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Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, gave the green light yesterday to plans for seven new hospitals to be built under the private finance initiative at a cost of £1.5bn. Her decision to back the NHS's biggest ever tranche of investment will provide modern facilities for patients in Bristol, Peterborough, Middlesbrough, Wakefield, Tunbridge Wells, Chelmsford and Edmonton, north London.
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£1.5bn to be spent on PFI hospitals - The Times 27th February 2007
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£1.5bn to be spent on PFI hospitals - The Times 27th February 2007
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Tony Blair insists his government is not building a Big Brother-style super-database. But all the talk of 'perfectly sensible' reforms and 'transformational government' masks a chilling assault on our privacy
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Sam Wollaston describes patients featuring in the Channel 4 documentary on health anxieties - Hypochondriacs: I Told You I Was Ill - as "idiots ... that should be told not to waste doctors' time ... because they are totally fine" (Last night's TV, February 20). He writes off evidence-based treatments as "rubbish ... that does not work". His freely admitted lack of scientific knowledge on the subject can be forgiven; but even though his comments were intended to be light-hearted, and he states that hypochondria is a serious condition, the article raises question
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The most popular age to have a baby has passed 30 for the first time. Increasing numbers of women are putting off having a family until they have established relationships and settled careers, figures show. In every age group under 30 the birth rate is falling, but in every age group over 30 it is rising, the statistics from the Office of Health Economics (OHE) show. The fastest rise has been in births to women over 45, a 50 per cent increase from 2000 to 2005.
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Dramatic rise in fortysomething mothers - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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A Congolese nurse has won a last-minute reprieve from deportation following a campaign led by five bishops and the actor Colin Firth. The nurse said he feared for his life if he was forcibly returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo. He fled after refusing an order to inject a lethal dose of morphine into dissident soldiers. Pierre - not his real name - was to be removed on a charter flight from Stansted. But he was among four Congolese asylum-seekers who learnt that a legal appeal against their removal had succeeded. It was not clear last night whether the flight carrying another 37 people had taken off.
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The number of people suffering from dementia in Britain has been calculated at 700,000 in a ground-breaking new report that found the cost of their care is £17 billion a year. The number of sufferers is projected to increase to more than one million by 2025 and to 1.7 million in 2050 as the population ages. Experts say any cure for the condition will be many years off, too late to help the hundreds of thousands of people currently in their thirties and forties who are on course to develop dementia.
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'When we were told we sat crying for days' - The Times 27th February 2007
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Alert as dementia costs to soar - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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1.7m 'will have dementia by 2051' - BBC Health News 27th February 2007
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Alert as dementia costs to soar - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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1.7m 'will have dementia by 2051' - BBC Health News 27th February 2007
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A new method could be used to tackle MRSA: the honey of Australian bees. The natural remedy is being used by the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, a centre of excellence for heart surgery. It uses honey from a colony of bees only found in Queensland to clean infected wounds, along with dressings containing a gum extracted from seaweed. The honey seals the injury and the seaweed extract draws and absorbs the harmful bacteria.
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A cancer sufferer who spent £70,000 on a drug that he believed would prolong his life has been told it can now be prescribed on the NHS. Keith Ditchfield, 53, a businessman who lives in Stonyhurst, Lancashire, is terminally ill. He learnt of Nexavar while receiving treatment in Germany.
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England’s country pubs are likely to bear the brunt of any closures after the introduction of the smoking ban this summer, according to Irish publicans. As pubs prepare for the implementation of the ban on July 1, the warnings from rural Ireland were backed by official figures from Dublin showing that country pubs were shutting at a record rate.
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A quarter of all births in NHS hospitals are being carried out by Caesarean operation, a report from the Office of Health Economics says. The report, covering figures from 2005, underlines current trends showing a growth in C-sections, which have been edging closer to 25 per cent of births in recent years. The increase, the authors say, has come from greater use of emergency Caesareans, in part because women are delaying having children until later in life and greater obesity in mothers leading to birth complications. Doctors’ fear of litigation is also identified as a factor driving up the rate.
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Obese women force up rate of caesarean births - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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A quarter of UK births now Caesarean - Daily Mail 26th February 2007
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Obese women force up rate of caesarean births - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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A quarter of UK births now Caesarean - Daily Mail 26th February 2007
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Motorists face random breath testing under government plans to reduce the toll of deaths and serious injuries from drink driving, The Times has leant. Ministers believe that giving the police the power to stop any driver, regardless of how they are driving, would be a powerful deterrent.
