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Friday, August 31, 2007
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Plea to parents to take up jabs amid measles surge - The Guardian 31st August 2007
Public health officials last night issued an appeal for parents to vaccinate their children against measles, amid fears of an outbreak during the new school term. The move follows a surge in children diagnosed with the disease over the summer, with cases more than trebling in the past 11 weeks.
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Parents urged to vaccinate their children as measles returns - The Independent 31st August 2007
Vaccine warning as measles cases triple - The Times 31st August 2007
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Parents urged to vaccinate their children as measles returns - The Independent 31st August 2007
Vaccine warning as measles cases triple - The Times 31st August 2007
Days when hundreds of children died from disease should not be forgotten - The Times 31st August 2007
Back-to-school risk as measles cases soar - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
MMR plea by doctors as measles cases treble in 11 weeks - Daily Mail 31st August 2007
Measles 'surge' prompts warning - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
Back-to-school risk as measles cases soar - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
MMR plea by doctors as measles cases treble in 11 weeks - Daily Mail 31st August 2007
Measles 'surge' prompts warning - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
NHS heading for record £1bn surplus - The Guardian 31st August 2007
The NHS will underspend by a record-breaking £1bn this year, according to government projections released yesterday. Gordon Brown said the marked turnaround in the health service's financial record - from a £500m deficit in 2006, meant more money to plough back into the NHS. But the head of the doctors' professional body accused the government of sacrificing health care to balance the books. Health unions said the savings had caused a lot of "unnecessary pain".
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Surplus of £1bn in NHS is welcomed by Brown - The Independent 31st August 2007
Desperate measures create £1bn NHS profit - The Times 31st August 2007
Out-of-hours care 'fails to spot meningitis' - The Guardian 31st August 2007
Half of the most serious cases of childhood infections, such as meningitis, are being missed because of failures in out-of-hours care, according to a senior doctor. Parents were being told to take feverish children home by junior staff, and many felt they could not "impose" on their doctor by returning when their children's conditions worsened, while staff on the NHS Direct phone lines were not experienced enough to diagnose properly, he said.
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Out-of-hours changes ‘mean serious child illness is missed’ - The Times 31st August 2007
Meningitis children at risk from 'dial-a-doctors' - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
Fatal childhood illnesses 'missed by inexperienced' staff covering for GPs out-of-hours - Daily Mail 31st August 2007
Mr Darling goes to work - The Guardian 31st August 2007
Summer ended yesterday - at least it did for Treasury officials. Any of them still indulging in the traditional August pastime of blue-skies thinking will have noticed an abrupt change of gear when their new and unobtrusive boss, Alistair Darling, kicked off the intensive phase of preparation for the biggest day of his career.
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Talk Tough and Mean It - The Times 31st August 2007
The pay rules are tough and you must be disciplined, Brown tells the unions - The Times 31st August 2007
There are ways of saving money and keeping friends - The Times 31st August 2007
Public sector pay deals - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
Unions threaten more strikes over pay deals - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
Flu pandemic 'could kill 650,000' - The Guardian 31st August 2007
Up to 650,000 people could die in England and Wales if there were a flu pandemic, according to a Home Office document that outlines plans for dealing with an outbreak, including measures for mass burials and refrigerated storage of bodies.
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Children ‘suffering greatest levels of stress’ before their first day at school - The Times 31st August 2007
Growth in 'healthy' ready meals - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
"Healthy" ready meals are fuelling a growth in the convenience food market, with British consumers eating the most in Europe, a new report shows. Research from the market analysts Mintel says ready meals are still in vogue but are more likely to appeal now to the health conscious rather than the couch potato.
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White people 'a minority by 2027' - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
White people living in the UK's second biggest city are likely to find themselves in a minority in 20 years' time, according to researchers. A team of demographers from Manchester University has claimed that the number of white people living in Birmingham will be overtaken by the number of those with other ethnic origins by 2027.
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How the stress of the daily commute puts unborn babies at risk - Daily Mail 30th August 2007
Unborn babies are at risk because women are so stressed about commuting, a survey claims today. Midwives warned that women were under pressure from high living costs and long journeys to work, with some even turning to drink to calm down.
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Coffee intolerance is 'on the rise' following sales boom - Daily Mail 30th August 2007
Coffee has enjoyed a recent boom in Britain, with 70 million cups drunk daily and a coffee shop on every street corner in the UK. But the rapid growth in coffee consumption has also caused a growing number of health problems from itchy skin to headaches, an allergy testing company has claimed.
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Typhoid making a comeback in UK - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
People holidaying in exotic places without being vaccinated is causing a rise in dangerous diseases like typhoid, warn doctors. And low air fares could be fuelling the problem, they claim.
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Ovary removal 'raises brain risk' - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
Women who have ovaries removed before the menopause could be increasing their risk of both Parkinson's Disease and memory problems, research suggests. Removing one or both ovaries at a young age doubled the risk.
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Call to end 'distressing deaths' - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
Too many terminally ill people are suffering "needlessly uncomfortable and distressing" deaths, a report from the national hospice charity claims. The Help the Hospices study said services for the dying and support for their families were "inadequate".
