Cheshire and Mersey News
Medieval Plague May Explain Resistance to HIV - Reuters 10/03/05
The persistent epidemics of hemorrhagic fever that struck Europe during the Middle Ages provided the selection pressures that have made 10 percent of Europeans resistant to HIV infection, according to a UK study.
Heath trust is not complacent over MRSA cases - Congleton Guardian 11/03/05
THERE were eight cases of MRSA at East Cheshire NHS Trust hospitals in the six months to September.
Hospital bus route appeal - Nantwich Guardian 11/03/05
PARISH councillors are calling for the direct bus service from Willaston to Leighton Hospital to be restored.
One for the girls - Warrington Guardian 12/03/05
SURE Start North Warrington celebrated International Women's Day on Tuesday by holding 'dance with your child' sessions at Fordton Leisure Centre.
Radiographer 'saw baby Jake given fatal injection' - Daily Post 11/03/05
A RADIOGRAPHER at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital yesterday told a manslaughter jury she saw nurse administering a fatal injection to an 18-month-old boy.
Rose told me that she made a mistake - Liverpool Echo 10/03/05
'Junior' nurse didn't question jab - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
Physio struck off after woman's complaint - Liverpool Echo 11/03/05
A PHYSIOTHERAPIST from Liverpool has been struck off. Robert Dunn, 46, was banned after a woman complained of "inappropriate behaviour".
War on poverty - Liverpool Echo 11/03/05
A MILLION-POUND centre is being set up in Granby to help the country ' s most poverty-stricken children.
Daughter's fight against rare cancer - Daily Post 11/03/05
LIKE most four-year-old girls, Alexandra Dallas loves ballet and dreams of being a bridesmaid.
University academics discover true cost of Britain's violent society - Daily Post 11/03/05
VIOLENCE is costing the UK billions of pounds each year financially and emotionally, a report by Liverpool academics revealed yesterday.
Mumps cases soar - Midweek Advertiser 09/03/05
HEALTH chiefs in West Lancashire are urging parents to help stamp out dangerous childhood diseases by ensuring that their children are given the MMR vaccine.
Why did hospital fail David so badly? - Southport Visiter 11/03/05
A HEARTBROKEN widow has revealed her anguish at the state she found her husband in, when she went to visit him in Southport Hospital.
City smoking ban 'would be illegal' - Daily Post 11/03/05
LIVERPOOL'S bid to ban smoking in all public places hit a fresh hurdle yesterday when MPs and peers ruled that it breached human rights laws.
Day centre delight - Village Visiter 09/03/05
MORE than £70,000 has been spent revamping Ormskirk's Derby Day Centre.
Smoking stubbed out at Concourse - Ormskirk Advertiser 10/03/05
SKELMERSDALE'S Concourse smoking ban announced on National No Smoking Day yesterday has met with positive reactions from staff and customers.
Clean day for hospital staff - Maghull & Aintree Star 10/03/05
AINTREE Hospitals NHS Trust took part in National Think Clean Day.
Price for Fluvirin fiasco - Daily Post 09/03/05
VACCINE maker Chiron may see revenues from its Liverpool-made Fluvirin slashed by tens of millions of pounds following the contamination fiasco.
Mast health issue to be investigated - Formby Times 10/03/05
ANTI-MOBILE phone mast campaigners say they have won a vital battle in their bid to stop them being placed outside homes and schools.
Anthrax scare for business - Runcorn Weekly News 10/03/05
A HOAXER triggered an anthrax scare at the Littlewoods call centre in Crosby.
Row over medical centre continues - Runcorn Weekly News 10/03/05
TOWN leaders are standing by their proposal to allow a medical centre to be built on a public playing field in Frodsham, despite opposition from residents.
Please can you help my brave girl? - Runcorn Weekly News 10/03/05
LITTLE Alexandra Dallas was just four days away from celebrating her fourth birthday when doctors diagnosed her with having an aggressive form of cancer.
