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The number of people turning to liposuction in an attempt to lose weight has risen by 90% in one year - prompting experts to warn it is not a solution for obesity. The operation, in which fat cells are sucked from under the skin, has jumped from the eighth most popular cosmetic procedure in 2005 to third in 2006, behind breast and eyelid surgery.
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Women turn from exercise and dieting to liposuction - The Independent 29th January 2007
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Liposuction operation double in a year - The Times 29th January 2007
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Make-over shows are to blame for the growing liposuction craze, say surgeons - The Telegraph 29th January 2007
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Liposuction soars in popularity - BBC Health News 28th January 2007
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Women turn from exercise and dieting to liposuction - The Independent 29th January 2007
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Liposuction operation double in a year - The Times 29th January 2007
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Make-over shows are to blame for the growing liposuction craze, say surgeons - The Telegraph 29th January 2007
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Liposuction soars in popularity - BBC Health News 28th January 2007
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Our children have never been fatter. Nor have they ever been so prone to eating disorders like anorexia. What can parents do? How do you steer your kids away from one danger without pushing them towards the other? Lucy Atkins has some practical advice
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Christopher Blum was four months old when he died. His father found him in his bedroom, rigid and cold in his Babygro, his hands bunched up beside his face, a tear of blood dried around his nose. The pathologist told the parents that their son had died of cot death. They didn't believe it, and they still don't. Hours before his death, Christopher had been given a triple vaccination.
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The trade union which represents senior civil servants - including Whitehall policy advisers, government lawyers, tax inspectors and NHS bosses - has been dumped by its financial advisers because its members aren't rich enough. Towry Law has provided financial advice to the FDA, formerly known as First Division Association, for five years, but it has suddenly terminated the contract. Towry Law said it wants to focus on individuals with £100,000 or more to invest - and it cannot find enough among the FDA's senior civil servants.
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Foods containing unnecessary and unhealthy amounts of salt are named and shamed today as Britain's shoppers are urged to boycott potentially dangerous processed foods. The worst offenders include staple items such as bread, crumpets and cereals as well as the popular meat snack Peperami Sticks, which have about 4g of salt per 100g.
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Watchdog calls for boycott on salty foods - The Telegraph 29th January 2007
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Watchdog calls for boycott on salty foods - The Telegraph 29th January 2007
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Oliver James (Comment, January 24) offers a seductive explanation for rising mental-health problems, but fails to synthesise a convincing argument. To scapegoat the New Labour establishment is simplistic. It is true that the severely mentally ill are now as marginalised as they have ever been and that this government has failed shamefully in this realm. It is also true that antidepressant prescribing is excessive. But if James thinks a love of Prozac is an Anglo-American phenomenon he should go to France.
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The costs of educating children with special needs privately risk spiralling out of control, with little indication of whether the money spent represents good value, research from the Audit Commission suggests. Each year councils in England and Wales pay for about 11,000 children with special educational needs (SEN) to be educated in private or charit- able residential schools because there is no suitable local state provision. But fees have risen by 79 per cent in six years, a survey of the local authorities has found.
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A shortage of midwives is putting mothers and babies at risk, in spite of a Labour manifesto pledge to increase the numbers so that every pregnant woman would be cared for throughout by the same nominated midwife. Research shows that many baby units are failing to meet targets for the number of midwives and that Labour’s promise is far from being achieved.
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The health of thousands of newborn children will be in jeopardy by the end of the decade because more than a fifth of pregnant women will be obese, according to researchers. Obesity during pregnancy poses one of the biggest risks to an unborn child and is one of the most decisive factors in the development of heart, kidney and urinary tract defects. But an extensive study published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, suggests that the number of women who are obese when they become pregnant has risen from 9.9 per cent in 1990 to 16 per cent in 2004. Researchers say that if the trend continues, 22 per cent will be obese by 2010.
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Expectant mums 'getting too fat' - BBC Health News 28th January 2007
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Expectant mums 'getting too fat' - BBC Health News 28th January 2007
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The sentiments regarding healthcare expressed by your correspondent David Chandler (letter, Jan 24) remind me of the bitter objections raised in the mid and late 1940s against the basic concept of a National Health Service in which risks and costs were shared. The vast majority of the public enthusiastically supported the great social advance embodied in the NHS.
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Britain's army of alternative therapists is to be regulated by the Government under a crackdown on medical professionals who physically and sexually abuse their patients. A white paper on tackling rogue doctors, which is also expected to target alternative health practitioners, will be unveiled by health ministers next month.
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The NHS could save 800 lives a year by changing the way it treats older people, says a Government-backed report today. Preventing falls and looking after patients' needs better after an accident could stop 4,000 hip fractures a year and save strategic health authorities millions of pounds, it says.
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Pensioner tsar backs A&E closure plans - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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Pensioner tsar backs A&E closure plans - Daily Mail 29th January 2007
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When Sophie Brodie fell ill a year ago, she blamed a 'bug'. Then she discovered that toxoplasmosis is not just a disease that affects pregnant women Bird flu may have the world in a flap, but it's a form of "cat flu", or toxoplasmosis, that's got my tongue.
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Exercising without much oxygen might have huge benefits, but Bryony Gordon didn't like the sound of it one bit… What do you do when your boss tells you that, for your next assignment, you are going to run on a treadmill while simultaneously being deprived of oxygen? Cry? Resign? Feel offended because you thought that she liked you, but now it seems she wants you dead?
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Global warming could have one very unexpected - and unpleasant-side effect for Britons - the birth of the never-ending, all-year-round cold. While catching a cold used to mean sniffling and shivering for a few days before making a recovery, new evidence suggests that the common cold is lingering longer and longer.
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Most NHS prescription charges in England should be scrapped and applied to 'ineffective treatments' instead, NHS public health chiefs say. The Association of Directors of Public Health said rising demands on the NHS will lead to more rationing.
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Reform call for care of elderly - BBC Health News 28th January 2007New Story
Reform is needed to ensure the UK copes with the burgeoning care demands of growing numbers of elderly people, an expert warns. By 2025, the number of over-85s will have risen by two thirds - increasing demand on health and social services.
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Japan's health minister did nothing to endear himself to female voters over the weekend when he described women as "birth-giving machines" and implored them to "do their best" to halt the country's declining birthrate. In a speech to Liberal Democratic party members in western Japan, Hakuo Yanagisawa said women of child-bearing age should perform a public service by raising the birthrate, which fell to a record low of 1.26 children per woman in 2005. Experts say an average fertility rate of 2.1 children is needed to keep the population stable.
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Exhausted and short of money, the world’s oldest mother is seeking a younger husband to be a father to her twins. In her first interview since giving birth last month, Carmela Bousada, a 67-year-old Spaniard, said that she had sold her house in Andalucia to raise the £30,000 to pay for fertility treatment at a California clinic, where she lied about her age. The clinic’s age limit is 55.
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Too little fat 'can make children overweight' - Daily Mail 28th January 2007
Children who eat too little fat can end up overweight, a new study has found. Researchers in Sweden discovered that eating the right sort of fat kept the weight of children down.
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