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Out-of-hours healthcare warning - BBC Health News 29th August 2007
Patient care has not been improved as a result of doctors' surgeries ceasing to provide out-of-hours services, an overwhelming majority of GPs believe. A study by public spending watchdog Audit Scotland found just 11% of GPs felt the changes had helped patients.
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Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land - The Guardian 31st August 2007
Climate change and an increasing population could trigger a global food crisis in the next half century as countries struggle for fertile land to grow crops and rear animals, scientists warned yesterday. To keep up with the growth in human population, more food will have to be produced worldwide over the next 50 years than has been during the past 10,000 years combined, the experts said.
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Cholera spreads in Iraq as health services collapse - The Independent 31st August 2007
Lack of clean drinking water and poor sanitation has led to 5,000 people in northern Iraq contracting cholera. The outbreak is among the most serious signs yet that Iraqi health and social services are breaking down as the number of those living in camps and poor housing increases after people flee their homes.
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Five-year-old drives drunk mother home - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
A woman has been charged with child endangerment and public intoxication after she allegedly allowed her five-year-old son to drive her car. When Holly Schnobrich's Mitsubishi car screeched to a halt near her home in Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday night, neighbours said they discovered her son behind the wheel.
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Doctors 'let our son die from a nosebleed' after he was punched in the face on holiday - Daily Mail 31st August 2007
A British student died from a nosebleed on holiday because of the "incompetence and arrogance" of Spanish doctors, it was claimed yesterday. Experts told an inquest that William Hall would have stood a 98 per cent chance of surviving if he had received proper treatment.
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Only ten minutes on a mobile could trigger cancer, scientists believe - Daily Mail 30th August 2007
Mobile phones can take as little as ten minutes to trigger changes in the brain associated with cancer, scientists claimed yesterday. They found even low levels of radiation from handsets interfere with the way brain cells divide. Cell division encourages the growth of tumours.
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Lung disease rates 'on the rise' - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
Rates of incurable lung disease are higher than previously thought, a study across 12 countries suggests. Tests in almost 9,500 adults aged over 40 found one in 10 had chronic obstructive respiratory disease (COPD), which causes breathing difficulties.
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World facing 'arsenic timebomb' - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
About 140 million people, mainly in developing countries, are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water, researchers believe. Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) annual meeting in London, scientists said this will lead to higher rates of cancer in the future.
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Hospitals ‘on road to recovery’ - Liverpool Daily Post 31st August 2007
TWO troubled hospital trusts in the region are finally back in the black after years of financial strife – but they must still pay off hefty “historic” debts. North Cheshire trust - which runs the general hospitals in Warrington and Runcorn – is forecast to turn a £6.6m deficit in 2006-07 into a £3.5m surplus in this financial year.
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Nurse may be jailed for theft from hero - Liverpool Daily Post 31st August 2007
A HOSPITAL nursing assistant from Liverpool stole a dying war veteran’s wallet to pay a phone bill, a court heard yesterday. Veronica Harold, 47, could now face a jail sentence after she admitted helping herself to 83-year-old Albert Davies’s wallet while it was inside his bedside locker at Fazakerley hospital.
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Jail threat for theft from hero - Liverpool Echo 30th August 2007
Nurse may be jailed for theft from hero - Liverpool Echo 31st August 2007
Bowel cancer under attack - Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News 30th August 2007
A MASS screening programme to find and treat bowel cancer earlier will be launched in Halton next month. Bowel cancer is the third most common form of cancer and affects about 200 people in Halton and St Helens each year.
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Hospital fundraising efforts take shape - Crewe Chronicle 29th August 2007
BUILDERS at Crewe Cancer Unit are working flat out to make up for time lost during one of the wettest summers on record. Torrential downpours have forced the team to down tools on several occasions, holding back the final stages of putting up the £2m structure at Leighton Hospital.
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Hospital tells visitors to cycle along dangerous road - Crewe Chronicle 29th August 2007
CAMPAIGNERS demanding better parking at Leighton Hospital have slammed as 'ridiculous' a suggestion more staff should cycle to work along South Cheshire's most dangerous road. Parking problems have blighted the hospital for months while work on major building projects has been carried out, although this week the NHS Mid Cheshire Hospitals Trust said it was reopening 150 spaces in a bid to ease congestion.
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Increase in positive breath tests - Ellesmere Port Pioneer 29th August 2007
A TOUGH summer drink-driving campaign has led to an increase in positive breath tests. Cheshire police have been using information provided by residents in Ellesmere Port and across the county to target drink-drivers.
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Yellow brick road leads to hospital! - Ormskirk Advertiser 30th August 2007
ORMSKIRK Hospital has a new mural featuring images from the classic movie ‘The Wizard Of Oz’. The mural at the children’s unit was possible thanks to a £8,000 donation from North West children’s charity MedEquip 4 Kids with a further £2,000 raised by the staff and from donations.
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Arthritis drug decision lies with doctors - Warrington Guardian 30th August 2007
ARTHRITIS sufferers could get pain relief from a new generation smart drug if doctors decide they qualify for treatment. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has approved the use of MabThera after it was found to reduce rheumatoid arthritis symptoms by more than 50 per cent in a third of patients treated.
