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GM hens' medicinal eggs aid cancer fight - The Guardian 15th January 2007
The UK's leading cancer charity yesterday welcomed work by British scientists who created a breed of genetically modified hens that can produce cancer-fighting medicines in their eggs. The research could slash the cost of producing drugs and potentially save the NHS millions of pounds. Helen Sang, of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, where Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, genetically modified hens to lay eggs that contained complex medicinal proteins similar to the drugs used to treat multiple sclerosis, skin cancer and arthritis.
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The GM hens whose eggs are designed to save lives - Daily Mail 14th January 2007
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Anti-cancer chicken eggs produced - BBC Health News 14th January 2007
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Philippe Legrain: Don't believe this claptrap. Migrants are no threat to us - The Guardian 15th January 2007
Immigration energises our economy, and has made many Britons more productive. We should welcome it
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Desperation, babies and money make for an uncontrollable combination - The Guardian 15th January 2007
IVF is big business, and doctors can get very rich. But there are problems, and its regulation can create huge conflicts
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Leading IVF doctor investigated - BBC Health News 15th January 2007
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Chewing gum drug could help curb obesity epidemic - The Guardian 15th January 2007
An appetite-suppressing chewing gum or injection could be used to tackle Britain's obesity epidemic. Scientists are developing a way to emulate the body's natural signals for feeling full using a drug based on a natural gut hormone produced after every meal. It is likely to be developed as as an injectable drug, but the scientists also believe it could eventually be taken orally and incorporated into a gum, or used in a nasal spray.
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Anti-hunger hormone to help fight against obesity - The Independent 15th January 2007
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First person: Nick Wallis, 22 - The Guardian 15th January 2007
Nick Wallis is 22 and has a life-limiting condition. With no girlfriend on the horizon, he feared he would never enjoy a full relationship. Here, he tells why he decided that the only way to experience sex was to pay for it ...
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Catholics' ID aims to avert ward euthanasia - The Observer 14th January 2007
Catholics fearing an increasing acceptance of euthanasia in Britain are carrying religious 'ID cards' telling doctors not to withhold liquid from the patient. Tens of thousands have been sold on the website of the Association of Catholic Women. It reads: 'In case of my admission to hospital, please contact a Roman Catholic priest. I would like my nursing care to include fluids - however administered.'
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Simon Garfield investigates the symptoms, treatment and prognosis of dyslexia - The Observer 14th January 2007
More than 100 years after 'word blindness' was first discovered, thousands of children with great potential are still marginalised by an education system unable to cope with a common but silent disorder. Simon Garfield investigates the symptoms, treatment and prognosis of dyslexia
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My dyslexic boys never went private, says Blunkett - The Observer 14th January 2007
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Kelly axed 2,700 special needs places - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
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So, that's one happy parent - The Sunday Telegraph News 14th January 2007
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In the drive to save the NHS, I'm choosing a Toyota - The Observer 14th January 2007
Two recipes for fixing the NHS were on offer in the media last week. The one that garnered the headlines - Sir Gerry Robinson's televised attempt to galvanise Rotherham General Hospital - demonstrated that leadership and common sense are sensible and important. But it came suspiciously close to business reality TV, and Robinson's idea that one million-dollar supermanager can kick the service into shape is dangerous and deluded - as with all calls for heroic leadership, the counsel of someone who has run out of substantive ideas.
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Bird flu 'buddies' plan - The Observer 14th January 2007
Everyone in Britain will be asked to name a friend or relative who would be willing to bring them life-saving medication in the event of a flu pandemic. Under a national pandemic plan being unveiled this week, patients who fall ill with symptoms of a highly virulent form will rely on their 'bird flu buddies' to bring them emergency Tamiflu tablets, rather than a doctor or nurse.
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How Pearce of the Yard cracked the case of free NHS care for the elderly - The Observer 14th January 2007
A case brought by a former detective with Scotland Yard's Flying Squad has opened the doors for more than 300,000 elderly people to have their long-term care paid for. Torbay Care Trust has announced that it will repay £50,000 to Mike Pearce after it agreed that his mother, Ruby, had been wrongly required to pay for her own care. A dementia sufferer, she was deemed too well to have her care funded by the NHS despite, as the Alzheimer's Society put it, 'being incapable of doing anything but chewing and swallowing'. Her home in Torquay was sold to fund her nursing home fees.
