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Record numbers of people in the UK are living with HIV, with more than half of newly diagnosed infections found in heterosexuals, figures revealed today.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said that in 2007 an estimated 77,400 people had the virus, up from 73,000 in the previous year. More than a quarter of those infected remained unaware of their status.
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Local authorities are to be given the power to ban happy hours, all you can drink offers and other price promotions in troublesome pubs and bars, as part of a drive to tackle Britain's binge drinking culture.
The package to be unveiled next week is also expected to include cigarette-style health warnings on television advertising for drinks, and labels on cans and bottles spelling out their alcohol-unit content.
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I fear that we are about to make the most vulnerable children less likely to be protected, as we destabilise and destroy one of the safest child protection systems in the world. Children are not protected by procedures and records. They are protected by skilled, confident and competent workers, such as social workers, health visitors, doctors and police officers, who are closest to the children and their families. These professionals need the stability, time and management support, and the public confidence, to be able to do their jobs well.
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A landmark report calls for reform of a care system that older and disabled people find unfair, unaffordable and unable to meet their needs
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It doesn't make you a eugenicist to speak up for the right to abort a foetus that may have Down's
Next time you visit your local chemist, pause in the aisle containing vitamin supplements, and take in the quantities and varieties of pills and potions on offer. Tiny boxes and bottles stretch as far as the eye can see, affirming that even in these cash-strapped times, the gorging of such "miracle cures" continues to be big business.
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Confidential patient information has been lost in scores of cases, according to a catalogue of NHS data losses released last night.
Files, computers and memory sticks containing details of thousands of patients have been lost according to details released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Sick notes are to be replaced with "fit notes" in a bid to cut down the £100bn cost to the economy of workers' ill-health, the Government announced today.
The system of doctors giving workers a sick note if they are ill has not changed since the NHS was created in 1948.
Ministers said that, under plans to "significantly reduce" ill-health at work, doctors will instead issue fit notes which will specify what workers are able to do.
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The NHS has opened its first ever clinic for people addicted to betting.
The National Problem Gambling Clinic began treatment in Central London today trying to help break addictions as well as offering practical advice on dealing with debt problems. The condition affects around a quarter of a million Britons.
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Six cancer sufferers who lost their only chance of fathering children when a hospital freezer broke down and destroyed their sperm samples were at the centre of an unprecedented compensation claim yesterday.
The six men all gave the samples because of fears that cancer treatment might make them infertile, senior judges were told yesterday.
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Lung cancer sufferers are to be given an expensive life-prolonging drug on the NHS under a deal with manufacturers to cut the medication's price.
tags: Health Service Economics, Financial Management, Lung Cancer, Drug Therapy, NHS, Health, News, UHN, The TelegraphConsumers are wasting billions of pounds on 'quack' foods that promise to help them lose weight, a nutritional expert has warned.
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Novelist Terry Pratchett will tell Prime Minister Gordon Brown that the UK faces "a tsunami of Alzheimer's" disease unless he increases research funding.
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Nursing staff will be told that addressing older people in their care as "dearie" or "love" is inappropriate.
They should always speak to elderly patients "courteously and respectfully" and ask them how they prefer to be known, under the new advice being drawn up by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
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A three-month-old baby suffered severe brain damage and died after being shaken by his mother weeks after being handed back to her by social services, a court has heard.
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Schoolgirls as young as 14 could be forced to watch a film that teaches them they have the right to choose an abortion.
Bottles of wine and beer could soon carry labels warning of their calorie content.
Experts believe binge drinkers, not deterred by information about how much alcohol a drink contains, might think again if they knew how fattening it was.
The message would be most likely to hit home with image-conscious young drinkers and women.
A nurse who exposed appalling neglect of the elderly at an NHS hospital began a fight to save her career today.
Margaret Haywood, 58, faces a series of disciplinary charges over a secret film she made for a BBC Panorama programme.
Brave Millie Smith can still break into a beaming smile despite suffering from a medical condition which is so rare that it has no name and affects just four people in the world.
She was diagnosed at 16 months when tests revealed she had strands missing from her eighth chromosome.
