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02/15/09--20:00: Boots joins ‘Lose a Million’ campaign (chan 2536709)

MAJOR chemist chain Boots has taken up the ECHO-backed “Lose a Million” campaign.




03/04/09--16:00: Eat healthy, Get healthy (chan 2536709)

The advice is simple. Eat better. Exercise more.




03/06/09--16:00: Health checks for the over 40s in Knowsley (chan 2536709)

HEALTH checks are on the list at Knowsley shopping centres and on the cards at bingo halls this month.




03/06/09--16:00: The Royal Liverpool Hospital showcases local employment initiative to Europeans (chan 2536709)

LIVERPOOL hospital is showing European visitors its innovative employment practices which put local people first.




03/08/09--18:21: Progress on road to healthiness (chan 2536709)

OUR Merseyside family who are ‘changing 4 life’ have made real progress since last week.




03/15/09--17:37: Small steps to better health (chan 2536709)

ANGIE Gilbert is making sure her nine-year-old daughter Cindy is eating healthily.




03/24/09--18:00: Eight rules to keep your kids fit (chan 2536709)

WE all want our children to feel great and have the best possible start in life, but the frantic pace of our busy lives can get in the way.




03/25/09--01:00: 'How being a blood donor saved my life' (chan 2536709)

GIVE blood, save lives, proclaims the slogan. It doesn’t say that that life could be your own – but it was in my case.




04/02/09--16:00: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital fails to reach standard (chan 2536709)

LIVERPOOL’S Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has failed to meet standards set by a new “super-regulator” for health and social care.




07/28/09--23:00: Sunbeds worse than previously thought (chan 2536709)

THE link between sunbeds and skin cancer is worse than previously believed, a medical report revealed.




08/09/09--16:00: Obese women denied fertility treatment in Merseyside (chan 2536709)

OBESE women are being denied fertility treatment in Merseyside.




11/27/09--02:16: Unmanned military-style drones could be used by police forces to patrol coastlines (chan 2536709)

Unmanned military-style drones could be used by police forces to help combat illegal immigration and drug smugglers along Britain’s coastlines, it has been disclosed.




12/07/09--16:00: Lifelike doll for Merseyside junior doctors to practice on (chan 2536709)

JUNIOR doctors at a Merseyside hospital have been given a life-size doll to practice on.




03/21/10--23:50: Race for Wish cash continues (chan 2536709)

LOCAL communities are racing for their share of the ECHO’s ‘Wish’ community cash campaign.




03/22/10--00:00: Fitness instructor urges Liverpool workers to exercise at lunch time (chan 2536709)

A FITNESS instructor is urging Liverpool residents to make time for exercise after a recent British Heart Foundation report found that nearly half of adults are too busy to work out.




03/22/10--00:40: NHS Knowsley axes 100 jobs in cost-cutting bid (chan 2536709)

A MERSEYSIDE health trust is shedding 100 jobs to meet efficiency targets.




04/25/10--16:00: Former Blood Brothers and Brookside actress Bernie Nolan has breast cancer (chan 2536709)

FORMER Blood Brothers star Bernie Nolan has breast cancer.




06/02/10--03:17: JANE WOODHEAD: how to train on a business trip (chan 2536709)

Jane Woodhead, Account Director and Director of Sport PR at Paver Smith Public Relations in Liverpool is a competitive runner and triathlete. Today she focuses on how the busy business professional can still find time to train




10/25/10--21:15: Obesity levels across Merseyside - how districts compare (chan 2536709)

With Diabetes UK highlighting huge increases in obesity rates in Liverpool, we have dig into the data to look at the scale of the problem across Merseyside.




02/17/11--03:00: Live chat: Pampers Sleep Expert Wendy Dean answers your questions (chan 2536709)

LIVERPOOl mums push their babies’ buggies more than 738 miles in the first year of their child’s life in order to get them to sleep, a new survey has found.