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Jill Insley: We've inherited a heavy burden of care costs - The Observer 14th January 2007
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Ruby put her faith in the NHS but it failed her - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
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Bungling ministers threaten life-saving research - The Observer 14th January 2007
At first sight, the idea of creating 'man-animal' hybrid embryos in British laboratories is a disturbing one. The decision - by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - to launch public consultations over the proposed development of such entities would therefore seem sound. However, on closer examination, the issues raised by this case do not look ones that affect research itself. Instead, they highlight worrying concerns about our leaders' abilities to understand, and direct, UK science.
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Anna Carolina Reston: the model who starved herself to death - The Observer 14th January 2007
When Ana Carolina Reston arrived for her first foreign fashion shoot, the 8st model was warned she was too fat. Two years later, and two stone lighter, she died from complications arising from anorexia. Tom Phillips reports from Sao Paulo on the tragic waste of a woman whose childhood dreams of being a cover girl came true - but for all the wrong reasons
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Revealed: the 11 government ministers fighting NHS cuts - The Guardian 13th January 2007
At least 13 members of Tony Blair's ministerial team have campaigned over the last few months against closure of services at NHS hospitals used by their constituents, a Guardian survey has revealed. The hitherto unrealised scale of opposition within the government's ranks to the consequences of NHS reform reflects the difficulty Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, faces in selling her policies to the nation. Many Labour backbenchers are also showing their dissent by making campaigns to save accident and emergency departments or maternity services the focus of their constituency activities.
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The MP, the health secretary, and an unresolved conflict - The Guardian 13th January 2007
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Ministers fight NHS closures - The Independent 14th January 2007
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Letters: Light and bitter - The Guardian 15th January 2007
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Tricks of the trade - The Guardian 13th January 2007
David Nicolson Director of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition. If you are in good health I would kick off with a one-day fast, just drinking water and herb tea. This is a fairly stringent approach, and you shouldn't fast unless you're under the supervision of a doctor or nutritional therapist.
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Ethicists fear free-for-all in animal-human transplants - The Guardian 13th January 2007
A government decision to scrap a committee which regulates animal-to-human transplants has drawn condemnation from ethicists who fear there could be a free-for-all in xenotransplantation. But the government insisted last night that the move last month was a response to a lack of interest in research into the transplants after it became clear that the science was not going to provide the answer to the shortages in donor organs.
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Cancer patient 'forced to move to get treatment' - The Independent 15th January 2007
A terminally ill cancer patient is planning to move from England to Scotland to access treatment that could prolong his life. George King, 56, has fought the rare bone marrow cancer Multiple Myeloma twice.
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Cancer patient considers new home - BBC Health News 14th January 2007
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British males are in denial over their weight, doctors warn - The Independent 14th January 2007
Millions of British men risk serious illness by refusing to do anything about their burgeoning beer bellies, preferring instead to ignore them. A new national poll reveals that one-third of British men - around 7.5 million - have a beer gut. Some 80 per cent of those are clinically overweight or obese. Seven per cent of those polled expressed pride at owning a beer gut.
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Britain's latest must-have cosmetic surgery is the chin-job - The Independent 14th January 2007
First it was breasts; then hips, lips and buttocks. Now Britain's seemingly insatiable appetite for cosmetic curves has seized upon yet another part of the body: the chin. Plastic surgeons are reporting a sharp increase in the number of patients signing up for the latest must-have procedure.
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The woman who was locked up because of her depression - The Independent 14th January 2007
A case that shows tough new mental health legislation should be used only sparingly
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Obstacles to reducing MRSA in the NHS - The Times 15th January 2007
Your report “Leaked memo reveals that targets to beat MRSA will not be met” (Jan 11) tells us much more than that. From the start it was apparent that a single national target was inappropriate, as is now recognised. Yet anything seen as abandoning this target would be “hard to get past No 10”. This confirms that health policy continues to be set in the ideology-rich, evidence-poor zone that surrounds the Prime Minister, rather than in the government departments where real expertise lies.
