Continuing our series on how to deal with the most common problems in family health, we looks at bites, burns and open wounds
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Medicine cabinet: skin injuries - The Times 24th September 2007
Skin injuries - The Times 24th September 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Medicine cabinet: skin injuries - The Times 24th September 2007
All expectant mothers to be offered home birth despite risks - The Sunday Times 23rd September 2007
All expectant mothers will be offered the choice of giving birth at home under new guidance to be issued this week. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) will say that all women should be given statistics about the risks and benefits of having a home birth.
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Women 'should be given choice of home birth' - The Telegraph 24th September 2007
Water birth 'provides the safest form of pain relief' - The Independent 26th September 2007
Thousands of midwives promised as birth rate rises - The Times 26th September 2007
Why delivering her baby at home is the birthright of every woman - The Times 26th September 2007
Push for natural childbirth in NHS - The Telegraph 26th September 2007
What is the best way to give birth? - The Telegraph 26th September 2007
The facts about birth in the UK - The Telegraph 26th September 2007
Case study: Home birth - The Telegraph 26th September 2007
Use pools to combat birth pain, midwives are urged - Daily Mail 25th September 2007
Killer strength Viagra on sale in chemists - The Sunday Times 23rd September 2007
A Chinese factory supplying fake medicinal drugs has been exposed for providing dangerously powerful Viagra to British chemists. An Insight investigation has identified a factory in China supplying Viagra that is three times the maximum strength of the genuine product. It is life-threatening to men with heart conditions.
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Threat from ‘new E-coli’ - The Sunday Times 23rd September 2007
A new superbug that scientists believe is brought into Britain through the food chain is infecting about 30,000 people a year, according to government experts. Research has found that between 10% and 14% of those who are infected with the drug-resistant form of E-coli die within 30 days of catching the bug, which would suggest 3,000-4,200 deaths. This would be double the number of deaths from MRSA.
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That’s no food allergy, just bad manners - The Sunday Times 23rd September 2007
Millions of people have imaginary allergies and food intolerances, according to a survey last week. Many of them have diagnosed themselves online; one in 50 says they only noticed their “problem” when a friend had similar symptoms; and 39% of people questioned think it is “trendy” to claim a food allergy. Twelve million people claim to suffer from allergy or intolerance, of which less than a quarter are medically diagnosed.
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‘Quickie’ breast surgery on way - The Sunday Times 23rd September 2007
WOMEN undergoing a new type of breast enlargement will be able to go out to dinner on the evening of their operation, British plastic surgeons will be told this week.
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Breast enlargement 'takes 30 minutes' - Daily Mail 24th September 2007
Child insomnia - The Sunday Times 23rd September 2007
What's the alternative? Complementary medicine and alternative health solutions to your problems I have a six-month-old girl who has sleeping problems. My GP referred her to a paediatrician, who has not found anything clinically wrong. She is restless at night, so I tried a sleeping bag, which improved her sleeping, but she then developed a rash. I am pulling my hair out. What else can I try?
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Backpedaller - The Sunday Times 23rd September 2007
Every time a dastardly driver swaps four wheels for two, it saves the nation as much as £400 a year through reduced medical bills, congestion and pollution. That’s the shock news from Cycling England, the government-funded body charged with promoting pedal power.
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GPs’ generous pay deal costs £1.8bn more than ministers bargained for - The Times 22nd September 2007
Changes to GPs’ working arrangements and a generous pay rise for doctors have cost the Government £1.8 billion more than ministers bargained for, new figures have revealed. The introduction of performance-related pay in 2004 has led to average GP wages rising by 30 per cent, with some earning up to £250,000 a year.