The harm done by tobacco and alcohol should be rated on the same system as illegal drugs, a leading scientist said today.
Professor Sir Gabriel Horn who chaired a special committee on drug use, warned that dependency on drink and cigarettes was spiralling out of control and urgent measures were needed to curb their misuse.
Terminally ill people and their families are being let down by failings in end of life care, a watchdog says.
The National Audit Office said while most people wanted to die at home, the majority ended their days in hospital.
The report said families, hospices and care homes in England needed more help to provide better end of life services.
It was launched as a wonder drug. A tablet to take the pain out of kicking the killer weed.
Since it appeared on the market two years ago in the UK, almost 400,000 prescriptions for Champix have been written.
Across the world, that figure is currently sitting at nine million.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has apologised for remarks he made saying a recession could be “good for us” in many ways.
The comments, published on Mr Lansley’s blog, were made in the context of the likely impact of a recession on health issues such as drinking and smoking.
Children are having to wait as long as two years to be given specialist therapy to help them recover from forms of brain damage.
But the BBC can also reveal there is a plan in hand that should dramatically improve the situation.
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A radical new strategy to stop the Aids epidemic in its tracks was proposed yesterday by World Health Organisation scientists but ran into immediate controversy over its implications for human rights.
The plan involves testing everybody for HIV every year in hard-hit areas like sub-Saharan Africa and immediately putting those who are positive on Aids drugs. It could slash dramatically the number of new infections, because Aids drugs lower the levels of virus in the body, making HIV transmission through unprotected sex much less likely.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s President, is trying to hide the real extent of the cholera epidemic sweeping across his nation by silencing health workers and restricting access to the huge number of death certificates that give the same cause of death.
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A toddler has baffled medical experts by making a miraculous recovery after a key became lodged in his brain.
Psychiatric experts say they have identified a new 21st century form of delusion whose sufferers are convinced their lives are being played out as a reality television show.
More than 100 British cruise ship passengers have been quarantined after falling ill with the winter vomiting bug. The elderly travellers were on a trip along the Rhine in Germany when they contracted the highly infectious norovirus.
A couple face ten years in prison after selling their newborn baby on the Internet.
The couple - a man aged 26 and woman aged 24 who already had another child - are currently under investigation by police and social services in the Belgium town of Ghent.
They decided they could not afford the new baby and so offered him to the highest bidder.
The BBC’s Soutik Biswas travels to the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, one of six states holding key elections, and asks why malnutrition has not been a major issue with politicians.
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A MERSEYSIDE paramedic was suspended amid allegations he “assaulted” a young mum.
Tyrone Fitzgerald, 34, is being investigated by police following the alleged attack at the woman’s Warrington home.
It is alleged the ambulance worker returned to the house when off-duty after being called previously to see her young child.
A LIVERPOOL nurse who went undercover for a television exposé at a hospital could be struck off.
Margaret Haywood, 58, is facing a four-day disciplinary hearing in London at the Nursing and Midwifery Council to decide her career.
The Everton woman has come under fire after she took part in a BBC Panorama show three years ago.
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COCKERMOUTH is set to lead the multi-million rebirth of Cumbria’s once-doomed cottage hospitals. Health bosses have published £14 million plans to replace the existing building with a brand new health village - combining a community hospital, GP and other services all on one site.
New plans have been unveiled to improve palliative care and rehabilitation services at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven by merging two wards.
Bosses plan to amalgamate the Ullswater Stroke Unit and Younger Disabled Unit (YDU) to create an all-ages rehabilitation centre. This will allow a dedicated palliative care unit to be developed at the site.
HOSPITALS in East Lancashire have passed an annual health check.
The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs both the Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital, was one of the 51 trusts randomly picked for the Healthcare Commission’s annual study.
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A MATERNITY unit set for closure could be given a lifeline offering a service with midwives in charge. Midwife-led units are run by highly-experienced midwives and cater to women assessed as being at low risk of complications that may require a doctor.
They aim to provide a less `medical’ environment in which women can give birth, surrounded by their families, while enjoying one-to-one care from their midwife.
