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You're right about trans fats - but high cholesterol needn't be bad - The Guardian 03/10/06
There's no evidence for a link between total blood cholesterol and heart disease, say Rod Bilton and Larry Booth
Calls for breast screening review - The Guardian 03/10/06
Women over 70 should insist on attending breast cancer screenings, a charity has said.
Over-70s do not seek breast scans - BBC Health News 02/10/06
Health shops give bad advice on depression - The Guardian 03/10/06
Only one in 13 drugs recommended by health shops to treat depression is proven to work, according to a survey published today based on health food shops in a city centre. Staff were more likely to prescribe multivitamins than St John's Wort, the only alternative medicine scientifically proved to have an effect.
Virulent TB strain that targets specific ethnic groups identified - The Guardian 03/10/06
A super-virulent strain of tuberculosis that targets a specific ethnic group has been identified by scientists, who say that new treatments may be needed to combat the spread of the disease.
Foetus scans fuel abortion debate - The Guardian 03/10/06
Moving ultrasound images showing 12-week-old foetuses sucking their thumbs and appearing to "walk" do not prove they have feelings and provide no scientific evidence for lowering the age limit for abortion, experts said yesterday.
New foetal scans 'clouded debate on late abortion' - The Times 03/10/06
3D images of foetal actions 'misleading' - The Telegraph 02/10/06
Gap between the richest and poorest workers widens - The Guardian 03/10/06
Investment banking, fund management and the oil and property businesses remain the most lucrative areas for workers while supermarkets and cleaning companies are the worst payers, according to the Guardian survey of pay for companies in the FTSE 100, in association with Reward Technology Forum.
Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth - The Guardian 03/10/06
A recent report revealed that Sweden is the best place in the world to give birth, and Niger the worst. Joanna Moorhead visited both. She was shocked not only by the vast differences in the quality of care women and babies receive, but also by how easily things could be put right
Promiscuous Britons 'ignoring Aids' - The Times 03/10/06
Campaigners say Britain is lagging behind Europe in its failure to promote better public awareness
Drug company offered inducements to GPs - The Times 03/10/06
A leading drugs company has been censured after offering services to doctors in return for prescribing its products.
Drug firm's tactics reprimanded - BBC Health News 02/10/06
Health service changes would give patients freedom to shop around - The Times 03/10/06
THE NHS postcode lottery would be brought to an end by giving patients the full freedom to shop around the health service for treatment, under plans being considered by the Conservatives.
Bottle or breast for babies? - The Times 03/10/06
Breast-feeding (times 2, Sept 29) is honed by evolution to be the healthiest way to nurture the human baby, and it is now more than three years since the Department of Health’s policy followed World Health Organisation research, showing that babies are healthiest fed on milk alone for the first six months of life.
Aussies target UK nurses - The Times 03/10/06
IF YOU think that your P45 is being penned, don’t worry. Dust off your passport instead. A better life of sun, sea and snorkelling awaits in a land down under.
Dentists set pace on pay - The Times 03/10/06
OF COURSE it’s only curiosity. No one’s actually motivated by money, or competitive, because that would be plain grubby.
Children to be put at the heart of policies - The Telegraph 02/10/06
The Tories promised yesterday to place the rights of children to a happy childhood — and the importance of the family unit — at the heart of their policies.
Wounded soldiers 'get appalling health care' - The Telegraph 02/10/06
Senior Army officers and Service charities united last night in condemning the treatment of wounded troops as "an absolute disgrace".
They risk their lives, abroad and in hospital - The Telegraph 02/10/06
British 'Mash' team that patches up troops who face Taliban onslaught - The Telegraph 02/10/06
The military hospitals that have closed - The Telegraph 03/10/06
Trust me, I'm a junior doctor: is the truth stronger in fiction? - The Telegraph 02/10/06
Storylines on EastEnders have much more impact on the public than any doctor or public health campaign, discovers Max Pemberton
New doctors and nurses head for the dole - or for Australia - The Telegraph 02/10/06
The health service is crying out for more medics, nurses, midwives and therapists. The Government has spent millions training more students, so why are there no jobs for them? Barbara Lantin investigates
Case studies - The Telegraph 02/10/06
The job crisis facing our nurses - Daily Mail 02/10/06
We had our breasts removed to beat the cancer stalking our family - Daily Mail 02/10/06
It was the killer disease that had stalked their family for three generations.
New 'smart' pill halves cancer treatment time - Daily Mail 02/10/06
Thousands of bowel cancer sufferers could halve the time spent having treatment in hospital with a new 'smart' pill, say researchers.
Is this the cure for a flagging libido? - Daily Mail 02/10/06
Tom Murtage had been married for 30 years and his love life was flagging. ‘I hadn’t been having much luck in that department,’ says the 59-year-old from Cumbria. ‘I don’t know why really, but I never seemed to want to initiate the first move.’
The job crisis facing our nurses - Daily Mail 02/10/06
Six years ago, the Government announced it was going to increase the number of nurses and midwives by 20,000. The Department of Health spent £4 million on a TV advertising campaign to attract recruits, and created thousands of training places.
