National and International News
Cartoon characters 'encourage young to eat unhealthy food' - Daily Telegraph 24/02/05
The food industry was accused yesterday of using children's characters such as Bagpuss, Shrek and Scooby Doo to promote foods high in salt, sugar and fat.
BBC Health News 24/02/05
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Mayor's bird flu shield for key workers - The Guardian 24/02/05
Key workers such as police, firefighters and health and transport workers will be the first to get protection against the potentially lethal bird flu if a pandemic spreads from south-east Asia.
BBC Health News 24/02/05
US to test bird flu vaccines - Daily Mail 24/02/05
The US government is getting ready to test a bird flu vaccine and stockpiling both vaccine and anti-viral drugs as the threat grows that a deadly strain of avian influenza will begin spreading from Asia.
How the cancer spice came to Britain - The Times 24/02/05
From a grubby backstreet in Bombay to our supermarkets: tracing the source of contaminated food
Powder plot trail [graphic]
Dye scare spreads to schools and wards - Daily Telegraph 24/02/05
The focus of the food dye scare shifted to hospitals, schools and hotels yesterday as local authorities and suppliers tried to identify the last remaining batches of food contaminated with Sudan 1.
AIG likely to foot bill for food scare - The Guardian 24/02/05
American International Group, the world's largest insurer, emerged yesterday as one of the companies likely to have to pay the bill for Britain's biggest food scare since BSE.
Sudan 1 alert spreads to 15 more countries - The Guardian 24/02/05
The alert over an illegal cancer-causing dye found in a UK-made sauce spread yesterday to 15 countries in two continents as the biggest crisis to hit Britain's food industry since BSE continued to grow.
Pay more, worry less? Not after Sudan 1 [comment] - The Guardian 24/02/05
Experts have already reassured us that, taken in microscopic doses, the prohibited food colouring Sudan 1 is quite harmless. Personally, having ingested quite a few microscopic particles of the boot polish dye, concealed inside Waitrose Thin and Crispy Cheese and Tomato Pizza, I must confess that I have never felt better.
Companies face food dye deadline - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Shops and food companies must identify all products containing the banned food dye Sudan I by Thursday morning, the Food Standards Agency has said.
Smokers 'misjudge health risks' - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Smokers significantly underestimate the risks their habit poses to their health, a study suggests.
Study highlights nicotine levels - Daily Mail 24/02/05
Someone dancing in a nightclub for four hours is exposed to as much second-hand smoke as a person living with a smoker for a month, researchers said.
Footballers risk nerve disorder - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Professional footballers appear to be at increased risk of a nerve disorder that causes paralysis and death, say researchers.
The Times 24/02/05
Unit aims to improve NHS service - Daily Mail 24/02/05
Health officials have set up a special unit to help them understand the needs of patients as customer choice is expanded across the NHS, it has emerged.
Bad water 'kills 3 million a year' - Daily Mail 24/02/05
The chronic lack of clean water and sanitation in the developing world kills as many people as the Indian Ocean tsunami every month, the International Red Cross a new report has revealed.
'Couples need more help conceiving' - Daily Mail 24/02/05
More than nine in 10 couples who have problems conceiving do not get the treatment they need to help them have a baby, experts said.
Plea over working cancer patients - Daily Mail 24/02/05
A "culture of ignorance" among employers is hampering the working lives of cancer patients, a survey shows. CancerBACUP said many cancer sufferers in the UK were not offered flexible working arrangements or given information about how their treatment would affect their work life.
Clotting agent 'cuts stroke deaths' - Daily Mail 24/02/05
A treatment normally given to haemophiliacs can reduce stroke deaths from bleeding in the brain by almost 40%, it was revealed.
Fiennes praises life-saving machine - Daily Mail 24/02/05
Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes helped celebrate the lives saved as part of a national programme placing emergency equipment in stations, airports and other public places. Sir Ranulph suffered a cardiac arrest at Bristol Airport in 2003, but was saved thanks to staff who were trained to use a defibrillator in case of such emergencies.
NHS recruits dentists from Poland - Daily Mail 24/02/05
The Government has hailed the success of an international recruitment drive to bring dentists from overseas to fill holes in the NHS.
Crackdown looms on costly GP lines - Daily Mail 24/02/05
A crackdown on GP surgeries and other NHS organisations using premium rate phone numbers is expected to be announced by the Government.
Clark doctor stands by findings - BBC Health News 24/02/05
A pathologist has told the GMC he stands by his finding that there were no signs the younger son of solicitor Sally Clark died of natural causes.
Ministers defend 'scan contract' - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Health secretary John Reid has defended an £80m contract with a private firm to carry out NHS diagnostic tests.
DR Congo plague outbreak spreads - BBC Health News 24/02/05
An outbreak of what tests suggest is pneumonic plague has spread to a second town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a medical charity.
Study finds asthma 'stabilising' - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Childhood asthma may have stabilised for the first time in decades, a study has shown.
Paste could silence dental drill - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Scientists have developed a synthetic tooth enamel that they suggest could end the need for small fillings.