A TOP doctor has denied claims he `experimented’ on patients to support his own research.
Consultant gynaecologist Martin Quinn also rejected the accusation of a `sinister’ plan to select patients for his academic interests.
A LEADING Bolton doctor has told how the cost of The BIG Bolton Health Check will be the best £1 million the Primary Care Trust will spend this year.
Dr Stephen Liversedge, who is spearheading the campaign, said the PCT will spend £410 million from April, 2008, to April, 2009, but the cash invested in the health check “was the best million of the 410 in terms of saving lives”.
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Government plans to overrule its own drug advisers and reclassify cannabis as a more dangerous substance are attacked by leading scientists and MPs in a letter to the Guardian today.
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, intends to move cannabis from class C to class B, where it will sit alongside amphetamines, such as speed, and barbiturates. The move comes despite repeated recommendations from the government’s drug advisers that its classification should not be upgraded.
On the wall of the Wellcome Collection in London is a colour pencil drawing of a man’s crotch that makes me wince. It is a self-portrait, featuring a dangling penis, curly thigh hairs and a post-operative scar indicating that the subject has had a testicle removed. It is by Michael Landy, the British artist perhaps best known for his 2001 artwork Breakdown, a performance piece in which he destroyed everything he owned at the old C&A store on Oxford Street.
The days have grown colder, the nights have grown longer, and I’ve remembered just how difficult it is to diet come the dog days of winter. Of course, it’s tough to lose weight in any season, but at least salads seem vaguely relevant in summer, and the fear of baring your flesh is a spur to that dread concept: moderation. Once early winter arrives, only carbohydrates seem attractive, consumed while swaddled in duvet.
Anti-abortion campaigners are being allowed into schools to present their arguments to teenagers, and are making converts. But what about the facts? Kate Hilpern reports
I became a carer when I was eight. My mum had a bowel disorder and various health conditions. Sometimes she’d be bedridden for weeks at a time.
At first my nan used to help out a lot. Then she developed lung cancer, so I was helping out with both of them. My nan died when I was 11, so I was on my own after that. My dad wasn’t around and there wasn’t any other family I was aware of.
The information commissioner is to be given sweeping new powers to fine those in Whitehall and private companies who deliberately or recklessly lose confidential personal information, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, disclosed yesterday.
Last year, the artist David Cotterrell went to Afghanistan to observe the work of military medical staff at the main field hospital at Camp Bastion. His diary and photographs, now on show in London, are a harrowing reminder of the cost of war
Britain has one of the worst cancer survival rates in Europe - and late diagnosis is the main reason. Tom Nolan describes the symptoms to look out for
Size does not matter when it comes to a sperm’s ability to reach and fertilise an egg, a study published today suggests.
Research in the London-based journal BMC Evolutionary Biology casts doubt on the common scientific belief that sperm with longer tails can swim faster. The speed at which a sperm swims is a key factor in its capability to fertilise an egg.
Dentists will be required to refund £120 million to the health service because they failed to treat enough NHS patients last year, The Times has learnt.
About half of dental practices have fallen short of targets for NHS treatment agreed with local health authorities, meaning dentists will have to pay back tens of thousands of pounds each.
Changing rooms with hairdryers and full-length mirrors would help to encourage women and girls to take up sport, a poll published today suggests.
More than half of those surveyed would take part in sport if they could style their hair afterwards. Fifty-six per cent of girls aged 10 to 15 said that hairdryers were essential, and 91 per cent cited private cubicles as a must-have.
A blood pressure reading in a GP’s surgery may not be the most accurate way of predicting the chances of suffering a heart attack, according to a study.
Contaminated packets of ready-to-eat herbs, such as basil, could be causing outbreaks of salmonella, UK scientists have found.
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With her beautiful blue eyes and a smile to melt your heart, at eight months old Jessica Gledhill is everything you could wish for in a baby.
But gorgeous though she is, for her parents Donna and Dave there are more important reasons to be grateful for their precious daughter.
For in just 17 months between May 2003 and October 2004, the couple from Wigston in Leicestershire went through the agony of losing three babies - all boys - in the most tragic of circumstances.
