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The government's healthcare reforms are being put at risk by a short-sighted decisions by NHS managers to axe thousands of "expensive" specialist nursing jobs, the Royal College of Nursing said yesterday at its annual conference in Bournemouth.
According to her TV advert, after playing Brain Training on the Nintendo DS, Nicole Kidman, 39, has a brain age to match her strangely smooth-skinned face age: 24. The game on the handheld console, which includes memory and reaction time tests, was developed by the Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima and has sold 10m copies worldwide, spawning a craze for "brain training" that the New York Times estimated was worth more than £40m in the US alone last year.
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Two new pieces of research suggest they may be. Children are less likely to become sensitive to allergens if they have a dog in the home, according to German scientists, while an American study found that regular social interaction reduced children's risk of leukaemia by about 30%.
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Ingrid Pilgrim is sitting in a circle of nine mothers in a lecture theatre at Homerton hospital in east London. It is their first day at Bump Buddies, a project where peer mentors, of which Pilgrim is one, support local mothers in Hackney - a borough that has a much higher than average infant mortality rate and where black babies are up to three times more likely to die in their first year than white ones.
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A blood test that predicts when a woman will go through the menopause is being developed by scientists.
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New research challenges the notion that you can be fat and fit, finding that being active can lower but not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women. "It doesn't take away the risk entirely. Weight still matters," said Dr Martha Gulati, a heart specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Nurses have called for hospital cleaning to be brought back in-house to tackle hospital infections
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A drugs group has agreed a £2.8m settlement with the Scottish Government and health boards over the alleged price fixing of medicine.
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A specific protein in the body may be the key to overcoming the increasing problem of resistance to HIV drugs.
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Scottish scientists have found that binge eating and crash dieting may significantly reduce life expectancy.
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The collection of cord blood at birth in the UK is to be closely regulated for the first time.
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The Philippine government in Manila has banned organ transplants for foreigners to try to stem a surge in the illegal trade of kidneys taken from the poor.
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A woman from the Fylde coast has today pleaded guilty to wilful neglect under the Mental Health Act following the death of a 57-year-old man. Kathleen Vitturini, 62 of West Drive, Thornton Cleveleys, was originally charged with manslaughter by way of gross negligence after Peter Giles died in October 2004.
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A MAN was found dead after taking a heroin overdose, prompting the arrest of three people, an inquest heard. Burnley Coroner's Court heard that Sean Finch, 35, had been released from prison weeks earlier and his tolerance levels for the drug would have been significantly lower than normal.
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A GRANDMOTHER is fighting for a drug which could give her more precious time with her family. Jean Murphy, 62, has kidney cancer and doctors say the only treatment which could help her is a controversial drug which is routinely available in Liverpool and Cheshire but rarely prescribed on the NHS in Greater Manchester.
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COCAINE users can get help to kick the habit - through a self-help website. Bolton is the first town in the country to go live with such a site. The website - bolton.knowcocaine.co.uk - was launched at a cost of £4,000 after health bosses became concerned about the number of people in the town dying as a result of abusing the drug.
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Pioneering gene surgery promises to restore the vision of people with certain forms of blindness, it was reported this week. But how does it really feel to regain one's long-lost sight, asks Joanna Moorhead
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Maze walk marks 'huge advance' in gene therapy for blindness - The Guardian 28th April 2008
The blind man who was given the gift of sight by gene therapy - The Independent 28th April 2008
Gene therapy 'aids youth's sight' - BBC News 27th April 2008
A prisoner who was admitted to hospital after serious complications during her pregnancy was shackled to a security officer on a metre-long chain while she slept, showered and used the toilet.
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The government was yesterday warned that cancer sufferers are at increased risk from websites selling unproven cures that could wreck the remaining months of their life. The controversy centres on a drug called DCA (dichloroacetate), a chemical being promoted and hyped across the world as a cure for cancer after news of preliminary laboratory tests on rats.
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When her son Dale was three, Nuala Gardner contemplated suicide. She reveals the hidden despair facing full-time carers - and how she kept going
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Children run less risk of being sensitive to allergens if there is a dog in the house in the early years of their lives, scientists have found. The conclusion, based on a six-year study of 9,000 children, adds weight to the theory that growing up with a pet trains the immune system to be less sensitive to potential triggers for allergies such as asthma, eczema and hay fever.
