Media Monitoring for AMA Members

Daily updates of Tasmanian media (when staff are available) on health issues in the newspapers. Plus links to other media outlets, just press the media outlet logo for a link to their site.

Thursday 9 September 2010

Page 1 - School on virus alert HIV fears, continues page 2
Page 3 - Tough life a little easier, Kabuki syndrome
Page 14 - Health fear in spinal twists
Page 18 - Quick news, Cancer attackers "smart bomb" / Medical tomatoes, protect against prostate cancer / Menopause risk twice as likely to have heart attack or stroke in later life
Online: SCHOOL students were put at risk of contracting various diseases when they shared a needle during a science class last month.
Online: SOUTH Australian nurses have called off industrial action over public hospital staffing levels.

Page 1 - Needle shared in science class, continues page 2
Page 5 - Re-election save Giddings plane trip
Page 6 - Promised health funds held back, Drug and alcohol services miss out
Page 13 - Blood donation injects life into youth debate, compulsory blood donations
Page 16 - Doctor's plan beat Hydatids, Dr Trevor beard - born 1920 died Sept 2, 2010
Page 19 - Sleeping too little does kids fat lot of good

Page 7 - Students at risk after sharing needle in class
Page 10 - 12 months after new guidelines set to prevent skin cancer, owners can't train staff as they should, continues page 11 / Ban them now says doctor

Wednesday 8 September 2010

Online: PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says Labor is prepared to deliver stable and effective government for the next three years after winning the support of two key rural independents.
Online: A "HARD hitting" pro-euthanasia campaign will soon appear on television screens and billboards across Australia.

Page 7 - Health is the big winner / What Labor promised; Hospital funding, Local health networks, cancer services, E-Health, Emergancy services
Page 17 - Hot Topic, Smoking
Online: Pill poppers

Page 17 - Briefly, Diabetes worry

Tuesday 7 September 2010

Page 10 - Claim ambos work on leave
Page 19 - Call for action to halt obesity
Online: COCKROACHES could be more of a health benefit than a hazard, as their brains contain powerful antibiotic properties.
Online: A 191KG British man who has been diagnosed by doctors as too heavy to have a job because he could fall and crush work colleagues.
Online: JAPAN has detected its first case of an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that surfaced in South Asia and has triggered a global health alert.

Page 5 - Public cold on flu jab
Page 6 - New Pineapple has 'C' Power
Page 8 - Cockroaches help in superbug fight

Page 7 - Low take-up of swine flu vaccine: study
Online: Shamed surgeon's history of lies
Online: Patients at risk? Yes ... and then no

Monday 6 September 2010

Page 1 - Leave load, health workers too busy to take time off / continues page 2
Page 10 - Pill popping takes heavy toll

Page 14 - IVF demand pushes new labour

Page 16 - Painkillers third most abused substance in nation
Online: It takes two to produce problems of conception

Friday 3 September 2010

Page 1 - Jackpot / Wilkie jackpot deal for Tassie, Continues page 2
Page 2 - RHH upgrade promise explained
Page 2 - Medical staff laud MP's funding coup

Page 1 - $340m for Tassie RHH winner as Wilkie backs Gillard, deal! continues page 4
Online: State's teen pregnancy dilemma

Page 7 - Wilkie sides with labor
Page 20 - Students given dose of realities of pregnancy
Online: Mersey hospital High Dependency Unit opened
Online: Tebbutt accused of hiding health data
Online: Hobart bags $100m but must join queue for more

Thursday 2 September 2010

Page 7 - Community cash call on mental care
Page 9 - Ambulance service healthy, says minister
Page 23 - Measles outbreak warning
Online: POLITICAL uncertainty in Canberra has left cancer patients in the lurch.
Online: THE outbreak of a gastrointestinal virus at Canberra Hospital has forced one ward to be closed off.

Page 10 - Mental health cause for concern

Page 3 - $500 taxi fare anger for Ulverstone ex-serviceman with lung disease
Page 8 - Measles vaccination reminder
Online: Outrage over $500 taxi fare anger

Wednesday 1 September 2010

Page 10 - Tassie's health failure, Obesity count goes up!
Page 18 - Weighty issue for ill teens, mentally ill teenagers face a second social stigma if their medication causes them to gain weight, says Helen Kempton.
Online: DOCTORS outfits may never look the same again with a $1 iPhone app replacing the traditional metal stethoscope for doctors around the world, its creator said today.

