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The number of deaths caused by two superbugs soared in 2005, raising new concerns over the standard of hygiene at hospitals across the country. According to government statistics, the number of deaths linked to MRSA rose by 39% in 2005 and deaths linked to a second superbug, Clostridium difficile, increased by 69%.
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Targets blamed as hospital infection deaths rise 59% - The Independent 23rd February 2007
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Deaths caused by hospital infections rising sharply - The Times 23rd February 2007
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Death toll from 'superbugs' is soaring - The Telegraph 23rd February 2007
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Deaths involving 'superbugs' rise by up to 70% in one year - Daily Mail 22nd February 2007
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Hospital bug deaths on the rise - BBC Health News 22nd February 2007
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Targets blamed as hospital infection deaths rise 59% - The Independent 23rd February 2007
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Deaths caused by hospital infections rising sharply - The Times 23rd February 2007
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Death toll from 'superbugs' is soaring - The Telegraph 23rd February 2007
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Deaths involving 'superbugs' rise by up to 70% in one year - Daily Mail 22nd February 2007
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Hospital bug deaths on the rise - BBC Health News 22nd February 2007
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Illness - even cancer - is the body's way of communicating, but doctors don't have time to listen, says Darian Leader. Psychoanalysis may take years to make you better, but it beats quick-fix therapies, he tells Stuart Jeffries
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The media regulator yesterday stood firm in the face of sustained lobbying from food manufacturers, introducing a ban on junk food advertising during all programmes aimed at children under 16. But after delivering the final word in a protracted and controversial process, Ofcom immediately came under fire from health groups accusing it of watering down "already weak" proposals by giving broadcasters longer to implement them. They vowed to continue their fight for a mandatory 9pm watershed on advertising for food high in fat, salt and sugar.
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TV’s new junk food rules allow chips with everything - The Times 23rd February 2007
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Business as usual at Coronation Street despite advert ban - The Times 23rd February 2007
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TV’s new junk food rules allow chips with everything - The Times 23rd February 2007
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Business as usual at Coronation Street despite advert ban - The Times 23rd February 2007
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Junk food advert ban is toothless, say health campaigners - The Times 23rd February 2007
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Junk food TV ad ban will cover under-16s - The Telegraph 23rd February 2007
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Junk food ad ban plans laid out - BBC Health News 22nd February 2007
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Junk food TV ad ban will cover under-16s - The Telegraph 23rd February 2007
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Junk food ad ban plans laid out - BBC Health News 22nd February 2007
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The health minister Andy Burnham has proposed developing a constitution for the NHS, to be unveiled next year on the health service's 60th birthday (Outspoken off-roader", February 14). He says that, as a result of reforms, "some are concerned that the values of the NHS are in some way up for grabs". He believes that it's time for these values - that the NHS is a comprehensive service, free at the point of use, provided according to need and not on the ability to pay - to be enshrined in law, and says "there needs to be a new consensus around the NHS as the right model for Britain's healthcare needs for at least the medium term".
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The alcopops generation are drinking themselves to death, latest figures show. Drink-related deaths among 15 to 34-year-olds have increased by almost 60 per cent since 1991. The Office for National Statistics (ONS), which published the figures yesterday, said 198 men and 89 women in this age group died from alcohol poisoning or cirrhosis of the liver in 2004.
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Number of drink deaths doubles in 13 years - The Telegraph 23rd February 2007
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Number of drink deaths doubles in 13 years - The Telegraph 23rd February 2007
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The number of underage mothers is continuing to rise despite a £150 million government campaign. Official figures showed that 7,917 girls aged 15 and under became pregnant in 2005, up 4 per cent on the year before, an underage conception rate of 7.8 per thousand girls. The figures emerge a week after the UN said that Britain was the worst place in the developed world to be a child, criticising the high teenage pregnancy rate. The Government has given teenagers greater access to condoms, the morning-after pill and sex education. Teenage pregnancies including all girls aged 18 and under totalled 42,187, just down from 42,198.
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Deprivation teen pregnancy boost - BBC Health News 22nd February 2007
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Deprivation teen pregnancy boost - BBC Health News 22nd February 2007
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Premature, small babies are anaemic and therefore at a grave disadvantage so far as the oxygen-carrying capacity of their blood is concerned. The amount of haemoglobin, the compound that carries the oxygen in the blood, is not as high as it is in a baby born at term. The iron stores, one of the two essential components of haemoglobin, are built up and stored in a baby during its last months in the womb. A baby that is born appreciably early hasn’t had enough time to lay down sufficient stores to last it for the four to six months before it is able to feed on something other than maternal milk that is not rich in iron.
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Patients with head injuries may be receiving treatments that do no good, or even make their condition worse, because of dubious research. Studies published by a Brazilian neurosurgeon who committed suicide two years ago cannot be trusted, three specialists report in the British Medical Journal. There is no evidence that he carried out the treatments that he espoused.
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A woman died from the effects of radiation therapy more than 30 years after the treatment cured her of breast cancer, an inquest was told. Patricia Roper had a mastectomy and 20 weeks of radiotherapy at Hammersmith Hospital in London in 1972. Her cancer never returned but in the years afterwards her body, massively scarred externally and internally by the radiation, began shutting down.
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Woman killed by the cure for her cancer - Daily Mail 22nd February 2007
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Woman killed by the cure for her cancer - Daily Mail 22nd February 2007
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Why are we all getting so fat? This epidemic of obesity is one W of the most extraordinary developments in history. It is a modern plague that stretches across the world, affecting not just the affluent West but poorer countries as well. In Britain, doctors warn that we are facing an obesity timebomb. We are the fattest people in Europe, with a quarter of women and a fifth of men so overweight that their health is at serious risk.
