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Aspirin may treat cancer tumours
The common painkiller aspirin could be used to treat certain types of cancer, according to scientists.
BBC Health News 14/08/03
Brain 'remembers' drug triggers
Scientists have pinpointed a part of the brain that processes memories of addictive behaviour.
BBC Health News 14/08/03
Cancer use found for wonder drug aspirin
Research reveals painkiller could be used to treat rare tumours
The Guardian 14/08/03
Fighting back
Attacks on healthcare workers are increasing despite initiatives to stop them.
The Guardian 14/08/03
Heart man jokes as surgeons cut
New technique keeps patients awake for operations
The Guardian 14/08/03
The Independent 14/08/03
BBC Health News 14/08/03
New mothers could be offered MMR
New mothers could be offered the controversial MMR jab if supplies of the single rubella vaccine run out, the government has said.
BBC Health News 14/08/03
NHS shortlist sets up a fight
The companies aiming for a slice of the £2.3bn IT budget have been cut to 11. But concerns are mounting that the national process will undermine local initiatives
The Guardian 14/08/03
Opposition disputes claim of cleaner hospitals
The number of hospitals in England with top ratings for cleanliness and food standards has more than doubled in the last year, the government said yesterday.
The Guardian 141/08/30
The Independent 14/08/03
BBC Health News 14/08/03
Pigs that suffer human problems
The feral pigs of Ossabaw Island, Georgia, mimic the health problems of obese humans so well that they could help researchers study diabetes and heart disease.
The Guardian 14/08/03
Probing the way your mind works
New techniques aid treatment of brain diseases such as Parkinson's
The Times 14/08/03
Rising hospital standards claim challenged
The number of hospitals achieving high standards in cleanliness and food has more than doubled since last year, the Department of Health said yesterday.
Financial Times 14/08/03
Scientists to check whether deer can get BSE
Scientists are to feed and inject deer with BSE- infected tissue to establish whether they can contract the disease that ravaged Britain's cattle industry and is blamed for killing 133 Britons and fatally infecting six others.
The Guardian 14/08/03
Screening would cut death rate from aneurism
ANEURYSMS of the aorta were one of the topics that created most interest at a meeting of the US Society of Vascular Surgery in Chicago last month.
The Times 14/08/03
Vaccine hope for travel diarrhoea
Holidaymakers could soon be able to take a single pill to stop them from having tummy trouble when they go abroad.
BBC Health News 14/08/03
When facts go belly up
Atkins fans may have to eat their words
The Guardian 14/08/03
When sun goes to your head
NINE-YEAR-OLD Jemima Bunting spent last Saturday, not quite the hottest day of the century, bicycling furiously with her friends up and down the hilly and rugged track behind her family’s Sussex house.
The Times 14/08/03
Cheshire and Mersey News
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Pigeons are 'killing my girl'
A PIGEON lover was today accused of putting a neighbour's life at risk because his birds are affecting her incurable lung condition.
Blackburn Citizen 14/08/03
Greater Manchester News
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