7,971 source-backed health facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 60 of 80.
“Many developing countries now have, with foreign assistance, built up the infrastructure so that routine immunisations can now be offered to up to 80% of the world's poorest children.”
“Gavi, a public-private partnership which draws together organisations including the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the vaccine industry, is now trying to secure funding for 15 countries to a…”
“"Without this funding for immunisation, the world will not reach Millennium Goal 4 to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds by 2015," she said.”
“Gavi estimates that secures the funding it could immunise 240m children by 2015, four million deaths could be prevented - including one million from pneumococcal disease and rotavirus.”
“About 60% of Italians regularly eat mozzarella, statistics suggest”
“A batch of about 70,000 mozzarella balls which turned blue upon opening has been confiscated by food authorities in Italy, officials say.”
“The health ministry said it had activated the European "rapid alert" system to warn of possible contamination, and announced emergency control measures on the cheese.”
“About 60% of Italians regularly eat the soft, white cheese, according to the Italian farmers' group, Coldiretti.”
“Health Minister Ferruccio Fazio alerted German authorities and the European Commission about the possible contamination.”
“Initial tests at an institute in Turin found the colouring to be caused by a bacterium, rather than toxic contamination, AFP reported.”
“for giving excessive morphine to 18 dying patients.”
“in two cases, he hastened the deaths of patients without their permission.”
“when he was dying from cancer in May 1988.”
“qualified in 1958”
“three decades spent as a GP”
“without the consent of two patients”
“some of the 18 patients”
“I twice helped people die, not because they wanted to die but because they had such dreadful suffering. Everyone else wanted to [die] - they could make that choice.”
“He was struck off by the General Medical Council for giving excessive morphine to 18 dying patients.”
“The GMC's fitness to practise hearing in Manchester centred on the deaths of patients between 1994 and 2004 at surgeries in Newton Aycliffe, Shildon and Eldon.”
“One of those who he gave a final injection to was his son, Paul, 31, when he was dying from cancer in May 1988.”
“Friday's GMC disciplinary panel found Dr Martin had not acted negligently, but it did say he had 'violated the rights of the terminally ill' and the retired 75-year-old was struck off for 'completely unacceptable' treatment of some patient…”
“GMC panel chairman Professor Brian Gomes da Costa said: 'Dr Martin's decisions to administer large doses of strong pain-killing drugs were made on the scantiest of evidence. There were many occasions when there was no clinical indication t…”
“Dr Martin, a former Army doctor and police surgeon who qualified in 1958, said that during his three decades spent as a GP he had not hidden his views.”
“Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said he was horrified and there was no excuse for hastening patients' deaths.”
“BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said Dr Martin's admission that he acted without the consent of two patients meant that he was unlikely to win support even among those who want to legalise assisted dying.”
“In 2006, the British Medical Association voted by an overwhelming majority against legalising physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.”
“Dr Howard Martin says he hastened two people's deaths without permission”
“Dr Michael Irwin, 79, of Surrey, has asked Crown Prosecution Service to charge him after he took a man to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.”
“Up to 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking water in recent decades, according to a Lancet study.”
“The research assessed nearly 12,000 people in a district of the capital Dhaka for over a period of 10 years.”
“More than 20% of deaths among those assessed were caused by the naturally occurring poisonous element, it found.”
“The NHS says there are now more than 20 BreastStart support groups in Lincolnshire as well as two baby cafes.”
“On Wednesday, 12 mothers will be presented with certificates for completing a training course to give support to other women in Boston.”
“Women who breastfeed their child are protecting them from childhood diabetes, obesity and asthma, and reducing their risk of breast and ovarian cancer.”
“The peer, who served as a cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, said the NHS had paid out £8bn in five years - only a third of which went to claimants, the rest to lawyers and claims companies.”
“He said that under current laws "the firemen could say they wouldn't go to a fire because it was too dangerous". "We've just got to get sense back into the system," he added. Lord Young told the Times there had been "three instances of pol…”
“Lord Young said there were "children dying because of health and safety".”
“the man was taken to St Thomas' Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries”
“Five people were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at a house in Newport on Saturday morning.”
“He received precautionary oxygen therapy from paramedics at the scene after the fire involving his grill pan and frying pan.”
“More than 10,000 people who took part in an overnight walk through Edinburgh are hoping to raise more than £3m for breast cancer research and care.”
“Recent projects in Scotland which have benefited from Walk the Walk events include donations towards a £2.1m Maggie's centre at Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow”
“and funding for the Breast Cancer Institute at The Western Infirmary.”
“But Mr Gittins could have gone on to recover had Dr Martin not intervened with 200mg of diamorphine, a General Medical Council hearing was told.”
“Among them was 74-year-old oesophageal cancer sufferer Harry Gittins who died on 22 January 2004.”
“The doctor then gave him a dose of morphine which left him unconscious for the rest of the day, said Mr Gittins.”
