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Biggest rise in tuberculosis since 1999 worries health experts - The Guardian 03/11/06
Tuberculosis, a disease of the 19th century in the western world, is an increasing threat to the 21st, experts said yesterday as fresh figures were published showing the biggest annual rise in cases in the UK since 1999.
Tuberculosis returns with big jump in cases - The Independent 03/11/06
Rise in tuberculosis cases linked to foreign travel - The Times 03/11/06
Sharp rise in tuberculosis cases - Daily Mail 02/11/06
Our nation of obsessive teen-haters must wake from its complacency - The Guardian 03/11/06
This Labour government has stayed silent while public attitudes to the effects of poverty on children have hardened
Two thirds of teenagers too fat to be soldiers - The Guardian 03/11/06
The British army is planning to extend its training for young recruits because so many potential soldiers are obese, an official report discloses today. The military has had to relax its criteria over the physique and weight of recruits as a result of the problem.
Second class delivery - The Guardian 03/11/06
A controversial study in 2000 recommended caesareans for breech births. But is the move to surgical intervention really best for mothers, asks Viv Groskop
We are already at the gates of the surveillance society - The Guardian 03/11/06
Parliament must act to halt the spread of powers of intrusion and control in the hands of the state and private corporations
A database that could be good for our health - The Guardian 03/11/06
How Icelanders gave computer scheme cold shoulder - The Guardian 03/11/06
A day in the life of a shifting population: the 2,500 migrants who come in and out - The Independent 03/11/06
Up to 500 Britons a day are acting on their dreams of upping sticks and moving to a new home. Record numbers emigrated from the UK last year, with Australia, Spain and France topping the list of preferred destinations.
380,000 quit UK as migration trend continues - The Guardian 03/11/06
Immigrants swell the population at a rate of 500 a day - The Telegraph 03/11/06
The Big Question: It was discovered 100 years ago, but has treatment of Alzheimer's progressed? - The Independent 03/11/06
One hundred years ago today, on 3 November 1906, Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist and pathologist, presented the first case of the disease that later came to bear his name in Tubingen Germany. The patient, Auguste D, developed dementia in her 50s and was so restless and confused that doctors prescribed balneotherapy - day long immersion in a lukewarm bath - to soothe her. When she was at her worst they knocked her out with chloroform.
Alzheimer's progress 100 years on - BBC Health News 03/11/06
£30m to curb sex attacks on wards for mentally ill - The Times 03/11/06
The Government pledged £30million yesterday to increase the safety of women at risk of sexual attacks on mental health wards.
Safety cash for mental unit women - BBC Health News 03/11/06
NHS chief's dog held to ransom - The Times 03/11/06
Distraught executive has accused police of failing to take dognappers' demands seriously
Pigeons go nowhere as bird-flu law halts races - The Times 03/11/06
Pigeon racing is facing a financial crisis because the Government banned international events to reduce the risk of bird flu spreading to Brirtain.
Standards of medical proof - The Times 03/11/06
The General Medical Council’s plan to lower the standard of proof from “sure” (the criminal standard) to “on a balance of probabilities” (the civil standard) (report, Oct 30) will not make it easier to strike off dangerous doctors.
Men 'facing battle to get treatment for prostate cancer' - The Telegraph 03/11/06
Prostate cancer patients are being denied access to specialist care and approved treatments because of financial difficulties in the NHS, campaigners said yesterday.
Parents who leave their children home alone are to blame for delinquency, says study - The Telegraph 03/11/06
Parents are to blame for teenage delinquency in Britain by leaving children to their own devices, suggests a new report which depicts British teenagers as the worst behaved in Europe.
Ethnic communities are worst hit by 11pc rise in tuberculosis - The Telegraph 03/11/06
Cases of tuberculosis have increased by almost 11 per cent in a year, mainly among immigrant communities.
Salaries soar for public service fat cats - The Telegraph 03/11/06
Britain's richest public servants received pay rises of twice the national average this year – with three of them paid more than £1 million and 14 receiving over £500,000, according to the first ever Public Sector Rich List.
Public servants must not be rewarded for failure - The Telegraph 03/11/06
£500,000 salaries put public sector chiefs in firing line - The Guardian 03/11/06
'Mice found in hospital kitchens' - Daily Mail 02/11/06
Poor hygiene standards were found at some UK hospital catering facilities, according to a report.
Call for children's food ad curbs - BBC Health News 03/11/06
European health ministers are being asked to sign up to an anti-obesity charter stating that children should not be "exploited" by food companies.
Family's cancer report concerns - BBC Health News 02/11/06
Post-mortem examination results on a girl who received radiation overdoses have made no reference to the possible effects of the error, her family said.
Kit bought to lift obese patients - BBC Health News 02/11/06
An NHS trust has spent £150,000 on equipment to deal with overweight patients in the West Midlands.
International News
The rise of the plastic porters - The Guardian 02/11/06
A hospital in Japan is pioneering the use of autonomous robots to replace human workers
Red wine molecule is shown to extend life - The Independent 02/11/06
A natural substance found in red wine can extend life and counter the negative effects of an unhealthy high-fat diet, a study has found. The findings may go some way to explain the "French paradox" of a national diet rich in animal fats apparently not resulting in excessive deaths from heart disease.
