Alan Johnson

                   

Social injustice cutting life expectancy, UN report says

guardian.co.uk     28-Aug-2008   6 related          

Inequality caused by poverty, poor education and bad housing is 'killing on a grand scale', WHO study finds Social injustice, from being born into poverty to inadequate education and bad housing, is killing on a grand...                    

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guardian.co.uk: A doctor reads a patient's blood pressure gauge guardian.co.uk

Commercial forces are putting the NHS under pressure

guardian.co.uk     28-Aug-2008          

There's no evidence that private sector involvement in the NHS benefits healthcare, argues Dr Kailash Chand A doctor reads a patient's blood pressure gauge. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty General practice is one of jewels...                    

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Wyoming's appeal in gun rights case rejected

billingsgazette.net     28-Aug-2008   2 related          

CHEYENNE - A federal appeals court in Denver has ruled against Wyoming in a lawsuit over a state law that seeks to allow people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to regain their gun rights. A three-judge panel...                    

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"New Nagging" - a very Cameroon concept [UPDATED LOTS]

libdemblogs.co.uk     28-Aug-2008   2 related          

Small bit of advice to Andrew Lansley. If you have to insist that you are not "nannying" that is almost certainly what you are doing. Finger wagging doesn't stop being finger wagging just because you have the fingers of...                    

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NHRA preview: Kalitta must do well to make Countdown

heraldnet.com     28-Aug-2008   2 related          

Herald news services INDIANAPOLIS -- Mac Tools driver Doug Kalitta knows that he must do well at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals to maintain his position in the Top 10 of the Countdown to the Championship. Kalitta was on a...                    

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telegraph.co.uk: Table shoing the percentage of those registered with GP as obese telegraph.co.uk

Extent of obesity crisis laid bare by 'fat map' of Britain

telegraph.co.uk     27-Aug-2008   20 related          

The Shetland islands top the table as the fattest part of the country while the former coal mining town of Barnsley has the highest rate of obesity in England. By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent The areas of Britain...                    

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Hawaii Has one of the Highest Rates of Alcoholism and Drunk Driving

khon2.com     27-Aug-2008   1 related          

Hawaii has one of the highest rates of alcoholism and drunk driving in the nation and the legislature may take steps to correct that. The house health committee held a hearing today to listen to the experts. Nearly every...                    

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Alan Johnson: Facing up to violence in Iran

guardian.co.uk     26-Aug-2008          

Take the experience of shame. The touch of unremediable violence, and the invitation to feel broken and conquered, was felt in extremis by the Iranian writers and human rights activists Ladan and Roya Boroumand. In 1991...                    

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Will David Miliband be the UK’s first atheist prime minister?

archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com     26-Aug-2008          

This was the question posed by AC Grayling, one of the foremost philosophers of the postmodern age, with The Guardian reasoning that ‘in this climate of quarrels between religionists and secularists, there are very many...                    

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Tories say Labour neglects teenage health

guardian.co.uk     26-Aug-2008   11 related          

The Conservatives yesterday charged the Labour government with creating a "teenage timebomb", presiding over a deterioration of teenage health that has seen the number of young people admitted to hospital annually rise...                    

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