7,971 source-backed health facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 63 of 80.
“Based on new research by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Sir Peter said that as many as 168 lives - about 7% of UK road deaths - could be saved by a reduced drink-drive limit in the first year. This could r…”
“Drink and drug-driving is a significant factor in the unnecessary death of many hundreds of people a year, while thousands more suffer serious injury.”
“Mr Fitzgerald said that about 8% of elderly people experience abuse.”
“The BBC's Panorama programme learnt the youngster was well known to Kirklees social services and had been put on the "at-risk" register years before she disappeared.”
“The programme claimed she was later removed from the register because she was not considered to be at risk of significant harm.”
“Matthews' cousin Vicky Saunders, who contacted the authority on two separate occasions, said: "To me I feel let down with it."”
“A toxicologist confirmed there had been alcohol in her system, plus the tranquilizer valium and methadone, a substance often prescribed as a substitute for heroin.”
“A 32-year-old man is in a critical condition, two others have serious injuries and three have lesser wounds”
“An investigation into the deaths of six patients at the former Harbourne unit in Totnes found poor care did not cause their deaths.”
“a ward for up to 10 people with mental health needs including dementia”
“looking specifically at the care of six people who died between October 2007 and November 2008”
“the Healthcare Commission, which conducted inspections of the unit in December 2008”
“The Care Quality Commission (CQC), which took over from Healthcare Commission in 2009”
“The unit was permanently closed in July 2009.”
“The trust has started a £4.6m investment programme to improve and maintain the safety of older people's units.”
“The CQC is working on a follow-up review to establish if the trust is meeting new standards which came into force this year.”
“Nearly £1m in funding to provide new mobile breast screening units is being announced by the first minister. The investment will replace the seven vehicles in Breast Test Wales' ageing fleet...”
“Public Health Wales has already provided funding to replace three other mobile units this year.”
“More than 100,000 women are screened for breast cancer a year in Wales...”
“...with half of cases detected by screening.”
“The units, which cost £980,000, are expected to be operational by January 2011.”
“Drinking water quality now meets 99% of European standards less than a percent lower than England and Wales.”
“She looks after six Aids orphans in her own home and she highlights the good work of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (also known as Kemri) which conducts research and provides treatment and prevention advice to people with the virus.”
“Birmingham's new £545m hospital”
“has 1,213 beds”
“30 operating theatres”
“for 18 months”
“more than 20 ambulances”
“in November”
“in January next year”
“October 2011”
“100-bed critical care unit”
“36 beds”
“44%”
“3,800 car parking spaces”
“more than 100 years ago”
“built in 1937”
“since 1911”
“started work from 0200 BST”
“Birmingham's new £545m hospital has started taking some of its first patients.”
“The A&E department at the new Queen Elizabeth (QE) Hospital in Edgbaston started work from 0200 BST.”
“The new complex has 1,213 beds - about the same as the combined capacity of the old hospitals - and 30 operating theatres.”
“The new complex has 1,213 beds - about the same as the combined capacity of the old hospitals - and 30 operating theatres. The hospital replaces Selly Oak and the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which was Birmingham's last purpose-built acut…”
“The new hospital will have a 100-bed critical care unit - the largest in Europe - and the largest single floor critical care unit in the world.”
“Just under half of the beds - 44% - will be in single rooms and the rest in four-bed rooms, all with full en-suite facilities.”
“Chief operating officer Kevin Bulger said planning for the A&E move had been taking place for 18 months.”
“Overnight, at any one time, there were due to be more than 20 ambulances ferrying people in a steady stream between Selly Oak and the new hospital.”
“The second stage of the move will take place in November for all inpatient beds from the QE and therapies, followed by the cardiology department in January next year.”
“The final stage of the move will happen in October 2011.”
“As well as 3,800 car parking spaces, the hospital will even have its own mini-ring road to improve access and reduce traffic on local roads.”
“It is expected that the Selly Oak site, which has been a hospital since 1911, will eventually be sold for development.”
“Nottinghamshire County Council, external has pushed on with its plans to sell 13 care homes, despite public criticism.”
“Oil has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico since a drilling rig leased by BP exploded on 20 April. The explosion killed 11 workers, and the rig sank two days later.”
“Apart from Scarborough, there was no contractual provision of mental health support.”
“The six children, who received radiotherapy in Bristol, teamed up with the animation house Aardman for the production called One of a Kind!”
