National and International News
Salt campaign targets ready-meals - Daily Mail 10/10/05
The Government's food watchdog has targeted the ever-popular ready meal market in its new drive to cut salt in the nation's diet.
Ready meals targeted in salt war - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Salt campaign targets ready meals - BBC Health News 10/10/05
Processed food makers resist salt reductions - The Independent 10/10/05
Britain is blamed for vaccine delay as bird flu comes closer - The Times 10/10/05
The Government is stalling over financial support for research on improving available protection
Immunisation plans may falter - The Times 10/10/05
How avian flu is spreading [graphic] - The Times 10/10/05
The old and the sick shouldn't be given a quick exit button - Daily Telegraph 10/10/05
In the Lords today, peers will be discussing matters of life and death. As its first business after the summer recess, the upper chamber is staging a full-scale debate (70 peers are down to speak) on Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, which fell before the general election but could be reintroduced in the current parliament.
Lords to debate the right-to-die - BBC Health News 10/10/05
It's official: laughter can be the best of medicines - The Times 10/10/05
THE image of Richard Briers drunkenly trying to kiss Penelope Keith or manufacturing a car powered by a lawnmower in The Good Life is good for your health, according to a survey.
TV comedies 'good for your health' - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Hearing damage 'could be prevented' - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Tens of thousands of cancer patients in Britain are in danger of permanent hearing damage which could be prevented, campaigners have said.
Chemo hearing-loss action urged - BBC Health News 10/10/05
Government 'pushes fluoridation' - BBC Health News 10/10/05
The government has written to health chiefs reminding them they have the power to order water companies to add fluoride to water supplies.
Government presses health chiefs for more fluoridation of drinking water - Daily Telegraph 10/10/05
Breast cancer survival rates better - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Almost two-thirds of women now diagnosed with breast cancer are likely to survive at least 20 years, experts have predicted.
Breast cancer survival rates soar - BBC Health News 10/10/05
How to handle child convulsions - Daily Mail 10/10/05
David and Victoria Beckham's son Romeo was rushed to hospital twice in one week after suffering from convulsions. But what are they and how do you treat your child if they have one?
Syringe posters target schools - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Posters telling children what to do if they find a drugs needle are being sent out to schools - after a survey revealed a 7% increase in the number of syringes found on school grounds.
Supergene may herald new treatment - Daily Mail 10/10/05
A gene that regulates inflammation could underlie a host of disorders including cancers, heart disease, obesity and Alzheimer's, scientists say.
New software spots sickie fiddlers - Daily Mail 10/10/05
A software programme has been launched to help businesses spot staff who take fake sick days.
Experts to discuss obesity problem - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Many of the country's leading health care professionals are to gather to discuss the growing problem of obesity.
Characters front safety campaign - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Animation favourites Wallace and Gromit are part of a new government road safety campaign.
Chefs urge ban on junk food adverts - Daily Mail 10/10/05
Celebrity chefs and food writers have called for a ban on junk food advertising during children's TV programmes.
Doctors told to be on lookout for lupus - The Times 10/10/05
DOCTORS throughout Scotland have been urged to look out for signs in patients of lupus — an autoimmune disease that can masquerade as a number of other illnesses, leaving hundreds of sufferers with ailments that have not been properly diagnosed.
Ministers plan total smoking ban in pubs - The Guardian 10/10/05
The government will execute a health U-turn by dropping a manifesto plan to allow smoking in pubs that do not serve food. The proposal drawn up by the former health secretary John Reid has been rejected as impossible to enforce after consultation with the catering industry, unions and health organisations.
Elderly mental health 'neglected' - BBC Health News 10/10/05
Older people with mental illnesses face discrimination and poor services, a charity has warned.
Brain area 'more than just motor' - BBC Health News 10/10/05
A brain area presumed to be involved only in co-ordinating movement also controls higher functions, such as vision, mounting evidence suggests.
Welding on special stainless steels causes occupational asthma - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
It is a well-known fact that occupational asthma can be induced by welding fumes of common stainless steel. In recent years, the use of special stainless steels with a high chromium content has increased; however, occupational asthma has not been previously linked to this.
TB still a widespread problem among inmates, USA - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Despite some improvements in tuberculosis infection control in prisons and jails, TB infection remains a troubling health problem.
Stress urinary incontinence and its true impact and emotional burden - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Your mother, your friend, your sister - chances are one of these three women have suffered from the symptoms of stress urinary incontinence (SUI), but she has been too embarrassed to admit it.
Prison time increases risk for homelessness - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Former prisoners who have spent time behind bars and now live on the streets are at higher risk for use, mental illness and HIV infection than homeless persons who haven't spent time behind bars.
Patients dislike hospital admission more than worsening symptoms in exacerbations of COPD - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Exacerbations of COPD - an acute worsening of symptoms, often triggered by a respiratory infection, requiring medical intervention and often hospitalisation - are extremely distressing for patients with this condition and their families. But what features of exacerbations do patients with COPD consider most important and most distressing?
Hewitt Fast-Tracks Cancer Drug, Herceptin, To Save 1000 Lives A Year, UK - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Patricia Hewitt, UK Secretary of State for Health, has announced that women who are diagnosed from this week onwards with early stage breast cancer will have the opportunity to be treated with the drug Herceptin.
Chlamydia screening needed for adolescent boys - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
While routine chlamydia screening currently is only recommended for sexually active adolescent girls, boys should be screened as well.
After Twenty Years On The Rise, Child Asthma Seems Now To Be Declining - European Respiratory Journal - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
The steady rise in asthma rates, a trend which has been seen over the last fifteen years, may now be reversing. This study finds the clearest indications of this in young children, but the same may also apply to older age groups. This encouraging development could be the result of better diagnoses and improved treatment.
Scientists Developing Breakthrough Diabetes Drugs, Ulster University - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
University of Ulster scientists are developing innovative drugs that could represent important new therapeutic tools to help ease the burden of diabetes worldwide. The news comes as a UN World Health Organisation report identifies diabetes as one of the major health issues facing the world in the 21st century.
Development of immune cells associated with allergy and asthma - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Arthritis and allergy are ‘two sides of the same coin' as immune responses. Both are caused by overproduction of otherwise important immune molecules.
Buckets of beta cells - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Transplantation of insulin-producing pancreatic beta-cells shows great promise as a treatment for type 1 diabetes, but development of this therapy is hampered by a severe shortage of donor beta-cells, which are obtained from deceased human donors.
Anaesthesia - can the patient feel the knife? - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
Anaesthetic agents are potentially dangerous drugs, and major patient complications can occur. If the patient is overdosed, death or major body organ damage can occur. Conversely, if the patient is under-dosed, patient awareness can occur
Many children with disabilities still ‘written off', UNICEF - Medical News Today 10/10/2005
A UNICEF report launched today finds that, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the numbers of children with disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States (CEE/CIS) have dramatically increased.
Cheshire and Mersey News
Swiss suicide clinic may open offices in UK - Liverpool Daily Post 10/10/05
THE Swiss clinic which assisted Liverpool motor neurone sufferer Reg Crew to commit suicide is considering opening offices in the UK.
Anger over 'super surgery' for GPs - Liverpool Daily Post 10/10/05
OPPOSITION is growing to plans by local health services to build a new "super surgery" for GPs on Greenbelt land in Wirral.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Paramedic's third attack - Blackpool Gazette 10/10/05
A PARAMEDIC has spoken out after she was attacked for the third time in as many months while on duty.
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