Articles...
Jan 28 2008
THE FIRST nationwide patients’ award to find a nursing star has been launched....
Jan 28 2008
PROJECTS to help prevent teenagers and children misusing alcohol are being urged to take part in a £20,000 award scheme....
Jan 28 2008
The House of Commons’ Committee of Public Accounts has recommended the NHS prescribes more generic drugs, rather than their more expensive branded counterparts. But are generic drugs as good as branded medicines, or are patients losing out when they are prescribed an older alternative? Health Wales brings together two leading experts to debate the issue...
Jan 28 2008
But there are some extra numbers worth adding to this list – your blood pressure, cholesterol levels and waist measurement....
Jan 28 2008
A TEAM of six midwives has won a major award for improving home birth and breastfeeding rates in Bridgend....
Jan 28 2008
IN JULY the National Health Service will celebrate its diamond jubilee....
Jan 28 2008
The traditional school run has been blamed for some of society’s biggest ills – from congestion and pollution to contributing to childhood obesity. Mother-of-three Rebecca Davies explains why she and her children now catch a walking bus to school...
Jan 28 2008
A NEW telephone triage service to give patients direct access to a physiotherapist has been launched in Carmarthenshire....
Jan 28 2008
BUSINESSES are increasingly turning to massage therapy to help combat at-work stress among employees....
Jan 28 2008
DR RICHARD GREVILLE is director of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry in Wales. He believes GPs should not be pressurised into prescribing older and potentially less effective drugs on the grounds of cost alone....
Jan 28 2008
WREXHAM AM Lesley Griffiths has called for the National Assembly to debate whether fluoride should be added to the Welsh water supply. But will such a form of mass medication improve our dental health?...
Jan 28 2008
THE salt cellar should be ditched from the family dinner table in a bid to improve health, a cancer expert said yesterday....