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Coroner calls for safer hospital beds after patient dies - Warrington Guardian 30th August 2007
WARRINGTON Hospital has pledged to look into the possibility of introducing new beds after a fall contributed to the death of a 78-year-old man. Sidney Turner, a retired teacher from Longbarn, died of heart failure on January 30 - less than two hours after he fell from his hospital bed and fractured his skull.
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Private hospitals facing delay - Lancashire Telegraph 30th August 2007
BLUEPRINTS to provide general surgery and orthopaedic procedures at a range of private hospitals sites across Lancashire have been delayed. The hold-up for the £500 million independent sector treatment centres deal, with Swedish healthcare giant Capio, is the second postponement affecting joint NHS and private sector deals in a month.
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Bury South MP welcomes Fairfield decision, despite protesters' dismay - Bury Times 30th August 2007
BURY South MP Ivan Lewis has welcomed the shake-up of the region's maternity services - despite it resulting in the closure of Fairfield Hospital's baby unit. The health minister said the changes would in effect guarantee the future of the hospital and he predicted that they would be welcomed by the majority of his constituents.
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Fairfield decision: MPs' reaction - Bury Times 30th August 2007
Fairfield Hospital decision: what it will mean for you - Bury Times 30th August 2007
MP backs shake-up of maternity services - The Bolton News 30th August 2007
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Fairfield decision: MPs' reaction - Bury Times 30th August 2007
Fairfield Hospital decision: what it will mean for you - Bury Times 30th August 2007
MP backs shake-up of maternity services - The Bolton News 30th August 2007
Booze ban plans for Bolton's streets - The Bolton News 30th August 2007
STREET drinking could be banned throughout Bolton in a bid to crackdown on booze-fuelled crime and anti-social behaviour. Alcohol is already banned on streets in the town centre, The Haulgh, parts of Westhoughton, Horwich, Blackrod and Little Lever, and the area around the Reebok Stadium.
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Call to encourage more breastfeeding - The Bolton News 30th August 2007
Four in 10 maternity units in England are failing to do enough to promote breastfeeding. A study for UNICEF UK said the health of mothers and babies was being put at risk by the failure to implement minimum standards of care.
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Have your say on your health - The Bolton News 30th August 2007
People can have their say on health issues at an event being held in Bolton next month. Bolton Primary Care Trust and the Care Together Forum of Bolton Council for Voluntary Services have organised the day.
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White people 'a minority by 2027' - The Telegraph 31st August 2007
White people living in the UK's second biggest city are likely to find themselves in a minority in 20 years' time, according to researchers. A team of demographers from Manchester University has claimed that the number of white people living in Birmingham will be overtaken by the number of those with other ethnic origins by 2027.
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Transplant eye tissue left at bus station - The Guardian 30th August 2007
NHS chiefs have launched an investigation after donated eye tissue intended for a patient was left at a National Express coach station. The inquiry centres on UK Transplant, an NHS department which arranges deliveries of donated organs and body tissue to hospitals.
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Study reveals why women have cosmetic surgery - The Guardian 30th August 2007
British women are more likely than Americans to have cosmetic surgery to please their partners, according to research published yesterday. The Aberdeen University study found UK women were often motivated to go under the knife to appear more attractive to their other half. In the US women were more likely to have the surgery for themselves.
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Snide remarks from partners can drive a woman to plastic surgery - Daily Mail 29th August 2007
Britons 'have ops for partners' - BBC Health News 28th August 2007
Keeping mum: the taboo topics worrying pregnant women - The Guardian 30th August 2007
Most expectant mothers suffer stress during pregnancy, potentially putting at risk their baby's development in the womb, according to a survey. A poll of more than 1,100 pregnant women by the baby charity Tommy's revealed that almost 90% endured stress prompted by an array of causes. Worries range from money to food, work pressures and relationships.
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Pregnancy stress causing eating disorders - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Cigarettes to carry graphic health warnings - The Guardian 30th August 2007
Graphic images of the health consequences of smoking are to be shown on cigarette packets from September next year, the health secretary, Alan Johnson, said yesterday. For other tobacco products the deadline is September 2009.
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The Big Question: Do ever more gruesome warnings really put people off smoking? - The Independent 30th August 2007
Cigarette packets to bear graphic pictures of lung damage as deterrent - The Times 30th August 2007
Cigarette packets to display smoking diseases - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Jersey inquiry into child unit claims - The Guardian 30th August 2007
An independent inquiry has been launched into child protection on Jersey after criticism of practices including a system in a secure unit where children as young as 11 were locked up in solitary confinement for 24 hours or more. It follows allegations raised by Simon Bellwood, a former centre manager, and Stuart Syvret, the island's minister for health and social services.
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Island rocked by child home abuse claims - The Times 30th August 2007
Immigrants put public services under pressure, says Cameron - The Independent 30th August 2007
David Cameron has reignited the debate about immigration to Britain by declaring that the level has been "too high" since Labour came to power. The Tory leader risked fresh criticism that he is "lurching to the right" to bolster his own position by saying that immigrants are putting "huge pressure" on public services.
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Immigration is putting pressure on our services, warns Cameron - The Times 30th August 2007
Wrong eye tests may be bad for your health - The Independent 30th August 2007
Some eye tests lead to inaccurate prescriptions that could cause health problems, says a consumer report. Seven out of 36 prescriptions given to Which? researchers were wrong and could cause headaches and blurred vision. And 17 of 39 eye checks were either poor or very poor in quality, the survey found.
