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Bored with traditional gym classes? How about doing those fitness routines under water? Peta Bee on the rise and rise of Poolates, aqua-chi and aqua-dance
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The medicinal value of art is increasingly becoming recognised, as GPs refer patients to creative classes. Martin Whittaker reports
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Depleted uranium, which is used in armour-piercing ammunition, causes widespread damage to DNA which could lead to lung cancer, according to a study of the metal's effects on human lung cells. The study adds to growing evidence that DU causes health problems on battlefields long after hostilities have ceased.
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Natasha Reid was desperate to treat her crippling panic attacks without drugs. But neither hypnotherapy nor cognitive behavioural therapy did any good. Finally, she stumbled upon the Grinberg method ...
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Australian IT group IBA Health yesterday gained ground in its bid to merge with troubled NHS software supplier iSoft after its shares were suspended to give the firm time to raise further funds. The Australian stock exchange agreed to a four-day suspension to allow IBA Health to seek extra capital from institutional shareholders. ISoft said it had joined talks between shareholders and IBA as both companies sought an agreed deal.
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Health service IT company targeted - The Telegraph 8th May 2007
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People with mental illness have long been the targets of offensive and disrespectful language. But are official medical terms such as 'bipolar' really any better than 'bonkers' or 'bananas', asks former psychiatric nurse Jo Brand
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Ian Blair is right to say policing alone will not make a lasting impact on the threat of gang violence (Report, May 3). However, gangs are not the problem, they are a symptom of a greater issue: our increasing inability as a society to relate to each other enough to build successful, productive relationships.
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Gordon Brown has abandoned the idea of creating an independently run NHS, amid growing concerns that it would make pushing through key reforms or controlling the £92bn budget impossible.
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Labour has lavished funding on the health service, but the positive effects have been too slow or too piecemeal to reassure the public that their money has been well spent. Meanwhile, the government has been battered by high-profile rows about ward closures and fears that life-saving drugs are not going to be made available to patients for cost reasons.
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Families who are fighting for compensation over work-related cancers now fear withdrawal of NHS funding for a new treatment, writes Jon Robins
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British doctors will take the historic step of admitting for the first time that many health treatments will be rationed in the future because the NHS cannot cope with spiralling demand from patients. In a major report that will embarrass the government, the British Medical Association will say fertility treatment, plastic surgery and operations for varicose veins and minor childhood ailments, such as glue ear, are among a long list of procedures in jeopardy.
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Doctors warns NHS has to start rationing treatment - Daily Mail 7th May 2007
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Doctors warns NHS has to start rationing treatment - Daily Mail 7th May 2007
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Nicolas Sarkozy is urging his expats in London to come home, but they'll have to find a place among all the Brits flocking south
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French exiles unhappy with NHS - The Times 8th May 2007
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French exiles unhappy with NHS - The Times 8th May 2007
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One of those skinheaded human hamburgers who ooze bile from the terraces of Millwall FC would have been stunned into silence by the junior doctor on Question Time. His temperature gauge must have climbed higher than a Hillman Hunter's on a balmy July day queuing to get into Chessington Zoo. He screamed at Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, about why there weren't more jobs for him and his friends in the NHS.
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Leading breast cancer experts will this week unveil a new treatment which could help tens of thousands of women in Britain diagnosed with the disease every year. Avastin, a drug currently used to treat bowel cancer, has been found to make some breast cancers more manageable in the long term.
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A link between cot death and low blood glucose levels has been found by researchers, it was announced yesterday. A team led by Dundee University found what they believe could be a key piece in the puzzle of sudden infant death syndrome.
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The number of Britons with a terminal illness who are opting to die in a Swiss clinic has doubled in a year. Is it time for the law to change so they can end their lives in Britain?
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3.6 million people in Britain suffer from malnutrition Hospitals see 44% rise in cases as cost to the NHS hits £7.3bn
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Radical plans to set up free "therapy for all" centres across the country could fail without proper funding, the Government's "happiness tsar" has warned. Professor Richard Layard, the Labour peer and No 10 adviser, said he is concerned that patients suffering from anxiety and depression will not benefit unless cash is set aside for training up therapists.
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A cancer drug has been approved for prescription in Scotland that is unlikely to be obtainable for patients who live south of the Border. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) said that Sprycel was cost-effective for use in the chronic phase of myeloid leukaemia, providing a lifeline for patients who have developed resistance to the “wonder-drug” Glivec.
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Aggressive bidding for the UK hospitals arm of BUPA pushed offers close to £1.4 billion at the submission of the first round of bids last week. At least six groups are thought to be involved in the bidding for the 26 hospitals, including the private equity firms Blackstone, Cinven and CVC and the Australian investment bank Macquarie.
