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A project funded by the Welsh Government to promote learning disability awareness and accessible information has been celebrated in an event in Cardiff Bay.

People will now find it easier to make healthier choices about the food they eat thanks to a new, consistent front of pack food nutritional label.

Four experts have been appointed to a safeguarding advisory panel to look at how the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill can strengthen adult and child safeguarding and protection arrangements in Wales.

A Cardiff-based team of cancer specialists have led the UK arm of a European cancer trial which discovered that less invasive treatment can be as effective as surgery for some breast cancer patients. 

The agenda and papers have been published for the twenty fifth meeting of the Public Health Wales Board.

The Health Minister Mark Drakeford has applauded the development of a package to improve the dignity of adult patients across Wales.

EMERGENCY Unit staff have thanked a local supermarket for help supporting grieving relatives.

NHS Wales staff across the country will be supporting Age UK’s Falls Awareness Week 2013, this week (17-21 June 2013). The aim of the awareness-raising campaign is get people to put their ‘best foot forward’ by keeping their feet healthy to prevent falls in later life.

As part of the Early Years Programme, a rapid review of the evidence base for interventions addressing alcohol and drug misuse in pregnant women has been published.

The uptake rates for last winter's seasonal influenza vaccine are available both on an all-Wales basis and for each of the seven Health Boards in Wales.

The vital work of social care workers in Wales will be highlighted during Social Care Week with an exhibition stand in Y Bont, the public area of the Welsh Government’s Llandudno Junction office.

The weekly clinical consultation rate for influenza in Wales for week 23 2013 is 3.6 consultations per 100,000 population. This is below the threshold for normal seasonal activity but has slightly increased compared to the consultation rate for the previous week (2.3 per 100,000).