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GM hens lay eggs to fight cancer - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
SCIENTISTS have created the world’s first breed of designer chickens, genetically modified to lay eggs capable of producing drugs that fight cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, which created Dolly the cloned sheep, have bred a 500-strong flock of the birds.
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Focus: Organ swap - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
Surgeons are planning Britain's first multiple kidney swap with up to 50 couples taking part. Will it work? Lorraine, a 37-year-old restaurant supervisor from Hampshire, has been waiting for a kidney transplant for almost five years. Three days a week she has to attend hospital for gruelling dialysis sessions. Lately her condition has deteriorated and she is now too ill to work.
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Brown can’t cure this paralysed NHS, so he plans to privatise it - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
The former Granada boss Sir Gerry Robinson recently spent six months trying to reform Rotherham general hospital. The result was shown in three hours of fly-on-the-wall television on BBC2 last week. It was rightly put after the watershed: as politics it was certificate 18. At the end of each day Robinson could be seen slumped in the back of his car, his face buried in his hands. A tycoon sobbing in a limousine is the perfect icon of Labour’s health service.
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Dentists to lead fight against alcohol abuse - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
DENTISTS should be recruited to identify problem drinkers as part of a crackdown on alcohol abuse, according to a government adviser. Dr Peter Rice, a leading authority on alcohol addiction, is to advise ministers to use Scotland’s 2,000 dentists to help identify and treat patients with drink problems.
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Comment: Gillian Bowditch: Faith in the NHS is a mistake - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
Perhaps I am unduly jaundiced, but last week’s call by an Edinburgh-based professor for more “faith-based” NHS services had me praying for strength. Coming in the week when it was revealed that the government’s targets for reducing MRSA infections will not be met and following Sir Gerry Robinson’s excellent television series on the NHS, faith in our health service has rarely been lower.
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My cure for affluenza - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
Last week, as Steve Jobs of Apple was unveiling his newest, most pointless yuppie must-have to a rhapsodic audience of MacConsumers, and as David Beckham was sealing his obscene mega-deal, and as the Bank of England was raising interest rates again to punish this property-obsessed nation, your columnist was on a slow train to Yeovil with a bag of Millie’s Cookies.
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Trust me, I'm a junior doctor - The Telegraph 15th January 2007
Residents of private nursing homes have no human rights, unlike those in local authority care, says Max Pemberton. Mrs Plemming is crying out. "It's fine, just lock the door," says Jackie, in an attempt to terminate any further discussion.
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NHS will 'run out of funds for best drugs' - The Times 13th January 2007
Patients face much tougher rationing of treatments and restricted access to breakthrough drugs if the Government does not rethink its plans for health spending, the NHS’s treatment regulator has told The Times. Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, the head of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), cited treatments ranging from new life-saving drugs to free food for the elderly in nursing homes as examples of care that could suffer if ministers slowed the rate of spending, as expected.
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When caring clashes with costs - the nasty business of being NICE - The Times 13th January 2007
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£243,000 for health boss paid off by trust in debt - The Times 13th January 2007
An NHS Trust that was £5 million in deficit paid off a former director with a £243,000 golden handshake. Iheadi Onwukwe, 41, was given the payoff when he left his post as director of public health at Eastbourne Downs Primary Care Trust after what is believed to have been a dispute with a senior colleague.
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£243,000 payoff for NHS boss after three weeks in the job - Daily Mail 12th January 2007
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MP angry at £243,000 NHS pay-off - BBC Health News 13th January 2007
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First test-tube baby in the world gives birth – without IVF - The Times 13th January 2007
Louise Brown, who was the world’s first test-tube baby, has given birth to a child, believed to be a boy, it was reported last night. Ms Brown, 28, conceived without the aid of in-vitro fertilisation. She and her husband, Wesley Mullinder, 37, were reported to be “over the moon” at the birth.
