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Children have a right to protection from preventable diseases

Article Abstract:

Experts believe that all children have the right to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases in exactly the same way as they have the right to be kept away from playing on motorways. However, parents claim that their children's immune system cannot cope with three live vaccines at once and thus measures such as antenatal classes for target groups, and running old newsreels on immunization are recommended.

Health aspects, Children, Child health, Immunization

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Sepsis may well prove to be our undoing

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The article speaks about the challenges facing us in the health sector, especially our growing reliance on technology as a replacement for personal clinical skills citing sepsis, a systematic response to infection as a cause of our undoing as that will require medical skills and not sophisticated gadgets or technology.

Care and treatment, Medical innovations, Sepsis

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'Perhaps people think cure is better than prevention

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The author discusses her opinion as a satire on healthy living.

Analysis, Quality of life, Health promotion

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