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IVF clinics forced to open files - The Guardian 16th January 2007
The fertility industry regulator yesterday took the unprecedented step of obtaining a warrant to inspect the records of Britain's most successful IVF clinic on the day a TV programme questioned its methods. Police officers accompanied officials from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to two London clinics run by Mohamed Taranissi. One of his clinics, the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre, has the highest success record in the country, with a 59% pregnancy rate among women under 35.
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Police raid clinics of top IVF doctor amid claims that he acted illegally - The Times 16th January 2007
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My IVF and the clinic from hell - The Independent 16th January 2007
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Top IVF doctor's clinics inspected - The Independent 16th January 2007
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Tories pledge $1bn a year to wipe out malaria - The Guardian 16th January 2007
The Conservatives will today make their first significant pitch on international aid by unveiling plans to spend $1bn (£510m) a year on malaria treatment until the disease is eradicated worldwide.
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Diary - The Guardian 16th January 2007
Popular Pat Hewitt's canny plan to "rationalise" NHS services by pulling the plug on assorted A&E, maternity and children's departments at hospitals across the land continues, we're delighted to see, to enjoy widespread support among her government colleagues. Following Saturday's disgraceful report in this very newspaper that no fewer than 13 members of Mr Tony's ministerial team were now fighting planned closures in their constituencies, the office of one of them - immigration under-sec Joan Ryan - emails to intimate that the article failed fully to express the measure of her indignation at an "unreliable, discredited and utterly flawed" plan, while someone else helpfully informs us of two further high-ranking home office rebels: PPS Siobhan McDonagh, and police minister Tony McNulty. We are, obviously, devastated.
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Why can't I sleep? - The Guardian 16th January 2007
It's 3am and you're wide awake. At least you can be reassured that, like you, millions of other people are lying in bed, staring into the dark. A study by the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh says January is the most sleepless month of the year. The same research has named 3am as Anxiety Hour, when up to 8.5 million adults are regularly jolted awake. Worries over money (particularly after an expensive Christmas), family and work are the insomniac's favourite mental torture topics.
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Gaming addicts 'need treatment on NHS' - The Times 16th January 2007
Gambling should be recognised as a form of addiction and treatment for it provided by the NHS, doctors’ leaders said in a report published yesterday. Britain faces a surge in gambling as opportunities to place bets increase, the British Medical Association cautioned. The Gambling Act will come into force in September, at a time when online gambling is expanding fast.
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Doctors warn of a Britain lost amid the throes of its addiction to gambling - The Telegraph 16th January 2007
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Call for better NHS gambling help - BBC Health News 15th January 2007
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Aspirin 'may halt asthma' - The Times 16th January 2007
Men who take a low dose of aspirin to protect against heart disease may also reduce the risk of adult-onset asthma.
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Fast-track cures for ill nurses - The Times 16th January 2007
WITH sickness rates in public services 40 per cent higher than in the private sector, the Government is determined to bring them down. But how? Nursing Standard (Jan 10) says that nurses could soon be fast-tracked through treatment and back to work if proposals due to be published in the spring are accepted.
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Launchpad for a healthy legacy - The Times 16th January 2007
Professor Ian Gilmore tells David Rose that public health, patient care and promoting best practice are just three of the challenges facing the Royal College of Physicians
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Calm down, you really are hysterical - The Times 16th January 2007
There is new research that suggests the discredited illness has a sound neurological basis. Perhaps because it brings to mind witches, the possessed and deranged women to whom its diagnosis was once loosely applied, hysteria has long been known as the illness that dare not speak its name. At one time a catch-all phrase for “problem” women, it describes a condition in which psychological abnormalities result in a host of bodily ills.
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Blair wants Whitehall to share your data - The Telegraph 16th January 2007
The Government was accused yesterday of setting up a database "from the cradle to the grave" on every citizen after Tony Blair announced plans to make it easier for departments to share information. Opposition parties and civil liberties groups warned that any shared database across Whitehall and local government would be "ripe for corruption and fraud" and would breach people's privacy.
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What five cigarettes a day does to your arteries - Daily Mail 15th January 2007
Discs are monitoring my heart rate and on my neck an ultrasound device is allowing the sonographer to take a look inside my carotid artery, through which blood from my heart is being pumped to my brain.