“She said: 'When I went into the hospital there wasn't really anything for children, just cold black and white leaflets which were quite technical. This is quite simple and nice, from children to children.' Cameron Short, 11, from Shirehamp…”
“Cameron Short, 11, from Shirehampton near Bristol, had radiotherapy to treat a brain tumour.”
“The film will be shown in the hospitals that supported the project - in Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Oxford and Southampton - and will also be made available to all hospitals in Britain.”
“The film, which was funded by various charities, was directed by Emma Lazenby...”
“one of 11 paediatric heart units being assessed”
“More than 1,000 people have joined a Facebook group calling for the Oxford unit to be saved”
“started the group in April”
“Reece fractured his skull in the accident and underwent surgery A 12-year-old boy has fractured his skull after falling off a spinning seesaw in a Huddersfield park as he played with friends. Reece Geisler needed 30 stitches and had a bloo…”
“Reece was taken to Leeds General Infirmary after the accident on 6 May.”
“He had metal plates inserted in his head and underwent three-and-a-half hours of surgery.”
“Alastair Harvie remains in the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow where he is being treated fior serious head injuries.”
“Noel Godfrey has been in charge of the facility since 1998, but has seen his work-load increase dramatically since the start of the Second Gulf War in 2003.”
“Eleven per cent of Britain's armed forces are recruited in Wales”
“At any one time there are up to 20 men and women on residential placements and over 100 out-patients”
“When the centre opened he was the only full-time staff member, but today his team includes eight physiotherapists and two consultant doctors.”
“Mr Godfrey, himself a former soldier, has spent 40 years working in physical training and rehabilitation.”
“Recent research from the mental health charity Mind revealed that 22% of people develop depression in the course of their careers.”
“the four-month-old, known as Child A in 2009.”
“two months after the family moved from Reading to Wokingham.”
“some 14 months ago”
“At least 170 people have died in rioting which began in the cities of Osh and Jalalabad.”
“Recent tests found noise levels from a vuvuzela, at full volume and when pressed against your ear, equates to 127 decibels.”
“This is louder than a drum at 122 decibels, a chainsaw at 100 decibels and a referee's whistle at 121.8 decibels.”
“The Hear the World Foundation - set up by Swiss hearing products group Phonax to raise awareness about hearing loss - has warned that extended exposure to such noise risks permanent hearing loss.”
“She said a recent study found that aerosols, tiny droplets which can carry flu and cold germs, were formed at the bottom of a vuvuzela after people had blown into them.”
“Those particles are small enough to stay suspended in the air for hours, and can enter into the airways of a person's lungs, Dr McNerney said.”
“Highland Council chiefs have admitted they cannot afford to build five new care homes planned for the region.”
“When I visited the five care homes a week or so ago with the convener, there wasn't one person who said to me they wanted us to build a new care home.”
“In five years time or so when the financial situation is better and the bankers have paid their money back to the public purse, we can improve the facilities that are there. In the meantime we must retain the 24 local authority beds in Loc…”
“In the meantime we must retain the 24 local authority beds in Lochaber.”
“Nine of the group remain in hospital in South Africa.”
“The US has a higher rate of maternal deaths than 38 other nations - including Greece, Albania and the UK.”
“Every day in the US, at least two women die - either during childbirth, from problems such as haemorrhage - or because of pregnancy-related complications, like pre-eclampsia.”
“Health officials estimate half of these deaths are preventable.”
“especially as the District of Columbia has the worst rate of deaths among mothers of all US states.”
“Life expectancy for men in this area is 56 years - that's worse than Kenya.”
“But with standard post-natal care comprising just one check-up visit to a doctor, six weeks after giving birth, educated white women can become victims too.”
“But achieving that will require legislation in 50 states. There's a huge amount of work to be done - and that's just one tiny thing.”
“Scientists at University College London discovered people tend to think that their hands are wider and their fingers are shorter than they truly are.”
“In the study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr Longo's team asked 18 volunteers to take part in an experiment. [...] This revealed striking distortions - the volunteers tended to misjudge their hands as wider and their…”
“Our results show dramatic distortions of hand shape, which were highly consistent across participants.”
“These findings may well be relevant to psychiatric conditions involving body image such as anorexia nervosa, as there may be a general bias towards perceiving the body to be wider than it is.”
“We know that one of the features of anorexia nervosa can be distorted body image. People affected can truly believe that they are grossly fat, even when they are dangerously underweight.”
“They are able to judge other people's bodies quite accurately and would describe someone else the same size as themselves correctly, but still not be able to do that about their own weight and shape.”
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