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Talking heads - The Times 22nd September 2007
Laughter may be the best medicine, but the celebrity psychotherapist Pamela Stephenson tells Janice Turner why our mental wellbeing can also benefit from a stint on the couch
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Water works - The Times 22nd September 2007
Kinder on joints, burns up more calories, great for pregnant women – it’s why more and more of us are taking up aqua-jogging, says As I was clocking up lengths of my local pool recently, to the right of me in a lane of her own was a woman practising a technique that resembled no swimming stroke I had ever seen. Red faced and puffing she was shoulder-deep in water, but appeared more upright than even breaststroke might allow, and was bobbing along rather than ploughing forwards through the water. On closer inspection she was not swimming at all but running in the water, kept afloat by a buoyancy belt and substituting lengths of the pool for laps of a track.
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My Thai colonic irrigation - The Times 22nd September 2007
Ten years ago Ian Belcher endured seven days of enemas. On a return visit he lost a stone, and some wrinkles It's a feast: an alfresco banquet of chicken curry, Thai vegetables and tropical fruit, served on board a sun-licked boat above a reef. But not one of the passengers touches a morsel. We gaze at the spread adoringly until Tim Warmath, a London-based recruitment expert, finally cracks and grabs a slice of watermelon. “It’s OK,” he explains. “I’m only going to suck. It’s just juice. It’s allowed.”
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Your child is in safe hands - The Times 22nd September 2007
Bumps, burns, bruises: every day A&Es successfully treat thousands of kids. Simon Crompton peeks behind the scenes Dr Jon Baker, an accident and emergency consultant at the Lister Hospital, in Chelsea, West London, hates trampolines. A week or so ago he saw a ten-year-old boy who had fallen on to the padded edging and ruptured his spleen. If the boy hadn’t turned up at hospital with stomach pains, and had his spleen removed, he would have died.
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Drug-proof your kids - The Times 22nd September 2007
Before tackling the tough topic of cannabis with her daughter, Michele Kirsch sought expert advice There was a sign on the wall of my 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom. It a postcard by the drugs education programme FRANK that say: “Busted for blow. Cannabis is still illegal.” Kitty has always been vehemently antitobacco, so I figured, in a prematurely smug kind of way, that this was her way of telling her mates – some of whom have tried cannabis – that she thought it was wrong. But when I read the postcard with my spectacles on I saw that she had doctored the message to read: “Busted for blow. Cannabis should not be illegal.”
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Store detective: Healthy fast food - The Times 22nd September 2007
Each week our ace nutritionist tracks down a good meal at a supermarket and gives a breakdown, per portion, of its content. This week: Asda Extra Special Wild Mushroom Soup
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Fighting disease - The Times 22nd September 2007
Aids, TB and malaria are responsible for more than six million deaths each year and have a devastating social and economic impact on millions more. Increased resources and political will are needed to win the war against these diseases. The Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria next week provides an unprecedented opportunity for the UK Government to demonstrate both.
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Feedback - The Times 22nd September 2007
Your story about the athlete Yvonne Murray and her little girl moved me to tears. No parent should have to watch their child suffer as she did. I looked at my own two children (aged 4 and 6) and thanked my lucky stars that they seem to be fit and healthy. Then it hit me – my parents went through exactly the same thing with me.
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Michelin chef on a mission for nutrition - The Times 22nd September 2007
Using fresh ingredients and more than a dash of science, Chris Horridge says we can eat ourselves well. Anyone for echinacea winter pudding, asks Sheila Keating
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Sleep takes root - The Times 22nd September 2007
Valerian helped one student to find peace at night, says Tom Hirst Late-night revision for looming exams can trigger a relentless pattern of sleepless nights, but for Mandi Jones, 27 (pictured right), from London, lack of sleep was leaving her so emotionally drained that she had to seek professional advice. She was studying for her part-time masters degree in human resource management and organisational analysis, while also working as a management consultant, and found the pressure of work was making it progressively more difficult to get to sleep.
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Nice rejected drug 'cure' for bowel cancer - The Telegraph 25th September 2007
People with advanced bowel cancer have been offered fresh hope of a potential cure, according to a study. Researchers found that one in nine patients could have cancers that had spread to their livers cleared by a combination of the drug Avastin and chemotherapy.
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