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Millions being prescribed the wrong glasses - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Opticians put patients health at risk with shoddy eye testing, investigation reveals - Daily Mail 29th August 2007
Study exposes 'flawed' eye tests - BBC Health News 29th August 2007
The £400 mask that promises to silence snorers – on the NHS - The Times 30th August 2007
It is the cause of nocturnal misery and bedroom strife for millions of Britons and can even rival the volume of an express train. Snoring sits high on divorce petitions’ list of “unreasonable behaviour”. But where nasal strips, laser surgery and not-so-gentle shoving have failed, thousands of heavy snorers could soon be supplied with breathing masks on the NHS to give them – and their partners – a good night’s rest.
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Passive Snoring - The Times 30th August 2007
Big rise in typhoid cases - The Times 30th August 2007
A campaign to raise awareness of vaccines begins today. Cases of typhoid have increased by 69 per cent in the past five years and a milder form of the disease, paratyphoid, by 78 per cent. Many people do not realise that vaccines exist against these diseases, while wrongly believing that similar protection exists for malaria and HIV/Aids
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Typhoid brought back by tourists - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Bringing up children... your way - The Times 30th August 2007
Parents need to trust their own instincts to get the balance right, says our parenting expert Dr Tanya Byron in her new book.
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The signs of appendicitis - The Times 30th August 2007
People need to be more aware of the symptoms of a condition that can kill.
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Ice-cream can be cool - The Times 30th August 2007
A Surrey mother of two young sons aged 10 and 7 is worried about the number of ice-creams her children eat each week. She tries to limit them to one, but relatives destroy her good intentions. What should she do?
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Junior doctors chaos - The Times 30th August 2007
Nigel Hawkes’s analysis (“Disaster averted, but with long-term damage”, Aug 28) of the chaos caused when 30,000 junior doctors started new jobs is entirely accurate – clinics and operations had to be cancelled, but ultimately the medical profession ensured that patient safety was not put at risk. This is a tribute to the professionalism of junior doctors who got on with treating their new patients, often in jobs they had found only at the last minute, and to consultants who cancelled holidays to provide continuity for patients.
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Doctor ‘abused police’ after drinking two pints at football match - The Times 30th August 2007
A high-profile doctor swore at police officers and branded them “poor peasants” after being arrested while attending a football match, a hearing was told yesterday. Simone Lester, a former senior executive with NHS Direct, was detained after officers had asked her to move away from the players’ area at Arsenal’s Emirates stadium in February. The doctor, who admitted having drunk two pints of beer, was accused of shouting at officers: “I’m a f*****g doctor. I want your f*****g names and numbers. I am not moving until you give me your f*****g names and numbers.”
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Fears over 'meth' drug in cold remedies - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Large packs of common cold and flu remedies will be banned because a chemical in them can be used to make the illegal street drug crystal meth, or methamphetamine, it was announced today. Packet sizes will be limited to 12 tablets, typically three days worth. Pharmacies will only be allowed to sell one per person.
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Nurses ordered to weigh all patients - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Nurses have been ordered to weigh patients to ensure they are eating properly, it was disclosed last night. In a return to old fashioned nursing methods, they will weigh all patients when they enter hospital. Medics believe this will enable them to identify whether patients are underweight or overweight and give them a better idea of how they are responding to treatment.
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Nurses will weigh all patients in bid to tackle eating disorders - Daily Mail 29th August 2007
Almost half of GPs plan to vote Tory in election - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Almost half of GPs plan to vote for the Conservatives in the next election, according to a poll published yesterday. The survey of 301 GPs found that 48 per cent intended to vote for the Tories, up from 35 per cent in 2005.
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GP's back the Tories despite Labour's whopping pay rises - Daily Mail 30th August 2007
Maternity units put babies at risk because of failure to promote breastfeeding - Daily Mail 30th August 2007
Maternity units are putting the health of mothers and babies at risk by not doing enough to promote breastfeeding, a report warned yesterday. Four in ten units have failed to implement minimum standards brought in a year ago, the United Nations children's fund, Unicef, found.
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Mum gives birth in car park because 'hospital didn't have midwife' - Daily Mail 29th August 2007
A mother was forced to give birth in a car park after being turned away from her local hospital due to a shortage of midwives. Sally West had to be driven 25 miles by ambulance to another hospital and gave birth in the vehicle moments before she could make it inside.
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'One in five' teens drink-drives - BBC Health News 30th August 2007
One in five teenagers has driven while under the influence of alcohol while one in 14 has driven after taking drugs, a survey suggests. And nearly a third of the 3,118 17 to 18-year-olds asked had been in a car when the driver was drunk or on drugs.
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Faulty gene link to breast cancer - BBC Health News 29th August 2007
Scientists say they have linked a faulty copy of a gene with the development of breast cancer. Researchers in London and Italy studying biopsies found that Tip60 did not work as actively in breast cancer tissue as it did in normal tissue.
