National and International News
Weakness for drink could be in the genes - Daily Telegraph 07/02/05
A gene mutation that increases the likelihood of becoming drunk on just one drink has been discovered.
DNA helps scientists to develop TB vaccine - Daily Telegraph 07/02/05
Scientists have developed a vaccine against tuberculosis based on DNA from the bacterium, one of the world's biggest killers.
Billions 'wasted' on cancer service - Daily Mail 06/02/05
Billions of pounds have been wasted on NHS cancer services which are drowning in bureaucracy and failing patients, according to oncology specialists.
BBC Health News 07/02/05
Left handers see things differently - Daily Mail 06/02/05
Psychologists have revealed that right handed and left handed people use different parts of the brain to see the world.
BBC Health News 07/02/05
Consultants to vote on strike - Daily Mail 07/02/05
Hospital consultants will decide within two weeks if they are to go on strike over medical insurance fears.
Infections link to mental problems - Daily Mail 07/02/05
Infections in the womb or soon after birth may sow the seeds of mental problems later in life.
Films highlight domestic violence - Daily Mail 07/02/05
Customers at one of Britain's largest shopping malls will be shown short films about domestic violence. Amnesty International has commissioned the one-minute dramas to try to change public attitudes towards violence in the home.
Doctors failing to spot anorexia - Daily Mail 07/02/05
Doctors are failing to diagnose patients with eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia quickly enough.
GPs rapped over eating disorders - The Observer 07/02/05
Treatment for eating disorders is poor or non-existent in many areas of Britain, with doctors stereotyping sufferers as attention-seekers who are to blame for their illness.
The Guardian 07/02/05
BBC Health News 07/02/05
Obesity action hit by Bush budget cut - The Times 07/02/05
OBESITY prevention schemes and agricultural subsidies will be targets of sharp falls in funding when President Bush delivers his budget today.
Britons spending £78m fighting flab - Daily Mail 07/02/05
Diet-obsessed Britons have racked up a heavy-weight bill of £78 million in a bid to fight the flab in 2005.
Worker faces legionnaire's trial - Daily Mail 07/02/05
A town hall official is to go on trial charged with seven counts of manslaughter following an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease.
The Guardian 07/02/05
Carlisle News & Star 07/02/05
Woman on pill pregnant with quads - BBC Health News 05/02/05
A 24-year-old woman who had been taking a course of contraceptive pills has found she is expecting identical quads.
Pregnancy may hold arthritis key - BBC Health News 05/02/05
Nobody knows why women with RA go into remission during pregnancy, but the Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC) is funding a two-year project with more than £160,000 of funding to try to find out.
Warning as sex disease reaches UK - BBC Health News 07/02/05
A sexually transmitted infection that before now has mainly been seen in the developing world is spreading in the UK and western Europe, experts say.
'My art helped me cope with illness' - BBC Health News 06/02/05
Artist Alexandra Reinhardt, died last year aged 43 after spending her lifetime battling the rare blood condition Diamond Blackfan Anaemia (DBA). This month Paintings in Hospitals will host the first major exhibition of the work of this extraordinary woman.
China announces bird flu vaccine - BBC Health News 07/02/05
Chinese scientists have developed a new vaccine for poultry and mammals to prevent the spread of bird flu, according to state media.
Official: love can damage your health - The Observer 06/02/05
For centuries, poets, painters and philosophers have tried to capture the emotions that run through us when we fall in love. Now it is the turn of psychologists to address how and why our hearts beat faster when we meet our soul mate. The latest edition of the Psychologist magazine, the industry bible, carries a lengthy appeal for the condition to be taken seriously by mental health experts.
The Independent 07/02/05
BBC Health News 07/02/05
Dentists in botox therapy dispute - BBC Health News 07/02/05
Dentists have been carrying out botox treatment despite not being properly qualified, cosmetic surgeons say.
Heart patients' postcode lottery - BBC Health News 07/02/05
Access to a potentially life-saving treatment for heart patients is a postcode lottery, a study suggests.
Baby size linked to cancer risk - BBC Health News 07/02/05
Larger babies have higher risk of developing certain cancers in adulthood, research suggests.
The Times 07/02/05
GP commutes from South Africa to help cure shortage of doctors - The Times 07/02/05
SOUTH AFRICAN doctors have become the latest long- distance recruits to join Britain’s overstretched GP workforce.
