Monday, July 23, 2007

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Why working mothers have fatter children - The Times 23rd July 2007
New mothers who go out to work may increase the risk of their children becoming overweight, a study indicates. For every ten hours a week a mother works, the odds of having a child who is overweight by the age of 3 are increased by about 10 per cent, according to results from a study of almost 13,000 mothers.


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Risk of obesity soars with family income - the Daily Mail 22nd July 2007

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First HIV pill in a decade offers survival hope for millions - The Times 23rd July 2007
The first new oral drug for HIV in ten years has been cleared by European licensing authorities, promising much better control of the infection for millions of people.

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Why it will cost more to phone your GP - The Times 23rd July 2007
Millions of patients could be paying more to telephone their family doctor as surgeries switch to numbers that are more expensive than the traditional local call, The Times has learnt.

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Breast cancer: 'it's time to end the fear' - The Telegraph 23rd July 2007
The global battle against breast cancer has been a long and bloody affair. As scientists search for a cure, hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, while many women have been left with deep physical and mental scars.

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Child use of antidepressants up four-fold - The Telegraph 23rd July 2007
The use of antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs among schoolchildren has more than quadrupled in the last decade, it is revealed today.

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The friends who share kidneys of one donor - the Daily Mail 22nd July 2007
Meeting every day in hospital for kidney dialysis, Heather Jones and Rob Fowler soon became firm friends. After all, waiting a combined 15 years for an organ transplant had given them a lot to talk about.

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Smoking 'brings on an early menopause' - the Daily Mail 20th July 2007
Women who smoke are more likely to begin menopause before the age of 45 years, which puts them at increased risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, researchers have found.

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Thousands without fresh water as floods bring chaos - The Guardian 23rd July 2007
More than 350,000 people are facing days without fresh water supplies and a clean-up operation lasting months as devastating floods this weekend left communities cut off across central and southern England.
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'So cruelly snatched from us' - St Helens Today 23rd July 2007
A distraught family from Haydock lost their loved one because of a misdiagnosis by Whiston Hospital.

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Dentist accused of NHS fraud - Wigan Today 23rd July 2007
A dentist cheated the NHS by fraudulently claiming for dental work he had not carried out, a court was told.

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