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Parents who look after their children at home rather than send them to playgroups may be increasing their chances of developing leukaemia by 30 per cent, according to research published today. A review of studies found that children who are isolated from their peers in their early years are at higher risk of one type of the cancer than those who mix with others at daycare centres.
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Playgroups 'cut leukaemia risk' - The BBC Health News 28th April 2008
Ministers should step in to stop inappropriate prescriptions of powerful antipsychotic drugs for Alzheimer's patients, an influential group of MPs said today.
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MPs urge cut in dementia drug use - BBC News 27th April 2008
One hundred and fifty women will eat chocolate every day for a year in the name of science. The bars will be handed out as part of a research study into the health benefits of cocoa.
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A book has been released to help children whose mothers suffer from breast cancer to understand the disease.
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One in 10 parents is ignoring "safe sun" messages and putting their children at risk of burns and skin cancer. Of more than 800 parents across Britain, 10 per cent admitted never using sunscreen on their children despite the dangers to young skin, a survey found.
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A superbug capable of killing previously healthy youngsters within 48 hours is on the rise in Britain's playgrounds, and has left at least 10 children fighting for their lives. Cases of the bug, known as Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), have more than doubled since 2005, official figures show.
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Fewer than one in 1,000 women gives birth at home in some parts of the country despite a government drive to promote home births.
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Eating chocolate during pregnancy could help prevent pre-eclampsia, research shows. It suggests women who eat chocolate at least five times a week are 40 per cent less likely to develop the condition than those who consume it less than once a week
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A bout of the baby blues is traditionally seen as an affliction that strikes mothers. But, according to research, one in 25 fathers is also affected - with potentially long-lasting effects on their children.
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Starving the body of food for a couple of days could help in the fight against cancer, according to new research.
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Thousands of lung cancer patients are to be denied a life-prolonging drug branded too expensive by the NHS "rationing" watchdog.
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The number of people admitted to hospital with mental illness has shot up since the laws on cannabis were relaxed, according to figures released yesterday.
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One in three young girls has tried to harm herself by methods including cutting, burning, punching and even poisoning, a survey reveals.
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Pizza and spaghetti bolognese could become new tools in the fight against sunburn and wrinkles, a study suggests.
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A study of care in residential homes has indicated standards may be much lower at night than during the day.
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Women who take the drug Fosamax for osteoporosis may be at an increased risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, a US study suggests.
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Patients in A&E units are being put at risk because people are being admitted to inappropriate wards so hospitals can hit the four-hour target, nurses say.
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A 30-minute sterilisation procedure for women has been made available in Scotland for the first time.
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An increase in paperwork is preventing nurses from spending enough time caring for patients, nurse leaders claim.
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Scots scientists have developed new eye-testing technology which they hope can pick up problems earlier than conventional tests
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Eight out of 10 nurses say they have left work distressed because they have been unable to treat patients with the dignity they deserve, a poll suggests.
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Children should be encouraged to play outside and adults to walk or cycle more, health and transport groups say.
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There are 10 times more deaths across the UK from the superbug Clostridium difficile among over 65-year-olds than in any other country in the world, figures suggest. The equivalent of one person dies every hour in our hospitals from this deadly superbug.
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Cuddling up against a mother's bare skin can help tiny premature babies recover more quickly from the pain of being stuck with needles and other procedures, Canadian researchers have found.
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Mothers should breastfeed for six months after giving birth to cut their risk of developing breast cancer, researchers have advised.
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An overweight prisoner in the United States is suing the authorities for not feeding him enough after he lost about seven stone (45kg) in jail.
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HEALTH screening is working its way up the Government's agenda, and recently Health Secretary Alan Johnson unveiled a new scheme to offer health screenings for everyone aged 40 to 74.
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AFTER reading the article regarding breastfeeding, in (LT, April 21), I agree that mothers should be fully supported with breastfeeding in public and that there are benefits for the baby health-wise.
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Most people in the town have had to visit at one point in their lives, but folk living near FGH have often complained. We asked election candidates whether they thought the hospital caused problems for Hawcoat residents and what they would do to solve them.
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LOCAL people's views are on the quality of their health service are being sought. Bosses at the Primary Care Trust have drafted a single equality scheme covering all aspects of equality and diversity, with action plans to ensure the aims of the project are delivered.