Page 6 - LGH emergency hits peak of 50
Page 6 - Concrete pour shows progress LGH
Online: LGH emergency hits peak of 50

Online: University under fire from health chief over closure of injury research centre.
Online: Lack of sleep linked to mental illness.

Tuesday 31 August 2010

Page 1 - What Wilkie wants, Replace Royal Hobart Hospital $565m on top of the agenda. Continues page 4
Page 3 - Health experts push for rise in drinking age
Page 7 - Moves to expand bans on smoking, Michelle O'Byrne

Page 4 - Health summit puts focus on mothers, babies
Page 17 - Scientists coaxing cells to self-repair faults
Online: Doctors take heart in cardiovascular study

Page 12 - Tougher stand on smoking, Michelle O'Byrne Online: Tougher stand on smoking
Online: Breastfeeding babies benefits mother, too
Online: Trauma plan puts lives at risk, say doctors
Online: Nationwide hospital alert aims to prevent another epidural tragedy

Monday 30 August 2010

Page 1 - Ambo angst, continues page 4
Online: GENE detectives say they have found the first inherited link to common types of migraine.
Online: SMOKERS could cut the risk of lung cancer by taking a drug used by diabetics, according to new research revealed today.
Online: MEMO to Australian smokers: don't expect much sympathy from your compatriots if you develop lung cancer.

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Page 14 - Scientists urge cardio patients to slow their racing heart
Page 14 - Pokies and hospital will determine Wilkie's vote
Online: Drug breakthrough could change heart failure treatment
Online: Obesity puts pressure on hospital staff

Friday 27 August 2010

Online: AN experimental therapy has successfully shrunk tumours in up to 80 per cent of test patients, a study says.
Online: NIGERIA is being threatened by a cholera outbreak that has killed at least 352 people in just three months.
Online: THERE is $131 million missing from NSW's frontline health budget, the state Opposition says.
Online: DISCOVERY boosts hopes that healthy cells can be transplanted into organs to repair damage from cirrhosis and cancer.
Online: EATING broccoli and bananas could help fight Crohn's disease.

Page 7 - Medical science students get chance to sample sampling
Page 7 - Briefly, Swine flu rise
Page 18 - Children's psychiatric ward yet to be opened

Online: Concern over lax supervision of graduate doctors in ER

Thursday 26 August 2010

Page 4 - Painkiller use can give you a headache
Page 5 - Cancer drug stuck in election delay
Page 16 - Cancer treatment cannot be delayed, Jim Campbell Ulverstone
Online: REGULAR use of over-the-counter painkillers can actually lead to "withdrawal" headaches, CHOICE has warned.
Online: MALIGNANT growth weighing 23kg had been growing inside woman's body for 18 months and took four hours to remove.
Online: CANCER survival rates are going up, experts say, as the country's first "Cancer Survivorship Centre" opens to improve services for long-term survivors.
Online: THE internship shortage for medical students has reached crisis point, says the Australian Medical Association (AMA).

Online: Tourists urged to receive flu shot

Wednesday 25 August 2010

Page 7 - Death claims 120 in surgery queue

Page 13 - State parliament, Opposition critical of radiotherapy timetable
Page 15 - Surgery wait is too long, says Rockliff

Page 1 - Someone dies every three days, Rockliff / continues page 3
Page 9 - Cancer service debate gets heated
Online: One dies every three days

Tuesday 24 August 2010

Nil

Page 6 - Demand eases on LGH beds
Online: City smoking ban rejected again
Online: Country hospital funding in doubt

Page 4 & 5 - New add a wake-up call for smoking parents, Tasmanians light up in alarming numbers
Page 15 - Briefly, Swine flu spreads
Online: Tasmanians light up in alarming numbers

Monday 23 August 2010

Online: A PROTOTYPE vaccine devised and tested in China has proven 100-per cent effective in preventing hepatitis E

Page 12 - Country hospital funding in doubt

Online: Outdated medical procedure behind catastrophic epidural injury

Friday 20 August 2010

Online: THE NSW Government is withholding key hospital performance reports to prevent its healthcare failures being exposed before the federal election, the state opposition says.
Online: NEW Zealand is experiencing rising levels of swine flu infection with nine deaths this year linked to the virus, including three in the past three days, health officials said today.
Online: HERBAL supplements company Blackmores has lifted annual year profit by 17 per cent and says initiatives with new products and expansion into Asia place it well for the future.

