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Screening and Prevention

Accidents and their Prevention
Advising Patients Travelling to Remote Locations
Amniocentesis
BCG Vaccination
Breast Screening with Mammography
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
Centile Charts and Assessing Growth
Cervical Screening (Cervical Smear Test)
Childhood Nutrition
Chorionic Villus Sampling
Coronary Artery Calcium Score
Cryptosporidiosis
Diagnosing the Tropical Traveller
Epidemiology of Coronary Heart Disease
Glucose Tolerance Tests
Glycosuria
Healthy Child Programme
Healthy Diet and Enjoyable Eating
Hearing Testing and Screening in Young Children
Heart Disease and Physical Activity
Hepatitis A Vaccination
Hepatitis B Vaccination and Prevention
Hib Vaccination
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination
Hyperlipidaemia
Influenza Vaccination
Lipid-regulating Drugs (including Statins)
Malaria in Pregnancy
Malaria Prophylaxis
Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination
Meningococcal Vaccination
Neonatal Examination

Newborn Screening
Osteoporosis Risk Assessment and Primary Prevention
Phenylketonuria
Physical Training
Pneumococcal Vaccination
Polio and Polio Vaccination
Porphyrias
Prenatal Diagnosis
Prenatal Screening for Down's Syndrome
Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Prevention of Infective Endocarditis
Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism
Problems in Small Babies
Promoting Prevention - and Barriers to Prevention
Rabies Vaccination
Screening for Cognitive Impairment
Screening for Depression in Primary Care
Screening for the Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer
Screening Programmes in the UK
Smallpox Vaccination
Stroke Prevention
Therapeutic Immunoglobulins
Traveller's Diarrhoea
Tuberculosis Prevention and Screening
Typhoid Vaccination
UK Immunisation Schedule
Undescended and Maldescended Testes
Vaccines and Immunological Products
Vision Testing and Screening in Young Children
Whooping Cough Vaccination

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