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Heart centre has been a real lifesaver

Second anniversary - the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre has turned into being one of the best places to have heart and lung surgery

12:20pm Monday 6th July 2009

THERE’S no way to measure the respect you have for doctors when they hold the life of someone you love in their hands – or the gratitude you feel when they save that person.

Revealed for the first time: Essex's abortion figures

Choices – teenage pregnancy co-ordinator Chris Clark

12:20pm Friday 26th June 2009

NEWLY-RELEASED figures from the county’s health trusts reveal for the first time the number of Essex women who have had abortions.

Dear NHS: Please call male breast cancer, chest cancer

Campaign – Nick Avery

5:20am Tuesday 16th June 2009

A CAMPAIGNER who is the youngest man in Britain to be diagnosed with breast cancer is to launch a nationwide campaign calling for the name of the illness to be changed.

Regional swine flu case tally has reached 50

8:00pm Monday 15th June 2009

THE number of swine flu cases in East Anglia has reached 50.

Kick start to fight flab

Jayne Priest has lost two-and-a-half stones in weight after taking up free gym membership for 12 weeks through an NHS South West Essex programme

10:30pm Tuesday 9th June 2009

WHEN Jayne Priest’s marriage broke down, she found food offered her a way of escaping from her emotions.

Amanda lifts the lid on living with depression

Amanda Read says it is frightening when it is difficult to do even everyday tasks and feeling she cannot carry on

10:20pm Tuesday 9th June 2009

DESPITE the fact it will affect one in four people at some point in their lives, depression remains a bit of a dirty word.


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