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First test-tube baby becomes a mother - Daily Mail 12th January 2007
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World's first test-tube baby has a child of her own - The Independent 14th January 2007
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Baby son joy for test-tube mother - BBC Health News 14th January 2007
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Dentist removed teeth of grumbling patient - The Times 13th January 2007
A dentist who pulled out an elderly woman’s teeth without anaesthetic “to teach her a lesson” has been struck off. David Quelch left the retired nurse, who was 87, with blood pouring from her mouth from two extractions after she had complained to her doctor about the quality of previous treatment by the dentist.
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Salmonella found in salad pack - The Times 13th January 2007
Thousands of salad packs have been withdrawn from supermarkets and corner shops after salmonella was found in one during routine testing. Technicians at Soleco UK, a salad-packing company at Lichfield, Staffordshire, discovered the bug on watercress in a pack of mixed salad leaves. As salmonella can be fatal to the elderly, the young and people with immune deficiencies and other medical conditions, the company ordered the recall of 7,000 bags on sale as own-brands at the Co-op and Budgens and under the Florette label at shops.
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Midwife shortage threatens to derail government pledge on home births - The Sunday Telegraph News 14th January 2007
A chronic shortage of midwives is jeopardising the Government's promise to allow every woman the chance to give birth at home. In some cases, women who have booked home births have had their babies delivered by relatives and friends because overworked midwives were unavailable.
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GPs piecework pay boosts chronic caseload - The Sunday Telegraph News 14th January 2007
New GP contracts could be open to exploitation by doctors, it is feared, after nearly 850,000 extra cases of chronic disease were diagnosed in England last year. The figure is equivalent to 100 additional diagnoses for every GP practice in Britain.
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Longer hospital waits if you live in Tory seat - The Sunday Telegraph News 14th January 2007
Patients in Conservative constituencies wait 10 days longer on average to be treated in an NHS hospital than those in Labour seats. Figures from the Department of Health, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, show that people living in areas with a Tory MP wait an average of 95 days for treatment involving a stay in hospital. Patients in Labour constituencies are seen within 85 days. Residents in Liberal Democrat areas wait, on average, 92 days.
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CBI attacks 'overgenerous' public pensions - The Sunday Telegraph News 14th January 2007
Martin Broughton, the president of the CBI, has launched a withering attack on the Government for failing to address the mushrooming liabilities of public sector pensions. While many companies have taken tough action to reduce massive deficits in their own pension schemes, Broughton said state workers were still being offered "overgenerous" retirement benefits.
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Nish Joshi's Q&A - The Sunday Telegraph News 14th January 2007
I am 67 and had an unsuccessful hiatus hernia operation about 40 years ago. Two years ago I was diagnosed with Barrett's oesophagus. The drug therapy gave me such severe stomach pain that I wasn't able to continue with it and my consultant advises against surgery, so now I am simply taking an antacid before bed. My digestive problems are worsening, even though my weight is average, I eat normally and exercise daily. I would be grateful for any advice on a diet that could help.
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Tesco claims new direct sales policies will be 33 per cent cheaper - The Telegraph 13th January 2007
Tesco started selling medical insurance this week, aiming to use its marketing power to push down costs and raise the number of people who can afford this form of financial protection. The supermarket claims that its policies, provided in conjunction with established insurer Axa PPP healthcare, will cost up to a third less than those from traditional insurers.
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Healthy lifestyle brings healthily full wallet - The Telegraph 13th January 2007
Insurers are developing policies that reward keeping fit, not smoking and not making claims, says Peter Pallot. People who rate their own health as above average will understandably avoid private medical insurance, even if they can afford it.
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Goa malaria advice causes confusion - The Telegraph 13th January 2007
An outbreak of malaria cases in Goa has prompted the Health Protection Agency (HPA) to modify new guidelines which had told visitors to the area that they no longer needed medication against the disease. The guidelines from the HPA, an independent body that advises the National Health Service, were published earlier this month as news of the malaria cases emerged.