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Breath tests ‘saved 50 lives this year’ - The Times 27th February 2007
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One pint could soon be enough to put a driver over the limit - Daily Mail 26th February 2007
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One pint could soon be enough to put a driver over the limit - Daily Mail 26th February 2007
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Plans to outlaw the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for potentially life-saving stem cell research are to be dropped after a revolt by scientists. The proposed government ban on fusing human DNA with animal eggs, which promises insights into incurable conditions such as Alzheimer’s and motor neuron disease, will be abandoned because of concerns among senior ministers that it will damage British science.
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Britain is 'lagging behind Europe in cutting deaths on the road' - The Times 27th February 2007
Britain has one of the worst records in Europe for reducing road deaths despite claims by the Government that the roads are safer, a survey has found. Deaths on British roads have fallen by 7 per cent in the past 5 years, compared with a 35 per cent drop in France and 25 per cent in Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands. Britain lies with Slovakia and Poland near the bottom of the table of European Union states, compiled by the European Transport Safety Council, a Brussels-based campaign group.
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Britain has one of the worst records in Europe for reducing road deaths despite claims by the Government that the roads are safer, a survey has found. Deaths on British roads have fallen by 7 per cent in the past 5 years, compared with a 35 per cent drop in France and 25 per cent in Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands. Britain lies with Slovakia and Poland near the bottom of the table of European Union states, compiled by the European Transport Safety Council, a Brussels-based campaign group.
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Connor McCreaddie is eight years old and weighs 14 stone. Even in an age that did not share the present obsession with obesity, his freakish - and apparently self-inflicted - weight problem would be a cause for concern. In today's climate it has excited the attention of the authorities in Wallsend, where he lives. They have said that unless the boy's mother takes steps to ensure he loses weight, he will be taken into care. This raises a profound philosophical point. Children are normally removed from the home because they have suffered abuse. There will be those who argue that allowing an eight-year-old to balloon to this size is deeply abusive. This would not, however, tie in with most sensible perspectives on this question. Nicola McKeown, the boy's mother, was interviewed yesterday by the BBC. She seemed hapless and rather intimidated by her son's eating habits, rather than deliberately cruel and careless. One then has to ask how the child, or the mother, is likely to be improved by his being placed in care.
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Should obese children be taken into care? - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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Fourteen stone child 'risks care' - BBC Health News 26th February 2007
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Fourteen stone child 'risks care' - BBC Health News 26th February 2007
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Four years ago, my friend Susanna Gelmetti was scouring the supermarket shelves in vain for some healthy and appetising ready-made spaghetti sauces. She was ready to pay for labels that promised "fresh" and "natural" - and knew other middle-class shoppers would do the same. Having spotted the gap in the market, Susanna launched "Dress Italian" - a little more expensive than your average jar of gluey sauce, but when it comes to the best ingredients, who's counting?
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Most people know too much sunlight can damage the skin and most skin cancers are caused by damage from the sun's ultraviolet rays. But there are still a number of myths surrounding sun protection. As we experience record warm temperatures this year we expose the facts.
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The alarming decline in the mental health of Britain's youth was revealed today after it emerged that suicidal children as young as five contacted ChildLine. The charity reported that nearly four out of five calls about suicide last year were from girls.
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As the devastating human and financial cost of dementia is revealed, the Daily Mail launches a campaign to end the restrictions on drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease. Already 750,000 Britons are affected by dementia - more than half of them with Alzheimer's - at an estimated cost to the nation of £17billion a year.
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The frail and elderly are facing a care home lottery with just one in 20,000 people qualifying for free nursing care in parts of the country, a damning report has revealed. The NHS has virtually stopped paying care home bills in large areas of Britain, the alarming new figures showed.
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She is known to friends and family as the Sleeping Beauty, but Nathalie Hoyland's life is no fairy tale. Every night when she drifts off into slumber, it might be several mornings later when she wakes up.
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I lost one of my hearts...but I've never felt healthier - Daily Mail 26th February 2007
For 13-year-old Hannah Clark, happiness is going to school, climbing the stairs and running down the street. These everyday activities represent the normal life she has craved ever since she can remember.
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Public want food 'traffic lights' - BBC Health News 27th February 2007
The public overwhelmingly support 'traffic light' food-labelling rather than the system adopted by much of the food industry, a survey suggests. The Netmums website surveyed more than 17,000 parents, and found 80% backed 'traffic lights'.
