Mine over matter?

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A planning decision is expected soon about Windsor, the largest opencast coal mine in Europe, on the edge of the village of Kirkhamgate, England. Local people are concerned about the possibility of the mine causing respiratory illness in children, even though a new government report has found no connection between opencast mining and child respiratory illness. Some observers believe that the report was deliberately issued just before the planning decision is due. It is claimed that, since the end of opencast mining around the village in the mid-1990s, there has been a fall in the number of children using inhalers regularly.

Health aspects, Causes of, Asthma in children, Coal, Childhood asthma

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Time is money for nurse with MS

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UK nurse Debbie Beeley believes she could help educate nurses to deal with the psychological and emotional strain of caring for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) as she is a sufferer herself and has first hand experience of the disease. A financially motivated withdrawal of drugs to help Beeley cope with her disease has angered her as she wishes to remain in her job and care for her two young children for as long as possible. Beeley is seeking to raise up to 10,000 pounds sterling to pay for her own course of interferon beta, which is used to alleviate the symptoms of MS.

United Kingdom, Social policy, Nurses, Interview, Multiple sclerosis, Beeley, Debbie

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Conditions for life support

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A liaison nurse has been appointed at Killingbeck Hospital in Leeds, England, who is dedicated to helping young people with congenital heart problems. The sufferers need information that is not readily available from consultants, general practitioners or overprotective parents. The adolescents can obtain advise from the liaison nurse on issues such as sex, contraception, alcohol, career prospects and exercise, and some patients are surprised to discover that their physical limitations are less restrictive than perceived.

Hospitals, Practice, Nursing, Congenital heart defects, Congenital heart disease in children, Leeds, England

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