Door not darkened by teen intimacy - Runcorn Weekly News 10/03/05
ELDERLY residents reacted angrily to claims that teenagers have been having sex in the doorways of sheltered accommodation.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Legionnaires' case fails - architect still faces charges - The Guardian 12/03/05
The case against a local authority accused of killing seven people who died in Britain's biggest outbreak of legionnaires' disease collapsed yesterday.
Fireman Jim trains to help medics - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
ONE of the first firefighters in East Lancashire to receive special medical training says he hopes his new skills will lead to more lives being saved.
Dying for a drink - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
ONE hundred people a year - twice the national average - die from drink-related illnesses in East Lancashire, it was revealed today.
How to stay healthy - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
TYLDESLEY Probus Club members were given a lesson in staying healthy.
Walking for a healthy life - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
WALKERS are being invited to take part in an organised short stroll in Atherton on Wednesday (March 16)
We do protect staff and visitors [Letter] - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
THERE have been letters recently about security on the Fairfield General Hospital site.
'Junior' nurse didn't question jab - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
A NURSE has told a jury she did not feel able to question the actions of a colleague who mistakenly gave a Blackburn toddler a fatal injection.
Is superbug using nurses' uniforms? [Letter] - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
I HAVE read quite a lot of articles about hospital superbug MRSA and in one article it stated maybe the superbug could be passed via towels.
Big thank you for retired NHS boss [Letter] - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 11/03/05
FOLLOWING what seems a controversial decision to allow East Lancashire NHS chief executive John Thomas to retire, may we the catering department express our best wishes to him and his family for the future
Greater Manchester News
My angel in the sky - Manchester Evening News 12/03/05
A QUICK-thinking nurse saved a jet passenger's life 38,000ft above the Atlantic after he had a heart attack.
Health is top of board agenda - Bury Times 11/03/05
HEALTH and safety is top of the agenda at the next week meeting of Radcliffe Area Board on Monday at Radcliffe Civic Suite, at 7pm.
Diabetic group widens its net - Bury Times 11/03/05
PLANS to give people with diabetes a stronger voice were unveiled at the annual meeting of Bury Diabetics Support Group.
I was wrong - but so are you [Letter] - Bury Times 11/03/05
MRS Lynda Hughes wrote (February 25) regarding my daughter's electric wheelchair, and was quick to point out that I had incorrectly blamed Bury Council, and not the NHS, for its enforced return. I am sorry I got it wrong.
Masts: Council not bound by law [Letter] - Bury Times 11/03/05
I REFER to the recent letter from Brian Daniel, planning and economic development officer of Bury MBC, claiming that the health aspect cannot be grounds for the council to refuse an application for planning permission to construct a mobile phone transmitter mast.
Is school a 'toxic time bomb' - Bury Times 11/03/05
ACCORDING to more than one reliable source, members of the school authorities and many, many parents from all over Radcliffe are alarmed at the council proposal to locate the new Radcliffe Riverside "superschool" right alongside the Tower Farm and Eeís landfill site.
Tears as nursing home closes - Bury Times 11/03/05
ELDERLY residents were given just weeks to find alternative accommodation following the shock announcement to shut a nursing a residential home.
First class service at NHS hospital [Letter] - Bolton Evening News 12/03/05
I DON'T know whether Michael Howard would want to use my story at his press conference, but here it is.
Moving ward rubbish will spread germs [Letter] - Bolton Evening News 12/03/05
I HAVE read the front page story in the Bolton Evening News (Wednesday, March 9) regarding a mother's claim on the cleanliness of a hospital ward with a growing sense of shock.
Unsuitable uniform for shopping [Letter] - Bolton Evening News 12/03/05
I AM concerned about the superbug MRSA, as I suppose a few million people are.
NHS cash spent on non-essential items [Letter] - Bolton Evening News 12/03/05
COUNCILLOR Thomas (Letters, February 4) may be sick and tired of the Tories running down the NHS, but I would remind her that many of them fell for Tony Blair's spin in 1997 and his pledge to give the NHS top priority and that is why her party is now in power.
Death from blood clots on way down - Bolton Evening News 12/03/05
DEATH rates from blood clots at the Royal Bolton Hospital are likely to show a decrease when the year on year figures are announced
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