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Doctors call for NHS to treat gamblers - The Telegraph 13th January 2007
Doctors are expected to call next week for more money for the NHS to treat the rising number of people with a gambling addiction. A report from the Board of Science of the British Medical Association (BMA) was called for by doctors last summer because of the numbers of adults and young people whose gambling was out of control.
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A nation of gambling addicts - The Independent 14th January 2007
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A very big bet: Why doctors say the new casino culture is bad for you - The Independent 14th January 2007
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It is not the taxpayer's job to 'cure' gamblers - The Telegraph 15th January 2007
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Police voice fears over supercasinos - The Telegraph 15th January 2007
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£2.5m lesson in how to wash your hands - The Telegraph 13th January 2007
Now, pay close attention. There are apparently 10 stages involved in washing your hands — so you need your wits about you. To help you with the timing, officials have suggested that you may want to sing Happy Birthday To You, twice in a row.
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Women's weight yo-yos 25st in a lifetime - Daily Mail 14th January 2007
Most women are only too familiar with the demoralising experience of losing a few pounds, only to pile even more on. Now researchers have worked out exactly how much weight the average woman loses, and then gains, through yoyo dieting - 25.5 stone.
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Twice as many are tempted by nip/tuck - Daily Mail 12th January 2007
The number of women willing to go under the knife to improve their looks has doubled in two years, according to research. Around a third say they are 'favourably disposed' to having a little work done to improve on what nature has given them.
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GP salaries rocket to £118,000 - Daily Mail 12th January 2007
Family doctors have seen their salaries rise to an average £118,000 as other parts of the NHS are forced to cut jobs and services, a survey has shown. It represents a pay rise of 63 per cent in three years.
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You can jump the queue by paying for your NHS operation - Daily Mail 12th January 2007
A cash-strapped NHS hospital is offering patients the chance to pay for operations to avoid a lengthy wait. Family doctors are being asked to tell those needing hip and knee replacements they can jump the queue by paying thousands for 'routine' surgery.
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Patients can pay for NHS surgery - BBC Health News 12th January 2007
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Tumour-growth 'system' targeted - BBC Health News 15th January 2007
Scientists say they may be able to turn off a "system" that helps bowel tumours survive and grow bigger. The University of Bristol team say they have found how a cancer detects the need for more blood vessels to supply it with the oxygen it needs to grow.
Tories ponder fatty food permits - BBC Health News 15th January 2007
Firms could buy and sell permits to make alcoholic drinks or fatty foods under plans being put to Tory leaders. The system would work along the same lines as carbon trading schemes aimed at tackling pollution.
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System to spot at-risk patients - BBC Health News 14th January 2007
Computer technology is helping doctors identify patients with long-term conditions at risk of deterioration, before they need hospital care. Using patient information from a range of sources, a new programme predicts when people with conditions such as asthma will take a turn for the worse.
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Cancer patient considers new home - BBC Health News 14th January 2007
A cancer patient says he is planning to move from England to Scotland to be sure of getting a drug which may prolong his life on the NHS. George King, from Skelton, Teeside has a rare terminal form of bone cancer.
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Lung cancer vaccine to be tested - BBC Health News 13th January 2007
A large-scale trial to test a vaccine against the most common form of lung cancer has been launched. More than 1,300 patients worldwide will help test Stimuvax, which in preliminary trials substantially increased survival time for many.
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£20m to plug health research gap - BBC Health News 13th January 2007
Research to prevent serious illness will be boosted by a £20m fund to encourage public health projects. The money will create up to five "Centres of Excellence", helping recruit experts and provide facilities.
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Push for over-the-counter Viagra - BBC Health News 12th January 2007
The anti-impotence pill Viagra could be available over-the-counter drug, it is reported. The drug's maker Pfizer says it is considering submiting an application to European regulatory authorities to clear it for sale in pharmacies.
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Mental health drugs overused - BBC Health News 12th January 2007
Up to one in three mental health patients are being over-prescribed drugs, says the Healthcare Commission. A report found mental health patients were more likely to have problems with medicines than those in other trusts.
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Memory man to attempt uphill race - BBC Health News 12th January 2007
A man who awoke with complete amnesia is to compete in the Bupa Great Winter Run 2007 after discovering he used to run marathons. Paul McGale, 45, of Mitchell Street, Leith, spent a month lying in a coma following a fall in November 2005.
