Chlamydia questions.There is no evidence the NHS's national chlamydia chlamydia (kləmĭd`ēə), genus of microorganisms that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals. Psittacosis, or parrot fever, caused by the species Chlamydia psittaci, screening programme is beneficial, researchers say today. A programme to offer people the opportunity of a test for the infection was launched in 2002 and is being rolled out in England. But Dr Nicola Low, an epidemiologist at the University of Berne in Switzerland says in the British Medical Journal The British Medical Journal, or BMJ, is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world.[2] It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (owned by the British Medical Association), whose other that uncritical acceptance of the effectiveness of chlamydia screening in Sweden and the US led to the funding of the programme in England, before the balance of benefits and harms was understood. Search on THE search continued yesterday for a British retired university lecturer who went missing on a walking holiday in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . Dr Derek Hawkins, 72, formerly of Sheffield University, went missing on March 29 near the remote Mount Aspiring National Park Mount Aspiring National Park Park, western South Island, New Zealand. Established in 1964, it has an area of 1,373 sq mi (3,555 sq km), including much of the Southern Alps and Mount Aspiring (9,932 ft [3,027 m]). Its southern boundary is Fiordland National Park. . Boy, 14, killed A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has died after he was knocked down by a lorry, police said today. Two boys were riding the same pedal bike in Hay Mills Hay Mills is an area of Small Heath in east Birmingham, England. It developed around a Victorian steel wire mill. James Horsfall and Joseph Webster James Horsfall, a wire drawer from Digbeth invented high tensile steel wire. , Birmingham, when the accident happened at 4.51pm on Thursday. Swans on song A FEMALE swan which took flight from her home has been reunited with her male friend after being found seven miles away. Both swans strayed from their home at JCB's world headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire, last Tuesday, after apparently being startled in their lake. Ram raiders THREE people were injured yesterday when raiders fleeing after trying to steal a cash machine from a store rammed their car. The two women and a man were passing close to the Co-op store in Newington, Kent, just after the raiders reversed a 4x4 into the shop front to try to take the free-standing machine. Rat attack fails A MAN ended up with a singed beard and a gutted upstairs of his house after his attempts at pest control went out of control. Terry Fowler, 65, lit several sulphur candles to smoke a rat out of his house in Newport, south Wales, on Thursday. But one of the candles tipped over and set alight a pile of clothes. Mr Fowler was being treated for superficial burns. |
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