National and International News
Warning to hospitals over MRSA - Daily Telegraph 16/05/05
Hospitals could be held criminally liable if patients catch the MRSA superbug, Patricia Hewitt said yesterday.
£50 kit cures stick out ears without need for surgery - Daily Telegraph 16/05/05
A surgeon has devised a system to correct bat ears in babies which can reset them within two weeks and avoid the need for an operation.
Record number of staff too stressed to work - Daily Telegraph 16/05/05
Record numbers of people say they are too stressed to go to work, according to a report today.
MRSA found throughout Scotland - Daily Mail 16/05/05
Record levels of the deadly superbug MRSA have been found in leisure centres throughout Scotland, it has been revealed.
Top hospital beats targets - Daily Mail 16/05/05
A flagship NHS hospital bought from the private sector to cut waiting lists has beaten its targets, the Scottish Executive has said.
GMC to appeal over ruling - Daily Mail 16/05/05
The General Medical Council is to begin an appeal over a High Court ruling hailed as a breakthrough for the rights of terminally-ill patients.
Most 'can't spot cancer moles' - Daily Mail 16/05/05
Less than one in 10 people would be able to recognise if a mole was cancerous, research has revealed.
India in drive to eradicate polio - Daily Mail 16/05/05
Health workers and volunteers delivered polio vaccine drops to hundreds of thousands of children across the country as India entered the final stretch of a drive to wipe out the crippling disease by year's end.
Eye surgery provider's Spanish deal - Daily Mail 16/05/05
A long-established provider of laser eye surgery in the UK has been bought by a Spanish company in a deal worth £30 million, it has been announced.
Nursing homes 'serve poor food' - Daily Mail 16/05/05
Pensioners are being exploited by nursing homes serving up sub-standard food, celebrity chef Paul Rankin has claimed.
Prostate test may not be reliable - Daily Mail 16/05/05
Many men could unknowingly be suffering from prostate cancer despite blood test results indicating they are healthy, new research suggests.
Higher brain damage risk for women - Daily Mail 16/05/05
Women suffer more brain damage from drinking alcohol than men, scientists have confirmed.
Health chief's cover-up of CDJ blood donor - Daily Mail 16/05/05
The father of the youngest victim of Britain's worst CJD outbreak has accused medical authorities of engaging in a seven-year conspiracy to hide the fact that his son had been a blood donor.
Hospitals 'liable for superbug spread' - Daily Mail 16/05/05
Hospitals could be held criminally liable if patients catch superbugs, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has said.
Nurses call for wider smoking ban - BBC Health News 16/05/05
Smoking should be banned in all public places to prevent up to 1,000 deaths a year from passive smoking, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said.
'Toxic chemicals' in celebrities - BBC Health News 16/05/05
Potentially dangerous industrial chemicals were found in celebrities' blood tested for a health campaign.
Vices increase risk of pneumonia - BBC Health News 16/05/05
Smoking on top of drinking alcohol leaves the body wide open to a bug that causes pneumonia, say scientists.
Appeal over right-to-life ruling - BBC Health News 16/05/05
A Court of Appeal hearing over whether doctors have the right to withdraw life-prolonging treatment is to start.
Scientists hail new discoveries in the long fight against cancer - The Times 16/05/05
COMMONLY prescribed heart drugs halve the risk of breast cancer, a new trial has shown.
Medicine’s handiest weapon is developing a variety of roles - The Times 16/05/05
VACCINES are the single most effective tool developed by medical science. Every year they save thousands of lives, largely unnoticed.
Vaccine demonstrates potential to transform addiction treatment - The Times 16/05/05
A VACCINE against nicotine has produced impressive results in a large-scale human trial. The success of the vaccine was predicted in The Times.
Britain counts £100bn cost of stress in the workplace - The Times 16/05/05
STRESS at work is causing depression and anxiety in one in five Britons and costing the country £100 billion a year in lost output, the mental health charity Mind said yesterday.
Doctors challenge patient’s victory on his right to live - The Times 16/05/05
THE Court of Appeal will decide this week whether it should be for doctors or patients to have a final say on withdrawing life-saving treatment.
Pathologists’ justice warning - The Times 16/05/05
CORONERS are to lose the right to demand the retention of tissue from a post-mortem examination, even if there is still uncertainty about the cause of death. The change in the rules from June 9 will make miscarriages of justice more likely, the Royal College of Pathologists said.
Women more likely to develop drink addiction - The Times 16/05/05
WOMEN can become addicted to alcohol more quickly than men and suffer brain damage sooner from drinking, scientists have found.
Hospital visitors could be charged over MRSA - The Independent 16/05/05
Private cleaning contractors, managers and even visitors could face criminal liability for spreading the hospital superbug MRSA in the NHS.
Five million UK workers 'suffer extreme stress' - The Independent 16/05/05
More than 5 million people complain of "extreme" stress in their jobs which puts them at risk of a breakdown, Britain's leading mental health charity says.
Information drive aims to combat UK complacency about malaria - The Guardian 16/05/05
Lord Byron contracted the disease swimming the Hellespont in 1811 and suffered recurrent bouts all his life, finally dying of the "fever" in Greece in 1824.
Alcohol 'harms women faster' - The Guardian 16/05/05
Excessive drinking causes brain damage in women more quickly than in men, according to a team of scientists.
Vaccine to beat smoking - The Guardian 16/05/05
A vaccine against smoking could be available within five years, it was claimed yesterday, after the release of results showing that 40% of those given the injections stayed off cigarettes for up to six months.
Prostate cancer test is thrown into doubt - The Guardian 16/05/05
Men at high risk of prostate cancer could be suffering from the disease even if a blood test has given them the all-clear, scientists said yesterday.
Court to rule on power to decide right to life - The Guardian 16/05/05
Who has the right to decide whether a patient's quality of life is too poor to warrant life-prolonging treatment?
Stress at work costs economy £100bn a year, says Mind - The Guardian 16/05/05
Excessive stress at work is causing an epidemic of depression and anxiety, costing the British economy about £100bn a year in lost output, the mental health charity Mind said last night.
Public health bodies issue warning over the growing number of cases of diabetes - The Guardian 16/05/05
Public health officials have issued a graphic warning of the spread of diabetes if the rising tide of obesity is not reversed.
Cheshire and Mersey News
ROONEY TO DIG FIRST TURF AT NEW CENTRE - Chester Evening Leader 16/05/05
FOOTBALL star Wayne Rooney will kick-start the next stage of ambitious plans for a centre for teenagers when he visits a children’s hospice next week. The Manchester United and England striker will call at Claire House at Clatterbridge where, after two years of fundraising for the hospice’s Sparkling Star Appeal, work is about to start on the centre.
Shake-up aims to end NHS fertility lottery - Liverpool Daily Post 16/05/05
CHILDLESS couples across Merseyside and Cheshire will receive a huge boost today as the regional NHS moves to end the postcode lottery in fertility treatments.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
I want to live says man in law battle - Lancashire Evening Telegraph 16/05/05
A terminally ill man who was "ecstatic" after winning a groundbreaking legal ruling will face a challenge to his victory at the Court of Appeal on Monday.
Measles epidemic alert - Blackpool Gazette 16/05/05
A MEASLES epidemic could sweep the Fylde coast unless urgent action is taken.
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