Dr Copperfield: Inside the mind of a GP - The Times 05/02/05
What’s the best care for the elderly? I’d take them to Clacton for a nice day out
Audit groups unite to weigh the worth of child obesity plan - The Times 07/02/05
THREE powerful audit organisations are to launch an investigation into government plans to reduce obesity among schoolchildren.
Mental health problems for 700 troops in Iraq - The Independent 05/02/05
Almost 700 British servicemen and women have returned from Iraq with mental health problems including post-traumatic stress disorder.
Your boss calls it falling asleep on the job. You can call it 'siesta syndrome' - The Independent 06/02/05
The phone is blaring and the boss is bearing down. But you are slouched over the keyboard, doing nothing. For it is between 2pm and 4pm - and siesta syndrome has struck. Apathy in the afternoon is severely damaging the national economy, according to a new study conducted by British scientists. And the country's workers are drifting off thanks largely to their poor diet.
How far have we come? - The Independent 07/02/05
A machine that promises sexual satisfaction at the touch of a button has long been the stuff of fantasy. Now a US doctor claims he can deliver the goods. A likely story, says Virginia Ironside
Self-denial: Is it good for you? - The Independent 07/02/05
The start of Lent on Wednesday is the signal for many to give up anything from chocolate cake to cigarettes. But does this sort of sacrifice have any benefit? Maxine Frith looks at the history of fasting, while 10 experts give their views
Many cancer patients turn to alternative medicine - The Guardian 03/02/05
Cancer patients in Italy have the highest use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) compared with other countries in the EU, according to research published today.
Glaxo and Merck agree deal on cervical cancer vaccine - The Guardian 07/01/05
Britain's largest drugs firm, GlaxoSmithKline, could receive as much as $100m (£53m) a year after striking a deal with a pharmaceutical rival on sales of a cervical cancer vaccine, which Glaxo has said could be one of the biggest selling drugs of all time.
Baby weight charts 'can lead to overfeeding' - The Guardian 05/01/05
Parents could have created health problems in later life for their babies by overfeeding them because charts used to measure their growth were based on wrong assumptions two decades ago, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
Tumour patients hit by NHS shortages - The Observer 07/02/05
Hospitals are suffering from a growing shortage of neurologists, with some patients waiting more than a week in hospital with potentially life-threatening conditions before they are seen.
What really bugs NHS patients: the dirt - The Guardian 07/02/05
Joan Ryan believes her elderly mother's life was saved by the doctors and nursing staff of Chase Farm hospital in Enfield, north London. But her gratitude to the medical team did not blind Ms Ryan to the dirt on the ward when she went to visit.
Courts 'add to child abuse ordeal' - The Guardian 07/02/05
Child victims of sex abuse are traumatised all over again by the court system, according to a study of child witnesses published today.
Time called on happy hour drinking in city hotspots - The Guardian 07/01/05
The happy hour, the drinking institution that regularly promotes pandemonium in many of Britain's town centres on Friday and Saturday nights, is facing an imminent ban in badly affected areas, the Guardian has learned.
Cheshire and Mersey News
Transplant joy for brave James - Chester Chronicle 07/02/05
A LAST ditch double transplant has saved the life of a desperately sick little boy. Without the liver and small bowel operation three-year-old James Bartlett had just a few days to live.
Paving trip claims cut by two-thirds - Liverpool Echo 07/02/05
WIRRAL has seen a 66% fall in the number of compensation claims from people saying they have been injured after tripping on pavements.
College health - Warrington Guardian 05/02/05
ADVICE on how to keep your body in tip-top condition will be available at a health promotion fair at Warrington Collegiate, Winwick Road on Wednesday, February 9.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Arrested GP named - Carlisle News & Star 07/02/05
THE News & Star can today name the Cumbrian GP arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of a patient as 52-year-old Dr Mike Stevenson.
Death probe GP is CUEDOC director - Carlisle News & Star 07/02/05
THE CUMBRIAN GP who is under investigation following the death of a patient was a director of Cuedoc, the emergency out-of-hours doctors’ service that is provided to county patients.
Greater Manchester News
Key asbestos question remains unanswered - Rochdale Observer 05/02/05
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for the development of the old Turner’s site claim asbestos-like fibres can be found hanging on exposed roots of trees blown over in recent gales.
Beds reprieve in hospitals crisis - Manchester Evening News 07/02/05
MORE intensive care beds will be provided in Greater Manchester after doctors warned that patients' lives were being put at risk.
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