Page 15 - Call to up ages care funds
Page 15 - $1.2m health pledge
Page 21 - Federal Labor will fund radiotherapy services in Burnie (Advertisement)

Online: Patients will pay no more, pharmacists say
Online: There's a deficit out there, says Rees
Online: Go-ahead for tumour drug
Page 2 - ADHD pesticide link confirmed

Thursday 19 August 2010

Nil

Page 6 - Federal Election, Agreement on health network

Page 2 - The season for wheezing and sneezing is almost upon us
Page 4&5 - Radiation bunker work won't start untill after an independant clinical assessment, Govt releases plan for action on cancer

Wednesday 18 August 2010

Online: NASTINESS is not only a social problem; according to new research aggressive and antagonistic people may be at higher risk of heart attack and stroke simply because they are disagreeable.
Online: A UTAH Utah man had a 90 to 95 pe rcent chance of dying after shattering his skull in more than 10 places until a neurosurgeon removed both sides of his head and froze it.
Online: THE fast food industry will meet with the NSW Government and public health experts for talks today, triggered by concern over the community's rising level of obesity.
Online: ALMOST one million American children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have been misdiagnosed, scientists revealed today.

Nil

Online: Elphinstone fed up with govt cancer services excuses
Online: West Coast rallies for GPs
Online: Funerals-for-organs plan proposed to open hearts and minds to life after death
Online: Kidney disease rethink likely to cut time on dialysis

Tuesday 17 August 2010

Page 9 - They took my heart and saved my life, Australia's first heart transplant
Online: THE number of swine flu deaths in New Zealand has risen to six and vaccine supplies are dwindling, despite claims the pandemic is over.
Online: PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has announced a $392 million plan to modernise the health system, including allowing patients to access Medicare rebates for online consultations.

Page 1 - Future pitch, Labor plays broadband, health cards / Continues page 6 & 7 Federal election
Page 5 - Garlic aid against hypertension
Page 14 - Plenty of heart in artificial technology
Page 21 - Push for health support sessions

Page 7 - Cancer bid rubbished
Page 10 - Dental care 'should be included in Medicare'
Online: Doctors wary about online house calls
Online: Health service director battled watchdog

Monday 16 August 2010

Page 10 - Brain injury epidemic costing state
Page 11 - Election 2010, Leaders' promises
Online: AUSTRALIANS are losing sleep because of their expanding waistlines.

Page 2 - Asbestos still global problem / Increased sleep disorders linked to rising obesity levels

Online: Businessman offers funding for cancer bus

Friday 13 August 2010

Page 4 - Antibiotic-defiant superbug strikes Aussies
Page 11 - State's breast cancer rate rises to national level
Page 15 - Flu expects drug links

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Page 4 & 5 - Coasters will be on the bus to launceston for years to come despite Labor's pledge, $16.5m on the but who knows when??
Page 6 - Objective advice needed, says MLC / Application in pipeline: Govt

Thursday 12 August 2010

Page 7 - Tassie's black cloud, Top scripts rate for mental health
Page 7 - Swine flu woman discharged
Page 21 - Quick news, Cancer breath test
Online: FIVE of the 15 experts that advised the World Health Organisation about swine flu pandemic alerts had received support from the drugs industry, including for flu vaccine research, the WHO revealed overnight.
Online: AMID political debate on how much should be spent, new research has put the annual cost of mental health services in Australia at more than $5 billion.
Online: TOUGH strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics have been identified in British patients.
Online: A BREATH test could one day be used to detect four of the most common types of cancer, Israeli scientists said Wednesday.
Online: THE West Australian government will overhaul the way vaccination information is collected after a review of its suspended flu vaccination program.
Online: NEW Zealand is still experiencing a significant level of swine flu despite the WHO's claim that the global pandemic is over.

