7,971 source-backed health facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 79 of 80.
“King’s College Hospital believes that it could fashion 250,000 square feet of Dermagraft artificial skin from cells in one foreskin.”
“588 inpatient bed days”
“23 patients awaiting admission”
“six had been waiting for up to two days”
“Ten more were awaiting review”
“21 trolley slots”
“ten-day waiting-list”
“but when he does it in the New Statesman, Tony Blair goes into meltdown and promises an alleged £26bn in extra funding.”
“‘Crisis is an overused word when it comes to the NHS,’ he says.”
“the previous November, he had announced £250m extra to avoid it”
“saving an impressive “588 inpatient bed days” in the first year alone.”
“Certainly, the Bristol centre is an impressive multi-floored, multimillion-pound refurbishment”
“lung cancer rates in California dropped 14 per cent between 1988 and 1997, compared with 2.7 per cent nationwide.”
“from 1 January, there will be over- the-counter availability of this drug”
“Long before the Pill joined the party in the 1960s, it was widely accepted that, come a certain age, gymkhana girl would visit Mummy’s private gynaecologist for “a fitting””
“The average life expectancy of a man in the lowest social group is 9.5 years shorter than that of a man in the highest social group.”
“Back in 1972, the gap was 5.5 years.”
“The comparable gap for women is 6.4 years now”
“but was 5.3 years in 1972.”
“The Labour government is pouring money into the NHS: it has promised £19.4bn in additional funds over four years to “modernise” the service.”
“The NHS is the country’s largest single employer”
“Studies by the King’s Fund have demonstrated the value of health advocates for minority ethnic communities and refugee groups – helping them gain access to basic health services, training health professionals to deal more competently with …”
“There are 95,000 cases of food poisoning a year in Britain, and almost all are from conventional food.”
“people who bought organic food thinking it was safer or more nutritious were wasting their money.”
“They say there is no evidence of more danger of food poisoning – as the Food Standards Agency itself has pointed out.”
“In Europe, for example, about 15 per cent of GDP is spent on health and education, mostly by governments – a prize worth chasing.”
“Pascal Lamy, the European Union trade commissioner, told Gats 2000 that he believed health and education were both 'ripe for liberalisation'.”
“In the past few weeks, Pinochet is said to have had pneumonia, and has been a frequent visitor to the military hospital...”
“The Southwood committee, set up in 1988 to investigate the danger to humans and animals from BSE.”
“The FSA was established in April this year.”
“There are 84 known cases of the new variant form of CJD (vCJD), linked to BSE.”
“Maff still retains control of three areas of food safety – pesticides, veterinary medicine and, hold your breath, BSE itself.”
“80 per cent of 14-year-olds thought most teenagers have had sex by the age of 16.”
“on average, boys have sex for the first time at 16; girls a year later.”
“Those pupils not on the programme were one and a half times more likely to have had intercourse by the age of 16 than those who were.”
“A third of young women become pregnant before the age of 20; around 40,000 teenagers annually have an abortion.”
“The average age for the first experience of intercourse is almost 18, when 84 per cent use contraception; 93 per cent of young people say they always use contraception; the pregnancy rate is only 4.2 per 1,000, as is the abortion rate.”
“In the Seventies, teenage pregnancies and abortion rates began to rise – so contraception was immediately made available to those in school.”
“HIV affects as many as 20 per cent of the population.”
“Southern Africa allegedly has the most catastrophic infection rate in the world.”
“250,000 children had been orphaned so far, due to Aids-related diseases”
“about six million, mostly economically active, South Africans will die of Aids in the next decade”
“after an eight-week trip through the country to evaluate the effects of HIV/Aids”
“South Africa could not afford to use anti-retroviral drugs on HIV-positive women, as this might produce too many healthy orphans for whom the state would have to care.”
“A third of young women become pregnant before the age of 20.”
“around 40,000 teenagers annually have an abortion.”
“about 80 per cent of hospitals are trusts”
“Noting that, in the US, about 80 per cent of hospitals are trusts”
“Blair has increased central control by making the NHS accountable to him, as head of a special cabinet committee.”
“men are "biologically disposed" to fall in love at 50”
“Tony Blair’s doubling to £100m of Britain’s contribution to spending on malaria, TB and Aids”
“every year, two million people die needlessly from TB and a million die from malaria”
“Aids has wound back the economic clock by three decades in certain parts of Africa”
“200 of 1,700 severely disabled children in Ontario receive specialist care.”
