Britain to get national health screening: government
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to announce plans Monday for a new national screening programme to combat some of the country's biggest killer diseases, his office said.
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John Reid, the health secretary, yesterday championed personal choice over state dictation as he launched the government&#39;s wide-ranging blueprint for disease prevention ranging from smoking bans to personal health trainers, curbs on advertising junk food
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Cigarette packs will be required next year to display such graphic images as diseased organs in a bid to scare smokers into snuffing out their butts, the government announced Wednesday.
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Britain's Food Standards Agency board on Thursday gave the go-ahead for plans to add folic acid to foods in a bid to cut birth defects and said levels should be controlled in some products to prevent over-consumption.
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A ban on smoking in movie theaters, shopping malls, pubs and other public places in England will take effect July 1, the government said Friday.
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The UK is drawing up plans to deal with a possible outbreak of blu flu.
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LONDON - The British government announced plans Tuesday to impose a smoking ban across England and Wales. As part of the government&#39;s wide-ranging &quot;White Paper on Public Health,&quot; which also aims to tackle
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week will put efforts to curb disease and poverty in Africa at the center of the agenda of the Group of Eight industrial nations next year.
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At-risk patients in England are to be offered screening for heart disease and strokes, Gordon Brown is to say.
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The government is to spend 75 million  pounds on a campaign to encourage healthy lifestyles and  counter what it calls an obesity epidemic in Britain.
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Britain will work with other countries to speed up the development of an Aids vaccine, Chancellor Gordon Brown says.
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The British government plans to impose a  sweeping public smoking ban across England and Wales and will  consider curbs on television advertising of "junk food" aimed  at children.
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The introduction of a national screening programme for chlamydia will be fast-tracked in efforts to tackle soaring rates of sexual disease, the Government said today.
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The British Conservative party promised to test immigrants from outside the European Union (EU) for HIV, tuberculosis and other diseases if it wins elections expected in May.
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The British government plans to impose a sweeping public smoking ban across England and Wales and will consider curbs on television advertising of &quot;junk food&quot; aimed at children.
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The Department of Health is to consider vaccinating children in England against chickenpox.
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Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is expected to outline plans to abolish hidden waiting lists.