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Science is not stopping at vaccines

Debra
The current global vaccine programme has been a huge success and raised the profile of science and its ability to analyse and change the biological world.   COVID 19 might take the lives of 5 Million but Spanish Flu took an estimated 20 million, possibly more.   Science, and in particular genetics......
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Maternity & Midwifery Directory Launch

Debra
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For maternity and midwifery services in the UK the pandemic seemed to make time stand still, if not go backwards. Home births cancelled, water births restricted, limited visitors (fathers were never allowed in when I was born). But time did not stand still.  Maternity and midwifery is going through its......
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A Holding Time Project call to arms: a collective portrait of breastfeeding

Debra
A Holding Time Project call to arms: a collective portrait of breastfeeding
During National Breastfeeding week at the start of August Improving Me, the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s Women and Children’s Partnership launched the Holding Time Project. This involved a call for participants in an inter-disciplinary, multi-channel art project, developed by visual artist Lisa Creagh on behalf of the partnership. The focus......
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It’s time to get equality in vaccinations

Debra
It’s time to get equality in vaccinations
As the summer months progress here in the UK, there continue to be reverberations in the press and on social media about COVID-19 and vaccines. Writing today, rates continue to rise, with another 230,800 testing positive within the last week. The vaccination rate for the adult population has 88% for......
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