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Milan may have highly strung models and Rome stressed out politicians, but a new study has found that medieval Florence is on the frontline in Italy's cocaine boom. Researchers tested a mammoth urine sample taken from the sewerage under the city's streets, museums and art galleries over six months that revealed over 12 kilos of cocaine had been snorted, equivalent to more than 482,000 lines, almost one line per Florentine. Sampling also indicated about one kilo of heroin consumption.
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Good news has emerged this month for those who want an effective method of contraception that does not involve hormones, injections or intrauterine devices. New research, published in the journal Human Reproduction, has found that the sympto-thermal method (STM) of family planning is just as effective as the pill. STM uses two indicators - body temperature and changes in cervical mucus - to identify the most fertile phase of a woman's menstrual cycle. "This puts contraception under a woman's control," says Toni Belfield of the Family Planning Association. "It's easy to learn, it can enhance a relationship, and it's easy to stop if a woman decides she does want to become pregnant."
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Garlic has no detectable effects on levels of cholesterol in the bloodstream, a trial suggests. While this does not prove that garlic is ineffective in protecting the heart, it shows that any effects it may have are not caused by it reducing cholesterol, a claim often made by health-food companies.
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Garlic fails heart test - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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Garlic fails heart test - The Telegraph 27th February 2007
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Regular consumption of the most common painkillers is linked to an increased risk of suffering strokes and heart disease, research claims. Men who took aspirin, ibuprofen and paracetamol were much more likely to have high blood pressure diagnosed than those not taking them, according to the research published yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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A proposal to give a huge cash bonus to Cypriot women who have large families could in fact lead to an "epidemic" of abortions, an MP has warned. The government has proposed a £23,000 (34,000 euro) bonus to mothers who have three or more children.
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Eating black soya beans could lower fat and cholesterol levels and may help prevent diabetes, a study suggests. Yellow soya is already known to lower cholesterol, but black soya is used in traditional oriental medicine as a treatment for diabetes.
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Drug may boost Down's performance - BBC Health News 26th February 2007
Scientists believe they have found evidence of a drug which alleviates the learning difficulties associated with Down's Syndrome. A Stanford University team in the US looked at a drug once tested as an epilepsy treatment in the 1950s.
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Cheshire and Merseyside News
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A DOCTOR accused of possessing a CS gas canister has appeared in court. Dr Fabrizio Equizi, 41, a GP at Claremont medical centre in Maghull, was before Liverpool crown court for a brief hearing.
PARENTS will be able to stay close to their children at a Wirral hospital thanks to a £750,000 grant. The money will give Arrowe Park hospital its own Ronald McDonald House, similar to the one at Alder Hey, by the end of the year.
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Big clampdown on the wife-beaters pays off - Liverpool Echo 26th February 2007
MERSEYSIDE police and local courts have stepped up their war on wife-beaters. New government figures show that 60% of prosecutions for domestic violence were last year successful, up from 51% the previous year.
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
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TEENAGE pregnancies in Cumbria rose by 12 per cent in a year, according to figures released yesterday. Date from the Office of National Statistics shows that in 2005, 374 teenagers aged 15 to 17 became pregnant compared with 333 in the previous 12 months.
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A LEADING government health minister is visiting Carlisle today to officially open the city’s newest NHS dental practice. Rosie Winterton, Minister of State for Health Services, will tour the Victoria Place surgery and meet with both staff and patients.
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CUMBRIAN health campaigners are taking their protest up one of the county’s highest mountains in a bid to make bosses sit up and listen. Next Saturday, union members and supporters will trek up Skiddaw taking the NHS Together banner with them to the peak.
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Patient wins cancer drug plea - The Times 27th February 2007
A cancer sufferer who spent £70,000 on a drug that he believed would prolong his life has been told it can now be prescribed on the NHS. Keith Ditchfield, 53, a businessman who lives in Stonyhurst, Lancashire, is terminally ill. He learnt of Nexavar while receiving treatment in Germany.
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A GRANDFATHER is today preparing for extremely rare surgery to remove his lung after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer caused by asbestos. William Royle, aged 66, was told he was suffering from mesothelioma in November and given the devastating news he only had a few months to live.
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Hi-tech patient system rolls out - Altrincham Messenger 26th February 2007
A PIONEERING hi-tech system, which ensures doctors have up to date information about patients, has been developed in Trafford. The system uses cutting-edge technology to collect and share information across the NHS.
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