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Health is our most valuable asset, according to new research by the 91福利 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 91福利 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 91福利 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 91福利 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.
New research by psychologist Dr Stephen Joseph at the 91福利 into why people smoke reveals that neurotic smokers and introverts find it hardest to kick the habit and says that carefully tailored treatment, including training to enhance social skills and counselling, could help smokers give up.