A device small enough to fit in a GP’s pocket can diagnose dangerous skin cancers in just 20 seconds.
The hand-held gadget, which costs around £500, can detect cancer using a complex technique called Optical Transfer Diagnosis.
It’s a life-saver for thousands - but the side-effects can be devastating.
A year after he’d undergone treatment for cancer of the tonsils, Richard Wayman felt a painful tingling in his legs. Within weeks, the 59-year- old shopkeeper was struggling to walk. He was admitted to hospital, where doctors carried out scans, X-rays and tests.
A grandfather and aunt with Parkinson’s. Three relatives with thyroid trouble. What clues does one woman’s family background hold for her future health?
Katherine Lewis has always been pretty healthy. The 24-year-old from Manchester has only ever had the usual childhood illnesses - such as chicken pox - and without any outward sign of illness, considered herself to be in good shape.
The wedding’s over, so is the honeymoon. But modern couples face yet another hurdle before a life of wedded bliss - the bridal blues.
The expectations of newlyweds are so high, and married life such a let-down after all the planning and excitement of the big day, that an increasing number of brides are suffering post-nuptial depression, say doctors.
Sleeping pills prescribed to hundreds of thousands of Britons could more than double their risk of road accidents, scientists have found.
Research showed that men and younger people are more likely to be involved in a car crash the day after taking the pills than women and the elderly.
The Government has come under pressure to publish a detailed report into the death of Baby P in Haringey.
Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has refused to release the serious case review on Baby P based on legal advice and a ruling by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas.
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Actor Bruce Byron, who plays DC Terry Perkins in The Bill, has struggled with his weight for years. But in the past six months he’s lost nearly two stone. Bruce, who is married to TV psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, writes fortnightly in Good Health about his battle with the bulge.
Every Tuesday, Britain’s leading nutritionist explains how to eat your way to health. This week Jane explains why we need to get in touch with savouring our food…
Mealtimes at Catriona Grant’s home are always a lively affair. As her sons laugh and banter, Catriona quizzes them about the day’s events.
‘We talk and talk,’ says Catriona proudly. ‘It makes us so close.’
Most people own a pair of trainers, and the market for sports shoes is worth more than £1.25 billion a year. But when it comes to keeping fit, you need shoes fit for the purpose.
Running is a cheap and effective way to keep healthy, but it’s a high-impact activity.
A Shropshire woman who is due to give birth to conjoined twins says she is giving them a “fighting chance” to let them “prove everybody wrong”.
Laura Williams, 18, of Shrewsbury, and her husband Aled, from Anglesey, expect the babies to be delivered by Caesarean section in a London hospital.
Sometimes it can go undiagnosed. Sometimes it can go ignored. Sometimes it can go unnoticed.
Asperger syndrome - a form of autism characterised by difficulties dealing with people and social situations - affects close on one in every 100 people in Britain.
A heart unit that pioneered a technique the government says could save hundreds of lives a year, says it will have to expand to cope with demand.
Middlesbrough’s James Cook Hospital was part of a trail using emergency angioplasty on heart attack victims.
Last month, a Department of Health study concluded the trial had been a success.
A girl who underwent emergency surgery after a life-threatening tumour was found in her brain, now has a “bright future” and is back in school.
At the age of three-and-a-half, Veronica Ghoda’s parents from Bridgend were told she only had a few months to live if the tumour was left untreated.
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Some breast cancers picked up by routine screening and treated with surgery and chemotherapy would have regressed naturally if they had been left, scientists said last night. Research published in a leading medical journal will reopen the debate over breast screening.
The situation in Zimbabwe may soon “implode” as a cholera outbreak spreads and basic services collapse, South African leaders and a group of international statesmen warned yesterday.
On the eve of talks in South Africa between Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party and opposition rivals, South African leaders sharply upgraded their crisis assessment and warned of Zimbabwe’s imminent collapse if urgent action was not taken.
People with HIV in Papua, Indonesia, who are deemed to be “sexually aggressive” may be microchipped to enable the authorities to identify, track and punish those who deliberately infect others under a plan which has the backing of the provincial parliament.
