National and International News
£12m plan to fight superbug deaths
The Government is launching its latest efforts to tackle hospital "superbugs" which affect thousands of hospital patients every year.
The Guardian 05/12/03
Antibiotics not solution for children
Prescribing penicillin to children with sore throats does not reduce their symptoms or help them get well quicker, according to research just published.
The Guardian 05/12/03
Asda to replace sweets with fruit at checkouts
The supermarket giant Asda is to place fresh fruit instead of confectionery at checkouts to help parents resist the demands of children and help tackle Britain's obesity crisis.
The Guardian 05/12/03
The Independent 05/12/03
Asthma risk from baking
People who bake their own bread and cakes were warned yesterday they face a health hazard from flour inhalation.
The Guardian 05/12/03
Dance drug ecstasy falls out of favour as young clubbers find new highs
The popularity of ecstasy appears to have peaked and it may now be regarded as "yesterday's dance drug" by Britain's teenagers, according to new official figures. Home Office ministers claimed yesterday that ecstasy use has fallen for the first time and that wider class A drug abuse among young people, including cocaine use, has stabilised after rising in the late 1990s.
The Guardian 05/12/03
The Independent 05/12/03
Doctors who 'steal' organs face jail
Doctors who remove and retain organs without the consent of families face up to three years in prison and unlimited fines under legislation unveiled yesterday.
The Times 05/12/03
The Guardian 05/12/03
The Independent 05/12/03
Even a little tipple shrinks your brain
Just a few alcoholic drinks a week may be enough to shrink the brain, according to US research.
The Times 05/12/03
Gifting organs is no different to their sale
Commenting on my proposals for a regulated ethical market in live organs, your leader (December 4) selects for special praise perhaps the worst argument that has ever been levelled against organ sales. You quote Alastair Campbell as saying: "Our body is not a piece of property, in the sense that our house is. We inhabit our house and, if we own it, we can sell it. But we are our body, we are embodied selves. So it is right that the law regards the body as not a marketable commodity to be traded away at will."
The Guardian 05/12/03
Health goes hand in hand with wealth, IQ and class
There have always been differences in ageing relating to the nature of someone’s employment, their intellectual prowess when young and their social background.
The Times 05/12/03
Horns of a dilemma: which is Jenner's cow?
Two respected museums of medicine have locked horns over a relic of the most important cow in history.
The Times 05/12/03
Nurses' Christmas tips go to Scrooge taxman
The Inland Revenue has been accused of playing Scrooge after taking a hospital ward’s entire £900 in tips left by patients during the year.
The Times 05/12/03
Pensioners help the next generation
Chesea Pensioners at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea have learnt that one of the ways to stay alive is to remain intellectually active. Among the many activities at the hospital there is a flourishing bridge club. Each year the players collect for a Christmas party. At the beginning of this year the pensioners resolved to donate to Great Ormond Street a pound each for every game they played. On Tuesday four pensioners, Bill Cross, late of the Life Guards and Scots Greys, Ed Shellam, who was a Grenadier, Jim Townsend from the Royal Artillery and Joe Brittan of the Royal Fusiliers (with more than 100 years of service between them), took a generous cheque to Great Ormond Street.
The Times 05/12/03
Professor resigns in dispute over HRT cancer risk
A leading expert in osteoporosis has resigned from the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) over its recommendation that hormone replacement therapy should no longer be prescribed to prevent the bone-weakening disease.
The Times 05/12/03
The Guardian 05/12/03
The Independent 05/12/03
Smoking should be a crime, says The Lancet
A call for smoking to be made a criminal act has come from The Lancet, a leading medical journal.
The Times 05/12/03
The Guardian 05/12/03
The Independent 05/12/03
Walking back to happiness
The pain in the ball of her foot was excruciating — so severe, in fact, that despite having been in serious training for six months, Denise Capstick pulled out of the London Marathon at the last minute.
The Times 05/12/03
We should give a monkey's
The government is backing research on non-human primates for economic reasons, to the detriment of public health.
The Guardian 05/12/03
Cheshire and Mersey News
A&E docs call for drink ban
Casualty doctors today demanded a total ban on drinking alcohol before getting behind the wheel of a car.
Liverpool Echo 04/12/03
Jail threat to doctors who keep body parts
Rogue doctors who keep body parts without the consent of relatives will be jailed to prevent a repeat of the Alder Hey scandal, it will be announced today.
Daily Post 04/12/03
New ID scheme is big success
Barcoded wristbands are being introduced to reduce mix- ups at Fazakerley hospital.
Liverpool Echo 04/12/03
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Drugs bungles in tragic gran's nursing care
A nursing home matron told an inquest she was "devastated" after a nurse in her charge wrongly ordered drugs for an 82-year-old grandmother who later died.
Lancashire Evening Telegraph 04/12/03
Ex-editor appointed to NHS trust board
A new member has been appointed to the board which runs Calderstones NHS Trust.
Lancashire Evening Telegraph 04/12/03
Greater Manchester News
Cancer alert for women on HRT
Hormone replacement therapy should no longer be used by doctors as their first choice treatment to prevent women suffering brittle bone disease, government health advisers said today.
Manchester Evening News 04/12/03
Liverpool Echo 04/12/03
Hospital parking fees are necessary
Those people who complained in the Bolton Evening News report about the increase in parking charges at the Royal Bolton Hospital should ask themselves why this is necessary.
Bolton Evening News 04/12/03
Life after care homes is hard
Teenagers find it hard enough looking for work but what about youngsters who have lived most of their lives in the care system?
Bolton Evening News 04/12/03
Purify don't poison water
That fluoride is a poison has never been disputed. To add it to our water supply and say it has beneficial properties for our teeth, especially our children, is yet not proven.
Bolton Evening News 04/12/03
0 comments:
Post a Comment