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Low cholesterol levels linked with higher risk of Parkinson's disease - The Guardian 15th January 2007
Scientists are to investigate why people with low cholesterol levels appear to be more likely to develop Parkinson's disease, following concerns that statins - given to control cholesterol - could cause an increase in the numbers of people with the illness. About 2.3 million adults in the UK take statins to help control their cholesterol levels; the American scientists have found that those with lower levels of cholesterol are more likely to develop the degenerative neurological disorder of Parkinson's disease.
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Cholesterol drug link to Parkinson's disease - The Independent 15th January 2007
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Statin heart drugs are linked to Parkinson's - The Times 15th January 2007
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Scientist fears statins link to Parkinson's - The Telegraph 15th January 2007
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Do statins raise the risk of Parkinson's? - Daily Mail 14th January 2007
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Imagine a country where you can get 30 years in jail for having an abortion ... - The Observer 14th January 2007
Police interrogations? Vagina inspectors? Midwives informing on patients? Jack Hitt reports from El Salvador where evangelical anti-abortion laws have put women's rights back in the dark ages.
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Gene discovery offers new hope of Alzheimer's therapy - The Independent 15th January 2007
A discovery about the genetic causes of Alzheimer's could lead to new treatment. Researchers who tested DNA samples from 6,000 volunteers found a gene that seems to be important in late-onset Alzheimer's, the form that affects 90 per cent of sufferers. Scientists hope that the gene, SORL1, will provide a new target for drugs aimed at treating the brain condition.
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Fifth gene identified in quest to stop Alzheimer's - The Times 15th January 2007
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Gene 'increases Alzheimer's risk' - BBC Health News 15th January 2007
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Coalition to unveil €50bn welfare plan - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
UP TO €50 billion in social spending programmes will be included in next week’s €175 billion National Development Plan (NDP), which the government will launch at a ceremony attended by most of the cabinet. With just a few months before the general election, the government has set up a massive “social inclusion” fund to be spent over the next seven years. It is designed to reduce poverty, increase protection for workers, and raise the quality of care for older people. A further €25 billion will be spent on social infra-structure — hospitals, social housing, garda stations and a criminal courts complex for Dublin.
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Doctors ‘only pretend’ to do resuscitation - The Sunday Times 14th January 2007
DOCTORS and nurses in Irish hospitals are intentionally going too slowly in their efforts to resuscitate some terminally ill patients who suffer a heart attack, a new study claims. The practice, known as a “slow code”, has happened where a patient is not under a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order, or the family has asked for everything to be done to save them, but the doctor feels cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is futile and will only prolong suffering.
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Return of syphilis as men rely on prostitutes - The Times 13th January 2007
An increase in single Chinese men visiting prostitutes has contributed to a resurgence of syphilis in China, a disease that had been all-but eradicated from the country 30 years ago. A study published in The Lancet indicates that the number of syphilis cases in China increased to 6.5 per 100,000 people in 1999 from less than 0.2 per 100,000 in 1993.
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Breakthroughs, tips and trends - The Times 13th January 2007
IT’S A frightening thought, but crucial nerves are hard for surgeons to see and thus easy to cut by mistake. Now German scientists are developing an alarm system remarkably like the child’s electronic game, Operation: it listens to individual nerves and goes off if an accident is about to occur.
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It's clear that cloudy juice is healthier for you - The Telegraph 15th January 2007
Cloudy apple juice is four times healthier than clear apple juice, scientists say today. A study into the health benefits of both types of juice shows that manufacturing processes used to clear the juice removes more of the useful chemicals than methods used to make cloudy juice.
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Cloudy apple juice is clearly better for health - Daily Mail 14th January 2007
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Aspirin 'stops asthma developing' - BBC Health News 15th January 2007
Taking an aspirin every other day may be a way for adults to avoid developing asthma, researchers suggest. A US study of 22,000 people found the painkiller reduced the risk of being diagnosed with asthma by 22%, possibly by acting against inflammation.
