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Investigation finds a QUARTER of prescription glasses are faulty

Customers are warned against buying prescription glasses online from budget retailers as investigation finds a QUARTER of them are faulty Which? found seven out of 26 prescription glasses didn’t meet British standards Some unusable due to how distorted the lenses were, others arrived damaged Fashion Eyewear, Goggles4U, Spex4Less, Select Specs and Direct Sight all sold faulty […]

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Why have asthma deaths risen by a quarter in ten years?

Why have asthma deaths risen by a quarter in ten years? Fears grow that London’s choking pollution lies behind the death of a nine-year-old girl Ella Kissi-Debrah, from Lewisham, died of an asthma attack on February 15, 2013 The original inquest concluded she had died from acute respiratory failure  But an expert who has examined […]

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Uninsured Rate at 8.8 Percent in First Quarter of 2018

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3, 2018 — In the first quarter of 2018, the uninsured rate was 8.8 percent, not significantly different from a year earlier, according to a report released Aug. 29 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., from the NCHS, and colleagues used data from the first quarter of […]