Women's Hospital. Cadbury's and Sainsbury's are believed to be in the front running.
ORGANICS
07-06-2006 12:31
A thoughtful complaint to Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd. regarding their lack of a serious organics policy, given that many people will only encounter organic foods in large corporate food chains. I bypassed appealing to conscience in favor of pointing out various self-serving reasons to take organics seriously. (I have included it as an attachment as the color-coded version is easier to read.)nuclear accidents list: blairs legacy?
07-06-2006 02:29
Nuclear Accidents, Earth, 1952 - 252006: The problem with nuclear accidents is that they do not just happen - they go on happening.The Cambridge Recourse Center in Norfolk St
04-06-2006 19:19
G8-Xtra PDF on St. Petersburg G8 Moblisation (from esf 06)
02-06-2006 11:51
The whole pdf can be downloaded from:
http://gipfelsoli.org/Heiligendamm/IL/ESF_g8xtra_net.pdf