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LONDON, July 9 (UPI) -- The British government says 14 people infected with the H1N1 influenza virus, or swine flu, have died in Britain to date.
LONDON, March 15 (UPI) -- Britain's chief medical officer wants a minimum price for alcoholic beverages to discourage an epidemic of binge drinking, sources say.
LONDON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Britain's chief medical officer is calling for an overhaul of how human organs are donated to boost the number of transplants in the country.
LONDON, July 18 (UPI) -- Hand hygiene in hospitals increases significantly when patients ask doctors and nurses if they've washed before an examination.
LONDON, July 17 (UPI) -- All United Kingdom residents should automatically be considered organ donors unless they specifically object, the country's head doctor said Tuesday.
LONDON, June 24 (UPI) -- Health experts in Britain are warning parents who smoke that lighting up in front of their children raises the chances their children will become smokers.
LONDON, July 15 (UPI) -- Doctors in Britain would have to renew their licenses every five years under proposals inspired by the case of a doctor who killed about 250 patients.
LONDON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The number of British children with type 2 diabetes, which normally presents in middle-aged people, has risen ten-fold in the past five years.
LONDON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- An e-mail from a top official with Britain's Department of Health obtained by The Observer reveals acute financial problems in the National Health Service.
LONDON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A Vietnamese doctor with experience in treating avian flu says Tamiflu, the drug being stockpiled for treatment of avian flue is useless against the virus.
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