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A new treatment for migraine that is as effective as existing drugs but with fewer side effects will bring fresh hope to millions of sufferers, scientists said yesterday.
Improved understanding of the mechanism that causes the brain to over-react to stimuli has led to the development of a drug that works in a different way from existing treatments.
A skin patch that uses sound waves is being used to kill pain and speed up healing.
PainShield can combat pain in joints or muscles and even relieves the discomfort of wounds that are still healing by firing ultrasound waves into the body to accelerate the repair process.
A tiny remote-controlled drill that spins along the inside of arteries to clean away debris could provide a new treatment for millions of patients with a debilitating leg condition.
The device, which is small enough to safely travel through clogged arteries, cuts away and then sucks up fatty deposits, calcium and other debris which builds up on the sides of the blood vessels.
Blood taken from a pregnant woman may reveal if her baby has a wide range of genetic diseases, researchers claim.
A Chinese University of Hong Kong team said the technique could identify cystic fibrosis, beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease.
Link to ArticleInconsiderate bosses not only make work stressful, they may also increase the risk of heart disease for their employees, experts believe.
A Swedish team found a strong link between poor leadership and the risk of serious heart disease and heart attacks among more than 3,000 employed men.
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HEALTH care bosses are looking to appoint a developer by April for a proposed shake-up of health services in Congleton.
Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust is looking at developing community healthcare facilities.
LIVERPOOL’s health experts today said anyone injecting themselves with an unlicensed tanning drug is dicing with death.
Medical director for Liverpool Primary Care Trust’s provider services Dr Jim O’Connor said he would be “horrified” if any of his children wanted to inject themselves with tanning hormone Melanotan.
A DAD-OF-ONE is donating one of his kidneys to save his twin brother’s life.
Printer Roy Carroll, 40, of Walton, who was born with only one kidney and one lung was told he had kidney failure four and a half years ago.
ST HELENS and Knowsley Trust is one of the top five NHS organisations in the country for good hygiene.
A Healthcare Commission report revealed that there has not been a single case of MRSA at Whiston and St Helens hospitals this year and praised the infection control and cleanliness in the buildings.
A MERSEYSIDE authority has achieved a top rating for its adult social services.
St Helens Council received a three- star rating for the third year in a row for its services in the area and its highest-ever overall score.
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AFZAL Anwar, Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Pendle, has slammed NHS bosses for getting pay hikes while frontline staff take cuts.
Mr Anwar said: “As a result of tight fiscal control, nurses were given just 1.9 per cent – below inflation – even though the NHS Pay Review Body had recommended they receive 2.5 per cent.
PLANS for Cockermouth’s new £14 million community hospital have been revealed.
The new building will be part of a new generation of health villages that will be built in Cumbria and will see services delivered closer to patients homes.
PLANS to invest up to £10million to improve mental health services across Cumbria will be discussed next week.
It follows a four-month consultation over plans to change inpatient services, which ended on September 30, focusing on adults who require a higher level of care.
Investing in Cumbria despite the economic turndown will work towards reducing the health inequality seen in west and east Cumbria, an MP has said.
Copeland MP Jamie Reed said the NHS existed to remove inequalities and it was not right in the 21st century there were still pockets of deprivation with such varying life expectancies.
A Carlisle man will be given the ultimate gift from his sister this week – a kidney which could save his life.
Ian Morrison, 62, of Upperby and his sister Fiona Wood of Pennsylvania, USA, will undergo tandem operations in Newcastle on Wednesday. Ian and Fiona are preparing for the surgery.
PETITIONS to help bring a cancer unit to South Lakeland have been dropping through letterboxes.
They are part of a huge campaign to secure a £15m radiotherapy and chemotherapy unit at Kendal’s Westmorland General Hospital.
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Nearly all hospitals are failing to meet hygiene and cleanliness standards set by the government to prevent superbug outbreaks, inspectors say today. Most of the breaches are not serious, but the Healthcare Commission warns that only consistent and comprehensive controls in all NHS trusts will ensure that infection rates for MRSA, Clostridium difficile and other hospital-acquired infections continue to fall.