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Gastric surgery could cure type 2 diabetes - The Guardian 30th August 2007
Patients with the most common type of diabetes could be offered abdominal surgery, after a clinical trial found it may permanently cure the condition. Gastric bypass surgery is performed as a last resort to help severely obese people lose weight, but doctors have noticed that up to 98% of patients who also had late-onset diabetes appeared to be cured within weeks of surgery.
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Why we’re all in a hole with our moles - The Times 30th August 2007
A report from the American Journal of Dermatology is sure to furrow the brows of those who have always questioned the whole “Die young and leave a beautiful corpse” ethos – which means most sane people, actually.
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Mobile phone use and cancer linked - The Telegraph 30th August 2007
Fresh fears over the health hazards linked to using mobile phones have been raised after scientists found that handset radiation could trigger cell division. A study found that exposure to mobile phone signals for just five minutes stimulated human cells to split in two - a process that occurs naturally when tissue grows or rejuvenates, but that is also central to the development of cancer.
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Former smokers 'still at risk of cancer', research shows - Daily Mail 29th August 2007
Smoking can permanently alter the activity of genes and have irreversible effects on DNA that may be linked to cancer, research has shown. The findings may help to explain why some former smokers contract lung cancer long after they have quit.
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Lung cancer 'risk' for ex-smokers - BBC Health News 29th August 2007
Hypnosis 'eases cancer op pain' - BBC Health News 29th August 2007
Breast cancer patients need less anaesthetic during operations if they have been relaxed by hypnosis beforehand, US research suggests. Patients in the study of 200 women by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine also reported less pain afterwards.
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‘Bite’through in stem cell research - Warrington Guardian 29th August 2007
THE tooth fairy could be out of a job as more parents are sending their children's milk teeth to a new laboratory in Daresbury with the hope that one day they may be lifesavers. A new method of extracting stem cells is being developed at the laboratory where dentist David James has bought the patent to the revolutionary technique.
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Dad, 46, loses fight for life - Knutsford Guardian 29th August 2007
A LEUKAEMIA sufferer, who underwent a life-saving bone marrow transplant, has died after the disease returned. Simon Pretty, 46, passed away a month after doctors told him there was nothing more they could do.
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Trust plans to scrap vital NHS service - Knutsford Guardian 29th August 2007
A SERVICE that provides vital equipment for the elderly, disabled and dying is to be scrapped and its 11 members of staff made redundant. The central and eastern Cheshire community equipment service - run by the primary care trust - will stop operating in March.
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Shock figures on drink and drug driving - Lancashire Telegraph 29th August 2007
SHOCKING new figures have revealed that one in four teens in the area get behind the wheel after drinking or taking drugs. And almost half of teenage passengers admit to having got in a car when they know the driver has been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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Burnley General set to lose two medical wards - Lancashire Telegraph 29th August 2007
BURNLEY General Hospital has suffered a fresh blow after health chiefs revealed two medical wards are being transferred to Blackburn. NHS chiefs have confirmed that Wards 12 and 14, part of the phase five development at Burnley General, will make way for a planned new paediatric and maternity unit at the Casterton Avenue Hospital.
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No news on return for patients - Manchester Evening News 30th August 2007
HEALTH bosses have refused to tell seriously ill psychiatric patients when they will be brought back from units in Darlington and Bury. It is understood bosses of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust do not want patients to return to the city until health workers call off their strike action.
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Patients forced to move - Manchester Evening News 29th August 2007
iSoft to head Down Under - Manchester Evening News 30th August 2007
NHS software supplier iSOFT looks set to fall into Australian hands after German suitor CompuGroup said it would not raise its £160m offer for the business. The news prompted iSOFT's board to switch their support to the 69p per share cash offer from IBA Health.
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Super-centre is deserved - The Bolton News 29th August 2007
IT'S absolutely right that the Royal Bolton Hospital is to become a new baby super-centre. This move will create new jobs and attract millions of pounds in investment as the hospital becomes one of only three regional centres of excellence.
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Smokers struggle in dating game - The Bolton News 29th August 2007
SMOKERS could struggle to get a date in Bolton, a survey has revealed. One in four people would only go out with a non-smoker according to research carried out by NHS Smokefree.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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Nurses loth to report abuse of the elderly - The Guardian 29th August 2007
More than half of nurses would not report the abuse of an elderly person in their care, according to a survey published today. The poll of NHS and private sector nurses, conducted for Help the Aged, found that a lack of training, heavy workloads and fear of confrontation or of upsetting the victim all prevent nurses taking action.
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Six in 10 nurses 'would turn blind eye to abuse of elderly' - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
Nurses fear 'elder abuse errors' - BBC Health News 28th August 2007
Cradling linked to depression in new mothers - The Guardian 29th August 2007
It is one of the most natural actions in the world - a mother scoops up a baby to hold and comfort it in her arms. But, according to new research, cradling could help identify stress that may lead to postnatal depression.
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'Stressed' mothers hold baby on the right - The Telegraph 29th August 2007
Interview: 'Dr Nick Edwards' - The Guardian 29th August 2007
The author of a damning but entertaining exposé of working in A&E talks to Mark Gould about endless political meddling in the NHS and ways to reverse plummeting morale
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The truth about life in a hospital casualty unit by a doctor who's seen it all... - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
Absent minded - The Guardian 29th August 2007
When a vulnerable person requests a change of social housing, who decides if their needs are valid? Councils have been urged to take care when consulting medical advisers who have not met the patient.