“That evening the doctor returned to say his father would die that night, he added.”
“A retired family doctor has been struck off the medical register after giving excessively high doses of morphine to 18 patients.”
“Last year, the charity spent nearly a million pounds supporting some of the orphanages which look after the estimated 160,000 children who've lost one or both parents to the disease”
“Last year, the charity spent nearly a million pounds supporting some of the orphanages which look after the estimated 160,000 children who've lost one or both parents to the disease and paying the running costs of seven schools for childre…”
“a 33-year-old man is being treated for breathing in smoke.”
“A special service in honour of more than 200 people who donated their bodies to medical science in the 1960s and 1970s has been held.”
“Rachel Griffin died after a double lung transplant on 21 May [...] She died on 21 May.”
“Mrs Griffin said her daughter's condition deteriorated and she asked to be put on the transplant list in 2005. She was assessed and put on the list two years later.”
“Rachel received a call in the early hours of 13 April, telling her to go to Wythenshawe as soon as possible as lungs had become available.”
“before she was rushed into theatre to undergo the eight-hour transplant operation.”
“But after about 10 days her condition deteriorated. She was put into a ventilator and later on an ECMO machine [...] But, despite their efforts, Rachel died a few days later.”
“Ms Scott was given the lungs of an individual who it subsequently transpired had smoked for 30 years, although there is no suggestion that contributed to her death.”
“But they said all patients undergo rigorous assessments before they are put on the transplant list.”
“We do not divulge personal information about the donor in accordance with national guidance on patient confidentiality.”
“More than 30,000 women give birth in Wales every year”
“It examined work at 12 NHS trusts and the Powys local health board during 2007 and 2008.”
“nearly a third felt they were 'not always treated with kindness and understanding' during postnatal care.”
“eight NHS trusts, at the time of the audit, were failing to meet the recommended staffing levels for midwives.”
“for giving excessive morphine doses to 18 dying patients.”
“the 75-year-old was struck off”
“I twice helped people die”
“Paul, 31”
“three decades”
“between 1994 and 2004”
“The now retired County Durham GP was struck off on Friday by the General Medical Council for giving excessive morphine doses to 18 dying patients.”
“Friday's GMC disciplinary panel found he had not acted negligently, but it did say he had 'violated the rights of the terminally ill' and the 75-year-old was struck off for 'completely unacceptable' treatment of some patients.”
“Dr Martin told the Telegraph that, in two cases, he hastened the deaths of patients without their permission.”
“GMC panel chairman Professor Brian Gomes da Costa said: "Dr Martin's decisions to administer large doses of strong pain-killing drugs were made on the scantiest of evidence."”
“His record-keeping, including reasons for giving treatments, was appalling.”
“"Hospitals and other institutions are running low on medical supplies," he added.”
“It is estimated that 1 in 15,000 people suffer from trigeminal neuralgia.”
“As I came out of theatre, I thought 'he's done it'," he said. "There was no pain and I needed no painkillers.”
“I went back to see Nik Patel and told him I felt wonderful, and that's how it has been in the nine months since.”
“And he said that although the operation has been carried out for over a decade it was still not widely known...”
“...it was still not widely known, with only a handful of surgeons carrying it out.”
“We constantly give presentations and exhibit at medical conferences across the country.”
“Those who drank more than six cups of tea a day cut their risk of heart disease by a third, the study of 40,000 people found.”
“But the study in the Journal of the American Heart Association finds those who drank between two and four cups a day lowered the risk of the disease by 20%.”
“the study of 40,000 people found”
“It's basically a good news story for those who like tea and coffee. These drinks appear to offer benefits for the heart without raising the risk of dying from anything else”
“This study adds further weight to the evidence that drinking tea and coffee in moderation is not harmful for most people, and may even lower your risk of developing, or dying, from heart disease.”
“The fitness to practise hearing in Manchester centred on the deaths of patients between 1994 and 2004 at surgeries in Newton Aycliffe, Shildon and Eldon.”
“administered 200mg of diamorphine on the day before he died.”
“A firefighter, Steve Morris, suffered 50% burns trying to rescue the family. He is still recovering from his injuries.”
“The publication revealed that £825m of public money was given as cash advances to Scotland's NHS boards in April, as well as £800m in grants to local authorities.”
“The biggest single item of expenditure was £200m to Greater Glasgow Health Board.”
“Brett Cabourn, 30”
“in a coma for three weeks”
“24/7”
“She told the High Court in February that she consulted a prison medical officer three times, in March, April and May 2005, about a lump on her right breast.”
“Her cancer was discovered after she left prison in 2005, and she underwent a mastectomy a year later.”
“One of the men, Luke Jackson, is being treated for 23% burns at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.”
“One of the WCIT's most significant achievements in this field is its work in developing a communication system for terminally ill children which it has now put in place in over 40 children's hospices around the country.”
