National and International News
50% rise in cost of NHS drugs
The cost of drugs prescribed under the NHS has risen from £4.9bn in the financial year 1999-2000, to £7.13bn in the year ended in April, a 50% rise.
The Guardian 04/012/03
The Independent 04/12/03
A simple solution to transplant tourism
The news that Professor John Harris of Manchester University (Doctors back cash for organs, December 3) is suggesting liberalising laws on the sale of human organs will alarm many people, but also flies in the face of current political developments. The European parliament recently voted by 432 to nil in favour of my report to make it illegal for any European to go elsewhere in the world to buy an organ from a healthy live donor.
The Guardian 04/012/03
Basic instinct
Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species said that natural selection is daily scrutinising every variation in all species: rejecting that which is bad; preserving all that is good. It was working whenever and wherever opportunity offered itself for the improvement of each organic being. So effective has evolution been that every reader of The Times is descended from stock that has survived centuries beset by famine. For more than 99 per cent of the time that mankind has been in the world, the ability to survive alternating cycles of feast and famine has been an important, if not the most important, factor in determining which families survived and which died out.
The Times 04/12/03
Financier to police foundation hospitals
The government appointed a banker as the regulator of the first wave of foundation hospitals last night, prompting criticism that health ministers were more concerned about finances than improving patient care.
The Guardian 04/012/03
The Guardian 04/12/03
Five figure sum for race slur
An Asian woman hospital consultant has been paid substantial compensation and reinstated after 18 months' leave, in a last-minute settlement before the start of a race discrimination tribunal.
The Guardian 04/012/03
Health body sets limit to use of HRT
Hormone replacement therapy should no longer be used as the first choice of treatment to prevent osteoporosis, the Government’s health advisers said yesterday.
The Times 04/12/03
HIV sufferers to be classed as disabled
Cancer, HIV and multiple sclerosis sufferers will be classed as disabled under far-reaching legislation published by ministers yesterday.
The Independent 04/12/03
Junk food 'top threat to health'
The worst health problem facing the world is not Aids, but chronic illness caused by processed food such as crisps and fizzy drinks, Alan Milburn, the former Health Secretary, said yesterday.
The Times 04/12/03
The Independent 04/12/03
The Independent 04/12/03
Mental health trust faces strike threat
A mental health trust, which was heavily criticised by government inspectors, is in crisis, with nurses and psychologists threatening to strike amid growing concern that debts and staff shortages are seriously compromising the health and safety of severely ill patients.
The Guardian 04/012/03
Not for sale
The problem may not be new, but it has become no less painful for patients and clinicians. There is an acute shortage of organ donations in the UK. Every year several hundred people die while on a waiting list, and many more spend months in a debilitated and deteriorating state. There were over 6,000 patients waiting for an organ - kidney, liver, heart - in the year ending in March, with 400 of them having died before being given a transplant. Many more will have died without reaching the waiting list. The frustration and despair is not restricted to patients and their relatives. For the specialist medical teams, who have the skills and facilities to carry out more operations than currently are completed, the shortage must be exasperating. In the four decades since the early transplants, the success rates of the operations have improved dramatically.
The Guardian 04/12/03
The Guardian 04/12/03
Manchester Evening News 03/12/03
Soothing breakthrough in treatment on eczema
Eczema, frequently known as dermatitis, leaves patients distracted and sleepless and their skin itchy and inflamed. Once scratched, it becomes sore and bleeds. A huge advance was made in the treatment of dermatitis when corticosteroids were introduced for its treatment in the 1950s. Steroids revolutionised the life of those people, including children, whose days and especially nights had been turned into hell by their itching skin.
The Times 04/12/03
Cheshire and Mersey News
Bishop's cancer fight
The former Bishop of Liverpool today (Wednesday, December 3) told of his remarkable fightback in his battle with lung cancer.
Liverpool Echo 03/12/03
Fatal error costs hospital £135,000
A Merseyside man has been awarded £135,000 in compensation from a hospital after staff failed to spot his wife 's fatal brain haemorrhage.
Liverpool Echo 03/12/03
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Head shave by friends for tragic pal Mark
Seven magnificent friends of Mark McMurray rallied round when they found out he was battling leukaemia. In a show of solidarity, they all had their heads shaved so they would blend in with their pal when he loses his hair after chemotherapy.
Lancashire Evening Telegraph 03/12/03
Greater Manchester News
GP ops help to cut waiting times
More operations are being carried out in GP surgeries and out patient clinics, reducing waiting times.
Manchester Evening News 03/12/03
MP backs alcohol health warning
Bolton MP David Crausby has thrown his support behind a campaign for alcoholic products to carry health warnings.
Bolton Evening News 03/12/03
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