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A diabetes drug based on the saliva of an endangered lizard goes on sale today. Byetta is a synthetic version of a chemical that helps the Gila monster to survive despite its peculiar eating pattern. An adult Gila, named after the Gila river in North America, may eat only three to four times a year, consuming a third of its bodyweight in food each time.
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Lizard spit that can control diabetes - Daily Mail 7th May 2007
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Lizard spit that can control diabetes - Daily Mail 7th May 2007
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It has been an epidemic in America and a major problem in many other parts of the world. Now it may be our turn to be hit by the world’s most addictive drug
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The unusually bright spring weather means that hay-fever sufferers are set for a fraught time. But a new generation of antihistamines promises relief, says Dr Thomas Stuttaford
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Manufacturers have doubled the amount of sugar in some foods in the past 30 years. The increases were seen across dozens of food types. Even fruit was not immune, with companies selecting sweeter varieties to cater for the public’s changing palate.
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The amount of sugar in 'healthy' products has doubled in 30 years - Daily Mail 6th May 2007
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The amount of sugar in 'healthy' products has doubled in 30 years - Daily Mail 6th May 2007
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Try to summon up some recent, significant moments in science. Here’s a selection: the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the first fatal case of H5N1 avian influenza in a human patient and the scientific proof of homeopathy (yes, I’m kidding, but we’ll come back to it).
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A woman was sectioned under the Mental Health Act last night after the bodies of a young boy and a baby girl were found in a house in South London. Officers made the discovery after they arrested the 25-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man who were with a third child. A bus driver alerted police on Saturday morning after he saw an incident involving the two adults and the girl, aged 3. It is believed that the child had been given alcohol.
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When doctors broke the news to John Brandrick that he was dying of cancer, he resolved to live as if there were no tomorrow. He quit his job, stopped paying the mortgage, enjoyed slap-up meals with his partner night after night and spent a fortune on hotels. He splashed out on his family, took impromptu day trips and gave his clothes away to charity. He even arranged his own funeral.
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BRITISH doctors are creating “designer babies” free from certain cosmetic defects for the first time. One clinic has screened embryos to create a baby without a squint. It is understood to be the first time in the world that doctors have selected embryos without the condition.
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She ate organic, exercised regularly and was slim, but she had dangerously high cholesterol. May Lawrence-Smith explains how she is beating the hidden killer
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I’m 24 years old and although I passed through puberty my voice still sounds as if it’s breaking. Is there anything I can do?
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I’ve been working in the garden and have developed an irritating itch on my finger. Tiny raised blisters sometimes erupt, and the itching keeps me awake. I’ve tried antihistamine creams and E45, which work temporarily. Can you suggest an alternative cream to relieve the discomfort?
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Last week's letter about an overly dependent elderly mother inspired a huge response from readers eager to share their experiences
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It might seem like the plot of an Ealing comedy, but for council worker John Brandrick the matter was deadly serious. In February 2005, he was suffering from stomach pains and went for an ultrasound at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske. A consultant then contacted Mr Brandrick's GP to give him the unfortunate news that his patient was suffering from pancreatic cancer and had six months to live. Mr Brandrick, who is 62, was devastated, but decided to spend the last period of his life... well, spending.
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'Not cancer' patient claims costs - BBC Health News 7th May 2007
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'Not cancer' patient claims costs - BBC Health News 7th May 2007
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Hospitals have been hit by 200 "major incidents" in four months because of breakdowns in the NHS's £12 billion computer system, a report claims today. The problems, affecting dozens of hospitals between last October and January, led to doctors being unable to call up X-rays on computer screens in wards and operating theatres, creating delays in treatment. Some hospitals also lost access to records on appointments and planned treatments.
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£12bn NHS IT system creates hundreds of inaccurate records every day - Daily Mail 8th May
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The genetic roots of bipolar disorder - manic depression - have been revealed by the first scan of the entire human genetic code, revealing a new target for treatments. Bipolar disorder affects one person in every 100 inducing mood changes from extremes of depression to irritation, elation and mania.
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Parents are being advised to cut several food additives commonly found in sweets and soft drinks from their children’s diets until the publication of a new study which is expected to link the “E numbers” to behavioural problems. The latest study, conducted for the Food Standards Agency (FSA), is thought likely to back up earlier research which raised doubts about the safety of some food colourings and a widely-used preservative.
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Last week's letter about an overly dependent elderly mother inspired a huge response from readers eager to share their experiences
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My mother-in-law, in common with many other elderly people, suffers from a form of dementia ("The elderly 'deserve review of funding for their care' ", report, May 7). Hers is vascular dementia.
