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Last Updated: Thursday, 22 March 2007, 17:50 GMT
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Alternative therapy degree attack
UK universities are teaching "gobbledygook" amid a growth in alternative medicine degrees, an expert says.

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There has been a disastrous failure of workforce planning in the NHS, MPs say.
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Nearly two out of five people living in nursing homes are enduring chronic pain, a study suggests.
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