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Sunbed users face nearly triple the risk of skin cancer compared with a decade ago as a result of higher-powered equipment, medical experts will warn today. A survey of tanning studios, health spas and sports complexes found that 83% of sunbeds exceeded limits for ultraviolet radiation exposure laid down in European safety guidelines. The survey revealed a 30% rise in the number of unregulated, privately operated sunbeds and an increase in the use of lamps which emit up to twice as much UV(B) radiation as a typical sunbed 10 years ago.
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Cancer risk from sunbeds doubles - The Times 30th January 2007
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Sunbed skin cancer danger has trebled - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Cancer risk from sunbeds doubles - The Times 30th January 2007
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Sunbed skin cancer danger has trebled - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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The government will be urged today to rethink its controversial NHS building programme with the publication of a report which makes sweeping criticisms of the disastrous attempt to build a super-hospital in London. A watchdog group of MPs says the collapse of the £900m scheme in Paddington Basin was the result of incompetence, appalling planning, local staff who floundered and were out of their depth, and a lack of clarity from the Department of Health.
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£13bn hospital plans 'at risk from incompetent managers' - The Times 30th January 2007
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Ministers warned over NHS schemes - BBC Health News 30th January 2007
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£13bn hospital plans 'at risk from incompetent managers' - The Times 30th January 2007
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Ministers warned over NHS schemes - BBC Health News 30th January 2007
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A Gulf war veteran who slid into despair and self-loathing after leaving the army admitted yesterday that he had cold-bloodedly shot dead four members of his family after finally "flipping". David Bradley, who lived like a hermit with a stash of military magazines and an illegal arsenal of weapons, planned the killings on the lines of a military ambush in a homely end-terrace in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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I've just killed four of my family, war veteran told police - The Times 30th January 2007
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Ex-soldier massacred family after 'flipping' - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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I've just killed four of my family, war veteran told police - The Times 30th January 2007
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Ex-soldier massacred family after 'flipping' - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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Liposuction is booming - and the vast majority of patients are women. What makes them submit to such a violent procedure - especially when it removes only a few pounds of fat?
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Forget the 'moob job' just be yourself - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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More men go for surgery to get rid of 'moobs' - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Forget the 'moob job' just be yourself - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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More men go for surgery to get rid of 'moobs' - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Giving birth naturally increases the risk of minor brain haemorrhages in newborn babies, according to a study. Brain scans of babies aged between one and five weeks showed small ruptures in blood vessels in or around the brain are common, affecting one in four children born naturally.
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Oriental mushrooms have been valued by herbalists for centuries but new research thrusts the humble common A. bisporus into the limelight due to their potentially powerful health-giving properties. A. bisporus includes white mushrooms (button, closed cup, open cup, large flat) and brown mushrooms (chestnut, champignon marron, crimini or portobello).
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Ever worried that blood might be clotting near your brain without you knowing? Or whether you have inherited your father's weak heart? On turning 50, David Bodanis decides to get himself checked out
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A new survey has found that vanity motivates us to exercise more than the promise of good health. But how do you ensure you are not beefing up where you'd rather be lithe? Peta Bee reports
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Last week's message to the National Criminal Justice Board did, as John Reid's column suggests, merely remind judges that prison should be reserved for serious, persistent and violent offenders (This won't be the last of it, January 29). This would be especially welcome if it signalled a renewed determination to develop and promote community sentences. His analysis of the factors driving the explosion in prison numbers is at best partial. It ignores the government's ratcheting up of the use of custody by relentless tough talk. It also fails to recognise the use of our jails as a social dustbin, catching thousands with mental-health, drug and alcohol problems who fall through the welfare net.
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More than 12,000 academics including two Nobel laureates have signed a petition urging the European commission to make publicly funded academic research available for free on the internet. The online petition, a direct challenge to the lucrative businesses of many scientific publishers, comes ahead of an EC conference next month where "open access" to research will be debated. The conference will be attended by the Brussels information commissioner, Viviane Reding, and commissioner for science and research, Janez Potocnik.
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After going through a divorce, Maggie Logan was worried about her eight-year-old daughter, Kayleigh. Once an outgoing child, she had become withdrawn. At school, teachers said her behaviour was erratic; sometimes there were outbursts of anger and crying. It wasn't until she saw a counsellor in school from a charity called The Place2Be that things improved.
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I took my health for granted until I became ill with rheumatoid arthritis about six years ago. I looked into how I could help myself and came upon nutritional therapy. It helped with my arthritis and I decided to study it. I'm in the third and final year of my course. The first year was a medicine-based foundation course about how the body works, so we learned about the bones, the systems of the body, pathologies and what sort of treatment would be given by orthodox practitioners. The second year was the first year of nutrition - we learned about vitamins, the effect different types of food have on different areas of the body, and how nutrients interact. The main thing we learned was that what is good for one person is not necessarily good for another. We have to do 200 clinical hours where we work with patients under the supervision of qualified practitioners. You learn the most during that time because it's real life.
