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It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans were all-in on boosting public health spending. “The highest investment priority in Washington should be to double the federal budget for scientific research,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) wrote in a 1999 op-ed in The Washington Post. Big spending increases for the National Institutes of Health soon […]
According to researchers at Oxford University, mental illness has an effect on life expectancy that is equivalent or greater than smoking. A great deal of effort and spending has been invested into smoking cessation programs and smoking awareness campaigns. This new research should prompt the government, health care and social services to shift their focus […]
Chart-topping stars 5 Seconds of Summer have pulled out of the Radio 1 Teen Awards this weekend after the band’s drummer was taken to hospital with appendicitis. Ashton Irwin from the Australian quartet went into hospital yesterday and had his appendix removed, which means the band are unable to travel to …