The world of Vera Drake - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Mike Leigh's Oscar-nominated film about a backstreet abortionist called Vera Drake has opened the eyes of a modern audience to the dilemmas facing pregnant women before abortion became legal in 1967. Some of those women talk about what it was like.
Heart op man celebrates 25 years - BBC Health News 24/02/05
Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant patient is celebrating 25 years since his operation.
Cocaine caused my tantrums, says supermodel Campbell - The Independent 24/02/05
She reluctantly admitted her cocaine addiction to the High Court and Naomi Campbell has now revealed on television that her drug habit caused her temper tantrums.
Teenage girls 'depressed by modern life' - The Independent 24/02/05
Girls as young as 14 now suffer from depression, are debilitated by hatred of their own bodies or feel unable to cope with the pressures of life.
Daily Telegraph 24/02/05
NHS turns to man from Comet - The Guardian 24/02/05
The government has appointed a former marketing director of the electrical goods retailer Comet to prepare NHS hospitals in England to compete with each other to attract patients.
Cannabis may help prevent Alzheimer's memory loss - The Guardian 24/02/05
Scientists at one of Spain's leading research centres claimed yesterday to have found evidence that cannabis helps prevent the memory loss experienced by people suffering from Alzheimer's.
Cheshire and Mersey News
Poverty figures reveal big drop - Ellesmere Port Pioneer 23/02/05
POVERTY in Ellesmere Port and Neston seems to have fallen by half since the year 2000. In the last four years, the borough has gone from being 65th worst to 131st in a national list of deprived areas.
Hospice gets fresh image - Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News 23/02/05
IT'S a scene similar to Changing Rooms at Halton Haven Hospice, where staff have just received a bumper £5,000 cheque to refurbish the patients' lounge.
Thousands exposed to killer dye - Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News 23/02/05
THOUSANDS of Halton families could have been eating food contaminated with the illegal red dye Sudan 1 which is believed to cause deadly liver cancer.
Payment shock in baby organ scandal - Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News 23/02/05
THE DEVASTATED parents of a baby boy whose organs were retained at Warrington Hospital have been told they will receive only £500 in compensation.
Mobile mast generates health fears - Crewe Chronicle 23/02/05
THE possibility of a phone mast being erected near a built-up area of Coppenhall is alarming residents worried it could be a health hazard.
Health chiefs plan to become ChaMPs - Warrington Guardian 23/02/05
HEALTH chiefs met at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on Wednesday to discuss how to improve the lives of Cheshire and Merseyside's two-and-a-half million population.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Crisis means no money for medic training - Preston Today 23/02/05
Hospital staff have been banned from taking study leave – because their bosses have run out of cash
Cancer victim ‘killed MS-suffering wife and himself’ - Carlisle News & Star 23/02/05
A TERMINALLY-ILL Cumbrian man killed his sick wife before hanging himself, an inquest heard.
Waiting times slashed at region’s 2 hospitals - Carlisle News & Star 24/02/05
PATIENTS in North Cumbria have seen one of the biggest improvements to hospital waiting lists in the country.
More NHS staff in sex equality claim - Carlisle News & Star 23/02/05
DOZENS of female health workers from north Cumbria are lodging new sex discrimination pay claims identical to those which have already being brought by unions.
Grocers 'in dark' on food scare - Blackpool Today 23/02/05
INDEPENDENT grocers today claimed they have been left in the dark over the Sudan 1 food scare.
Spend it on our hospitals [letter] - Burnley Citizen 23/02/05
IT is certainly time that this Government clamped down on the thousands of scrounging benefit cheats and saved the hard-working taxpayer a lot of money.
Passive smoking claim 'irresponsible' [letter] - Burnley Citizen 23/02/05
I WAS extremely concerned to see that the Tory party is claiming, in an article on its website, that "the simple fact is that there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever that passive smoking has ever killed anyone".
Hospital car park incident was frightening [letter] - Burnley Citizen 23/02/05
I AM in agreement with the nurse from Fairfield Hospital who expressed concerns regarding security on the car parks there (Letters, February 4). On January 26 I parked at Fairfield to collect a prescription for my husband. I was in the hospital only half an hour and returned to my car to find two youths in the process of stealing my radio, after first breaking my window.
Ex-addicts are given help to start new life - Bolton Evening News 23/02/05
DRUG users who have kicked the habit are being offered help to rebuild their lives thanks to a pioneering new support service in Bolton. The Higher Bridge Project aims to create tailored support packages for former addicts helping them to remain drug free and ease them back into society, education and training.
NHS treatment should be for all [letter] - Bolton Evening News 23/02/05
I WOULD like to thank Bob Norburn for setting the record straight regarding his treatment. It would seem that it is the NHS who are setting a lottery on who gets this treatment and who does not get it.
Greater Manchester News
Charity gives handicapped boy hope of a normal life - Wilmslow Express 23/02/05
AN EIGHT year old Wilmslow boy, who was diagnosed with severe learning difficulties, has made such remarkable progress he is now giving fresh hope to others.
Double blow for MRSA teenager - Tameside Advertiser 23/02/05
A TEENAGER fighting a crippling lung disease suffered a second blow after catching MRSA in hospital.
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