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With sex education failing to teach young people about relationships, pornography - on mobiles, online and in magazines - is increasingly filling the gap. By Rachel Bell
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The Government's drive to create a patient-centred NHS is failing, a report warns. Patients are less involved in healthcare than they were three years ago, and decisions about medicines and treatment are increasingly being taken out of their hands by GPs. The results will come as a blow to ministers, who have championed choice in the NHS based on increasing patient involvement.
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A legal campaign has been launched to eradicate regional inequalities in the NHS that deny treatment to thousands who are facing blindness. The challenge is being spearheaded by a former Labour MP, Alice Mahon, who has pledged to force health bosses to provide the drugs to save her own sight - and that of other sufferers.
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Former MP fights for drug to save her eyesight - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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Ex-MP in drug fight to save her sight - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Ex-MP battles NHS over eye drug - BBC Health News 30th January 2007
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Former MP fights for drug to save her eyesight - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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Ex-MP in drug fight to save her sight - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Ex-MP battles NHS over eye drug - BBC Health News 30th January 2007
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Working parents are being charged up to £19,000 a year to send their children to nursery — more than the fees for some of Britain’s most prestigious public schools. New figures reveal that the cost of daycare for babies and young children has increased by almost 30 per cent in six years, more than twice the rate of inflation.
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A childminder is best for us and the children - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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Soaring fees leave families priced out of childcare - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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A childminder is best for us and the children - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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Soaring fees leave families priced out of childcare - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Family doctors could be offered incentives to work more unsociable hours, Andrew Burnham, the Health Minister, said yesterday. He wants doctors to tailor their hours to suit patients just three years after the Government rewrote GPs’ contracts allowing them to stop out-of-hours work.
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Another dose of cash for GPs - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Another dose of cash for GPs - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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A single compensation claim cost the health service more than £12 million, figures have revealed. The claim was for a failure to diagnose preeclampsia, the potentially fatal condition that causes high blood pressure in pregnant women. The claim, settled for £12.4 million, was the single largest payout by the Department of Health under its clinical negligence scheme.
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We accept that GPs have all done better financially under the new contract; that was what was intended to restore morale and halt the decline in GP numbers, but we and our staff have also worked harder delivering the Government’s quality targets and improving public health. Because of our hard work we did better than the Government expected but we now have to pay an additional 14 per cent into our pensions which was previously paid as employers’ contribution by the NHS. We have also had to fund pay increases for our staff and increased surgery bills
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BMA chief rallies members against GP bashers - The Telegraph 30th January 2007
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The body of a baby boy has been lying in a mortuary for 20 years because his parents refuse to accept that he died of cot death, it was disclosed yesterday. Four-month-old Christopher Blum will remain in a drawer marked "Baby Blum: Deceased", his tiny frame kept at -8C, until his mother and father sign his death certificate which would allow a funeral to take place.
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The number of operations cancelled due to a lack of sterile surgical instruments has risen 40 per cent in four years. Some 1,765 operations were cancelled in 2005/06 — up from 1,252 in 2002/03.
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Operations cut for lack of sterile equipment - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Operations cut for lack of sterile equipment - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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The NHS should consider billing patients for ineffective treatments and drop all prescription charges, senior public health doctors said yesterday. Spiralling health costs had to be controlled, said Dr Tim Crayford, the president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, and one way would be to charge patients for treatments for which there was not good evidence that they worked or when cheaper options were available.
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A grandfather died two days after doctors admitted they had spent six months treating him for the wrong disease, it emerged yesterday. Tony Bannister, 73, endured gruelling radiotherapy treatment for bone cancer before experts told him he was actually suffering from tuberculosis.
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Should we microwave our kitchen cloths to kill germs? Such is our concern over superbugs and killer viruses that many of us probably considered the idea put forward last week by U.S. scientists. But according to PROFESSOR CHARLES PENN, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham, it's a waste of time and we should stop being so obsessive about cleanliness.
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Those who are taking statins to lower their cholesterol may well be confused about whether it is worth it and how safe they are. Last week an article in the medical journal The Lancet claimed the drugs don't benefit women or elderly men if they don't have a cardiovascular problem, while for younger men, taking statins only slightly reduces the risk of heart attack if they'd never had an attack.
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Michael Aspel has a good line in self-deprecating humour, so it comes as no surprise to hear him crack a joke about his cancer. Four years ago, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), a slow-growing or indolent cancer of the lymphatic system.
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When Shirley Newrock was in her early 40s, her family suffered the sort of human tragedy common to many families throughout the country. At the age of just 55, her husband Michael, whose behaviour had become increasingly erratic, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
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As a child Vicky Trehorel suffered chronic digestive problems which doctors refused to take seriously. Then, at the age of nine, she was finally diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a debilitating gut condition which affects as many as 120,000 people in the UK.
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A pioneering sound wave technique has helped one woman to get rid of her fibroids and also prevented her from losing her womb. Paula Green, 32, started having excruciating period pains ten years ago My problems started ten years ago, when every month I started having excruciating period pains, and the flow became really heavy.
