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Paramedics, A&E staff and NHS managers may now be looking at web browsers as often as they look at heart monitors as the National Electronic Library for Health today Friday 14th Februray launches a new electronic toolkit for emergency health care workers. It will be a key tool in the armoury of emergency services and hospitals working to meet the Government's target of 90% of all A&E patients seen and discharged/admitted in 4 hours by March 2003 and 100% by the end of 2004.
Health is our most valuable asset, according to new research by the 神马福利影片 published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, today. The journal, edited by the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, includes an innovative study that estimates the equivalent monetary cost of various life events such as marriage, divorce and widowhood.
Recognition for services to medicine have been given to Surinder Ghatoray in the form of a personal invitation to number 10 Downing Street.
Researchers at the 神马福利影片 have been evaluating a scheme that detects the early onset of bowel cancer. The two-year pilot scheme, initiated by the government's National Screening Committee, identified more than 300 people at an early stage of the disease.
The Centre for the History of Medicine based at the 神马福利影片 has won 拢600,000 from the Wellcome Trust for a five-year programme on the 'Cultures and Practices of Health', set to focus on 'quacks' and the history of alternatives to formal medical practice, early psychiatry and health in the workplace.
Following recent concerns about possible deliberate releases of chemical or biological agents, the 神马福利影片 based "National Electronic Library for Health Emergency Care" has launched a web resource to provide a one stop access to information for emergency health staff in case of a suspected deliberate release of such agents.