National and International News
Shopping centre where 11-year-old bought heroin for £10 a bag - The Guardian 30/01/06
Until yesterday few people outside south Glasgow had ever heard of the Pollok Centre. A rundown shopping mall bounded by housing schemes on one side and derelict wasteland on the other, it boasts a Tesco but little else to tempt the shopper.
Heroin addict, 11, collapses at school - The Times 30/01/06
Hewitt plans £4bn switch from hospitals to new-style clinics - The Guardian 30/01/06
A big switch of NHS resources out of hospitals into GP health centres and German-style polyclinics will be proposed today in a white paper from the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt.
Move to push NHS into community - BBC Health News 30/01/06
Arthritis drug may cut breast cancer risk - The Times 30/01/06
CONTROVERSIAL arthritis drugs have the unexpected benefit of greatly cutting the risk of breast cancer, a new trial indicates.
Statin hope for form of arthritis - BBC Health News 30/01/06
Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs used to combat heart disease may also help people with rheumatoid arthritis, research suggests.
Obesity can be caught from a virus, scientist says - The Times 30/01/06
A SHARP increase in the number of Britons who are severely overweight may be the result of a virus that allows people to “catch” obesity, controversial research suggests.
Labour's fitness regime an exercise in 'hype' - The Times 30/01/06
GOVERNMENT plans to improve the health of the nation through more exercise and better diet are “spin and hype”, according to the chief executive of LA Fitness, the nationwide chain of fitness centres.
Surgeons fear for anatomy skills as number of donated bodies falls - The Guardian 30/01/06
The government's top medical adviser has written to all doctors in England urging them to encourage patients to leave their bodies to medical training and research because there is a shortage.
Parents' marriage choice may lead to autism - The Telegraph 30/01/06
The recent rise in autism may have been driven by the tendency of like-minded engineers, physicists, mathematicians and other "systemizers" to marry each other, according to a Cambridge University professor.
Crackdown on food marketing call - BBC Health News 30/01/06
Governments must do more to protect children from food marketing in the fight against obesity, an expert says.
New powers over death considered - BBC Health News 30/01/06
Ministers are considering plans to let adults appoint someone who could block life-sustaining treatment if they were too ill to do so themselves.
RCN Response To BBC Survey Of NHS Deficits, UK - Medical News Today 30/01/06
Dr Beverly Malone, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: “The Government dismissed our claim that NHS deficits are now beyond £1 billion.
JAMA Study Assesses Impact Of Women's Health And Cancer Rights Act - Medical News Today 30/01/06
"Use of Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy Following the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act," Journal of the American Medical Association: The report, by Amy Alderman of the Health Services Research and Development and Surgical Service at the VA Ann Arbor Health Care System and colleagues, evaluates the impact of the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act. The act, which was implemented in 1999, requires insurance providers to cover breast reconstructive surgery after mastectomy and in 2001 added regulations that penalize noncompliant insurers.
BMJ Paper Blows The Lid On The Tobacco Industry's Ventilation Myth - Medical News Today 30/01/06
Commenting today [Friday 27 January] on the BMJ's paper ‘British American Tobacco's air filtration scheme'*, the BMA's Head of Science and Ethics, Dr Vivienne Nathanson, said that it showed that ventilation systems do not protect the public from second-hand smoke and that the only way to do this was to introduce a comprehensive ban on smoking in ALL enclosed public places.
Cheshire and Mersey News
City acts to curb school-age obesity - Daily Post 30/01/06
AROUND half of Liverpool's 11-year-old children are overweight and in urgent need of help, education officials said last night.
Staff anger over ward closure - Daily Post 30/01/06
STAFF last night reacted with shock and anger at plans to close a rehab ward for elderly patients in Ellesmere Port.
Extra medics for university - Daily Post 30/01/06
ALMOST 100 more doctors and dentists are to be awarded degrees in Liverpool as part of a multi-million pound deal to help solve NHS shortages.
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