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Geordie stroke victim wakes up with Jamaican accent - Independent 04/07/06
A Geordie woman woke up after suffering a stroke and started speaking with a Jamaican accent.
How to train your brain - Independent 04/07/06
Worried you're losing your marbles? The latest computer games are designed to help. Rebecca Armstrong flexes her grey matter
How man woke from 19-year 'coma' - BBC News 03/07/06
Scientists believe they may have discovered how a man made a dramatic recovery after spending 19 years in a near-vegetative state.
Value warning on £1bn NHS scheme - BBC News 03/07/06
MPs are unable to determine if a £1bn public-private scheme to upgrade GPs' surgeries and other Primary Care Trust buildings is good value for money.
Ill toddler gets German operation - BBC News 04/07/06
A seriously ill toddler is in Germany to get a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant operation.
Is going to the gym bad for your health? - the Daily Mail 04/07/06
Gyms are a Mecca for the fit and healthy - so they are the last place you would expect to encounter a serious threat to your well-being. Yet research shows that they can be a breeding ground for illnesses ranging from colds and viruses to deadly superbug infections
Trapped in bed for 14 years with chronic fatigue - the Daily Mail 04/07/06
She can't swallow. She can't speak. She's in constant pain. Yet some doctors say Lynn's illness is all in the mind. Read her story and you'll never be flippant about 'yuppie flu' again:
Foreign nurses barred in attempt to help homegrown candidates - Guardian 04/07/06
Thousands of international nurses are to be banned from working in the UK to improve the chances of homegrown candidates getting a job, the government announced yesterday. The vast majority of overseas nurses will no longer be able to get work permits unless NHS trusts can prove they are unable to fill the posts with candidates trained in the European Economic Area or the UK.
NHS shuns nurses from overseas to solve crisis - The Times 04/07/06
Infections may cause diabetes in the young - The Times 04/07/06
INFECTIONS may trigger diabetes in children and young adults, a study suggests.
Common infections 'may trigger diabetes' - the Daily Mail 03/07/06
Infections 'may cause diabetes' - BBC News 03/07/06
Search parties are a waste - The Times 04/07/06
TAKE two experienced clinicians, put them on a ward where they do not usually work and ask them to find 40 regularly used items.
Muddling through at the top of Government - The Times 04/07/06
Sir, Anatole Kaletsky (Comment, 29 June) asserts that “Mr Brown does not want to reverse reform because he is genuinely convinced that private enterprise and competition can deliver services more effectively than government planning”. This is a distortion of the issue. The “reforms” in education and health are driven by dogma and lack an adequate evidence base.
Legislation update The Times 04/07/06
THE latest stage in the saga of provision of NHS continuing care has been reached with the publication last week by the Department of Health of a consultation paper on a “National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare”. The paper states that the Government is “determined to establish a simpler, fairer and more coherent system” for deciding who should get fully funded NHS continuing care.
Doctors near first full-face transplant after tests on dog victim - The Times 04/07/06
PLANS by British scientists to carry out the world’s first full- face transplant moved a step closer yesterday with the publication of a positive report by French surgeons who carried out a partial transplant on a woman last year.
Face transplant deemed a success - BBC News 04/07/06
Second opinion: alternate solutions - Telegraph 04/07/06
The beta blockers, formally retired last week by medical decree after 40 years preventing heart attacks and strokes, are resonant of a more innocent and optimistic age, when matron was still in charge and medical "breakthroughs'' were genuine and important - the first kidney transplants, hip replacements, effective drugs for asthma, infertility, childhood cancer, and much more.
Is the label worse than the illness? - Telegraph 04/07/06
Just the diagnosis of manic depression can be a shattering event, one sufferer tells Cassandra Jardine
International News
UK: Should Patients Have To Opt Out Of Electronic Records? - Medical News Today 04/07/06
The potential benefits of sharing patient electronic records within health systems are broadly agreed, but concerns remain over patient consent and security. Experts in this week's BMJ discuss how patients should consent to use of electronic records in the NHS and how the data can be kept secure
Henry Ford's Idea Revisited In DNA Copying - Medical News Today 04/07/06
Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a significant new discovery about how cells copy their genetic information accurately and efficiently to avoid cancers and other diseases, as reported in the scientific journal Cell, published on 30th June.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Text A Health Message - Blackpool Citizen 04/07/06
Text message reminders will be sent to women using the Colposcopy Department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital to crack down on the number of missed appointments.
Hospital Staff In Row Over Seating - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 03/07/06
WARRING hospital staff have been told to stop asking a busy NHS boss to resolve disputes over who is going to sit where in offices at Blackburn's new super hospital.
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