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Private companies that fail to win hospital building contracts are set to pocket millions of pounds in "compensation" from the NHS.Hospitals negotiating private finance initiative (PFI) schemes could be forced to pay almost 2 per cent of the total contract costs to short-listed private companies which fail to secure deals, under proposals being discussed by the Department of Health (DoH).
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Elderly people deserve a radical rethink of the way their care is paid for, the Government admits today amid dire warnings from experts that the system is failing. An old people's home: The elderly 'deserve care funding review' Social care covers services such as help with getting dressed and meals-on-wheels, but does not cover nursing care Ivan Lewis, the minister responsible for care services, appears to acknowledge in a radio interview that the funding issue is potentially as big as the pensions crisis.
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Long-term care: 'postcode lottery' has not ended - The Telegraph 5th May 2007
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Long-term care: 'postcode lottery' has not ended - The Telegraph 5th May 2007
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First she wanted a figure like the girls who model her bras. Now, after losing five stone, Michelle Mone is launching a slimming business, says Daphne Lockyer There is a certain shapely symmetry to bra queen Michelle Mone's latest money-spinning enterprise. She built her empire on showing women how to, well, make much more of themselves. Now she's about to show them how to make much less.
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It's time for doctors to bite back, says Max Pemberton In 1965, the American psychologist Martin Seligman stumbled across a phenomenon that would have a far-reaching impact not only on our understanding of human behaviour, but also on how authority can control individuals.
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From being shot by robbers to assaulted by yobs, police officers risk all manner of injuries in the line of duty. Traditionally, their feet have been prone to suffer after a long day on the beat. Bobbies today, however, face new health hazards - aching arms and stiff necks caused by hours of form-filling at a computer screen. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports a growing number of police sufferers, reflecting an increase in the amount of time officers spend on administration.
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About six months ago I ruptured my Achilles tendon. I had an operation to reattach the two halves and then I was on crutches for a while. I trust the surgeon and believe he has done a good job, but I'm worried about it going again. I'm 16, so I think I should be all right, but is there anything I can do to ensure that it won't snap again?
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Jane ate so much during one binge she thought she was going to die. Soon after, she stumbled across the organisation that was to save her sanity - and her life. She and two other recovering food addicts tell Julia Llewellyn Smith how they stopped compulsively overeating
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A parliamentary battle to cut the time limit on abortions from its current level of 24 weeks is being prepared by MPs. Campaigners plan to "hijack" the Government's forthcoming changes to the law on fertilisation and embryology to stage what would be the first full-scale Commons vote on lowering the legal limit for 17 years.
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Early baby sex test causes abortion fear - The Telegraph 5th May 2007
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Early baby sex test over the web - BBC Health News 4th May 2007
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Early baby sex test causes abortion fear - The Telegraph 5th May 2007
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Early baby sex test over the web - BBC Health News 4th May 2007
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Scientists last week claimed to have discovered the "longevity gene" lurking in a worm. This gene, for reasons too complicated for me to understand, provides an explanation of why mammals and other creatures seem to live for significantly longer if their calorie intake is severely limited.
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I was widowed six months ago, after nursing my beloved wife through a long and terrible cancer. Since then I have been waylaid at every opportunity by a flotilla of widowed or divorced ladies who seem determined to take me under their wing. Although 73, I am apparently that rare creature: an eligible single man.
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The other day I came across a woman with a lot of courage. Her goal is to give up her safe job as an accountant within the next couple of years and re-mortgage her house to start a restaurant. Her courage lies in visualising the end result and taking small steps every week towards it.
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I knew the Secretary of State for Health would be on Question Time on Thursday night, so I was braced (as was she) for the inevitable question about the MMC/MTAS scandal. It is a scandal, and it's ongoing and I doubt that Patricia Hewitt is the woman to fix it. I think everyone knows by now, even those without a weeping junior doctor in the family, that MMC stands for Modernising Medical Careers and MTAS stands for Medical Training Application Service online. But I prefer the junior doctors' own monickers: "Murdering My Career" via "Medical Transportation to Australia."
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Claim firms STILL touting for business in our hospitals - Daily Mail 8th May 2007
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Half of all hospitals flout Government guidelines by selling advertising space in their wards for ambulancechasing law firms, a Daily Mail investigation has found. Personal injury solicitors are using posters and leaflets in NHS accident and emergency units to encourage patients to use their services to sue – often on a nowin, no-fee basis.
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Thousands of elderly people are living in filthy care homes exposed to the risk of infections and malnutrition. Inspectors found one in three homes provides barely "adequate" living conditions, and rated hundreds as "poor".
