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Patients pay the ultimate price for NHS errors, says watchdog - The Times 26th July 2007
Thousands of patients are feared to be dying needlessly every year because of poor communication between hospital staff, faulty equipment and a lack of skills.
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The latest diet advice: don't hang around with fat people - The Independent 26th July 2007
If you want to stay thin, don't choose fat friends. Researchers have found that obesity is socially contagious - it spreads from person to person within the same social group.
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Obesity 'contagious', experts say - BBC Health News 26th July 2007
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Gene offers itchy-skin cure hope - BBC Health News 26th July 2007
Scientists believe they have identified the gene for itchiness, raising the hope of treatment for the condition
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Diesel pollution 'clogs arteries' - BBC Health News 26th July 2007
Diesel fumes appear to combine with artery-clogging fats to raise the risk of heart disease, research suggests.
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Exhaust fumes linked to rise in heart disease - The Guardian 26th July 2007
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Nurses must make up flood shifts - BBC Health News 25th July 2007
Hospital staff unable to reach work because of rising flood waters are being told they must take the time off as holiday or work a shift in lieu.
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Phone mast allergy 'in the mind' - BBC Health News 26th July 2007
Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says.
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Research fails to detect short-term harm from mobile phone masts - The Guardian 26th July 2007
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Johnson blocks new wave of private clinics - The Guardian 26th July 2007
The health secretary, Alan Johnson, yesterday vetoed plans for a third wave of independent-sector treatment centres to compete with NHS hospitals
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New hospital tagging system should end patient mixups - The Guardian 26th July 2007
When you're wheeled in to an operating theatre, your single biggest worry before losing consciousness is that the surgeon won't mix you up with another patient. Oddly, the NHS doesn't seem to share this sense of priorities. Five years after launching the world's biggest civil IT programme, the NHS in England has only just started telling hospitals that they should consider labelling patients with a technology that supermarkets have used for decades.
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Government attempts to tackle IVF 'postcode lottery' - the Daily Mail 25th July 2007
Childless couples were given new hope under measures to tackle the postcode lottery for IVF treatment on the NHS
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Pregnant women 'are confused about their diets' - the Daily Mail 25th July 2007
The majority of pregnant women are unsure about what they should eat and drink during their term, a survey has found.
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Intensive care unit hopes to open - BBC Health News 26th July 2007
Belfast City Hospital has said it hopes to reopen its intensive care unit on Thursday.
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Itchy discovery may help those with eczema - The Guardian 26th July 2007
The itch that must be scratched may soon be no more, according to scientists who made an unexpected discovery at a laboratory in America. Researchers at Washington University's medical school in St Louis were hunting genes that govern our ability to sense pain when they stumbled across something quite different: a gene that lets us feel itchy.
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