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Health News for 8 April 2008

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Call for cut in drink-drive limit is online

Apr 8 2008

DOCTORS’ leaders in Wales are calling for a cut in the permitted alcohol levels for drink-driving offences – and have set up a petition on the Downing Street website calling for support....

Pacemaker surgery for five-day-old baby

Apr 8 2008

LIAM KING has become one of the youngest patients to have a pacemaker fitted after having the life-saving operation at just five days old....

Mixed response to health workers’ pay offer

Apr 8 2008

NURSES and other health workers will be offered a three-year pay deal worth almost 8%....

Charity Champion accepts cheque

Apr 8 2008

ROBERT REES, last year’s South Wales Echo Charity Champion, has accepted a £2,000 donation for the National Osteoporosis Society, following a recent talk he gave on the debilitating disease....

Women get tests, so should men, says campaign

Apr 8 2008

MEN with prostate cancer are calling for a national screening programme to ensure the disease is found earlier....

Prostate cancer victims call for routine testing

Apr 8 2008

HUNDREDS of deaths from prostate cancer in Wales could be prevented if men are routinely screened for the disease, patients have claimed....

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