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Scientists attack plan to ban 'hybrid' embryos - The Guardian 5th January 2007
Groundbreaking research into incurable diseases could be jeopardised if permission to create human embryos from animal eggs is withheld, scientists warned yesterday. British researchers want to use the embryos to make stem cells with genetic faults linked to conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and motor neurone disease. Studying how the cells grow could yield unprecedented insights into disease, leading to cures for the otherwise untreatable conditions.
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Hybrid animal-human embryos face ban - The Independent 5th January 2007
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Medicine faces ban on rabbit-human embryos - The Times 5th January 2007
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Cloning 'can beat disease' - The Times 5th January 2007
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'Research is now my only hope of a cure' - The Times 5th January 2007
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Ministers have been spooked by 'frankenbunny' headlines - The Times 5th January 2007
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Hybrid embryo work 'under threat' - BBC Health News 5th January 2007
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Milestones that showed the way to modern medicine - The Guardian 5th January 2007
Fifteen of the most important milestones on the road to modern medicine are identified today by the British Medical Journal. They range from vaccines to computers to the pill - and the journal is calling for readers to vote on which was the most significant. The 15 have been shortlisted from more than 100 nominated discoveries since the BMJ was launched in 1840. Anyone can log on to www.bmj.com and cast a vote.
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BMJ poll to choose the top advance in medicine - The Times 5th January 2007
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Vote for the greatest medical milestone - The Telegraph 5th January 2006
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Penicillin to the Pill, what is the greatest medical miracle? - Daily Mail 4th January 2007
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Herceptin improves some breast cancer survival rates, says study - The Guardian 5th January 2007
Giving women with certain breast cancers the drug Herceptin improves survival rates two years on, a study reports today. Previous research has shown that Herceptin stops breast cancers returning for the 15-25% of women who have a type of early breast cancer called HER2-receptor positive. But this is the first time a reduction in the number of deaths has been recorded.
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Dosage loophole restricts Herceptin for NHS patients - The Independent 5th January 2007
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Herceptin reduces cancer deaths by a third, study shows - The Times 5th January 2007
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Campaigners proved right over Herceptin - Daily Mail 4th January 2006
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Herceptin does cut cancer deaths - BBC Health News 5th January 2007
Viv Groskop on women who breastfeed other people's babies - The Guardian 5th January 2007
It may be taboo, but some British women still quietly breastfeed other people's babies - and in Hollywood and China, wet-nursing is actually becoming fashionable. Hurrah, says Viv Groskop
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X-ray plan for young asylum seekers - The Guardian 5th January 2007
Young asylum seekers entering the UK face undergoing x-rays of their teeth and wrist bones to try to assess their age under government plans opposed as unethical and ineffective by an array of medical specialists and children's campaigners. A Home Office document seen by the Guardian, a final version of which is due to be published within days, outlines plans to introduce the medical procedures in measures to determine whether unaccompanied young asylum seekers without valid documents are under 18.
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Equalising Opportunity - The Guardian 5th January 2007
Today's sex and power report is the Equal Opportunities Commission's last ever independent publication. From the autumn it becomes a component part of the new Human Rights Commission. Yet, as the report so gloomily illustrates, its work is far from done. Once more the EOC audit of the division of the spoils at the top finds that men are in charge almost everywhere, from the courts and parliament to the civil service and the boardrooms of the FTSE 100 - even, it has to be admitted, in the editors' offices of national newspapers. Thirty two years after the EOC was founded, the pay gap sticks stubbornly at 17%, the part-time pay gap at 36%. More women remain in pension poverty, and will still do so after the latest proposals. Plugging away at individual discrimination cases, finding women brave enough to take on their employers at the cost of their own prospects, has brought modest progress. It is time for a change of tactics.
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Cheap drugs for poor nations - The Guardian 5th January 2007
Two UK-based academics have devised a way to invent new medicines and get them to market at a fraction of the cost charged by big drug companies, enabling millions in poor countries to be cured of infectious diseases and potentially slashing Britain's drugs bill. Sunil Shaunak, professor of infectious diseases at Imperial College, based at Hammersmith hospital, calls their revolutionary new model "ethical pharmaceuticals".
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Better care and drop in smoking cuts heart disease deaths by 36% - The Times 5th January 2007
The number of people dying from heart disease has fallen by more than a third in the past ten years thanks to better treatment, better detection and a decline in smoking. The dramatic reduction in deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) is underlined by data released today by the Government. The figures show a 35.9 per cent drop in heart disease deaths for those under 75 since 1996.
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Cholesterol drugs help cut heart deaths - The Telegraph 5th January 2006
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Heart deaths 'continue to fall' - BBC Health News 4th January 2007
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Surgery on smokers 'is wasted' - The Times 5th January 2007
Smokers should be denied surgery on the NHS unless they kick their habit, a leading doctor has said. In a debate published today in the British Medical Journal, Professor Matthew Peters, the head of thoracic medicine at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia, claims that five non- smokers could be operated on for the cost of four smokers, and that their outcomes would be better.
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37,000 job cuts needed to pay NHS salary bill - The Times 5th January 2007
The Government is looking for ways of cutting the huge NHS salary bill to bring the service back into financial balance. Tens of thousands of job cuts and a three-year pay deal, starting with a low or zero increase for 2008-09, are strong possibilities, as the Department of Health wrestles with booming staff numbers and mismanaged pay deals.