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An urgent investigation has been ordered by the Information Commissioner into security breaches affecting the online job application service for junior doctors. The trouble-hit service was suspended last month amid concerns that personal details of trainee medics posted on the website could be accessed by the public.
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Babies born in the spring could be less intelligent becuase of the effect of pesticides, doctors warn. A study of more than 1.5 million children clearly showed that those conceived in the summer - when pesticide use is at its highest - are less clever than other youngsters.
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Taking too many headache tablets can made headaches worse, doctors have warned. Just two painkillers a day, two or three days a week, can trigger headaches that are more painful and last longer.
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Deaths from skin cancer and heatstroke could soar and Britain could be blighted by malaria, salmonella and a host of other heat-loving diseases as global warming takes its toll, officials have warned. Government experts have warned that climate could have huge implications for health, with a temperature rise of just 2C leading to skin cancer rates going up by more than 20 per cent.
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Here is one pair of twin brothers that few will have any difficulty telling apart. For although Byron and Lincoln Ryman were born within a minute of each other, firstborn Byron - at 3lb 6oz a small baby himself - was precisely three times bigger than his sibling.
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Genes which can double the risk of having a heart attack have been discovered by scientists. It is thought that one in five of us carries two copies of the rogue DNA sequence - dramatically increasing our chances of being affected.
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Up to 1.76 million Britons with diabetes are at risk of dying from heart disease, it was claimed today. The figure follows an assessment of how well cardiovascular risk factors are being managed in people with diabetes.
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A drug which could help prolong the lives of cancer patients can now be prescribed by Scottish doctors. Taxotere, used to treat sufferers of prostate, head, neck and breast cancers, was recommended for use by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
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Doctors are calling for regulators to offer guidance over whether they should help patients circumvent "shortcomings" of NHS care. A recent report highlighted moves such as having tests done privately to jump NHS waiting lists.
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People with coeliac disease are waiting an average of 13 years to be diagnosed, a poll has revealed. The gut disorder is caused by gluten intolerance, and can lead to bone problems, infertility or bowel cancer
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A drug which could help prolong the lives of cancer patients can now be prescribed by Scottish doctors. Taxotere, used to treat sufferers of prostate, head, neck and breast cancers, was recommended for use by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
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An overhaul in social care with more state-funded support for the most vulnerable is needed, a survey says. Social care is effectively means-tested in the UK apart from Scotland where personal care is provided free.
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Campaigners have attacked the music and entertainment industry for not preparing measures to protect the hearing of bar and club workers. The Royal National Institute for Deaf People said staff working where loud music was played should get ear plugs.
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A UK hospital is testing a home spit kit designed to help mums-to-be spot if they are at risk of pre-eclampsia. One thousand women in Chichester will try the test that reads saliva for tell-tale markers of impending kidney problems linked with the condition.
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When presenter Richard Dimbleby battled cancer he was very public about his illness. But his son Jonathan has revealed that in the early days of his illness the situation was very different.
Derek thinks he is a lucky man. Aged 20, he is serving a sentence for a violent offence in Polmont Young Offenders' Institution. But he is getting help for the problem he believes was at the root of his offence - his communication difficulties.
Doctors must be given better training in how to care for patients who abuse alcohol, smoking and drugs, experts say. Medical students are taught about substance abuse, but the International Centre for Drugs Policy said training was "patchy and uncoordinated".
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Prisoners with illnesses face "daily discomfort" and a "fear of bullying", a study says. A University of the West of England team found serious gaps in health care in prisons in the UK after interviewing 111 inmates across 12 jails.
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Extreme sports fans could soon have instant treatment if they break a limb in a spot far from medical help. A team from Sheffield Hallam University has developed a versatile portable plastic splint that can protect damaged bones and aid their recovery.
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'Louie, me and hepatitis C' - BBC Health News 4th May 2007
When Gemma Peppe needed a subject for her MA in documentary research, she decided to use her own battle with the potentially fatal liver condition hepatitis C. She hoped it would be an opportunity to raise awareness about the condition, which is thought to affect up to 500,000 people in the UK - 10 times more than those with HIV.
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The UK has shown commitment and has taken action in tackling the immense problems of improving healthcare in developing countries, despite Jasmine Whitbread's implications in her Response (The G8 should let Africans decide how to run their health services, May 4).
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African cancer patients to get newest drugs - The Observer 7th May 2007
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Letter: Africa must control its own healthcare - The Guardian 5th May 2007
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Eight deaths linked to oxygen mix-up at Italian hospital - The Guardian 7th May 2007
A face mask which emitted massive and fatal doses of anaesthetic gas instead of oxygen has been blamed for the sudden death of a 73-year-old patient at an Italian coronary unit and is suspected to have killed another seven patients at the unit since it opened 17 days ago.
