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Department of Health - Official website of UK Department of Health, the government department responsible for public health issues. Provides material which is primarily for use by health and social care professionals, academics and other interested parties.
Association of Directors of Social Services - Represents all the directors of social services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Includes information on the Association, membership and key policy issues.
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - Provides information on fertility matters. It includes a plain english guide for patients.
Health and Safety Laboratory - The HSL is an Agency of the Health and Safety Executive which supports HSE in ensuring that risks to people's health and safety from work activities are properly controlled. The services offered by the HSL are detailed on this site.
UK National Blood Service - UK National Blood Service site provides information on becoming a donor, where to make your donation, and facts about blood and statistics about uk donations and donors.
Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation - Popular summary, executive summary and presentation pack for this particular Government initiative. Includes a link to the full version of the White Paper.
Human Genetics Commission - The UK Government's advisory body on how new developments in human genetics will impact on people and on health care. Its remit is to give ministers strategic advice on the "big picture" of human genetics, with a particular focus on social and ethical issues.
Food Standards Agency - Provides information on UK food safety - news, regulations, research and other pertinent information.
Drugs Misuse Information - Department of Health resource providing information and assistance on issues regarding drug misuse, including health consequences, guidance and statistics.
Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment - Advisory committee on the health effects of natural and man-made radiation in the environment. Provides FAQs on radiation issues, news, current work and details of the committee itself.
United Kingdom Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority - Advises the Government on issues concerning the transplantation of animal tissue into humans. Site provides details of the Authority's responsibilities, work, membership and reports.
Health and Safety executive - Site containing leaflets on Hazards at work (some of which are provided in Welsh as well as English), details of HSE research and other publications.
National Institute for Clinical Excellence - Special Health Authority with the task of systematically appraising health interventions and producing national guidance on effectiveness. Full details of evidence and appraisal process are supplied.
Prescription Pricing Authority - Provides information about the PPA, which is a Special Health Authority within the NHS. Amalgamated pescribing data (the PACT centre pages) is available.
Public Health Laboratory Service - Official body (England and Wales) for detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring infectious diseases. Statistics and fact sheets available.
All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS - Backbench group of MPs and Peers in the UK Parliament. Reports and publications, news, HIV in Parliament, Parliamentary Meetings, Background, Membership, contact details and links.
Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards - Advises the Government on the NHS Consultants' Distinction Awards Scheme. Provides information about the Scheme and copies of nomination forms.
Airbags - General Advice - A paper from the UK Department for Transport on the safety aspects of Car Airbags - also known as 'Supplementary Restraint Systems' (SRS).
Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment - Advisory body on matters concerning the potential carcinogenicity of chemicals. Details of the Committee and its activities, with downloadable copies of papers, publications and background materials.
Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment - Advisory body on matters concerning the potential mutagenicity of chemicals in the environment. Information about the committee and its work, with downloadable copies of papers and publications.
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - The MHRA combines responsibilities of former medicines control and medical devices agencies, ensuring that all medicines on the UK market meet appropriate standards of safety, quality and efficacy. Includes archives on licensing, inspection and enforcement, with links to committees, jobs and news.
MHRA: Medical Devices - News page of governmental agency, with responsibilities of former MDA, in appropriate standards of safety, quality and performance. Includes downloadable archives of reports, contacts and plans of location in London.
Directgov - Health and Well-Being - Official government public information service for health concerns and issues. Includes links to support groups.
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Health Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Health It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Health "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Health I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Health Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Health Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Health "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Health Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Health They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Health We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Health After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Health The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Health Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Health "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Health Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Health "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Health "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Health In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Health I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Health Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Health
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