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Medical error death risk 1 in 300 - The Guardian 07/11/06

The risk of dying in hospital as a result of medical error is one in 300, Britain's most senior doctor warned yesterday.

CCTV conspiracy mania is a very middle-class disorder - The Guardian 07/11/06

Paranoid speculation on imaginary surveillance abuses betrays a moral blindness when real social injustice abounds

A hidden story that needed to be told - The Guardian 07/11/06

Philippa Braidwood's piece on the Channel 4 Dispatches film, Britain's Mental Health Scandal (MediaGuardian, November 6), is inaccurate and unfair. Ms Braidwood makes a number of allegations to which neither Channel 4 nor the producers were given an opportunity to respond, and which are in our view misleading and at odds with the material gathered during the investigation. Undercover journalism of this importance and substance is plainly in the public interest and deserves more than uncontested allegations by a public relations employee of one of the trusts featured.

How to keep fit in winter - The Guardian 07/11/06

As the cold nights draw in, bleak morning jogs give way to extra duvet snuggling while we indulge in lie-ins and comfort food. Lawrence Booth on how to avoid the descent into seasonal sloth

Plan to create a human-cow hybrid - The Times 07/11/06

Stem-cell researchers have applied to produce an embryo using an animal’s egg and a human cell

'Give children hats to save on heating' - The Telegraph 07/11/06

'Cut heating bills – give the kids a hat' - The Times 07/11/06

AN ENERGY company has told families facing record heating bills to send their children to bed clutching “microwaveable rice cloth bags”.

'Give children hats to save on heating' - The Telegraph 07/11/06

Making a medical judgment - The Times 07/11/06

HERE’S a puzzle. Why are more male than female doctors referred for poor performance?

Making Shared Services work - The Times 07/11/06

The delivery of public services needs a different sort of business model. People expect us to be more integrated, so in 2004 we began to integrate our IT, finance and HR services with Mid-Suffolk District Council.

A healthy view of NHS finance - The Times 07/11/06

The race to share is no walk in the park for public services - The Times 07/11/06

Greater than the sum of the parts - The Times 07/11/06

Advice and good leadership crucial - The Times 07/11/06

Simpler and cheaper purchasing - The Times 07/11/06

Outside expertise may provide the natural solution - The Times 07/11/06

Massive opportunities and huge challenges - The Times 07/11/06

Pupils unwilling to join Jamie's healthy revolution - The Telegraph 07/11/06

Jamie Oliver's school meals revolution has fallen victim to headstrong teenagers only two months after it was imposed on schools.

Top cancer doctor deserts Wales - BBC Health News 07/11/06

A former clinical director of cancer services at a Welsh hospital says he took up a post in England because he was frustrated with the NHS in Wales.

Fly infestation at hospital unit - BBC Health News 06/11/06

A hospital has apologised to patients following an infestation of flies at one of its departments.

Leaflet 'stems sick note culture' - BBC Health News 06/11/06

Advice leaflets telling parents whether their children are well enough to attend school are being issued in a bid to tackle rising absenteeism rates.

Ban will 'eradicate lung cancer' - BBC Health News 06/11/06

Lung cancer could be virtually wiped out in Scotland as a result of the smoking ban in public places, according to the chief medical officer.

Logo shows 'approved' drug sites - BBC Health News 06/11/06

Patients buying medicines over the internet will soon be able to look out for a logo assuring them that a site sells safe and genuine medicines.

Baby 'mercy killing' debate call - BBC Health News 06/11/06

Doctors are calling for a debate over proposals for the "mercy killing" of severely disabled babies.

International News

Brown launches £2.1bn bond issue to vaccinate 500 million children - The Guardian 07/11/06

Gordon Brown will use today's launch of $4bn (£2.1bn) in government-backed bonds for a crash programme of global immunisation for under-fives as a stepping stone to a future drive against malaria and HIV/Aids, he revealed last night.

Aid bond to vaccinate 500m children - The Times 07/11/06

La joie du texte - The Guardian 07/11/06

Here in Norway "nature-nurseries" are already very popular (Pioneer nursery stays outdoors, October 30). Parents don't worry about the dangers of climbing trees, rather they delight in children who are less sick, more active and who develop a good relationship with the outdoors.

Death breath - The Guardian 07/11/06

Some people are madly, deeply, perpetually obsessed with bad breath. In most of them, this obsession is a sign of mental problems. The great exception is Mel Rosenberg, whose pursuit of bad breath is scholarly and experimental. Halitosis has taken him to the academic heights. Mel Rosenberg is professor of microbiology at Tel Aviv University's medical school, and holds honorary appointments both at the University of London and at the University of Rochester in the US.

New medical research - The Times 07/11/06

Diet-pill use has almost doubled among teenage girls in America over the past five years, says a Minnesota University report. The study reveals that modern Western culture appears to be pressuring young women to use unhealthy weight-control strategies, including diet pills, laxatives and vomiting. One 20-year-old female in five uses diet pills, says a report by the university’s Project Eat (Oct 30).