Page 8 - Ferderal Election, Roxon to unveil cancer package
Page 10 - Federal Election, Health set to be key election battleground
Page 15 - Swine flu pandemic is over

Page 15 - Medicined being taken incorrectly
Page 19 - Federal Election, Child health to be monitored
Page 22 - Mental health cost tops $5b
Page 23 - Super clinics 'monstrosities'
Online: Major annjouncement on cancer services today
Online: Doctors not happy with children's health check
Online: Roxon defensive on dwindling Medicare rebates
Online: Superbug danger for surgery patients
Online: PM promises $15m GP clinic for ACT

Wednesday 11 August 2010

Online: THE World Health Organisation (WHO) overnight announced the end of the swine flu pandemic, more than a year after the disease began spreading around the world, sparking panic and killing thousands.

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Online: Penalty awaits parents who ignore child-health checks
Page 5 - Bass candidate weighs in on cancer services

Tuesday 10 August 2010

Online: MORE US girls are starting puberty younger, with large percentages developing breasts and pubic hair as early as seven, according to a new study.

Nil

Page 4 - Labor stays firm on service despite spike - Cancer rate on the rise on Coast
Page 4 - Possible Greens division on services (cancer services North West)
Page 9 - Premier says more to come, full details of cancer bunker this week
Online: Labor stays firm on cancer service despite spike
Online: A fighter for health care til the end
Online: No more Medicare cuts, say voters
Online: Anger over lack of medical internships

Monday 9th August 2010

Online: DOCTORS discovered a possible breakthrough in finding a vaccine for the deadliest strain of meningitis.

Nil

Page 1 - 'We'll think about a better bus' North West Cancer service continues page 4&5
Page 8 - Handling Diabetes / North West has high type 1 rate
Page 16 - Cancer should be the priority
Online: Seven-year-old Coaster taking on diabetes one day at a time
Online: State Govt refuses to change stance on North-West cancer services
Online: What's up, doc? A new superfood
Online: Men spared bad news of cancer care

Friday 6th August 2010

Page 5 - Small health doses in Lib Plan: Sue Dunlevy looks closer at the bed numbers quoted in Opposition Health policy.
Page 7 - Alarm on Aged Care services: Providers say they can't afford to run any more Aged care facilities.
Online: After miscarriage, try again soon - study: WOMEN who conceive within six months after a miscarriage have a better chance of a healthy pregnancy.
Online: COLES and Woolworths have registered a string of fancy liquour labels and consumers won't know they're drinking house brands.

Online: Parties unite on hospital networks THE state government has no choice but to give Tasmania three local hospital networks when it implements federal health reform next year, Bass Liberal and Labor election candidates said yesterday.
Online: The incidence of type 1 diabetes in children could be stabilising, according to a new report into the disease.
Online: THE state government has moved away from wanting a single network controlling Tasmania's hospitals, yesterday flagging the possibility of two funding networks. It said one network could be based around the Launceston General Hospital in the North while the other would be an alliance between the South and North- West.
Page 1 - Tributes to Sue Napier

Online: Opposition leader Tony Abbott is believed to be poised to announce a multi-million package for cancer services on the North-West of Tasmania. It is believed the announcement will include $4 million for a linear accelerator for the region, $1 million for accommodation related to the facility and $2 million for maintenance and staffing.
Online: PROMISES of more beds for nursing homes means little to aged care administrators on the North-West who feel frustrated and ignored by politicians who control the purse strings.
Online: WELL-known Somerset GP Kim Haybittel has had a massive stroke, but is not dead, as many people believe.
Page 18 - Furious mental health experts want federal candidates to oppose what they call the planned scrapping of frontline mental health social workers.
Page 18 - Sid Sidebottom concerned for NW in Oppositions Health plans.

Thursday 5 August 2010

Page 6 & 7 - Election 2010: Dr Tony prescribes GP, hospitals boost
Page 11 - Diabetes all part of life for Ben, 3
Page 17 - Hot Topic 'Hopeful signs for aged care'
Page 18 - Weighing up years of dieting / Obesity study bears fruit
Page 19 - Alzheimer's cure easy to swallow
Online: THE incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children could be stabilising, according to a new report into the disease.
Online: RESEARCHERS have discovered new genes that could warn people at risk of heart disease.
Online: IT CAN take just two people to smoke in alfresco areas to put non-smokers at risk of respiratory problems, researchers say.
Online: THE severe lead poisoning of a Sydney man who bought traditional medicines from India has sparked warnings from NSW health professionals.