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A trial of the new cervical cancer vaccine programme for schoolgirls across the country has encountered opposition from parents, with 20% refusing to give permission for their daughters to have the jab. A third of those who gave a reason for refusal said they were worried about the long-term safety, on which there is no data. But some may have concerns that allowing vaccination may promote promiscuity, because the cancer-causing virus which the vaccination targets is passed on in sexual intercourse. Two schools declined to take part for religious reasons.
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NHS patients are having operations cancelled at the last minute because private decontamination firms have broken sensitive instruments or sent them back late, says the Royal College of Surgeons. The college surveyed 250 surgeons and found two-thirds were unhappy with the availability and condition of instruments removed from hospital operating theatres for sterilisation off-site by private companies. While most of the work was fine, costly equipment was being broken and too much was coming back late or going missing, the RCS said.
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Thousands of lung cancer patients in England will be denied a drug which could prolong their life after it was ruled too expensive by the NHS watchdog. Guidance issued to NHS doctors by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) claims that the drug Tarceva is not a good use of "scarce resources". However, it will remain available in Scotland.
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Operations are being cancelled because of dirty or broken instruments sent back by private companies employed to clean them, the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) said yesterday. Hospitals used to sterilise their operating instruments on site but are being encouraged by the Department of Health to put the job out to private companies. A survey of surgeons found that equipment was often unfit for use, damaged, or late - meaning that operations were cancelled at the last minute, often when patients were already anaesthetised.
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BNHS 'chaos' over surgical tools - BBC Health News 24th April 2008
Two heart attack victims have become the first patients in Britain to be treated with their own stem cells. In pioneering surgery, doctors removed stem cells from the men's bone marrow and injected them into their hearts within five hours of their attacks.
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Cuddling her twin baby boys, Candice Holt has to pinch herself just to be entirely sure she isn't dreaming. For just a year ago Alfie and Ben, who were born premature at just 25 weeks, were given only a one in five chance of survival.
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A third of UK girls aged 11 to 19 have tried to harm themselves, a survey for a mental healthcare provider suggests. More than half of the 800 young people said they knew someone who had self-harmed - either through cutting, burning or punching themselves. The main reason given was feeling depressed, with the results among boys being slightly lower at 22%.
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Poor communication is most often to blame for people ending up in hospital due to "medication errors", UK researchers say. Limited access to the patient's medical notes was also found to contribute to mistakes over medicines. The study, published in Quality and Safety in Healthcare, found some patients may also not be told enough information about their prescription.
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MPs are to debate a bill calling for a ban on advertising junk food and drinks to children. The Food Products (Marketing to Children) Bill aims to make it an offence to promote "less healthy" foodstuffs to children. Introduced by Labour MP Nigel Griffiths last year, it also wants a 9pm watershed introduced for television advertising of unhealthy food.
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Doctors in England are being allowed to apply for jobs as hospital consultants before they are ready for such posts, the Royal College of Surgeons has said. College president Bernard Ribeiro told the BBC it was a matter of "public safety" and concern to patients.
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The Ministry of Justice has reversed a decision to exclude Wales from a new law offering hospital workers extra legal protection against violence. Welsh Assembly Government ministers had initially said there was no need for the law in Wales. But this prompted an outcry from Labour MPs and crossbench peer Baroness Finlay of Llandaff.
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The Indian government yesterday signalled that it would be imposing tougher sentences on doctors who illegally abort female foetuses - a tacit admission that the law was not working. Experts estimate India has lost 10 million girls in the past 20 years. Yet in the 14 years since selective abortion was outlawed only two doctors has been convicted of the crime - and officials admit one of those is back in business.
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The medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières is empowering people in Sierra Leone to tackle their country's biggest preventable killer "I live in Tongo, and I have travelled 40 miles to come here because I was told that the healthcare in this clinic is free", says Fudia Janneh, a young mother sitting in the waiting room at Gondama clinic, in southern Sierra Leone. "My child is sick, I took her to the clinic in Tongo three times but each time I had to pay, and the fever persists. My sister advised me to come here."
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The High Court in Dublin has ruled that doctors can give a blood transfusion to severely anaemic twin babies after they are born later this week. The parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and refused to give their consent. Doctors believe the babies are at risk of death or serious life-long disability and need to be delivered early.
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LIVERPOOL could be facing a measles outbreak as the amount of non-immunised children reaches worrying levels. The increasing amount of susceptible children who have not been given the MMR vaccine could result in a dangerous number catching the potentially fatal disease.
