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NHS emergency services responsible for about 20 million patients across two-fifths of England are not providing the speedy, joined-up care which patients should expect, the government's health watchdog said last night. The Healthcare Commission found most GPs, ambulance services and hospital casualty and walk-in clinics achieved the government's targets for dealing with people quickly.
Britain must adopt a national strategy to encourage breastfeeding, experts say today. The battle cry "breast is best" has been promoted by the childbirth lobby for decades, but 40 per cent of women in the UK who start to breastfeed give up by the time their baby is six weeks old.
Women in the south of England tend to give birth as many as ten years later than their northern counterparts, according to official figures.
NHS spending should be capped as a proportion of national wealth to increase productivity, a public health expert has claimed.
The difference between the cancer risk of the poorest and the most wealthy varies between English regions, researchers have discovered. Experts looked at 300,000 cases of common cancers between 1998 and 2003.
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Pigs have been bred with cystic fibrosis, providing scientists with a powerful animal model that will aid the development of new treatments for the incurable condition. The creation of the pigs, using genetic engineering and cloning technologies, removes one of the biggest barriers to research into cystic fibrosis.
If your loved ones aren't quite as steady on their feet as they used to be, fear not - help is at hand. The solution, according to its Japanese inventors, is this bizarre 'human airbag'. Sensors on a vest strapped round the wearer's waist detect if he or she is taking a tumble.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can reduce the risk of breast cancer by as much as 42 per cent, researchers have revealed. HRT, which is used to treat post-menopausal women, appears to reduce the risk for those with a certain genetic mutation linked to the disease. The researchers looked at hormone replacement therapy or HRT in post-menopausal women with a BRCA1 gene mutation, which greatly increases their chances of developing breast cancer.
While dieters often banish tempting foods from their kitchens, a new study suggests that keeping some sweet treats around might be a good way to build willpower. In three tests that presented female college students with tempting foods, researchers found that the women exerted greater self-control when they had previously been confronted with a sweet treat they had access to - rather than just pictures or smells.
Worries about losing out at auctions may drive participants to pay over the odds, a brain imaging study shows. Websites such as eBay have fuelled the sale of goods through auctions, with some people becoming hooked.
World leaders and philanthropistshave pledged nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight malaria at a summit in New York. The meeting, at the UN, is looking at ways of meeting the Millennium Development Goals - targets on reducing global poverty by the year 2015.
Gordon Brown's wife Sarah has met US vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin at a dinner to promote better support for childbirth in developing countries. The two, who met in New York, have turned in political show-stopping performances in recent days.
The European Commission is imposing a ban on EU imports of Chinese baby food that contains any traces of milk, while other Chinese food will undergo tests. The measures come amid a health scare over milk products contaminated in China with the chemical melamine. It has caused several deaths there.
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A paramedic has been accused of breaking a string of rules on critical care while treating an injured cyclist, who later died, so that she could get to a concert. Claire Lomas is alleged to have performed an “unauthorised early crew change” after responding to an accident in Keswick.
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GOVERNORS who banned girls from having vaccinations to protect against cervical cancer at a school have been criticised for giving out inaccurate information. Furious parents want St Monica's Catholic High School in Bury to take part in the national scheme that offers girls aged 12 and 13 protection against the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which is linked to cervical cancer.
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Poorly trained staff in some pharmacies are giving customers unsuitable and potentially dangerous medical advice, according to an undercover investigation by Which? The consumer watchdog says its officers were badly advised in a third of 101 pharmacies they visited across the UK. Independent chemists rated particularly poorly, giving unsatisfactory advice on about half of the visits.
Pupils are to be offered free school meals in a pilot scheme that could be expanded nationwide if it is proved to make a marked difference to their health and concentration, ministers said yesterday.
The vulnerability of female patients on England's NHS psychiatric wards was revealed yesterday by figures showing that 435 patients reported being sexually assaulted last year, including 15 who said they had been raped. The Tories, who obtained the figures, said the scale of assaults was increasing, raising new fears about the safety of patients. Labour had "broken their promises" on standards in mental health care, they said.
Diderot, 18th-century French encyclopaedist and philosopher, summed up the occasional feelings of every parent: "All children are essentially criminal." This was not a discovery of the Enlightenment. Socrates had much the same opinion: "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers."
GPs feel under too much pressure to use cheaper drugs as part of a cost-cutting drive by NHS bosses, a poll shows. Nearly all NHS trusts in England have set up schemes to get GPs to use generic versions of drugs which are cheaper than branded alternatives.
Breast cancer is more likely to kill poor women than their more affluent counterparts, research shows. A study of breast cancer patients in England and Wales diagnosed between 1986 and 1999 found overall long-term survival rates are improving.
GPs' surgeries in Wales will be able to open in the evening and at weekends in return for extra funding, under a £16m agreement with the assembly government. But practices will not be forced to open later, and could offer other additional services instead.
Ricky Gervais is the first to admit that his teeth are neither white nor straight - and Americans mistakenly think he wears bad false teeth for comedic purposes. Why the dental divide? British teeth are not like American teeth.
In 2007, 49-year-old Andy Crabb, a father of three and grandfather of nine, was diagnosed with kidney cancer. His illness was so severe that he was told he had only months to live. Andy Crabb Andy Crabb was not given the drugs he needs by his local PCT Andy's consultant suggested that he started an experimental drug trial, but the side effects were so severe that Andy had to stop it.