Father jailed for US mutilation - BBC Health News 02/11/06
A US court has sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for genital mutilation of his two-year-old daughter, in what is said to be first such case in the US.
Wine 'allows guilt-free gluttony' - BBC Health News 01/11/06
A chemical found in red wine could make guilt-free gluttony a reality, an international study suggests.
Depleted uranium risk 'ignored' - BBC Health News 01/11/06
UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found.
Cheshire and Merseyside News
Rising tide of violence hits region's hospitals - Daily Post 03/11/06
VIOLENT attacks on staff working in Merseyside and Cheshire hospitals have risen by a third in the last year, new figures have revealed.
So who is telling truth on job cuts? - Daily Post 03/11/06
PROOF that the Government is hiding the true scale of redundancies sparked by the NHS cash crisis has been uncovered in Merseyside by the Daily Post.
Hospital trust chief rebuffs claims - Daily Post 03/11/06
LIVERPOOL'S Cardiothoracic Centre has defended claims that staff at its storage centre were working in "disgraceful" conditions.
Mental health staff attacked - Liverpool Echo 02/11/06
FOUR mental health workers a day are being assaulted in the Merseyside region, new figures show.
Share your view on new hospital site - Liverpool Echo 02/11/06
ONE hundred patients are to help shape the Royal Liverpool hospital's massive rebuilding scheme.
Dead left on wards 'to meet targets' - Liverpool Echo 02/11/06
DEAD patients are being left on hospital wards in Wirral as busy staff try to hit government targets in A&E, union heads claim.
Health wards set to close in cutbacks - Ellesmere Port Pioneer 02/11/06
THE equivalent of four mental health wards are to be closed across Cheshire and Wirral.
Delivery gives hospital a lift - Runcorn Weekly News 02/11/06
A NEW operating theatre has been lifted into place at Halton Hospital.
Plea to attend breast screening - Warrington Guardian 02/11/06
WARRINGTON North MP Helen Jones is urging all women in the town aged over 50 to attend breast screenings.
Talks continue over mental health care - Warrington Guardian 02/11/06
PROPOSALS to change the face of mental health care provision in the town will only go ahead after further discussions take place.
Health chiefs warning over firework safety - Warrington Guardian 02/11/06
HEALTH chiefs at Warrington Primary Care Trust are urging anyone planning on celebrating Bonfire Night to follow the firework safety code.
Centre selected as bowel cancer screening site - Knutsford Guardian 01/11/06
LEIGHTON Hospital's flagship NHS Treatment Centre has been selected as one of only two bowel cancer screening sites in Cheshire and Merseyside.
Health trust £9.6m in the red - Knutsford Guardian 01/11/06
THE new health regime for mid Cheshire is forecast to be £9.6 million in the red - due to a new merger and not the fault of Vale Royal medical chiefs.
Super buses take the strain out of hospital run - Knutsford Guardian 01/11/06
A NEW fleet of buses has been unveiled as part of a drive to provide better public transport links and increase bus use in Cheshire.
‘So what’s gone wrong with Wirral dentistry?' - Wirral Globe 01/11/06
A TORY councillor is demanding answers over the future of NHS dentistry in Wirral.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Therapists launch a stress-buster service - Carlisle News & Star 02/11/06
THERAPISTS who have helped hundreds of Carlisle’s flood victims yesterday launched their new service for carers and the hard-up.
Legionnaires’ bug found - Carlisle News & Star 02/11/06
PROSECUTORS who took Barrow Borough Council to court over the legionnaires’ outbreak have found legionella in one of their own offices.
My pledge on your hospital - Carlisle News & Star 01/11/06
CUMBRIAN health boss Marie Burnham has promised that west Cumbria WILL get a new acute general hospital with emergency services.
Blood tests planned to check baby health - Carlisle News & Star 01/11/06
A NEW screening programme to test newborn babies for cystic fibrosis has been launched across the county.
Greater Manchester News
NHS staff facing daily attacks - Manchester Evening News 02/11/06
THERE are five attacks a day on NHS staff in Greater Manchester, according to shocking new figures.
Workers travel to London demo against NHS cuts - Bolton News 01/11/06
HEALTH workers from Bolton were among hundreds from across the country protesting in Whitehall today over NHS cuts.
Killer lung disease shock figures - Bolton News 01/11/06
A RECORD number of people are being admitted to the Royal Bolton Hospital with a killer lung disease.
Website bid to counter rise in sexual diseases - Bolton News 01/11/06
SOARING rates of sexually transmitted diseases have prompted health bosses to launch a website providing advice for people in Bolton.
Hospital trust could have saved millions - Bury Times 02/11/06
THE cash-strapped trust which runs Fairfield Hospital could have saved millions of pounds if it had reduced the length of time patients stay in hospital, according to a government study.
Nurse who slapped patient is struck off - Bury Times 02/11/06
A MATRON who twice slapped a vulnerable pensioner across the face at a nursing home in Ainsworth has been thrown out of the profession.
Health consultation documents are ‘gobbledegook’ - Bury Times 02/11/06
SO Mr Chaytor, the current Member of Parliament for Bury North, thinks that those members of his electorate who joined the campaign to save services at Fairfield hospital are the rent-a-gob' tendency does he (Letter, October 26)?
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