Page 2 - Parties unite in hospital networks
Page 11 - Sink your teeth into dental health
Online: Abbott's $3bn health kick
Online: Coalition to index health card eligibility

Page 2 - GP in hospital after stroke
Page 9 - Breastfeeding benefits in focus
Page 12 - Super Clinic's operator upset by claims
Page 14 & 15 - Upfront bonus pledge Opponents "misleading'
Online: Benefits of breastfeeding in focus
Online: GP in hospital after stroke
Online: Abbott's $3b plan for health

Wednesday 4 August 2010

Online: DOCTORS are threatening to abandon Queensland's public hospitals, fed up with the "bullying" tactics of Queensland Health.
Page 15 - Calls to linit hospital control

Online: Quit-smoking drug linked to suicides
Online: Hospitals, school sign up lobbyists
Online: Doctors push for funds
Pgae 1 - State health shift (continues page 2)

Online: Neither side minds the health gap
Online: Rivals rubbish hospital bin contracts
Page 12 - GP service subsidy proposal

Tuesday 3 August 2010

Online: A NATIONAL dental care scheme, a minister for mental health and an end to junk food ads aimed at kids are part of the Greens' healthcare plan.
Online: RED meat has been found to be a possible cause of bladder cancer, a study published in the journal Cancer said.

Page 2 - Hospital network models issued
Page 4 - Greens' health plan
Page 12- Briefly, Hospital care
Page 13 - Humans could grow own joints

Online: Cancer services to be focus of Burnie meeting
Page 2 - Health package
Page 7 - Cancer services to be focus of Burnie meeting
Page 17 - Study links eating red meat cold cuts to bladder cancer risk

Monday 2 August 2010

Online: SCIENTISTS are working on a single injection to help people relax without slowing down.
Online: NURSES have slammed Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's plan to make more aged-care beds available, saying it will result in a crisis in the sector.
Page 3 - New mums paid to go home
Page 6 - Aged care tops concerns, survey finds

Page 3 - Stress taking toll on doctors
Page 7 - Abbott makes $935m pledge on aged care

Online: Jury still out on aged-care help
Page 2 - No comment on cancer machine
Page 4 - Liberals pledge for mental health facility
Page 7 - It's time to demand a doctor: Zeehan resident
Page 16 - $935m promise for aged care plan

Friday 30 July 2010

Online: LABOR will help train more than 3000 emergency department nurses and 270 doctors if it wins the next federal election, but the promise will take a decade to deliver.
Online: Page 7 - Mum to be critical in RHH with Swine Flu.
Page 15 - Flying Doctors saluted for 50 years service.
Online: Legal bid to oust Senator Eric Abetz.
Page 3: Hodgman get married.

Online: PATIENTS of Devonport's new GP Super Clinic have to pay their doctor's bills up front, The practice - built with the help of Commonwealth funding and visited by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon on Monday - does not bulk-bill.
Page 1: Lots of AFL debates, also including Abetz.

Online: No threat to Rosebery health from heavy metals: says report.
Online: Alderman wants aquatic centre money used to fast-track cancer centre
Online: A DEVONPORT mother who forged a medical certificate to explain why her son was absent from school for more than 100 days last year has escaped sentence with nothing more than a conviction recorded.
Page 9: NWRH theatre nurse Scott Kearney has been awarded the ANF Tas prize for most Outstanding Graduate in the Batchelor of Nursing at the Uni of Tas.

Thursday 29 July 2010

Online: VICTORIAN doctors and nurses could be equipped with iPads while undertaking their hospital rounds in future, if a trial of wireless technology is successful.
Page 3 - Mentally ill dying amid funds crisis
Online: THE Australian Greens will push for universal dental care when parliament resumes after the next federal election.
Page 7 - Kids' decay rise puzzle for dentists
Online: POLITICAL parties should commit to expanding bowel cancer screening and other preventative measures to save more lives, the Cancer Council says.
Online: U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is seeking approval to sell a children's form of Viagra to treat a rare lung disorder as a humanitarian gesture - in exchange for getting a six-month extension of its patent on the adult version.