A colleague of a doctor banned from child protection work has welcomed the lifting of his working restrictions. Dr David Southall was stopped from such duties in 2004 after accusing the solicitor Sally Clark's husband of murdering their two children.
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A surgeon has used a ping pong ball to keep a little girl alive after a world first liver transplant operation. The £1 plastic ball prevents Mackenzie Argaet's new liver from pressing against vital arteries, which could kill the two-year-old.
A jab that could help diabetes patients lose weight and keep their blood pressure down is being developed by scientists. At present, most of the two million with Type II diabetes - which is linked to obesity and poor diet - take a daily pill to combat the condition.
With the spotlight once more on the UN Millennium Development Goals, Michael Jay - the UK's chief negotiator at the 2005 Gleneagles Summit and chair of medical aid agency Merlin - argues that we must address the conflicts that prevent targets on poverty, health and human rights being met.
Life-saving scientific research is being stifled by a "broken" patent system, according to a new report. "Blocking patents" are delaying advances in cancer medicine and food crops, says the Canada-based Innovation Partnership, a non-profit consultancy.
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A NEW community rehabilitation service to help stroke patients and people who suffer from other neurological diseases is being developed in Cumbria. It is said to be in addition to the current services already provided – such as the Stroke Unit at West Cumberland Hospital.
CONCERNS over extra travelling times and expense for mental health service users and their carers have been raised. Copeland Council’s over-view and scrutiny committee for healthy communities gathered views from concerned groups and questioned health bosses on proposals for mental health services. Cumbria’s primary care trust is currently consulting on changes to adult inpatient and residential services.
A WHITEHAVEN man battling cancer has had a lifeline appeal for treatment turned down by health bosses. Megan Already denied NHS funding for the drug Avastin, Cumbria Primary Care Trust (PCT) has now turned Michael Kennett down again on appeal despite it being the only remaining avenue open to the 66-year-old, of Springfield Avenue, to potentially prolong his life.
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FURIOUS parents are demanding governors of a catholic school reverse their plan to block a national vaccination scheme which will protect girls against cervical cancer. The M.E.N. revealed governors of St Monica's High School in Bury - who have previously criticised the jab for 'encouraging sexual promiscuity' - don't want pupils vaccinated on school grounds.
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A PUB landlord who allowed his customers to flout the smoking ban is facing an £11,000 bill after losing an appeal against his conviction. Nick Hogan, former landlord of The Swan Hotel and Barristers Bar in Bolton, was found guilty in January of failing to prevent people from smoking there on four occasions last July.
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Ritalin, the controversial drug used to calm down hyperactive children, should not be routinely prescribed by doctors and never given to the under-fives, today. They also advise that it should be given to older children only if other help has not worked.
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Performance-enhancing energy drinks should carry prominent health warnings to protect young people from overdosing on caffeine, doctors said yesterday. The warning follows research into 28 energy drinks that found some had up to 14 times the caffeine as a can of cola, or the same as seven cups of strong coffee.
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Why energy drinks should have caffeine health warning on the can - Daily Mail 24th September 2008
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Equal weight should be given to guiding children on healthy living, sex and drugs according to parents and teachers questioned in government-backed review
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Plans for a culture change in NHS hospitals to put patients and visitors in the frontline of the battle against MRSA superbugs will be disclosed tomorrow by Alan Johnson, the health secretary. He will tell the Labour party conference in Manchester that patients and relatives can do more to remind doctors and nurses of their duty to maintain high standards of cleanliness.
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He was the man who launched the world into the nuclear age, winning a Nobel prize and laying the foundations for modern nuclear physics. But now it appears that radiation left over from 100-year-old experiments by Ernest Rutherford, the first man to split the atom, could be partly responsible for the deaths of up to four Manchester University staff.
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Four university workers 'killed by radiation from 100-year-old experiments by nuclear pioneer Ernest Rutherford' - Daily Mail 23rd September 2008
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A quarter of a million cancer patients are to get free treatment from April after Gordon Brown announced the scapping of all prescription charges for sufferers of the disease. The step will be a prelude to phasing out the £7.10 prescription fee for all patients with long-term medical conditions, the Prime Minister said in his conference speech.
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The internet is fuelling change to the ways in which Germans have sex, according to a survey, as increased viewing of pornography makes people less inhibited.
Scholars at the German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research working with London's City University have concluded that a third of men and close to one in 10 women watch porn on a daily basis.
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A mother who drowned her disabled daughter because she was ashamed of her was branded 'evil' by her devastated husband. Joanne Hill killed four-year-old Naomi, who had a mild form of cerebral palsy, after failing to persuade her husband Simon to have the girl adopted.
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A compound found in soya beans and chickpeas could help stroke patients, research suggests. A study into a dietary supplement containing isoflavone found it improved artery function in stroke patients.
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The manager of a nursing home and her husband are being investigated over the suspicious deaths of 12 elderly residents, it has emerged. Police questioned nurse Rachel Baker, 46, and her husband Leigh last December over the suspected poisoning of four women and a man.
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Being too clean could increase the risk of diabetes, scientists said yesterday. They say a lack of exposure to bacteria and viruses during childhood may explain why the number of under-fives with type one diabetes has soared in recent years. The number of cases is now five times the level it was in the mid-1980s.
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Women from poorer backgrounds are far less likely to survive breast cancer than those from affluent areas, a new study has revealed. Survival rates are up for all social classes, but a stubborn gap between rich and poor still persists.
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