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National News
Foetal clue to adult heart damage - BBC News 19/02/07
Scientists have found the key to why a mechanism designed to help build foetal hearts starts up again when adults are in the early stages of heart failure.
Many fail to recognise tinnitus - BBC News 19/02/07
One in four people with tinnitus initially thought the noises they could hear were coming from their surroundings, research has found.
Mental health law plan challenged - BBC News 19/02/07
The government is facing the prospect of House of Lords defeat over controversial plans to lock up some mentally ill people.
Inquiry into contaminated blood - BBC News 19/02/07
An independent public inquiry is to be held into the supply of contaminated NHS blood to haemophilia patients.
Private sector ‘bleeding the service dry’ - The Times 19/02/07
Britain’s largest trade union is calling for an investigation into what it claims are the “obscene” profits being made by private companies from the NHS.
Disillusioned doctors say Labour decade of reform has failed NHS - The Times 19/02/07
Most doctors believe that Labour has failed to reform the NHS and that funding by taxation alone will not improve the quality of care.
Turn off TV girls - or risk early puberty- The Times 19/02/07
Watching too much television as a child may trigger serious health problems such as autism and obesity, and in girls the early onset of puberty, a scientist has claimed.
Trust me, I'm a junior doctor - The Telegraph 19/02/07
'It's so cold," my mum whispers down the phone. "I don't feel well." Her voice fades in and out, barely audible at times. "Have you been drinking?" I ask. "Of course I haven't, you odious child," she replies. Ah, there's my old mum back again.
'I live with a sense of my own mortality' - The Telegraph 19/02/07
When Dame Anita Roddick revealed last week that she has cirrhosis of the liver, due to hepatitis C, she was characteristically defiant. Dame Anita Roddick is characteristically defiant Declaring the condition a "bummer", the founder of the Body Shop said the diagnosis had made her groan - and then start living her life to the full
Global study of 1,200 families links new genes to autism - The Guardian 19/02/07
The world's largest search for genes linked to autism has uncovered new mutations believed to raise a child's risk of developing the brain disorder.
Autism gene breakthrough hailed - BBC News 19/02/07
Premature baby brought back from the dead by Viagra - The Guardian 16th February 2007
A premature baby who had become so ill that his parents had begun planning his funeral was saved after doctors treated him with Viagra, it emerged yesterday. Lewis Goodfellow was born last August at 24 weeks and weighing just 1lb 8oz.
PM tells surgeons to work nights - The Guardian 19/02/07
Tony Blair will today call on hospitals to keep operating theatres open into the evenings for non-emergency procedures to ensure that NHS patients on average wait no more than seven to eight weeks.
PM outlining '24/7 surgery' plans - BBC News 19/02/07
Cheshire and Merseyside News
Firm in needle-free flu treatment coup - Liverpool Daily Post 19/02/07
A NEEDLE-FREE flu vaccine produced at the MedImmune factory, in Speke, protects some age groups better than traditional shots, potentially opening up a whole new market for the company.
Greater Manchester News
Infection fight breakthrough - Wigan Today 19/02/07
A Wigan firm is pioneering a gadget that will blitz killer superbugs in Britain's hospitals.
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