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PLANS for a controversial “super surgery” are back on the agenda. A public inquiry is to be held after Wirral Primary Care Trust appealed against the council’s decision to reject its planning application. The proposal is to combine three existing doctors’ surgeries in Heswall, Pensby and Thingwall on one site at the former Warrens Nursery in Thingwall.
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A MAGHULL doctor whose surgery was found to contain traces of cocaine has been banned from providing medical services to patients in Sefton. Dr Fabrizio Equizi has been formally removed from a ‘performer’ of doctors following an investigation into his conduct.
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A FORMER carer at the reduced Halton Mind centre is calling for businesses to help him to fund a new day care service. Joe Dowling from Runcorn took voluntary redundancy after Halton Borough Council pulled money out of the service for the mentally impaired, reducing his working hours. The carer is now looking for businesses, philanthropists and volunteers to help create a new all in one charity centre for Halton residents.
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A YOUNG cancer patient who has won a design competition says the contest was the perfect distraction from her gruelling course of chemotherapy. Jo Kelly, 23, of Widnes, has had her Superlambanana design chosen from hundreds of entries to become the face of Halton’s contribution to Capital of Culture year.
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ORMSKIRK no longer has any NHS dentist practices after a second surgery announced they would be going private. Oak Dental Care on Derby Road said that they would be slashing their patient list of 15,000 to just 3,500. This move follows Cottage Dental Practice on Moor Street who announced two weeks ago that they would only be treating private patients.
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WEST Lancashire MP Rosie Cooper has welcomed the provision of four new NHS dentists for Ormskirk after holding emergency talks with the PCT. It comes after Oak Dental Care and Cottage Dental Practice opted to stop offering NHS care to patients.
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HEALTH chiefs in Cumbria have vowed to crack down on alcohol abuse as almost a third of 14 to 17-year-olds admitted to buying booze in the last week. Compared to the national average more Cumbrian underage teens are binge drinking and buying alcohol and more than twice the number of 14 and 15-year-old boys report drinking in pubs or bars.
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Since arriving in Cumbria five years ago, Marie Burnham has taken some big decisions about our hospitals and overseen many major changes. But, as she prepares to leave for pastures new, the high profile chief executive says she wouldn’t change a thing.
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A FLAGSHIP maternity and children's unit will finally be built after getting the go-ahead from planners. The new department at North Manchester General hospital is the cornerstone of a shake-up of maternity services across Greater Manchester.
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A mental health crisis in Britain's secondary schools was revealed last night in a survey showing a quarter of young teenagers are frequently depressed. The Children's Society charity, which carried out the poll, said young people were being ground down by multiple pressures at home and school.
By 2015, babies might have their entire DNA read at birth, as costs of sequencing plunge. Charles Arthur looks at the implications for individuals and society
Children under 18 could be banned from using sunbeds under proposals set out today, as a report warns that those as young as eight are putting their health at risk by using tanning machines. About 170,000 under16s in Britain use sunbeds, according to a survey that coincides with a consultation document which could result in tougher regulations.
Wanted: experienced captains of industry, civil servants or executives to face “an unparalleled challenge in terms of scale and complexity”. The Department of Health has invited applications for director of the £12.4 billion overhaul of National Health Service computer systems, formerly the highest-paid job in Whitehall. The previous head of the project, Richard Granger, earned £270,000 to £285,000 a year - roughly 50 per cent more than the Prime Minister.
A third of adoptions don't work out. A parent reveals the trauma of attempting to raise a disturbed child and failing Woman and girl standing in ocean waves Modern parenting lore has it that if you are kind and loving to children, if you listen and explain and give them time, all will be well. We are all psychologically attuned these days and communication is the key
Patient satisfaction ratings with NHS services failed to show any clear improvements between 2005-06 and 2006-07, data published by the Department of Health show. While improvements have been recorded on some indicators, others have slipped. The biggest increase was seen in the number of hospital patients saying they had enjoyed safe, high-quality, coordinated care, which rose from 65.1 per cent in 2005-06 to 69.2 per cent in 2006-07.
Violence against babies and young children more than doubled last year, a national survey of hospitals reports. The number of under-10s injured in violent attacks rose from about 3,800 in 2006 to more than 8,000. This was the only age group showing an increase in the survey by Cardiff University's violence research group.