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Toddlers who watch too much television can become aggressive and suffer from poor attention span, a survey claims. The report discovered that an increasing number of children are watching television at a younger age and that nearly half of children in the study were regular viewers of television, video or DVDs by the age of three months.
A court in Libya hearing a defamation trial involving five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor will deliver a verdict on 27 May. The decision was taken at a hearing in Tripoli on Sunday that saw defence lawyers try to get the case dismissed.
Lois Rogers has reported on the travails of British healthcare for 20 years, but when she got sick in France she wished she was here
Taking daily selenium supplements may block the build up of HIV in a patient's blood, research suggests. The University of Miami found a lower HIV viral load in patients who took selenium supplements for nine months.
Scientists say they have a vaccine that stops mice getting a brain disease similar to BSE in cattle and which may ultimately protect humans against vCJD. Deadly prion diseases, like vCJD, are spread by consuming contaminated meat, and there is no cure or treatment.
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Spider venom could boost sex life - BBC Health News 4th May 2007
Brazilian and US scientists are looking into using spider venom as a possible treatment for male impotence. Their investigation follows reports that men bitten by the Phoneutria nigriventer experienced priapism - long and painful erections.
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SENIOR doctors have written to every consultant in Merseyside urging them to boycott junior doctors’ interviews. In an unprecedented intervention in the junior doctors’ training crisis, the doctors, led by Professor Morris Brown from Cambridge, said consultants must boycott the interviews introduced as part of the government’s Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) as any continued involvement in “such a flawed system” was wrong.
CATERING for 900 people, three times per day, every day is a significant operation. And with so many people involved in getting it ready and to the patient, it is a logistical challenge. Two years ago, we simply were not getting it right. But, that was then. We’ve since made great efforts to improve. Today we offer better quality and wider choices for our patients.
NURSES at the Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust will be gathering to celebrate nursing on Wednesday. An event is being held in the Education Centre, at Alder Hey, to raise awareness about the nursing profession and recognise the valuable work carried out by nurses, not just at Alder Hey, but all over the world.
A RETIRED accountant told a court he finally agreed to help his wife die after watching a television documentary about suicide. Frank Lund, 58, told a Liverpool crown court jury his ill wife Patricia had talked about wanting to die for some time before he smothered her with a pillow in their Wirral home.
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FOUR research teams in Liverpool have secured almost £650,000 in grants to help fund research into the causes of prostate and breast cancer. Scientists at Liverpool University were awarded the money by the North West Cancer Research Fund (NWCRF)
WORKERS calling themselves “Liverpool care slaves” are to stage a public demonstration ahead of possible strike action in a row over pay. Independent care agencies are warning Liverpool could be hit by a shortage of home helpers after the council drew up a new contract which staff fear will cut their wages by 30%.
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Staff deliver solution - Winsford Guardian 7th May 2007
STAFF who deliver meals to old people in Winsford have offered a compromise to end an argument they claimed threatened the service. Richard Howard, who represents workers at the depot at Meridian House in Winsford, claimed proposals to cut workers' hours was an attempt by Sodexho to make up a financial shortfall.
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SHE’S the kind of kid whose sunny smile and cheeky sense of humour would cheer up just about anybody... At just three years old, Olivia Story radiates happiness as she plays at home, whether pushing her doll in its pram or bouncing gleefully on her tiny trampoline.
A TURF war looks set to erupt between Allerdale and Copeland over the location of the area’s new hospital. Plans are currently being drawn up to replace the aging West Cumberland with a new-build hospital.
COCKERMOUTH man Terry Burgess has retired after 41 years at the West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven.
DOCTORS in Blackburn have seen their plans for an extension rejected by borough planners because of parking fears. Drs David Gebbie, Katherine Burn and Hereward Brown wanted to build a registrar's room and an extra consulting room at Limefield Surgery, in Preston New Road.
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Public fight is on over service future - Lancashire Telegraph 4th May 2007
THE future of maternity services in Rossendale will be the subject of a public meeting this month. Residents are invited to voice their opinions about the impact of a loss of maternity services at Fairfield Hospital, in Bury, and Rochdale Hospital, to an independent review panel.
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Street star Jane backs bid to save baby unit - The Bolton News 4th May 2007
ACTRESS Jane Danson said motherhood has changed her life - and was the reason she threw her support behind a bid to save Fairfield Hospital's maternity unit. The Coronation Street star, who plays Leanne Battersby, gave birth at Fairfield in Bury, becoming a mother to baby Harry nine months ago.
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