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The number of health visitors in England has fallen to its lowest level in 12 years, a trade union says. Amicus said there had been a 40% cut in training places for those workers and warned many cases of domestic abuse and post-natal depression may be missed.
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The end of the NHS's record budget rises does not mean health services will suffer, experts say. NHS funds have been rising by over 7% a year since 2002, but that stops in 2008 and is likely to drop to about 3.5%.
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Homosexual men are demanding a controversial "sex disease" vaccine designed to prevent a female cancer. Gardasil protects against the most common of sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer.
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Children should not be left alone to play with dogs, doctors say. In the British Medical Journal, London Deanery and Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust medics also called for children to be taught how to approach dogs.
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A judge has ordered Liverpool University chiefs to reveal whether a neurosurgeon removed human brain samples for research without consent. Peter Warnke was suspended from the Walton Centre for Neurosurgery in April 2005 over allegations he sent samples to a private company in Germany.
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Lasting risk of being born small - Daily Mail 22nd February 2007
Women who weighed less than 5lb 12oz at birth are more likely to have serious pregnancy complications in later life, scientists have claimed. The study showed a 60 per cent higher chance of them suffering from pre-eclampsia, which can kill pregnant women and their babies.
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A WOMAN whose baby son was found abandoned in a street, freezing cold in an upturned pram, was so drunk she had not even realised he was missing. The one-year-old, named Riely, was found by a passer-by on New Year’s Day, crying and wet in his pram six hours after Paula Smith had wheeled him home from a party, a court heard.
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PATIENTS in Liverpool are being asked to help investigate whether the humble aspirin can prevent a devastating cancer. The eight-year trials will determine whether the drug can stop the risk of oesophageal cancer – cancer of the gullet – which causes 7,500 deaths in the UK a year.
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FRIENDS of a Merseyside woman who lost a 12-year battle against cystic fibrosis on Valentine’s Day have called for her to be given a posthumous award. Mother-of-nine Jackie Culshaw, 58, of Waterloo, had selflessly nursed two of her children through their battles with CF, despite knowing she was risking her own health by coming into close contact with them.
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MORE than 100 people last night took part in a torchlight march and rally in support of the NHS. The event, organised by Merseyside TUC together with NHS Together, saw marchers, armed with torches, making their way from the Royal Liverpool Hospital to the William Brown Street fountain, to listen to speakers.
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A VALENTINE'S day campaign saw hundreds of condoms handed out to Halton's older teenagers as part of a programme promoting safer sex in the borough. The promotion at Halton Lea shopping centre was the latest step in a campaign to warn young people in Widnes and Runcorn about the dangers of unsafe sex and reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
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ALLEGATIONS Halton council could employ undercover spies to snap sneaky photos of cigarette smokers breaking a forthcoming ban have been refuted. It was claimed in the national media that local authorities across the UK are training up 'cigarette snoops' who would mingle with the crowds in public places once the ban on smoking in pubs public buildings and spaces, work places and company cars, comes into force on July 1.
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A TWIN baby born with half a heart is facing his third major operation. Five-month-old Jack Iddon from West Lancashire has already undergone life-saving heart surgery twice.
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Why weren't we told about mental hospital? - Warrington Guardian 22nd February 2007
MY familyand I live 100 metres away from the development on the Weates Close estate and neither I, nor my neighbours, received any notification of this development. During the past nine months, I have contacted the council's planning department on a weekly basis, only to be told that they were 99 per cent sure it was to be an old people's home, but at the time the development had no end user'.
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Brain sample probe must be shown - BBC Health News 22nd February 2007
A judge has ordered Liverpool University chiefs to reveal whether a neurosurgeon removed human brain samples for research without consent. Peter Warnke was suspended from the Walton Centre for Neurosurgery in April 2005 over allegations he sent samples to a private company in Germany.
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A LEADING Cumbrian drugs and alcohol group is trying to stop children turning into addicts after it was revealed 3,000 kids have parents with problems. Figures revealed by the county’s Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) showed 2,300 people are seeking help for their use of cocaine and heroin – and they have 3,000 children between them.
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Private charges bleed NHS dry – says union - Carlisle News & Star 22nd February 2007
A LEADING health union says private companies like Netcare – the firm behind Cumbria’s proposed Clinical Assessment, Treat and Support centres (CATS) – are plunging the NHS into a financial black hole. In a new report, entitled In the Interests of Patients?, Unison reveals that someof these multinational firms are making “obscene” profits.
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ROCHDALE'S accident and emergency unit has been given a lifeline after Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt agreed to review the decision to close it. In September, NHS chiefs decided to downgrade the Infirmary's A and E unit and agreed to cut emergency surgery from Fairfield Hospital, Bury.
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A £20M campaign to ensure children across the north west receive world-class medical treatment is to be backed by the Manchester Evening News.
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AMBULANCE bosses are investigating the death of a man who waited 48 minutes to be taken to hospital. It comes as overstretched paramedics revealed they are struggling to cope with a huge surge in demand and managers admitted they are failing to meet key 999 targets.
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A FORMER hypnotherapy patient was so inspired by his treatment, he is now running the practice where he once lay on the couch. A decade ago Philip Monaghan, aged 45, underwent 12 weeks of analysis under the expert guidance of hypno-analyst Nigel Isherwood to get to the root of his depression and social anxiety.
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Fairfield apology over heart scan blunder - Bury Times 22nd February 2007
FAIRFIELD Hospital bosses have apologised to more than 1,000 patients caught up in a massive heart scan blunder which could have seen them wrongly diagnosed with a serious heart condition. An inquiry was launched last year following concerns that a cardiac technician had read heart ultrasound results incorrectly while working at the hospital between May 23 and December 7, 2005.
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