Thousands of people with an aggressive form of arthritis will be condemned to a life of misery after the health watchdog rejected an appeal to approve a new drug for NHS patients, a charity has said. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has decided that abatacept (Orencia) is not cost effective. The drug is used to treat moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.
GPs are to be excluded from plans to build super-surgeries, a move that will lead to the destruction of family doctors "as we know them", the Conservatives have warned. Official documents seen by the party show that ministers are planning to omit GPs from planning for so-called polyclinics. The Tories claim that 1,700 GP surgeries would shut - one in five - if the Government goes ahead with the plans.
The number of people catching hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile is falling, new official figures show. Ministers claim that the battle against the fatal diseases is being won, although the Opposition say the levels are still unacceptably high.
The UK's biggest drug company, GlaxoSmithKline, saw profit before tax fall 12.5pc to £1.9bn for the first quarter of the year as it continued to struggle against reduced sales of its diabetes drug Avandia. Although outgoing chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier said sales of the drug, which were hit by a health scare last year, had started to show some signs of recovery, he warned that the rebuilding process would take time.
The rise in divorce is being blamed for an increase in sexually-transmitted infections among the over-50s. More older men and women are returning to the dating scene, experts say. But many fail to follow the recommendation to use condoms, assuming medical warnings about safe sex are aimed only at the young.
There are a variety of theories about influencing the sex of a baby. But do they have any scientific merit or are they just old wives' tales? Recent polls are clear. Many parents, given the chance, would love to influence the sex of their baby.
Nurseries are feeding children too much fruit and vegetables, and not enough fat, protein and sugar, according to a group of doctors and children's charities. There are worries toddlers are missing out on vital nutrients needed to help them grow. Two-year-old Hannah likes riding tricycles, going shopping with her dad, and eating lots.
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More than half of blood transfusions may do more harm than good, with some patients facing a six-fold greater risk of dying following surgery because of transfusions, doctors warn today. Fears over the safety of blood transfusions have prompted some physicians to recommend they are used only as a last resort, with hospitals urged to be more selective over which patients receive blood. According to a report in New Scientist today, the National Institutes of Health, the US government's largest medical funder, has launched a review into the safety of the procedure. Bruce Spiess, a cardiac anaesthetist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, America, told the magazine: "Probably 40%-60% of blood transfusions are not good for the patients."
A successful career is the key to good health because feelings of failure trigger changes in the brain linked to stress and pain, a study suggests. Researchers found that people who perceived themselves to be low ranking showed differences in brain activity which could explain why those of higher social status are less likely to suffer chronic stress and ill health. The study, at the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland, used brain scans to identify for the first time the circuitry associated with social status.
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HEALTH bosses have sent warning letters to hundreds of members of a Crewe club following the discovery that two of them have contracted Tuberculosis (TB). The letters have been posted to more than 1,000 members of the Pioneer Anglers’ Club in Underwood Lane, amid fears that further people could be in danger of catching the bacterial infection.
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HEALTH bosses have made pledges on how they would improve health inequalities in Workington and Whitehaven. Community group leaders, agencies and health officials met to discuss a report which confirms that half the residents in Moorclose and Moss Bay, in Workington, and Mirehouse, Sandwith, Harbour, Kells and Hensingham, in Copeland, had visited their GP to seek help for poor health.
AMBULANCE bosses are confident a new regional control centre will provide a much better service for Cumbria. Their promise comes amid widespread concern that lives will be put at risk when the 999 call-handling centre in Carlisle closes. But, as reporters were given a first glimpse of the hi-tech control room near Preston this week, bosses insisted the opposite is true.
SOME things are so obviously unhealthy that you hardly need public warnings about them. Voluntarily filling your lungs with smoke, for example, is clearly not going to aid longevity. "Smoke inhalation" is the phrase frequently used to describe how people die in blazes and we've all seen the scary fire brigade films which show how fumes given off when the wrong sort of settees catch alight can kill you in a matter of seconds.
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A new NHS general practice will open in June at Golborne. Based at Golborne Health Centre, Kidglove House, it will be a partnership of two GPs, two nurses and two primary care managers. All the partners have worked within health care in the borough for many years and run three surgeries in Atherton and Leigh.
RETIRED specialist health visitor Jean Eaton is returning to the shacks of South Africa to help the sick and needy. The Astley widow will carry with her medical supplies and cash to equip a new hospice built in Port Elizabeth.
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