Page 13 - Immunisation rates a concern

Online: ALP will feel the pain over dental care
Page 16 - Braddon candidates reveal their priorities for region (Tarkine, business, Health)

Wednesday 28 July 2010

Page 5 - Mental health policy blasted

Page 4 - 2010 Election: Gillard picks up the pace $1 billion to be shared between Mental Health and Rail link
Page 15 - Full face transplant revealed

Page 6 - West Coast residents to push for GPs

Tuesday 27 July 2010

Page 4 - Election 2010: A healthy respect (health funding)
Page 7 - Help on way from new diabetes drug
Page 16 - Human brain drain poses an age-old question

Page 1 - Gillard on the money trail, Levees, health winners (LGH funding)
Page 2 - New tablet for type 2 diabetes promises no side effects
Page 4 & 5 - 2010 Federal election: LGH funding continues from page 1

Page 1 - PM drops in for a chat with Devonport's new Superclinic's patients
Page 4 - Nothing new from PM West Coast visit, page 1 continues
Page 14 - Cancer patients need better bus service
Page 19 - Coastal views, Numbers speak for themselves (radiation treatment and Superclinic's)

Monday 26 July 2010

Page 11 - Activist criticises pesticide monitors

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Page 7 - Ulverstone man's fight to get skin cancer compo
Page 8 - Drug trials update at Alzheimer's forum, Researchers likely to be able to stop disease's progression
Page 9 - Liberals plan push for more West Coast doctors
Page 15 - Drug molecule can be harmful
Page 15 - Beat dementia
Page 19 - Cancer backflip 'shameful' Glenn Brumby has his say

Friday 23 July 2010

Page 13 - (AMA story) Young medics denied internships despite doctor shortage (no reaction from Minister in Mercury)

Page 7- (AMA story) O'Byrne says AMA got it wrong - she relies on 2010 figures despite the earlier offer date.
Page 12 - Dr ANDREW JACKSON is busker in Brisbane Street Mall - raising funds... well done mate! (Good pic too)

Page 1 - Burnie City Council asks for meeting with O'Byrne on Cancer Services in the NW
Page 3 - Feds say State Government yet to lodge application for linear accelerator
Page 11 - GP Super Clinic opens in Devonport - Fed Minister Snowden talks of high levels of Chronic Disease in NW

Thursday 22 July 2010

Page 5 - Gastro outbreak locks down ward, hits homes
Page 17 - Hospital questions

Page 7- Melbourne Victory players visit LGH

Page 5 - CPR forget the numbers, just pump, says ambo
Page 7 - Family forced to move 8 - hour drive for 20 minute treatment
Page 18 - GPs for West priority
Page 21 - Fighting obesity

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Election 2010 page 11 - Tasmanian Greens candidate for Denison, Dr Geoff Couser started his full-yime campaign by talking to people about Health Reform

Page 8 - 15 yo girls group B Miningococcal disease which is not vaccine - preventable is in a stable condition

Page 4 - North West cancer patient Narelle Mather's tells of her experience having to live away from family and take a second morgage to seek treatment in Hobart
Page 5 - Situation is urgent for North West Regional Cancer Unit
Page 5 - Mastectomy is the choice for most Breast Cancer patients, seen to be better then travelling for radiation therapy
Page 6 - Zeehan residents without doctor for six days
Page 7 - Coastal teen's killer disease 'Isolated'
Page 17 - Major step forward for HIV

Tuesday 20th of July 2010

Page 7 - Meningococcal case confirmed
Page 19 - Revised Carlyle, TPG bid wins healthscope

page 15 - Health reforms will focus on patient care (Dr Michael Aizen)

Page 1 - 15 yo struck down by virus (continues page 2)

Monday 19th of July 2010

Page 2- Teen girl Meningococcal fears in RHH
Page 11 - Country Doctors content
Page 15 - Allergy alerts ban angers nurses

Page 2 - Painless patch is set to rival flu jab
Page 7 - Rural doctors