“Its plans to increase health spending by more than a quarter in real terms over the next four years”
“Ben, her son, is ten”
“Jean, a single parent, has been on anti‑depressants for the past four years”
“40 per cent of NHS resources and two-thirds of hospital beds are used by the over‑65s”
“The rules and regulations that require food to be prepared in a "bacteria-free environment" prevent the immune system from producing the antibodies that fight off infection, he told the Independent last month. As a result, we have become m…”
“A little dirt in your organic vegetables is not going to hurt you," he observed. He, too, speculated that "squeaky-clean" food could be harming the immune system: "We have to ask ourselves why there is now so much more food poisoning and a…”
“This phenomenon, from the Greek "to excite", is defined by Dr Gordon Lithgow of Manchester University as "a process whereby low doses of an otherwise harmful agent may result in a stimulating or beneficial effect"... This shows – in animal…”
“There is no evidence of the significant rise in pollutants that would have been necessary to have caused this increased frequency.”
“Air pollution as the cause of asthma has the seeming merit of appealing to common sense," comments Professor Newman Taylor of London’s Royal Brompton Hospital, "yet the relationship has not been observed."”
“the "fall in family size reduces the chances that toddlers and infants encounter infections sufficiently early"”
“They are also more common in children from professional rather than working-class families.”
“They are also more frequent in small, rather than large, families.”
“The increased prevalence of these illnesses also coincides with a precipitous decline in the major childhood infections of the postwar years”
“Everyone has more than 100 billion of th”
“I haven’t been out for two weeks”
“I haven’t done drugs this month”
“I’ve given up smoking and drank on only two evenings last week”
“I have just spent 35 days at the Meadows Clinic in Arizona”
“spending on the NHS will increase by a third – the biggest ever increase in its entire history”
“the explosive Aids epidemic, which has afflicted 23 million people.”
“one in ten South Africans HIV positive”
“1,500 more being infected each day”
“He was admitted in 1950, aged six months, and discharged in 1955.”
“There are more than 8.5 million people in Britain with a disability.”
“One in seven in Scotland across all ages: mental health, sensory loss, mental and physical disability," says Benson.”
“Ten-year-old Stephen has “a perforated kidney”. He also suffers from “temper problems”, which the school regards as serious enough to require professional attention.”
“Lisa is now so mentally handicapped that she spends one week in three in care.”
“One in seven in Scotland across all ages: mental health, sensory loss, mental and physical disability”
“He was admitted in 1950, aged six months, and discharged in 1955”
“produced here at the rate of 11 every 24 hours”
“I was cooking spaghetti for 300 new arrivals at a camp for Kosovar refugees in Albania.”
“This was confirmed by a nutritional survey in January 2000 in Kosovo which found that, while only 5.3 per cent of adult women were undernourished, 23.6 per cent were overweight and 10.4 per cent were obese. Among the elderly (both sexes), …”
“having gathered on 12 April”
“around 20 each”
“only five days to spare”
“in 1988”
“The Health Secretary is to oversee the extra spending of £19.4bn pledged by Tony Blair last month to improve the National Health Service.”
“The plan is for each team, having gathered on 12 April, to aim by early July to report on how the NHS billions should flow.”
“Some also fear an old-fashioned medical establishment takeover and that the very size of working groups – around 20 each – will hamper their efficiency.”
“Dismay arose when it became clear that some had been invited to the initial meetings with only five days to spare.”
“It is chaired by the special adviser Simon Stevens, a former NHS manager turned local health authority official, recruited by Frank Dobson in 1997.”
“He will certainly need a fair wind to escape a fate similar to that of John Moore, the last rising star responsible for health to head such a review in 1988 under an equally dominant leader. He lost his career over it.”
“the incidence of prostate cancer has climbed by 70 per cent in the past 15 years.”
“As Claire Walker reported (New Statesman Scotland, 22 November 1999), suicide rates among young Scottish men are soaring, and for those who outlive the 25- to 34-year-old age group, the incidence of prostate cancer has climbed by 70 per ce…”
“In Australia, we also have a culture of men keeping their troubles to themselves, arising out of depressions, wars and tough times. And we also have a very high male suicide rate, it is our leading cause of death for men under 60.”
“has supported their daughter Louise, who has been disabled since the age of six with rheumatoid arthritis.”
