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Fighting for a cleaner life

Helen Astin, who is the director of Caleb, a Bradford-based community rehab programme, on the site of the centre’s new detox unit

8:23am Tuesday 18th November 2008

Sally Clifford talks to people who help turn lives around from addiction and abuse

How dancing saved my life

How dancing saved my life

11:20am Tuesday 11th November 2008

Sally Clifford meets a dancer refusing to give in to disease

Trusts have made healthy improvements

Staff at Airedale Hospital celebrate their results

7:40am Thursday 16th October 2008

Health services in Bradford and Airedale are performing well according to the latest NHS performance ratings published today by the Healthcare Commission.

Record speed of BRI’s £10m ward

Miles Scott, chief executive of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Hospital Trust

10:24pm Wednesday 8th October 2008

A new £10 million ward block at Bradford Royal Infirmary is the fastest build of its scale in the NHS ever.

Obesity is costing you £142m a year

Obesity is set to be a major health challenge

7:51am Tuesday 7th October 2008

Ignorant parents were today blamed for adding to £142 million being spent in Bradford on dealing with problems caused by being overweight.

Girls get new cancer jab

Taylor Fores gets her jab

7:30am Tuesday 7th October 2008

A major vaccination campaign to protect girls against cervical cancer is under way across the district.

'Act now to avoide winter flu'

4:25pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

Thousands of people across the district are being urged to get the best protection possible against flu this winter.

Revamped hospital leads NHS clean-up

Andrea Hudson uses a hand basin at Eccleshill Community Hospital

10:50pm Monday 6th October 2008

Claire Lomax Health Reporter Health bosses in Bradford have signed up to a new infection control programme as a community hospital re-opens.

Solution to TB sought

2:03pm Wednesday 1st October 2008

Bradford has a higher incidence of tuberculosis than any other district outside London, the report reveals.

Plans to cut city's teenage pregnancies

2:01pm Wednesday 1st October 2008

There are plans for a 50 per cent reduction by 2010 in the incidence of teenage pregnancy, identified as a key health issue of inequality and social exclusion.


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