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Doctors call for easier access to abortions in first three months - The Guardian 28th June 2007
Doctors call for easier access to abortions in first three months - The Guardian 28th June 2007
Doctors voted yesterday to make abortion available more quickly and easily in early pregnancy when the British Medical Association passed a motion to allow a termination within the first three months on the say-so of a single doctor instead of two. In effect, this removes the need for a woman to show that the pregnancy threatens her mental or physical health. All that would be required would be for her to give her informed consent to the procedure.
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Doctors vote to cut delays and ease access for early abortions - The Times 28th June 2007
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Doctors want early abortions to be easier - The Telegraph 28th June 2007
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Doctors vote to give women quicker access to abortions in early pregnancy - Daily Mail 27th June 2007
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Patricia Hewitt resigned from the government last night after six years in cabinet and a tumultuous two years as health secretary. She thanked Gordon Brown for an offer to stay in a top post, although she had been certain to be moved from health. The leader of the Lords, Lady Amos, the first black woman cabinet minister, also left the government, nominated by Mr Brown for the new post of EU representative to the African Union.
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Blair’s key women are on the way out as Brown freshens Cabinet with new faces - The Times 28th June 2007
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Exit Hewitt as Brown's Cabinet takes shape - The Telegraph 28th June 2007
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Hewitt leaves Cabinet health job - BBC Health News 27th June 2007
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Blair’s key women are on the way out as Brown freshens Cabinet with new faces - The Times 28th June 2007
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Exit Hewitt as Brown's Cabinet takes shape - The Telegraph 28th June 2007
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Hewitt leaves Cabinet health job - BBC Health News 27th June 2007
A hospital department head who threw herself to her death from a 100ft motorway bridge was driven to suicide by NHS reforms, an inquest was told yesterday. Morag Wilson, 32, a manager at Wythenshawe hospital, stabbed herself with a kitchen knife before jumping from the M60 into the Manchester ship canal.
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Your report of the BMA annual representative meeting (Doctors call for chief medical officer to quit, June 26) reflects an inaccurate belief among some doctors that the proposed change to the civil standard of proof for GMC fitness-to-practise hearings would markedly alter the basis on which doctors could be erased from the register. Removing a doctor from the register is very serious; and the rigour of the criminal standard of proof, or a standard close to it, is clearly appropriate. But where the consequences are less profound, the standard of proof can be applied more flexibly.
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Two teams of scientists have discovered independently a new type of stem cell they believe could lead to better treatments for incurable diseases. Researchers from Oxford and Cambridge universities made the discovery in laboratory mice and rats. They found that the new cells behave just like a human stem cell - raising the prospect of better animal models of human illnesses.
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Mice stem cells to accelerate treatments - The Telegraph 28th June 2007
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Stem cells from mice 'could be the key to finding new cures' - Daily Mail 28th June 2007
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Mice stem cells to accelerate treatments - The Telegraph 28th June 2007
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Stem cells from mice 'could be the key to finding new cures' - Daily Mail 28th June 2007
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A breathing technique for asthma sufferers developed 40 years ago has been proved for the first time to cut symptoms of breathlessness by a third. The Papworth method is a sequence of breathing and relaxation exercises devised at Papworth hospital, Cambridgeshire, in the 1960s.
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New direction in policy. Mr Brown has said that the NHS is his priority. Future spending on health is still to be decided, but there is limited room for manoeuvre with overall spending growth due to be much lower. There is a danger of protests from public sector unions and professionals about a squeeze on budgets.
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A 36-year-old woman architect is regularly troubled by irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Recently she has had two or three attacks of food poisoning, the most recent one possibly caused by ice-cream. Is this, she asks, an unusual story and is ice-cream still regarded with suspicion by doctors?
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Two senior officials at the government agency meant to safeguard patient safety in the NHS have cost the taxpayer more than £640,000 in early retirement payments, ministers have admitted. The joint chief executives of the National Patient Safety Agency, Sue Osborn and Susan Williams, received a retirement package worth £504,457, in addition to being paid £138,610 while on “gardening leave” for eight months to March.