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A British teenager is set to make medical history this week by becoming the youngest mother to give birth to conjoined twins.
After defying warnings from doctors that her babies might not live longer than two weeks, Laura Williams, 18, is preparing to give birth to her two daughters, Faith and Hope, by Caesarian section.
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Seventy-five years ago, a middle-aged woman walked into a London clinic to receive help with her violent temper. She'd attacked her employer and was judged to be worthy of psychological examination. There are a few more things known about her case, but the details are less significant than the fact that she was the first recorded appointment at the new clinical wing of the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency.
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A ‘misleading’ figure included in a major government watchdog report has led to a false and vastly inflated picture of the numbers of children who die from abuse in England.
The revelation comes as an Observer investigation today reveals there has been a huge surge in applications to place children into care since the furore over the Baby P case erupted earlier this month. Amid a public clamour for tougher child protection measures, nervous social workers are pressing for the removal of any child suspected of being at risk of abuse.
The appalling life and death of Baby P has touched a national nerve in a way that the deaths of other babies killed by their parents or carers did not, even though their plight was equally shocking. Perhaps one reason is that the council involved with Baby P was Haringey and the link to the Climbie case, in the same borough eight years ago, was an easy one for the media, even though the cases and the context were different.
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Letters: Lessons we must learn from Baby P’s death - The Observer 23rd November 2008
Skin infections, facial paralysis and scalp burns are the price of dangerous and unhygienic treatments carried out by poorly trained salon beauticians
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Professor says that nobody should be fooled by ‘dangerous’ myths about boosting creativity
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Rising unemployment makes the case for systemic change stronger, as long as the reforms are seen to be fair
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Scientists have found preliminary evidence that exposure to hairspray during the first three months of pregnancy increases the risk of a common genetic deformity in baby boys.
The team found that the risk of hypospadias - a defect in which the urinary opening forms on the underside of the penis - increased from 4 in 1,000 boys to 9.6 in 1,000 when the mother was exposed to hairspray during her work.
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From herding Yemeni goats to persuading Liverpudlians to drink responsibly, public health manager Taher Ali Qassim tells Chris Arnot about his unpredictable career
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Liz Attenborough has been campaigning against forward-facing buggies since 2003 and now she has the evidence to back up her opinion. But, asks Sally Williams, are they really such a bad thing?
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Jesper Sorensen had the necessary qualifications and experience to land any one of the jobs he applied for, but one thing was holding him back - disclosing his recent cancer treatment
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How does it feel to be suspected of child abuse? Leo Burley talks to two families
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I’d like to try a teeth whitener, but worry it will be harmful or painful.
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More babies are being born with Down's syndrome than at any time since screening began. Jerome Taylor discovers why
Parents appear to be more willing to bring a child with Down's syndrome into the world because British society has become increasingly accepting of the genetic abnormality which affects one in every 1,000 babies.
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Those who want Caesareans or pain relief are being discouraged from asking for them, say campaigners
Campaigners will issue a stern warning tomorrow that childbirth has become a political football, with the Government pandering to the natural birth lobby and so denying women the freedom to have elective Caesareans and pain relief.
Britons prefer Thai takeaway to fish and chips and want food produced locally, according to an unprecedented government report.
The typical Briton is giving up fish and chips in favour of Thai takeaways and choosing locally grown food over expensive organic produce, but still failing to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, The Independent on Sunday reveals today.
Thousands of victims of asbestos-related cancer and their families won a test case at the High Court yesterday which opens the way to the award of compensation running into millions of pounds.
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A volunteer testing a new treatment died after doctors ‘missed’ a side effect, his wife tells our correspondent
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Every secondary school and college should have a sexual health clinic on site to offer pupils advice on contraception, pregnancy tests and screening for sexually transmitted disease, according to a report commissioned by the Government.
The National Children’s Bureau report into sexual health services for post16s also recommends that the Government make sex education compulsory for all sixth-formers.
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Men, fancy rekindling the flame with an ex-girlfriend or ex-wife? Proceed cautiously and observe the rules of engagement
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Overbearing health and safety regulations are hampering the ability of the National Trust to encourage more people to venture outdoors for walking or to visit country houses.