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US woman dies after water contest - BBC Health News 14th January 2007
A Californian woman who took part in a water-drinking contest to win a video game system has died of water intoxication, tests have shown. Jennifer Strange had taken part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" game run by KDND 107.9 radio in Sacramento, which promised the winner a Nintendo Wii.
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Drug 'strangles cancer's spread' - BBC Health News 14th January 2007
The spread of prostate cancer can be halted with a drug which "strangles" tumour cells by cutting off their blood supply, a study has suggested. Tests on mice showed that using the leukaemia drug Glivec helped stop prostate cancer spreading to the bone.
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Two die of bird flu in Indonesia - BBC Health News 13th January 2007
Two women in Indonesia have died after contracting bird flu, health officials have confirmed, raising the country's total number of human deaths to 61. A 27-year-old woman from the capital, Jakarta, died in hospital on Friday evening, officials said.
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Concern over mental health centre plan for hospital site - Southport Visiter 12th January 2007
ANGRY residents fear a planned mental health centre could be used to house sex offenders and drug addicts, despite denials from the organisation preparing to run it. Proposals to build nearly 100 houses and flats and a new mental health complex on the former site of the Southport General Infirmary were agreed at a meeting at Southport Town Hall on Wednesday evening.
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Multi-million pound plans for hospital site to begin - Midweek Advertiser 10th January 2007
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Dad's fury at son's nine hour hospital wait - Ellesmere Port Pioneer 11th January 2007
A FATHER is furious that his teenage son was forced to wait nine hours to have his broken arm treated. Patrick Gilmore, of Chester Road in Whitby, rushed 13-year-old Connor to the A&E department at the Countess of Chester Hospital after he fell off his bike on Tuesday of last week.
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GPs quit over patients’ care - Midweek Advertiser 10th January 2007
BOTH medical directors of the Southport & Formby Out of Hours Service have resigned over fears about patient safety. Dr Graeme Allan and Dr Peter Entwistle are reported to have quit their posts due to serious concerns over the company which runs the out-of-hours GP cover across Merseyside.
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Health overhaul: Talking needed - Lancashire Telegraph 13th January 2007
COUNCIL and NHS bosses are having trouble communicating on hospital shake-up plans - which rely on them working together well.Work on putting in place controversial changes is being held up by different organisat-ions not communicating well, the team leading the project has said.
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MP moves to block ambulance HQ move - Carlisle News & Star 13th January 2007
A CUMBRIAN MP has tabled an early day motion in the House of Commons opposing plans to scrap the county’s ambulance control room. Tim Farron, who represents the South Lakes area, says the Government needs to hold ambulance chiefs to account before lives are lost.
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Attacks on 999 crews increase - Lancashire Telegraph 12th January 2007
THE number of homes in East Lancashire being added to the ambulance service's violence black list is on the rise, an emergency boss has said. As ambulance staff suffer an increasing number of assaults, more homes are being "flagged" as potentially dangerous, said health chief Dr Richard Fairhurst.
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Prof rejects calls for 'faith-based' NHS care - Manchester Evening News 12th January 2007
A MANCHESTER University professor has rejected calls from a fellow academic for the NHS to provide "faith-specific" care for Muslims. Professor Aneez Esmail criticised the ideas put forward by Edinburgh University professor Aziz Sheikh who had suggested allowing male infant circumcision throughout the NHS and providing better access to Muslim prayer facilities for patients and doctors.
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130 Royal Bolton Hospital jobs to go - The Bolton News 12th January 2007
UP TO 130 more jobs could be axed at the Royal Bolton Hospital. NHS chiefs have announced plans to privatise some medical services. It means many initial tests in ear, nose and throat, urology, gynaecology, general surgery and orthopaedics will not be carried out at the hospital.
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Fight goes on to save baby unit services - Bury Times 12th January 2007
Bury's two MPs and council bosses met North West health chief Mike Farrah vowed to continue the fight against the closure of Fairfield Hospital's maternity department and special care unit. They formally rejected the Making it Better decision and vowed to continue the campaign to keep maternity services at Fairfield.
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