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This Government has led the world in reducing rough sleeping and providing support for homeless people. Its investment in hostels is transforming them into places of change. The Supporting People programme is turning lives around and building independence. This has all been achieved by working in close partnership with third sector agencies.
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Volunteers in a drugs test have been recalled for emergency screening after it emerged that one of them was suffering from cancer. The 54 participants were contacted by the medical research company Covance after their fellow volunteer was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma 57 days after the trial ended.
Goldshield, the pharmaceutical group which last week agreed a £4m settlement with the Department of Health over alleged price fixing of medicines without admitting liability, yesterday posted a steep fall in full-year profits. Pre-tax profit tumbled from £6.8m to £600,000, struck after £5.6m of legal costs.
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Migrants from 130 countries with a high risk of TB are being cleared to live in Britain without any health checks, it has emerged. Once here, those with the disease are entitled to free treatment on the Health Service.
Lenient punishments should be given to parents who "accidentally" injure their chldren smacking them, judges have said. Since 2004, mothers and fathers have risked prosecution if they injure children with a slap.
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Why didn't our daughter's tutors tell us she was close to suicide? - Daily Mail 28th June 2007
The parents of a troubled student who committed suicide are demanding a change in the rules which prevented their daughter's tutors from alerting them to her state of mind. Catherine Bedford, 22, developed anorexia while away from home at university and began missing lectures. Cleaners regularly found vomit in her room and she was also thought to be self-harming.
Health officials who banned funding for Alzheimer's drugs defied evidence from 11,000 sufferers and carers - their highest-ever response to a consultation. Despite asking patients for their opinion and being swamped with thousands of moving testimonies of how the drugs had dramatically transformed lives, they failed to be swayed.
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An example of the controversial work of Gunther Von Hagens is to be put on permanent display at the new Wellcome Collection in London. The exhibit is a very thin slice of a human body which has been preserved using Von Hagens' pioneering plastination procedure.
A new medal for bravery for ambulance workers is being introduced to mark the 70th anniversary of the service. Health Minister Andy Burnham will unveil the Queen's Ambulance Service Medal for acts beyond the call of duty.
In a series focusing on medical specialties, the BBC News website meets Bobby Mehta, who talks about pharmacy. Pharmacists dispense medication and counsel on their proper use and adverse effects.
Thousands of NHS staff are assaulted by patients each year. Doctors saying many of their colleagues are "working in fear". What can be done? It was already dark by the time Salisbury GP Dr Helena McKeown got the emergency call one winter's evening five years ago.
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Keeping the brain busy can help stave off Alzheimer's, study finds - The Guardian 28th June 2007
Keeping the brain busy can help stave off Alzheimer's, study finds - The Guardian 28th June 2007
Playing chess, reading newspapers and engaging the brain in other tasks can significantly reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease in later life, according to a study. The finding emerged from five years of tests on more than 700 volunteers with an average age of 80, which revealed that people who kept their brains most active were 2.6 times less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease than those who received little or no mental stimulation.
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Michael Moore shuns a glittering premiere to unveil his critique of US health care before the down-and-outs of Los Angeles undefined Liza Foreman Skid Row, the centre of home-lessness in Los Angeles, is not usually known for Hollywood premieres. But that all changed on Monday when Michael Moore unspooled Sicko, his exposé of the American health care system, at the Union Rescue Mission.
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Two hospitals and a transport firm were accused of dumping homeless patients in the city’s Skid Row district. A paraplegic man was found crawling in the gutter near a park wearing a soiled hospital gown, according to a civil case brought by prosecutors.
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It is a time hard-pressed parents look forward to - their child's afternoon nap. But getting youngsters to nod off during the day could lead to sleep problems and impair mental development, research suggests.