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Sex? Yes. Fight? Yes. Smoke? No - The Times 5th January 2007
The Government’s latest wheeze is to raise the legal age for buying cigarettes from 16 to 18. So let me see if I have this straight. You will be able legally to have sex at 16 — or younger, according to senior policemen — but the law won’t allow you a postcoital cigarette until two years later. Not even if you are married (legal age: 16). At 16, you will be old enough to join the Army and train to fight wars.
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Celebs, cancer and scientific sense - The Times 5th January 2007
Sense About Science has highlighted how important it is for celebrities to check their messages with scientists (report, Jan 3). This doesn’t diminish the vital role celebrity support plays for charities. Celebrity endorsement can help to raise funds and can also prove an invaluable tool for spreading health messages.
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Italian GP loses his £10,000 job - The Telegraph 5th January 2006
The Italian doctor who was paid £3,200 to work in the NHS for five days over Christmas has had his next health service job cancelled. Dr Annibale Bertollo, 53, was told yesterday by his agency, Team24, that he was not needed for a £10,000, two-month stint at Greywells Medical Centre, in Leigh Park, Havant, Hampshire. He was due to start tomorrow.
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The mother who faints if she says: I love you - Daily Mail 4th January 2007
Telling someone you love them can sometimes be tricky. But for Wendy Richmond it is nearly impossible - because every time she gets emotional she risks collapsing to the floor.
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British gene team are on the brink of cancer breakthrough - Daily Mail 4th January 2007
British scientists are on the verge of producing a drug that could revolutionise cancer treatment.
It shuts down the rogue genes that cause cancer and is due to be tested on humans for the first time in the next few months.
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Hypnosis may help anxious teens - BBC Health News 4th January 2007
Self hypnosis could be useful in aiding treatment for children suffering from anxiety, research has suggested. A small study found that hypnotherapy helped psychological treatment in reducing anxiety and feelings of helplessness in students.
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Ashley's story - The Guardian 5th January 2007
When news broke that a disabled American girl had been given radical treatment to prevent her growing up, it caused a furore. Here, in an edited extract from his blog, her father explains why the family did it
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British mother of a girl with similar condition to Ashley's gives her reaction - The Guardian 5th January 2007
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Treatment keeps girl child-sized - BBC Health News 4th January 2007
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Cheshire and Merseyside News
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Alder Hey test site dig - Liverpool Echo 4th January 2007
PITS will be dug in Springfield Park to try to find out the cost of the new Alder Hey. Engineers will bore five holes into the soil to find out how strong the clay is, as well as five pits to help builders examine it.
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New role to tackle domestic violence - Liverpool Echo 4th January 2007
SEFTON has appointed a new official to help tackle domestic violence. Caroline Rowsell started her new role just before Christmas when she joined the council's Community Safety Unit.
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Patients served up cut- price meals - Midweek Advertiser 3rd January 2007
PATIENTS at Ormskirk and Southport hospitals have just £1.17 spent on an average meal - less than half that at some other hospitals.
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NHS system working well - Ellesmere Port Pioneer 4th January 2007
THE end of 2006 marks the second birthday of a revolutionary NHS computer system. West Cheshire Primary Care Trust says the local electronic patient record system has transformed its out-of-hours service for the benefit of patients.
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
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Beating fraud against the NHS - Ormskirk Advertiser 4th January 2007
WRIGHTINGTON Hospital took part in the NHS’s Fraud Awareness Month. This was a campaign to raise awareness of the damage fraud against the NHS can do to patient care – and what honest staff and patients can do to help stop it.
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Breath of fresh air... - Lancashire Telegraph 4th January 2007
HEALTH bosses are urging East Lancashire smokers to quit once and for all with a new drug which has just been released on the NHS. They said residents can kick the habit this New Year with the help of Champix, which reached the UK last month.
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Sickness virus warning to visitors - The Bolton News 4th January 2007
VISITORS to Blackpool are being warned about an outbreak of a vomiting virus. Health officials say several cases of viral gastroenteritis have been reported, some by hotel guests, on the Fylde coast.
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Greater Manchester News
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Children at risk numbers grow - The Bolton News 4th January 2007
THE number of children at risk of being sexually exploited has doubled over the past two years in Bolton, according to new figures. In 2004, the number of children aged up to 18-years-old at risk was 13. Currently the numbers stand at 26.
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Eighth top for physio - Bury Times 4th January 2007
BURY has the eighth highest percentage of patients in the North West seeking hospital treatment for severe musculoskeletal disorders, new figures reveal. During 2005, of the 46,911 residents treated by Bury Primary Care Trust on admission to Fairfield General Hospital, a total of 2,096, (7.1 per cent) required physiotherapy for conditions ranging from lower back pain and rheumatoid arthritis to gout.
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Give us your hospital ideas - Altrincham Messenger 4th January 2007
THE public consultation at Altrincham General Hospital has caused some confusion. Following our first public consultation event, we feel that we must offer some clarification. Many people have told us that they would like to have a range of services available that weren't previously provided. For example, there have been suggestions for rehabilitation that may be led by nurses or GPs rather than hospital doctors.
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