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Children are being prescribed a special type of water softener to reduce symptoms of eczema, the skin condition that affects up to one in five school-age youngsters. The move follows research which has shown that eczema is up to 50per cent more common among primary school pupils who live in hard water areas.
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Overweight children are being placed in foster care on the grounds that they are victims of child abuse. Experts have warned that feeding youngsters an endless diet of junk food causes serious health problems – and should be treated in the same way as physical or sexual assault.
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A drugs firm covered up vital evidence about the safety of an anti-depressant linked to a string of suicides, it was claimed last night. Seroxat was taken by an estimated 50,000 British youngsters before being banned for patients under 18 in 2003.
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Drug company 'hid' suicide link - BBC Health News 29th January 2007
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Drug company 'hid' suicide link - BBC Health News 29th January 2007
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A massive shortage of midwives is forcing many maternity units to turn away expectant mothers. The shortages are putting at risk the health of women and their babies, who are forced to travel many miles from home for hospital births.
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Thousands of severely disabled young people are being let down by local authorities who fail to plan care for them as adults, a report has said. The Commission for Social Care Inspection is calling for urgent action to ensure disabled children continue to get the help they need into adulthood.
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Afghan opium poppies should be used to make pharmaceutical products such as morphine rather than be destroyed, the Conservatives have said. Lord Howell told the House of Lords licensing farmers could stop their poppies being used to make heroin.
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A psychiatrist charged with the manslaughter of a suicidal patient has admitted to failures in his treatment. Peter Fisher, 46, is accused of killing Peter Weighman, who died from a drugs overdose at West Cumberland Infirmary in Whitehaven in September 2002.
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Patients are getting faster access to family doctors, a survey shows. Nearly nine in 10 patients are seen within the target of 48 hours, with four in 10 seen on the same day - up from 27% three years ago.
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A vivid new way to highlight the global distribution of wealth, health and income is unveiled today in maps that have been distorted to highlight inequalities. "You can say it, you can prove it, you can tabulate it, but it is only when you show it that it hits home," said Prof Danny Dorling, of the University of Sheffield, one of the developers of Worldmapper, a collection of maps — cartograms — that rescale the size of territories in proportion to the value being represented.
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A robot that is swallowed and travels through the body looking for cancer is being developed by scientists. The pill-sized gadget will be able to test for tumours inside the body and transmit findings back to a computer.
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Do you crave sweets, binge on starchy foods then curse yourself when you pile on the pounds? If the answer is yes, it's time to stop punishing yourself. According to an eminent American scientist, your weight gain may not be your fault.
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US researchers say they have created a "virtual" model of all the biochemical reactions that occur in human cells. They hope the computer model will allow scientists to tinker with metabolic processes to find new treatments for conditions such as high cholesterol.
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The world's oldest person, Emma Faust Tillman, has died in the US aged 114. Mrs Tillman, the daughter of former slaves, died "peacefully" on Sunday night, said an official at a nursing home in Hartford, Connecticut.
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The European Union has confirmed that the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found on a farm in Hungary. A spokesman said tests at the EU's approved laboratory in Weybridge, south of London, had confirmed the results announced by Hungary last week.
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Official campaigning is beginning in Portugal ahead of a referendum on easing its strict abortion law. At least 9,000 anti-abortion protesters marched through Lisbon on Sunday urging people to reject the proposal.
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Japan has third bird flu outbreak - BBC Health News 29th January 2007
Officials in Japan have confirmed a third outbreak of bird flu - although they are still determining if it is the H5N1 strain dangerous to humans. About 40 chickens have died on a farm in Takahashi, in Okayama prefecture.
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FAMILIES with disabled children say closing respite centres in north and west Cumbria will leave them with nowhere to turn. After years of uncertainty, health bosses have drawn up firm plans to shut both Orton Lea in Carlisle and Seacroft at St Bees.
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Drug death doctor admits failings - BBC Health News 29th January 2007
A psychiatrist charged with the manslaughter of a suicidal patient has admitted to failures in his treatment. Peter Fisher, 46, is accused of killing Peter Weighman, who died from a drugs overdose at West Cumberland Infirmary in Whitehaven in September 2002.
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A NURSE left a frail, elderly patient lying on the floor with blood on his face for more than four hours, a misconduct hearing heard. Phumuzile Mthethwa was supposed to help the man, who suffered from dementia, back into his bed, the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told.
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HOSPITAL bosses are being forced to borrow millions of pounds after the sale of a former hospital collapsed. Finance chiefs at the Royal Bolton Hospital had been hoping to sell Fall Birch Hospital in Horwich by the end of the financial year in April.
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CHILDREN need to be taught to cook healthy food in school if Britain is to beat the problem of obesity, says a Bolton health boss. Margaret Clare, executive member for adult social care and health at Bolton Council, wants to see old-fashioned domestic science taught
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Ken battles back to live life to full - The Bolton News 29th January 2007New Story
KEN Eaton thought he would never be able to live a normal life again after an infection forced doctors to amputate his leg. But now, the 58-year-old has completed a counselling course and is showing other amputees that there is life after losing a limb.
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