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Drug users on methadone for heroin addiction should be given shopping vouchers and other rewards as incentives to stay clean, according to draft guidance published for consultation. Voucher schemes have worked well in the US, according to the guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Users should be given a prompt reward for a urine or blood sample that proves they are free of heroin or other illicit drugs, rising in value the longer they stay that way.
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Shopping voucher plan for addicts - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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£10 shopping tokens 'would help addicts to stay clean' - The Times 27th January 2007
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Nice wants incentives for addicts days after refusing cancer drug - The Telegraph 27th January 2007
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Nice wants incentives for addicts days after refusing cancer drug - The Telegraph 27th January 2007
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Shopping voucher plan for addicts - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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Researchers have linked stress experienced by pregnant women to higher incidences of mental and behavioural problems in their children. The research, presented yesterday at a Royal College of Psychiatrists conference in London, suggests high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in amniotic fluid in the womb could affect the development of the brains of foetuses, affecting their future social skills, language ability and memory.
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Stress 'harms brain in the womb' - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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Stress 'harms brain in the womb' - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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The call came at 4am. The voice was hoarse and feral. It was the way Luke often sounded when spiralling out of control. His father gripped the phone blearily. "Dad, I've got bad news. I'm in the locked ward and ... you remember Stevie, that nice charge nurse? I ripped out his eye.
A couple who supplied thousands of bars of chocolate laced with cannabis to ease the pain of multiple sclerosis sufferers escaped jail yesterday. Lezley and Mark Gibson, both 42, got nine-month jail sentences, suspended for two years, after being found guilty at Carlisle crown court of conspiring to supply the class C drug. Marcus Davies, 36, who ran a PO box and website for their organisation, received the same sentence.
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'Cannabis bar' suppliers escape jail - The Independent 27th January 2007
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Judge sentences cannabis chocolate dealers - The Times 27th January 2007
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Chocolate drugs trio spared jail - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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Babies are being taken from their parents and placed in care before all other options are exhausted so that local authorities can meet targets on adoption, a group of MPs claim. They say that a sharp rise in the number of babies removed from families in the past ten years, then adopted a year or so later, is linked to pressure on local authorities to increase by 50 per cent the number of adoptions by 2006.
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Babies put in care 'for adoption targets' - The Telegraph 27th January 2007
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Babies 'removed to meet targets' - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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Babies put in care 'for adoption targets' - The Telegraph 27th January 2007
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Babies 'removed to meet targets' - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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Gordon Brown was accused yesterday of raiding dormant bank accounts to meet the increasing cost of holding the 2012 Olympic Games. The Conservative Party claimed that a Treasury e-mail disclosed proposals to distribute about £400 million of unclaimed assets to the Big Lottery Fund. The plans, expected to be published next week in a consultation paper on a new law on unclaimed assets, suggest that this could indirectly be used to fund the Olympics.
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Brown 'to raid social funds for Olympics' - The Telegaph 27th January 2007
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Brown 'to raid social funds for Olympics' - The Telegaph 27th January 2007
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Heart specialists in Leicester are planning what they say is the first heart valve replacement operation in Britain using keyhole techniques. On Tuesday Jan Kovac will lead a team of cardiologists in carrying out a percutaneous aortic valve replacement, a technique pioneered in France and carried out at only a few hospitals around the world.
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Pioneering valve surgery planned - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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Work without pay, NHS ask - The Times 27th January 2007
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Pioneering valve surgery planned - BBC Health News 26th January 2007
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Work without pay, NHS ask - The Times 27th January 2007
A debt-ridden Kent hospital has suggested that staff work a day without pay to ease its financial woes. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which reported a £16.7 million deficit last year, put the suggestion to staff in a letter from Terry Coode, director of human resources.
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What if the doc doesn’t recognise a broken leg? My hero of the week is Robert Moore. He’s 49 and lives with his partner and dogs in Roker, near Sunderland. They have a holiday place in Scotland and love going for long walks there. The trouble is, Robert had both his legs broken on Christmas Eve in a hit-and-run outside his own front door.
