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The doctor-patient relationship is built on trust. But for thousands of women it can turn into one of abuse. Now the government is to take action to end their misery
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Crackdown on therapists who abuse vulnerable - The Observer 28th January 2007
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Crackdown on therapists who abuse vulnerable - The Observer 28th January 2007
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Doctors will create British medical history this week when they give a patient a new heart valve through no more than a small hole in the groin, rather than traditional open-heart surgery. Cardiologists at the Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, will operate for just 10 minutes, and the patients will leave hospital after two days rather than several weeks. The procedure will also cost the NHS a lot less.
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How can the government give processed foods the green light, but condemn the ingredients for a rustic Italian dish?
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What could be more natural than a 'walk in the park'? Today, few urban areas lack access to green spaces, while ministers have made local parks central to their public health agenda. Only last week, schoolchildren were given pedometers to take to the park in the battle against early obesity.
Jowell to wage war on the 'cult of size zero' - The Independent on Sunday 28th January 2007
Tessa Jowell is to join forces with leaders in the fashion world to wage war on the "tyranny of thinness", which she says is harming millions of young women. The Secretary of State for Culture, in partnership with Stuart Rose, chief executive of Marks & Spencer and chairman of the British Fashion Council, will set up a task force to deal with what she calls the "cult of size zero". Experts in eating disorders will also be on the panel, along with fashion industry representatives. They will talk to girls in schools about what needs to change, using the internet, and there may also be a poster campaign.
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Jowell to tackle 'cult of size zero' - The Sunday Telegraph 28th January 2007
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A leading Islamic doctor is urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella because they contain substances making them unlawful for Muslims to take. Dr Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical Association, says almost all vaccines contain un-Islamic "haram" derivatives of animal or human tissue, and that Muslim parents are better off letting childrens' immune systems develop on their own.
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Muslim urged to shun 'unholy' vaccines - The Sunday Times 28th January 2007
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Muslim urged to shun 'unholy' vaccines - The Sunday Times 28th January 2007
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The National Health Service is a bit like the Labour government - nobody's got a good word to say about it. In the past week we've heard about the scandal of GPs' pay and the Tories unveiled their Big Idea, which seemed to mean that health trusts could set their own budgets and abolish targets set by central government. Then on Friday we heard about the wheelchair-bound patient who went to the bathroom and returned to find her bed had been stripped ready for the next patient - the hospital in Devon was so short of beds it seemed they couldn't wait till patients had actually got dressed before they were evicted.
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THE government is to conduct the largest emergency exercise since the cold war on Tuesday to test whether it could cope in the event of a flu epidemic in Britain. Confidential plans have been circulated in Whitehall that will involve thousands of civil servants and officials from the emergency services. Some government advisers believe that a bird flu epidemic has overtaken terrorism as the biggest risk facing the country.
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BRITISH doctors had written “Joseph” off, saying he was too old to be treated on the National Health Service. But, at 72, he flew to Asia for a double-lung transplant and now claims to be the oldest man in Britain to have survived the operation. Joseph — not his real name — is one of a growing number of Britons who, frustrated with NHS waiting lists, are venturing into the murky world of organ brokers offering kidneys and livers harvested from the poorest quarters of the world, sometimes illicitly. Buying an organ is illegal in Britain, but generally not in Asia.
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THE article Rate your doctor, NHS asks patients (News, last week) lists “waiting too long for a liver transplant” as a possible reason for complaint, which suggests that waiting times for organs can be controlled by the NHS. Obtaining a donor organ — for which recipients are forever grateful — is dependent on the misfortune of others.
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SOCIAL workers are placing obese children on the child protection register alongside victims thought to be at risk of sexual or physical abuse. In extreme cases children have been placed in foster care because their parents have contributed to the health problems of their offspring by failing to respond to medical advice.
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The elderly will benefit under NHS reorganisation despite having to travel longer distances for treatment, the Government's "older people's tsar" claims. Professor Ian Philp believes older people will become the "biggest beneficiaries" of the push to remove services from local hospitals and concentrate them instead in a smaller number of specialist centres.
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A boy of 12 is believed to have become the world's youngest sex change patient after convincing doctors that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female. The boy - originally called Tim, but now known as Kim - has started to receive hormone treatment, in preparation for the operation that will eventually complete the sex change.
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The row between the Churches and the Government hides the grim truth about adoption in Britain: that tens of thousands of children are denied the chance to live in a loving home. Shockingly, some councils refuse to put children up for adoption because of the cost Stephen is 10 years old, a bright boy with a troubled soul. He was taken into care in London, two years ago, away from his alcoholic parents who, for the flimsiest of reasons, subjected him to almost daily beatings with sticks, belts and - his father's favourite - a bicycle chain.
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Braces 'may not boost happiness' - BBC Health News January 28th 2007
Having braces to correct crooked teeth as a child does not improve mental well-being or quality of life in adulthood, a UK study suggests. A 20-year study found that orthodontic treatment had little positive impact on future psychological health.
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A frightening little study from Finland last week rang an old-fashioned alarm bell among those of us who are naturally suspicious of technology. It found that people with a particular type of brain tumour who have regularly used mobile phones for more than 10 years are 39 per cent more likely to have the tumour on the side where they hold their phones.
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Immune system 'brakes' found - BBC Health News January 28th 2007
Scientists say they have learnt how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections and foreign invaders. The advance, published in the journal Nature, may one day help find ways to tackle unwanted immune reactions following transplant surgery.
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Doctors’ fury at moves to send NHS patients to private firm - Lancashire Telegraph 28th January 2007
ANGRY doctors confronted health bosses over plans to send NHS operations to a private firm. They said the move risked breaking key links between patients and NHS doctors. And an NHS boss said she agreed and had "real problems" with how the plans will work.
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Hospital bosses have no problem with parking - The Bolton News 28th January 2007
AS a Bolton resident and a member of hospital staff, I found the parking fine for the nurse in The Bolton News (Tuesday, January 23) very disturbing. The staff pay £10 per month with no promise of a parking place.
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