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Watchdog rules against new treatment for lung cancer - The Guardian 14/11/06
Thousands of lung cancer sufferers are set to be denied the potentially life-extending drug Tarceva, under draft guidance from the government's health watchdog.
NHS bar on lung cancer treatment - The Telegraph 14/11/06
Designer twins are born healthy after screened for cystic fibrosis - Daily Mail 13/11/06
Dismay over cancer drug guidance - BBC Health News 13/11/06
Detectives investigate surgery death - The Guardian 14/11/06
Police and hospital managers began an investigation yesterday into the death of a patient whose health failed during an operation at a neurosurgery department.
Itchy and scratchy - The Guardian 14/11/06
Should schools have to deal with the growing problem of nits? Joanna Moorhead reports
Patient survey shows GPs are boycotting NHS 'choice' scheme - The Guardian 14/11/06
Most GPs are boycotting the government's scheme to give patients a choice of at least four hospitals for diagnosis and treatment on the NHS, a survey of patients revealed yesterday.
Only minority get hospital choice - BBC Health News 13/11/06
Paediatrician accused of misconduct - The Guardian 14/11/06
A controversial paediatrician allegedly accused a grieving mother of hanging her 10-year-old son, the General Medical Council in London was told yesterday.
Doctor accused mother over death - BBC Health News 13/11/06
In praise of ... sleep - The Guardian 14/11/06
The vocabulary shrinks; sums become more difficult; reactions slow; the brain craves carbohydrates and fat. Later, hallucinations set in. In rats, the immune system falters and death ensues. Yet among some people lack of sleep is regarded as an honourable affliction. It was not always so.
Aid for 'phantom limb' amputees - The Guardian 14/11/06
Scientists have developed a computer system which allows amputees to see and move a 3D "phantom limb" in place of their lost one, it was revealed yesterday.
Open up NHS to our drug firms, White House demands - The Guardian 14/11/06
The White House is lobbying British ministers to allow the world's main drug companies unrestricted access to the NHS as part of a package of free market reforms for the service. The US government is positioning itself behind the giant pharmaceutical firms, predominantly based in America, which have been piling pressure on the body that approves drugs for use in hospitals and for prescription by GPs.
Inquiry launched after woman dies and four fall ill in operating theatre - The Independent 14/11/06
Police and managers at Britain's largest hospital have begun an investigation after it emerged that one patient had died and four others had fallen ill during surgery in the same operating theatre.
Mystery death shuts operating theatre - The Telegraph 14/11/06
Routine operation death examined - BBC Health News 13/11/06
Bodies often reject face transplants, surgeons warn - The Independent 14/11/06
Up to half of patients who undergo a full face transplant may find that their body eventually rejects the graft, surgeons have warned.
Surgeons admit risks but full-face transplant is approved - The Times 14/11/06
'Cold turkey' prisoners win payouts - The Independent 14/11/06
Six prisoners and former convicts forced to go "cold turkey" to kick their addiction to heroin have won their fight for compensation from the Home Office.
New genetic screening delivers first healthy twins - The Times 14/11/06
THE first babies to have been screened for faulty genes by a new technique have been born in Britain.
Designer twins are born healthy after screened for cystic fibrosis - Daily Mail 13/11/06
Maggots set to clean up - The Times 14/11/06
BRACE yourself, maggots ahead. Those of a sensitive nature — look away now.
Care visits missed dead pensioner for five weeks - The Telegraph 14/11/06
A coroner has urged an investigation into why a pensioner's body lay undiscovered for more than five weeks despite visits from carers.
Dentist shortage leads man to superglue own tooth - Daily Mail 13/11/06
A man fixed his front tooth with superglue after failing to find an NHS dentist.
Vitamin link to bone loss probed - BBC Health News 14/11/06
Scientists in Northern Ireland are to investigate if B-vitamin supplements can help prevent osteoporosis.
Diabetes 'hitting poor hardest' - BBC Health News 14/11/06
Britain's poorest communities are 2.5 times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than the general population, research shows.
Free coffee incentive for nurses - BBC Health News 13/11/06
Nurses are being offered free coffee and biscuits as part of a incentive scheme to improve patient care at King's College Hospital in London.
Life-saving op for cancer sisters - BBC Health News 13/11/06
Two Hertfordshire women in their 20s are believed to be the first sisters in the UK to have their stomachs removed after being diagnosed with cancer.
Vaccine 'tackles kidney cancer' - BBC Health News 13/11/06
A vaccine which uses the body's immune system to attack an aggressive form of kidney cancer has completely eradicated one patient's tumour.
International News
Diet rich in red meat doubles breast cancer risk - The Guardian 14/11/06
Women who eat red meat every day are almost twice as likely to develop certain types of breast cancer, a long-term study published today has found.
Red meat link to breast cancers - BBC Health News 14/11/06
Rich countries 'blocking cheap drugs for developing world' - The Guardian 14/11/06
Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, a report says today.
New medical research - The Times 14/11/06
Many women with serious depression have significant differences from other women in a brain-chemical system that deals with stress and emotions, say Michigan University researchers in the Archives of General Psychiatry (Nov). The imaging study of 28 women’s brains says that some depressives show an overreaction in the endogenous opioid system when facing emotional challenges.
Autopsies are dying out - The Times 14/11/06
CLINICIANS are no less fallible, but the number of autopsies is on the decline. In the 1960s, post-mortem examinations were performed on about 60 per cent of patients who died in hospital. The rate today is thought to be less than 10 per cent in Europe and less than 5 per cent in US hospitals, New Scientist (Nov 11) reports.
Natural chemical 'beats morphine' - BBC Health News 14/11/06
The human body produces a natural painkiller several times more potent than morphine, research suggests.
Diabetes 'threat' to indigenous - BBC Health News 13/11/06
Diabetes could threaten the existence of indigenous peoples around the world, experts have warned.
Cheshire and Merseyside News
I glued my tooth in after NHS failed me - Liverpool Echo 13/11/06
A MERSEYSIDE man who could not find an NHS dentist, fixed his tooth for three years with super glue.
Dentist shortage leads man to superglue own tooth - Daily Mail 13/11/06
Cosmetic surgery boom as men join the queue - Liverpool Daily Post 13/11/06
COSMETIC surgeons across Liverpool have seen a 30% rise in work in the past year.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
‘That’s one hell of a big area. We get calls from people that have no idea where they are’ - Carlisle News & Star 13/11/06
AMBULANCE control staff have hit out at claims that frontline services will not be affected if their Carlisle base is allowed to close.
8,000 extra NHS places to ease dental crisis - Lancashire Telegraph 13/11/06
EAST Lancashire's dental crisis is set to be eased after health bosses announced plans to create an extra 8,000 NHS places in Burnley.
Smokes ban should cover hospital grounds - Lancashire Telegraph 13/11/06
IN A recent letter H Hamer (October 31) bemoaned the lack of facilities for smokers at the new Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Greater Manchester News
Oral cancer cases have doubled - The Bolton News 13/11/06
CASES of mouth cancer in Bolton have doubled over the past 10 years.
Hospital A&E fines scheme success claim - The Bolton News 13/11/06
A PILOT scheme to deter abusive patients at a hospital casualty unit with the threat of on the spot fines has proved a success.
Aid for 'phantom limb' amputees - The Guardian 14/11/06
Scientists have developed a computer system which allows amputees to see and move a 3D "phantom limb" in place of their lost one, it was revealed yesterday.
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