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A young disabled man who receives care for his life-limiting illness at a hospice run by a nun spoke yesterday of his decision to use a prostitute to experience sex before he dies. Sister Frances Dominica gave her support to 22-year-old Nick Wallis, who was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Sufferers usually die by their thirties.
A man with a mission came to my Life Club this week. Self-employed and as charming as you have to be when you are self-employed, he wanted a change of career but was lacking confidence and dreading the thought of having to sell himself all over again. "It feels like a mountain," he told me. His metaphor for the future was of being surrounded by mountains, one of which he'd have to climb in order to get where he wanted.
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One of Britain's biggest fashion houses has pledged to set an example during London Fashion Week next month and not use ultra-thin models on the catwalk. Sir Philip Green, head of the Arcadia group, which owns Topshop on size zero skinny models at Fashion week Sir Philip Green: 'I hope everyone else follows' Sir Philip Green, head of the Arcadia group, which owns Topshop and is a sponsor of the event, said his labels would not use "waifs" and hoped all designers would follow his lead.
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A woman is suing the NHS 24 helpline service for £750,000 over the death of her partner, BBC Scotland has learned. Father-of-two Steven Wiseman died in December 2004 at the age of 30 after complaining of flu-like symptoms.
The ways in which light can be used to diagnose and treat disease is the focus of an international conference. The Medical Photonics workshop, being held at St Andrew's University next week, will examine how light can be used for a variety of techniques.
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The NHS could claim back over £150m a year for treating employees injured at work, the government has said. The money would be recovered from insurance companies in cases where personal injury compensation has been paid to workers.
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Children vulnerable to eating disorders are being put under increased pressure by the government's school dinner reforms, a teachers' union has said. The healthy eating plan in England has given bullies "seeming justification" to target children about their size, warns the NASUWT.
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Diane von Furstenberg, inventor of the wrap dress, is leading the resistance to new rules about skinny models on the catwalk. Jess Cartner-Morley meets the designer in Paris
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Why do some people risk their lives for others? It’s all in the brain “UNDERGROUND hero” was the big headline this week, with the story of the firefighter Angus Campbell, who challenged an alleged Tube bomber to protect his fellow passengers.
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Men with gum disease have a 63% higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to US researchers. The Harvard-based study suggests mouth bacteria, and the body's attempt to fight them, may produce carcinogenic chemicals which trigger disease.
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Children will have access to improved treatment following changes to European laws, campaigners say. From this week, any new medicine licensed in Europe must be examined for its potential use for children.
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Impotence fears hit polio drive - BBC Health News 25th January 2007
Health officials in Pakistan say they have failed to immunise over 160,000 children against polio due to rumours the vaccine causes sexual impotence. Parents in parts of northern Pakistan told the BBC news website they feared an "American conspiracy" to cut the fertility of the next generation.
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EXECUTIVES at a debt-ridden hospital have gone against the team brought into overhaul their finances by refusing to cut cleaning costs. The “turnaround team” sent to Southport and Ormskirk Hospital to sort out its ailing finances told it to reduce the amount spent on the vital service to help wipe out its £15m debt.
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DETECTING and treating depression in cancer patients can improve their quality of life, tolerance of pain and give them a better chance of beating the disease, a University of Liverpool professor has revealed. Professor Mari Lloyd-Williams has devised a six-question survey to detect depression in cancer patients to help improve their ability to come to terms with their disease and overcome it.
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A LIVERPOOL mother today told of her heartbreak at losing her second daughter to cystic fibrosis. Pauline Sweeney watched as her 24-year-old daughter Rachael lost her fight for life. Rachel’s twin sister Rebecca died of the disease when they were just six months old.
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Pensioner Tony Hurst, 66, has to provide round-the-clock care for his 76 year old wife Betty, who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease. The only time he can afford for himself or to spend shopping and cleaning comes courtesy of the Lightfoot Lodge day centre and the respite care provided by a centre in Curzon Park.