The charge is made today by Sir Simon Jenkins, the new chairman of the trust, who claims that the rules are obstructing his efforts to offer visitors an insight into what it would be like to live in some of its properties.
Charity volunteers have been banned from selling home-made cakes to raise funds for their local hospital because of health and safety fears.
tags: Public Health, Health and Safety, Hospitals, Health, News, CMHN, UHN, The Sunday TelegraphA computer virus that has wreaked havoc at three leading hospitals may have been planted deliberately.
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A teenager has saved the lives of five strangers after a chance remark to her mother led to her organs being donated when she died suddenly from meningitis.
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Sharing a bed with a baby does not increase the risk of cot death, says study that could change the way infants are cared for.
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Foreign au pairs who do not speak English could be hampering children’s language development, a television documentary will suggest.
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Happy hours, drinking games and all-you-can-drink deals in pubs and bars will be banned, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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Surgeons are drilling holes in the wrong side of people’s heads during brain surgery despite a warning issued three years ago.
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Abraham Biggs, 19, took an overdose of antidepressant pills in his bedroom while filming himself on a camera linked to Justin.tv, a website that allows users to broadcast their everyday lives.
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Thousands of arthritis sufferers can keep using a range of drugs after rationing watchdog Nice overturned its decision to ban them.
The ruling earlier this year, restricting access to the £100-a-week treatments, had been condemned by campaigners as a 'prescription for pain'.
It's been home to the real Hannibal Lecter, deranged poisoners and a barman who tried to shoot Queen Victoria. Now Broadmoor hospital for the criminally insane is finally giving up its secret.
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Murderers and rapists serving time in jail are being offered the chance to participate in IVF treatment at taxpayers’ expense so they can have children with partners on the outside.
An official notice has already been posted in a prison containing some of Britain’s worst offenders informing them how to apply.
When adoring fans watched Atomic Kitten perform their hits on stage, they couldn’t realise the agony singer Liz McClarnon was suffering. Behind the scenes, she was desperately popping painkillers just to get her through each show.
The misanthropic, irritable outlook of Basil Fawlty, Victor Meldrew and Reginald Perrin, to name but a few, is often the source of much hilarity. But in real life, grumpy old men may be able to blame their dissatisfaction with life on a medical condition commonly known as the ‘male menopause’.
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This week a leading study from Queensland University, in Brisbane, Australia, revealed that drinking three cups of green tea a day for eight weeks may lower blood pressure and shrink fat cells, confirming the long-held belief of herbalists in the therapeutic effects of a warm brew.
Indeed, there are hundreds of different concoctions on the market, which claim to help treat everything from stress to digestive problems. But which one is right for you? ANASTASIA STEPHENS investigates.
It requires no special kit or expensive gym membership and is an activity that might appeal to even the most hardened couch potatoes. Experts claim the health benefits of a regular walk are endless, without the risk of wear and tear posed by many more rigorous workouts. But can such a stress-free exercise really have an effect?
There are more than 500 causes of joint pain ranging from injury to disease.
The most common is osteoarthritis, which affects eight million people in the UK.
It usually occurs over the age of 45, but can affect younger people if they have injured or repetitively strained joints.
Eating just one egg every day can substantially raise the risk of developing diabetes, according to researchers.
For those who already have type 2 diabetes - also known as adult onset diabetes - eating more than a couple of eggs a week can make the condition worse.
More than one in five British men would like their wives to have plastic surgery, according to a study.
A poll found some 16 per cent think their other half needs a nip or a tuck, while 6 per cent said she could do with a ‘complete overhaul’.
A girl of 13 who drank up to 50 energy drinks a week has been warned to beat her addiction or risk a heart attack.
Naomi Haynes had always liked the buzz she got from the caffeine-laced drinks.
A man dumped his 84-year-old mother at council offices after claiming social services had failed to help him care for her.
Wheelchair-bound Steven O’Shea, 49, said he had reached the end of his tether after repeatedly asking Havering Council for help and support for his frail mother Catherine.