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For people on benefits, civic involvement is an unaffordable fantasy - The Guardian 29th August 2007
The government says it wants citizens to get involved in their communities, in health and in social care. There is cross-party support for this 21st-century extension of civic rights and responsibilities, putting the service user at the heart of public provision. Yet, in another corner of the government there is benefits policy, which flies in the face of this vision, discriminating against some groups so they cannot participate as they would like to, and preventing public organisations properly involving them as they are required to by law.
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Cradle to classroom - The Guardian 29th August 2007
Despite the well-worn "cradle to grave" phrase, the welfare state traditionally did little for children until they arrived at the school gate. But in the last few years ministers have set about building up services for the youngest - and with the sort of energy more often associated with toddlers themselves. The first ever pre-school curriculum came alongside a change in the law to make nursery places an entitlement. And then, most ambitious of all, there is the mushrooming network of Sure Start Children's Centres which, at a cost of billions, are set to provide integrated health, learning and childcare support in every part of the country.
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Letters: Military hospitals - The Independent 29th August 2007
Your sister paper on Sunday (26 August) had an editorial and a report on its pages 16 and 17 proposing better medical support for our armed services. From 1973 to 1977, I was responsible for the Royal Air Force's five hospitals, two rehabilitation centres and other medical and dental units in the UK (as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Support Command).
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GP practice that charged patients for free drinks - The Times 29th August 2007
A GP practice has been accused of trying to profit from its patients after charging people to drink sugared water used in medical tests. Patients at the Enderley Road Medical Centre in Harrow Weald, northwest London, were told that they had to pay £2 for the drinks, even though the practice had received them free.
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Older men make perfect partners for having babies - Daily Mail 29th August 2007
Women wanting a large family should look for an older man, according to research out today. It found that a woman's chance of having three or more children is greatest if she chooses a partner six years her senior.
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How to have a perfect good health day... - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
Many of us would like to adopt a healthier lifestyle, but have neither the time nor the energy to start a new regime. The good news is that just a few minor changes to your daily routine can make a difference. Here ANGELA EPSTEIN with the help of leading experts shows you how to have the perfect good health day...
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Eye specialists 'to prescribe drugs on the high street' - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
Eye specialists will be able to issue prescriptions on the high street, the Government announced today. Optometrists, who undergo more extensive training than dispensing opticians, are being given greater prescribing powers for conditions like dry eye syndrome, conjunctivitis and blepharitis, which causes inflammation.
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Eye experts 'to prescribe drugs' - BBC Health News 28th August 2007
With her heart going haywire, doctors put Fay Weldon on a drug that stopped it - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
You can judge a country by the state of its hospitals, says novelist Fay Weldon - who should certainly know. Over 40 years, and often in farflung destinations, she endured literally hundreds of attacks of an alarming heart condition known as tachycardia.
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My son reeled into the room and I knew something was horribly wrong... - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
On this day four years ago, 16-year-old Martin Burton died suddenly from a brain haemorrhage. His parents, Nigel, 48, and Sue, 47, donated his organs for transplantation, saving one boy's life and helping many others. Here, Sue tells SARAH EBNER the tragic story of what happened to her son...
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Pictures of tumours and dead bodies to be placed on cigarette packs to scare smokers - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
Graphic pictures showing the dangers of smoking are to appear on cigarette packets. An image of a corpse on a mortuary slab or a tumour growing from the side of a smoker's neck may be used as ministers try to persuade millions to quit the habit.
Smokers to face picture warnings - BBC Health News 28th August 2007
Thousands at risk from 'inadequate' childminders warns Government watchdog - Daily Mail 28th August 2007
Tens of thousands of children are at risk of neglect or ill-treatment by nurseries and childminders, a Government watchdog said yesterday.
Call for alcohol advert watershed - BBC Health News 28th August 2007
TV adverts for alcoholic drinks should be banned before the nine o'clock watershed, a campaign group has said. Alcohol Concern said thousands of children are watching the commercials during popular programmes such as The Simpsons and The X Factor.
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Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture’ after abortion of wrong twin - The Times 29th Augsut 2007
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into a botched selective abortion that the Vatican has described as the result of a “culture of perfection” resembling Nazi eugenics. The deeply Catholic country was embroiled in a bitter ethical dispute yesterday after it emerged that a surgeon had accidentally terminated a healthy foetus instead of its twin with Down’s syndrome. The operation – on a 38-year-old woman 18 weeks into her pregnancy – was performed at the San Paolo hospital in Milan in June but has only now come to light. The foetus with Down’s syndrome was also aborted subsequently.
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Hypnosis for cancer patients leads to less pain relief during surgery - Daily Mail 29th August 2007
Hypnotising breast cancer patients can reduce the pain they feel during surgery, a study has found. Women hypnotised an hour before their operation needed less anaesthetic, scientists have discovered.
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Offering hope to Afghan addicts - BBC Health News 28th August 2007
On a hot summer's night in Pakistan, 33-year-old Rahima was having a fight with her husband in a refugee camp. It came to an end when Rahima's husband forced her to consume a small opium capsule.