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Barbara Buckley and her family have had their fair share of heartache over the years. Last year Barbara, 53, who suffers from heart disease, emphysema and has only one functioning kidney was told her condition had seriously deteriorated and she has only two years left to live. The organisation caring for her and her family, Care UK, decided to try and make her two last wishes come true.
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SOUTHPORT people have been urged to embrace the joys of home cooking if they want to lead healthy lives. That was the main finding of a food safety investigation carried out across Merseyside, which sampled levels of salt and sodium in a variety of fare looked at in premises from independent shops to supermarkets. Officers from Sefton Council’s environmental protection department were among those taking part.
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A DRUG screening company is being launched in Widnes to help employers tackle the problem of drug and alcohol abuse in the work place. David Coleman, the proprietor of Cheshire Screening Services in Waterloo Road, is expecting a busy opening week as companies in Widnes and Runcorn take advantage of his 'unique' new business.
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Go-ahead for care village for elderly - Ellesmere Port Pioneer 25th January 2007
A NEW development for the elderly in Ellesmere Port has been approved. The extra-care village, with 71 self-contained residential units, will be built at New Grosvenor Road in the Westminster area of town.
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CUMBRIANS with experience of learning disabilities are being urged to get involved in the largest audit undertaken in England. The Healthcare Commission, which is running the audit looking at services available in each area, wants to hear from people with learning disabilities, their family members, carers and health workers.
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COUNTY council chiefs have drawn up an action plan to get sick and disabled people back into work. They want to make it easier for people to find employment after a survey revealed Cumbria lagged behind the national average for the proportion of disabled people with full-time jobs.
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THREE people who supplied thousands of chocolate bars laced with cannabis to multiple sclerosis sufferers walked free from court today. Mark Gibson, his wife Lezley, both 42, who has multiple sclerosis (MS), from Alston, and Marcus Davies, 36, were each given a nine-month jail term, suspended for two years.
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Couple escape jail over MS cannabis bars - The Guardian 26th January 2007
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'Cannabis bar' suppliers escape jail - The Independent 27th January 2007
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Judge sentences cannabis chocolate dealers - The Times 27th January 2007
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Couple escape jail over MS cannabis bars - The Guardian 26th January 2007
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'Cannabis bar' suppliers escape jail - The Independent 27th January 2007
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YOU live in a house where sensors monitor what time you get up, when you go to bed, whether you remembered to turn off the cooker. It sounds like a scene from Big Brother but this is daily life for 76 elderly people in north Cumbria. And it could be part of the future for many of us.
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A WHITEHAVEN man who died after taking a drugs overdose in hospital would still be alive today if he’d been kept in the A&E department, a court heard. Handyman Peter Weighman had taken an overdose of 50 co-praxamol tablets on the Yewdale ward at the West Cumberland Hospital in September 2002 and then made his own way to the A&E department.
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BLACKBURN and Darwen health bosses have spent £470,000 in four-and-half years on drugs that stop obese people feeling hungry, it has been revealed. The spend, by the borough's primary care trust, has been labelled "phenomenal" and a "waste of money".
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WHEN Keith Ditchfield was told he had a cancerous tumour on his right kidney his reaction was, unsurprisingly, one of utter devastation. Yet he said he took for granted that the NHS would do all it could to help him, bringing some comfort that whatever the outlook, he was in the best care.
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GPs asked to open longer to help A&E - Lancashire Telegraph 27th January 2007
FAMILY doctors have been asked if they will stay open until 9pm to take the pressure off struggling A&E departments. A letter has been sent to surgeries in Blackburn with Darwen asking if they will consider the move.
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Call to save maternity unit - The Bolton News 26th January 2007
SALFORD Council chiefs are continuing their fight to save the city's hospital maternity ward. They have called on Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt to review the decision to close the unit at Hope Hospital.
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Blears stays clear of Hope demo - Manchester Evening News 25th January 2007
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