Our Parkinson's package holiday - Daily Mail 02/10/06
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive condition which leaves sufferers increasingly incapable of movement. It is the unlikely subject of a new ITV drama to be screened next Sunday starring Shane Richie.
My bloomin' pregnancy - Daily Mail 02/10/06
When TV presenter Alice Beer, 41, discovered she was expecting twins, she didn’t expect to be bedridden and in pain, or facing the prospect that one baby would be seriously ill. Alice, who lives with her husband Paul, 43, a media executive, and daughters Phoebe and Dora, in West London, tells her story.
Millions must wait months for flu jab - Daily Mail 02/10/06
Millions of Britons will have to wait up to three months to get a flu jab, placing the lives of the elderly and vulnerable at risk.
'Health tourists abuse NHS for IVF births - Daily Mail 01/10/06
Health tourists have received fertility treatment on the NHS at a time when thousands of British couples are being denied free IVF.
MS man's stem cell treatment hope - BBC Health News 03/10/06
A multiple sclerosis sufferer has been warned he is risking his health after deciding to fly to Holland to undergo controversial stem cell therapy.
NHS blood service strike threat - BBC Health News 02/10/06
Unions are warning workers from the NHS blood service may go on strike over potential closures of blood centres.
NHS faces new strike threat over blood service closures - The Guardian 03/10/06
Trust plans hospital 'take over' - BBC Health News 02/10/06
A foundation hospital trust is planning to "take-over" a smaller cash-strapped NHS hospital in what is thought to be the first merger of its kind.
Five tries childbirth live on TV - BBC Health News 02/10/06
Broadcaster Five is to attempt live coverage of a natural birth for a primetime audience.
Tories back ban on children's ads - BBC Health News 02/10/06
Conservative delegates have voted - by a narrow margin - to consider a ban on marketing targeted at children.
International News
Overeating by obese people is like drug addiction, brain research finds - The Guardian 03/10/06
The desire to overeat in obese people is controlled by the same part of the brain that controls cravings for drugs in addicts, according to research. Scientists have found that compulsive eating is regulated by the emotional centres in the brain, leading some people to overeat in an attempt to feel better. Their results were published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Overeating 'like drug addiction - BBC Health News 03/10/06
Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth - The Guardian 03/10/06
A recent report revealed that Sweden is the best place in the world to give birth, and Niger the worst. Joanna Moorhead visited both. She was shocked not only by the vast differences in the quality of care women and babies receive, but also by how easily things could be put right
New medical research - The Times 03/10/06
A protein linked to heart disease is more likely to be found in people on low incomes, in minorities and in women, says a study by the University of Southern California. The research, in Brain, Behavior and Immunity (Sept), found that people below the poverty line are twice as likely to have elevated levels of C-reactive protein, which is produced as part of the immune response to inflammation and is linked to chronic illnesses such as heart disease and dementia.
Smoking ban 'reduces heart risk' - BBC Health News 02/10/06
A public smoking ban in Italy has led to a fall in hospital admissions for heart attacks, research suggests.
Nobel prize for genetic discovery - BBC Health News 02/10/06
Two US scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their pioneering work in genetics.
Steroids 'kill off brain cells' - BBC Health News 02/10/06
Using steroids to build bulging muscles can also trigger "catastrophic" loss of brain cells, research suggests.
Cheshire and Merseyside News
Hospital staff in line for job cuts - Liverpool Echo 02/10/06
DOZENS of hospital jobs could be axed as bosses fight to cut costs.
City flu jab drive launched by star - Daily Post 02/10/06
ROYLE Family star Ricky Tomlinson is launching this year’s flu immunisation campaign in Liverpool today.
Tories hampered by NHS gaffe - Daily Post 02/10/06
DAVID Cameron’s bid to persuade voters the Tories have changed was in trouble last night, after an embarrassing gaffe by his policy chief suggesting the NHS could be privatised.
Couple's suicide pact in TV drama - Daily Post 02/10/06
SUICIDE pact mother Wendy Ainscow last night hit back at claims that she had spun a web of lies about her daughter being mentally ill.
Hospital food is 'good', says survey - Warrington Guardian 02/10/06
WARRINGTON Hospital's overall standard of food and cleanliness has been deemed good' in a national survey.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
GP crises warning - Carlisle News & Star 02/10/06
A GROWING GP crisis is looming for patients in Carlisle and Eden as one fifth of the area’s family doctors are due to retire within five years.
Our hospitals leading the way in cleanliness - Carlisle News & Star 02/10/06
A PRIVATE health firm has asked to visit north Cumbria’s two main hospitals to learn lessons about cleanliness.
Greater Manchester News
Grandad wins eye drug battle - The Bolton News 02/10/06
A PENSIONER denied a "wonder-drug" which experts say could have saved his sight has won a battle for other patients to receive the treatment on the NHS.
Patients hit by computer booking delay - The Bolton News 02/10/06
PATIENTS at the Royal bolton Hospital will have to wait longer to enjoy the benefits of a computer system designed to make booking appointments easier.
Health boost for school - The Bolton News 02/10/06
THE health and well-being of children at a Bolton school is to be given a boost.
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