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Statins 'life saving' for strokes - BBC Health News 28th August 2007
People who stop taking their cholesterol-lowering drugs after a stroke are at much greater risk of death, research suggests. The small-scale study from Spain found the chances of dying, or requiring full-time care were nearly five times higher if statins were interrupted.
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Trust plan to bring diagnosis to community - Liverpool Daily Post 28th August 2007
A PIONEERING new mobile ultrasound service that is already saving lives in Knowsley is to be extended across the region. The new service has already enabled the early detection of life-threatening conditions for many primary care patients in Knowsley. It is part of the Primary Care Trust’s bid to carry out more traditionally hospital-based services in the community, and cut waiting times.
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MP’s anger at comments by Cameron - Carlisle News & Star 28th August 2007
COPELAND MP Jamie Reed wants to go head-to-head with David Cameron over what he calls his recent “sick jokes” over threats to hospital services. In a scathing attack, the Labour MP called for an urgent debate with the Tory leader over funding of the NHS and public services.
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Heart experts head for Blackpool - Blackpool Citizen 28th August 2007
A major international health conference is to be held at Blackpool Victoria Hospital next month. Delegates at the conference will be able to view live operations and hear about major developments in the treatment of heart disease at the conference at the Vic's new £52m cardiac centre.
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Ambulance fleet is in state of emergency - Lancashire Telegraph 28th August 2007
HEALTH watchdogs are set to quiz ambulance chiefs amid concerns over the state of the service's emergency vehicles fleet. Representatives from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) have been invited to discuss a range of issues, from patient care to their ambulance fleet, with Blackburn with Darwen council's health scrutiny committee.
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‘Toolkit’ to help disabled patients - The Bolton News 28th August 2007
A SERIES of symbols are being introduced to help medical staff communicate with patients in Leigh. It is hoped the symbols "toolkit" will make it easier for disabled patients to identify who they need to talk to through the use of different signs.
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
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Midwives warn of training crisis after grant cut - The Guardian 27th August 2007
Student midwives are warning that the crisis on maternity wards could worsen unless the Department of Health reverses a decision to scrap a bursary for trainees. The £6,000-a-year non-means-tested grant will no longer be available from 2008 after a decision to end midwifery diplomas in favour of degrees. Degree students are only eligible for the smaller and means-tested bursaries prompting fears that many will be priced out.
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Pro-choice lobby seeks change in law to ease restrictions on abortion - The Guardian 27th August 2007
Pro-choice campaigners are planning to use an international conference this autumn to urge legal change to ease restrictions governing abortion in Britain. The Global Safe Abortion Conference, being held by Marie Stopes International in October, just days before the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act, is being viewed by a coalition of pro-choice charities as a platform to press for reform.
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What happened to ... - The Observer 26th August 2007
On 3 June, 2007, The Observer reported that sick children who had taken part in a revolutionary drug trial faced the prospect of having the treatment taken away from them because of NHS cost-cutting. The children - who suffered from the rare blood disorder sickle cell anaemia - had seen their lives transformed by the drug, Exjade. Instead of having a needle inserted in their stomach for eight to 12 hours a night as part of their treatment they simply took two tablets each day.
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What is the long-term effect of cannabis? - The Observer 26th August 2007
It helped her relax for a decade, but five years after kicking the habit she suffers sleepless nights and anxiety. Is the weed coming back to haunt her? Three experts have their say.
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'I've given you the chance to help, but you haven't. Now someone is going to have to die' - The Observer 26th August 2007
From the assassination of Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh to the massacre in Dunblane, the final trigger for some of the most notorious murders was a cry for help that fell on deaf ears. Now, a new cop-and-doc squad is intercepting - and rehabilitating - the deranged loners whose 'end-of-the-road' letters might spell someone else's death sentence.
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Hopes of an Indian summer for relatives in need of care - The Observer 26th August 2007
Facing crippling nursing bills for his elderly parents, Steve Herzfeld moved them lock, stock and barrel to the subcontinent. Families who are struggling to pay the spiralling costs of care for their elderly relatives could soon have a new cheaper option: outsourcing to India.
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Health trust chief and MPs attack maternity unit closures - The Guardian 25th August 2007
The health secretary, Alan Johnson, yesterday chose the eve of a bank holiday weekend to announce the closure of a series of maternity units across the Greater Manchester area. Among the units to be axed is the one at Hope hospital, which is in the Salford constituency of Mr Johnson's cabinet colleague, the communities secretary, Hazel Blears. Its threatened closure last year prompted Ms Blears to break with the government and join a picket line in protest. However, the group which advised Mr Johnson recommended that Ms Blears's constituency should still have a stand-alone midwifery unit.
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Manchester hospital shake-up 'will cost lives' - The Guardian 24th August 2007
Four maternity units to be shut for a service led by midwives - The Times 25th August 2007
Hospital closures and cuts 'will cost lives' - The Telegraph 25th August 2007
Don't write off the NHS - The Guardian 25th August 2007
The service's reputation has been hurt this week, but that's no reason to abandon Bevan's baby The NHS is the envy of the world, we're told, but we have a better chance of dying of cancer than our neighbours in France, Germany, Sweden, Iceland or even Poland, and if you are at high risk for stroke you might like to think about emigrating. Two reports this week, and they were not the flimsy scaremongering variety but from medical heavyweights, will have given the Department of Health a collective headache and made the rest of us justifiably twitchy.