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My heavy periods were a sign I was at risk of infertility - Daily Mail 15th January 2007
Last year, Julia Bradbury, a presenter on BBC1's Watchdog, underwent surgery for endometriosis. This painful condition affects up to two million women in the UK and can cause infertility. Although it is treatable, some don't discover they have the condition until it is too late.
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MRSA - It's even worse than you think - Daily Mail 15th January 2007
Over the past weeks and months, the subject of MRSA has never been far from Claire Rayner’s mind. It’s not just that as president of the Patients Association the topic dominates her in-tray, so much as the fact that last October she was struck down by the superbug for the third time in five years.
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Hormone 'no anti-ageing elixir' - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
There is no proof that growth hormone therapy makes people live longer, say US scientists. The therapy has been touted in some quarters as a way to prevent - or even reverse - ageing.
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Thousands ignore glaucoma advice - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
People with glaucoma who fail to use prescribed medication regularly are losing their sight unnecessarily, according to a leading charity. The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) is launching a campaign to encourage people to follow medical advice.
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Hope over 'obesity-busting gum' - BBC Health News 15th January 2007
Scientists are looking at whether an appetite-suppressing chewing gum could be used to tackle obesity. The Imperial College London team are developing a drug based on a natural gut hormone that mimics the body's "feeling full" response.
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New medical research - The Times 16th January 2007
People suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to be much less sensitive to pain than normal, says a study of 24 soldiers in the Archives of General Psychiatry (Jan). Brain scans indicate that men with PTSD show altered pain processing when their hands are subjected to uncomfortable stimuli, reports the Rudolph Magnus Institute of Neuroscience in the Netherlands.
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Child abuse link to future health - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
Children who suffer abuse have an increased risk of physical ill health in adulthood, results suggest. Researchers at King's College London followed 1,000 people in New Zealand from birth to the age of 32.
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Japan confirms bird flu outbreak - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
Officials in Japan have confirmed that a recent outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm was the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. Almost 4,000 chickens died at a farm in Miyazaki on the southern island of Kyushu last week, and the remaining 8,000 birds were culled on Sunday.
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Cheshire and Merseyside News
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Look at me mum, I can really walk - Liverpool Echo 15th January 2007
CALLUM Boan, the little boy who touched the hearts of ECHO readers, has finally taken his first steps. Today, the three-year-old is back at home in St Helens after undergoing life-changing botox surgery. He has taken his first tentative steps after receiving the revolutionary injections at Cromwell Hospital in London.
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Staff mourn nurse found strangled at her home - Liverpool Echo 15th January 2007
STAFF at a Liverpool hospital today paid tribute to a colleague found strangled at her home. Sandra Wilson, 43, was found at Gladstone Way, Newton-le-Willows, in the early hours of January 6.
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
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Manslaughter Trial of Psychiatrist Due to Start - Carlisle News & Star 15th January 2007
The trial of a former west Cumberland hospital psychiatrist who is accused of manslaughter was due to begin at Carlisle Crown Court today. Peter Fisher, 45, denies the offence.
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Contract wrangle leaves patients without TVs - Lancashire Telegraph 15th January 2007
PATIENTS' groups and MPs have called for urgent action after a wrangle between health bosses and a private firm has left patients at Blackburn's new super hospital with no TVs or telephones.
And health bosses have now threatened to pull the plug on an electronics firm which agreed to put in the systems.
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MP defends health stance - Lancashire Telegraph 15th January 2007
BURNLEY MP Kitty Ussher has defended her stance against Whitehall plans for the NHS after she was named in a national newspaper as one of 11 ministers opposed to their own government's proposals. Mrs Ussher, a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Trade and Industry, was among the ministers named in the Guardian as opponents of the government plans.
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Corrie star heads campaign - The Bolton News 15th January 2007
CHILDREN are being asked for their views on how doctors could do better. Coronation Street's Rosie Webster, played by Bury actress, Helen Flanagan, is launching a poster competition to encourage youngsters to speak up.
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Pledge to keep hospital cuts to minimum - The Bolton News 15th January 2007
HEALTH bosses have vowed to keep cash cuts at the Royal Bolton Hospital to a minimum. NHS chiefs have announced plans to privatise some medical services in a move that would axe £3.7 million from the hospital's budget and lead to up to 130 job losses.
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