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The increasing number of deaths caused by heatwaves as the climate changes will not be offset by fewer deaths in milder winters, US research claims. The study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine said the death rate in 50 US cities rose more sharply in very hot spells than very cold ones.
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A court in the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan has found 21 medical workers guilty of causing an HIV outbreak which has so far killed 10 children. At least 119 children and babies contracted the virus after receiving treatment in hospitals in Shymkent.
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Autism symptoms reversed in lab - BBC Health News 27th June 2007
Symptoms of mental retardation and autism have been reversed for the first time in laboratory mice. US scientists created mice that showed symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome - a leading cause of mental retardation and autism in humans.
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MERSEY councils were urged last night to adopt a softly-softly approach by only fining "smoking martyrs" in the early days of the looming ban in pubs and restaurants. Health minister Caroline Flint said that local authorities should show try and use "common- sense" by simply having a quiet word with smokers who light up by mistake.
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A NEW health study reveals the number of people killed by smoking in Ellesmere Port and Neston has fallen - less than a year after figures showed it was higher than the national average. But the numbers of binge drinkers, smokers and obese adults in the borough are once again above the average for England.
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A CANCER sufferer is 'relieved' after a disputed parking ticket was quashed. Leslie Tomkins, who has bone cancer and gets around on a motorised scooter, had the £40 ticket cancelled by the borough council following the intervention of borough MP Andrew Miller.
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CREWE Cancer Unit should be up and running early in the New Year, thanks to supporters pushing the fund past the £800,000 mark. Macmillan Cancer Support, which launched the appeal last September, has already banked more than £550,000 after an over-whelming response by Chronicle readers.
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SMOKING will be banned from pubs across Mid Cheshire this weekend, but not everyone has welcomed the news. Les Little, landlord of The Freemasons Arms in Castle Street, told the Guardian that he was simply hoping it would be business as usual when he opens on Sunday.
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Dad 'has life-saving operation' - Knutsford Guardian 27th June 2007
A FATHER is believed to have undergone a life-saving operation after a stranger donated bone marrow.
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
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A NEW online service will be launched next week highlighting how user-friendly Cumbrian venues are for people with disabilities. Cumbria County Council will become the first local authority in the country to assess its meeting venues through Direct Enquires, the National Access Register
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Hepatitis C project launched - Lancashire Telegraph 27th June 2007
HUNDREDS of hepatitis C sufferers in Blackburn and Darwen are set to benefit from the launch of an innovative information scheme. The new e-learning' resource, pioneered by the borough's primary care trust, is the only one of its kind in the north west.
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Greater Manchester News
A hospital department head who threw herself to her death from a 100ft motorway bridge was driven to suicide by NHS reforms, an inquest was told yesterday. Morag Wilson, 32, a manager at Wythenshawe hospital, stabbed herself with a kitchen knife before jumping from the M60 into the Manchester ship canal.
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The smoking ban will slash the number of people being diagnosed with killer conditions, according to one of Bolton's top chest doctors. Dr Kevin Jones, who is an acute medical physician and a thoracic specialist at the Royal Bolton Hospital, believes the ban will almost immediately reduce the number of people having heart attacks and strokes, which can often be caused by smoking.
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THE future of Bolton's baby unit now lies in the hands of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. The review panel responsible for making the final decision on whether Bolton will be named as one of three super-centres for neonatal, maternity and children's services has handed its findings to the government.
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A Little Hulton schoolboy who became one of the country's youngest smokers at the age of eight is being featured in a television documentary tomorrow. Child Chain Smoker, to be shown at 10.30pm on Channel 4, follows Joel Parker, who is now aged 13 and is so addicted to nicotine that his school gives him cigarette breaks.
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NORTH west employers could boost their productivity by more than £2.2 billion each year if they take effective action to ban work time smoking breaks during working hours from July 1.
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Stop smoking advice - Altrincham Messenger 27th June 2007
HEALTH care professionals will be on hand to offer free consultations providing expert stop smoking advice and counselling at the Sainsbury's store in Sale tomorrow and Sunday.
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