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Boy 'too ill to live' leaves hospital - The Guardian 25th August 2007
A 13-month-old boy left hospital yesterday, five months after his mother was told he was too ill to survive a heart condition and agreed his life support machine should be switched off. Jack Vellam is the youngest patient to stay on an artificial heart for 120 days while he recovered from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.
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Pharmageddon: the prescription pill epidemic - The Independent on Sunday 26th August 2007
Our increasing reliance on pills has resulted in a 27 per cent rise in prescriptions written by doctors in just five years. It's costing the NHS £10bn a year, £200m of which is wasted on drugs that are never used.
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NHS bill for drugs rises by £10bn every year - The Telegraph 27th August 2007
£10bn cost of a society 'addicted to pill-popping' - Daily Mail 26th August 2007
Hospitals throw out £202m of drugs - Daily Mail 27th August 2007
Disaster averted, but with long-term damage - The Times 28th August 2007
A system all too used to muddling through appears to have done so again, managing the transition of junior doctors to new posts with difficulty but without chaotic disruption.
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Patient care row over junior doctors - The Times 28th August 2007
Junior doctors forced to stay in unsuitable jobs - The Telegraph 28th August 2007
Talking dirty - The Times 28th August 2007
Complacency about personal hygiene is making us ill – and Britons are being urged to clean up their act
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Mental health services ‘not doing enough’ to prevent railway suicides - The Times 28th August 2007
The number of people who died on the railways rose last year, amid claims that the processes in place for preventing suicides are not working. The British Transport Police and Network Rail, the railway operator, said that mental health services were not taking enough action to treat the increasing number of people known to be a suicide risk.
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Pharmaceutical groups turn to home delivery of medicines to boost income - The Times 28th August 2007
Drugs companies are turning increasingly to home delivery of medicines as a way to boost profits by cutting out wholesalers and pharmacists. The total size of the UK market for pharmaceuticals delivered directly to patient’s doors is already worth an estimated £250 million and is growing at 10 to 15 per cent per year, according to Simon French, director of business development for Healthcare Logistics, a Bedford-based specialist in the field.
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Safety fears over new register of all children - The Times 27th August 2007
Senior social workers have given warning of the dangers posed by a new government register that will store the details of every child in England from next year. They fear that the database, containing the address, medical and school details of all under-18s, could be used to harm the children whom it is intended to protect.
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Fears raised over access to children's database - The Times 27th August 2007
Uncontactable - The Times 27th August 2007
Child database that shields celebrities runs foul of law - The Times 27th August 2007
Hunting the gene that traps children in their own world - The Times 27th August 2007
Parents and scientists are hoping that a new detailed analysis based on human genome will bring a big breakthrough within a year
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Together to the last gasp - The Times 27th August 2007
When his brother carried on smoking while being treated for cancer, our correspondent struggled to find the balance between loving support and fury
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Gang dragged victim by belt to his death - The Times 27th August 2007
Three people were charged last night with the murder of a man with learning difficulties who died at the weekend after he was beaten up in the street near his home. Brent Martin, 23, was dragged along by his belt during the attack before being left bloodied and dying. He was found by neighbours and his uncle with his underpants and trousers around his ankles, his family said.
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1.7m children in care of drink and drug addicts - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
AN ESTIMATED 1.7m children are living with parents who are addicted to drugs or dependent on alcohol. The increase, revealed in fresh calculations by a drug treatment charity, suggests there is a risk of creating a generation of adolescents with health and behavioural problems. Drugs experts have seized on the figures to press for a tough new approach to parenting.
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Trust them, they’re doctors - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
In all the millions of words that are written about our education, health and social services, little space is devoted to the key relationship which lies at the heart of successful service delivery: the changing role of professional practice.
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In search of sun, sand and surgery - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
The medical tourism industry is booming as Britons travel abroad to beat health service waiting lists and profit from cut-price treatments
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Is the good life killing you? - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
Sun, sex, booze and food – our modern appetite for fun comes at a price. The alarming rise of lifestyle cancers
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Experts push NHS to use US-style cancer care - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
LIKE many other British cancer sufferers before him, Rob Ellert travelled to one of America’s leading hospitals to give himself a better chance of survival. Now in remission, he is so determined that National Health Service patients should no longer die unnecessarily that he has enlisted Lord Darzi, the health minister, to transfer best practice across the Atlantic. He has also set up a charity to promote American-style cancer treatment in Britain.
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What's the alternative? - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
Every time I use hair-removal cream, I get an itchy red rash on my legs that lasts for days. I have tried lots of brands, and they all have the same effect. Can you recommend anything that would be kinder to my skin?
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Hypnotherapy - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
Mention hypnotism to most people and they’ll probably picture a shady guy standing on a stage, convincing people to do something foolish in front of a roomful of strangers. However, this technique – which involves inducing a state of deep relaxation (rather than sleep) and suggestibility in order to modify a subject’s behaviour – is also used for more positive ends.
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Dr Know - The Sunday Times 26th August 2007
I spent a weekend by the sea, running each day on the beach. Now I have severe back pain. What have I done and can I cure it?
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