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Legal age for buying tobacco raised to 18 from October 1 - The Guardian 1st January 2007
Under-18s will be banned from buying cigarettes in England and Wales from October 1, the public health minister Caroline Flint confirmed yesterday. In Scotland the ban comes into force in March. Shops that break the new laws could lose their licence to sell tobacco for as long as a year. Lifting the legal age for buying tobacco from 16 to 18 brings the law into line with rules on the sale of alcohol.
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Under-18s to be barred from buying cigarettes - The Independent 1st January 2007
New attack on smokers raises age limit to 18 - The Telegraph 1st January 2007
Under-18s banned in crackdown on smokers - The Times 1st January 2007
Cigarette-buying age set to rise - BBC Health News 1st January 2007
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Doctors claim study on patient choice suppressed - The Guardian 1st January 2007
The Department of Health appears to have removed a research report from its website because the findings would have discredited the government's programme aimed at giving NHS patients more choice, doctors' leaders claimed last night. The research, commissioned by the department, found that people did not want to have to select a hospital while they were seriously ill, preferring such decisions to be made by a trusted GP.
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The question: Are you really too sick to work? - The Guardian 1st January 2007
Or - and try to be honest here - have you just got "party flu"? According to the Institute of Payroll Professionals, whose members have to calculate employees' sick pay, December 27 - the first day back at work after Christmas - and January 2 are the top days for people throwing sickies.
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Letters: The destructive forces unleashed by the widening pay gap - The Guardian 1st January 2007
Brendan Barber is right to ask if the pay gap between top executives and workers is having a "divisive effect on society" (Report, December 28). If he reads research by Richard Wilkinson into the effects of inequality, he would reach a clear answer: "yes". Inequality kills. Wilkinson discovered that inequality has a negative impact on both our physical and mental health. The wider the income gap, the worse the impact. Although the poorest suffer most in an unequal society, everyone's health gets attacked by stress and anxiety.
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Letters: Green light for a food fight - The Guardian 1st January 2007
The reason why many leading food manufacturers and retailers are opposed to the Food Standards Agency's call for a traffic lights system for food labelling is because it will work (Food agency takes on industry over junk labels, December 28). Industry leaders should be ashamed of themselves for resisting the introduction of this simple and quick tool to help people make an informed choice about what they buy. If companies such as Kellogg's are concerned about the effect on the sales of their products, then they should make those products healthier, not try to keep consumers unaware of what they are eating. The Food Standards Agency must not give in to this cynical industry campaign.
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Hung over? Try some toast and honey - The Independent 1st January 2007
A breakfast of toast and honey is the ideal New Year's Day hangover cure, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. Honey, or alternatively golden syrup, provides the body with the essential sodium, potassium and fructose it needs after a good night out, say experts.
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Mummy, I don't feel very well - The Times 1st January 2007
Children are particularly vulnerable to health hazards abroad, but a few simple precautions will help to keep them safe. Every year, almost two million children travel outside their home countries, a trend that brings with it health issues unique to these paediatric travellers. Their age and variable immunity means children are at heightened risk of many of the less-inviting aspects of foreign travel and parents need to be well-prepared to avoid them.
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Doctor flown in from Italy cost NHS £5,000 - The Telegraph 1st January 2007
The NHS flew an Italian doctor more than 1,000 miles to provide GP cover over the Christmas holiday — at an estimated cost of £5,000. The locum doctor, Annibale Bertollo, travelled from Venice to Britain to work for jonly five days providing emergency cover for two remote practices in the Highlands.
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We enjoy getting drunk, says Blears - The Telegraph 1st January 2007
Britain can never copy the Continent's cafe-style drinking culture because Britons like getting drunk, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. Hazel Blears appeared to undermine Government hopes that the introduction of 24-hour licensing laws would usher in a new drinking culture across the UK.
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Website checks two-day GP target - BBC Health News 1st January 2007
An MP has set up a website for people to report problems getting appointments with their GPs within the 48-hour national target. Grant Shapps, Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield, is convinced many are not seen quickly - and that official statistics do not reflect this.
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Gene doubles breast cancer risk - BBC Health News 1st January 2007
UK scientists have discovered a new gene linked to breast cancer. Women with a damaged copy of the gene called PALB2 have twice the risk of breast cancer, the Institute of Cancer Research scientists found.
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Patients die as Sicilian mafia buys into the hospital service - The Guardian 1st January 2007
A wave of deaths in Sicilian hospitals has highlighted a crisis in the island's health service, linked by a senior politician to the draining of public funds by the mafia. Three suspicious deaths of patients in three days over Christmas have raised alarm. A 78-year-old woman died of a heart attack in a Palermo emergency ward on December 28 after waiting four hours to be seen. The ward has no triage, or system for prioritising patients.
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Flu jabs at last for NHS staff - The Bolton News 31st December 2006
FRONTLINE staff in health services across Bolton have now been vaccinated against flu - after a national shortage of jabs forced them to stand aside. Nurses and health visitors across the borough had been forced to wait for their injections because of an expected shortfall in the amount of jabs available nationally.
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