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The balance between risk and uncertainty is not easy to judge in a situation where known dangers can be transformed by biological change. There is no certain ground on which the government can pin its response to the outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian flu on an industrial poultry farm last week. It must manage fears with one eye on the generally good record of past outbreaks and one eye on the much greater threat which may follow.
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Global poor most at risk from bird flu - The Guardian 5th February 2007
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FAQ What are the dangers? - The Guardian 5th February 2007
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The real bird flu threat lies elsewhere - The Observer 4th February 2007
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The sports minister Richard Caborn will today propose that anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) be adapted to include up to six hours of physical activity or competitive sport each week. Caborn will use a lecture in London to argue that sport can play an effective part in delivering government policy, particularly in the area of health and social exclusion, and sees the controversial youth justice arena as one in which it can make a tangible difference
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The pill could be made available over the counter without a doctor's prescription, it will be suggested this week. The medicines regulator will debate plans to make the pill, as well as some sexual health tests, available at chemists in what would amount to one of the biggest liberalisations of access to medicines.
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Vulnerable people who are not mentally ill or dangerous could be sectioned because government plans to protect the public are flawed, an influential parliamentary watchdog is warning. The Joint Committee on Human Rights, composed of MPs and peers, fears that, under the terms of the mental health bill, vulnerable groups may end up being detained despite posing no risk to themselves or others.
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'Unusual' fetishists face being locked up - The Independent 4th February 2007
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'Unusual' fetishists face being locked up - The Independent 4th February 2007
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Just as Sanofi-Aventis ponders a deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb, creating a new giant to rival the world leader, analysts are suggesting the age of medical monoliths is over. Richard Wachman reports
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Your report, 'Crackdown on therapists who abuse vulnerable', (News, last week) will have been welcomed by the thousands who have had their lives wrecked by poor quality therapy and counselling.
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One of Britain's most popular sleeping drugs has been blamed for a series of bizarre events in which patients have driven their cars or had eating binges in the middle of the night while still unconscious. New evidence has linked zolpidem to a series of incidents of strange and often risky behaviour, including a woman who painted her front door while still asleep and another user who put on just under four stone in seven months after she began raiding her fridge.
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As the awful poo lady goes into her fourth series on Channel 4, I can't stop thinking about that PhD. I'm talking about Dr Gillian McKeith PhD, of course. It's from a non-accredited correspondence college in the US, so no trustworthy government body attests to their standards. But I'm open minded, and it was always perfectly possible that she'd done a meaningful piece of work, on top of paying those correspondence course fees.
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It was encouraging to have some comment on Britain's noisy society (Quiet, please, G2, January 31), and I hope it will be the spur to much more activity to counter the misery that nearly everyone now is forced to suffer. But the article barely touches on piped music, the curse of the modern age. I refuse to buy from any shop with it, and now I am virtually excluded from the marketplace, even from bookshops. If it were not for John Lewis, Waitrose and Lidl, life for me would be much more difficult; I wonder, incidentally, if the lack of music is not a major factor in those shops being among the most successful in the country.
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A health expert yesterday condemned Britain's second-biggest supermarket chain, Asda, after the company announced it is to stock size-zero clothes. In an open letter to the fashion industry, seen exclusively by The Independent on Sunday, Professor Janet Treasure, of the eating disorders unit at King's College London, accused Asda of exploiting for profit young women's obsession with appearing thin.
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Since Helen of Troy's face launched a thousand ships, women have plucked and tweezed in the hope of at least matching her perfect, high and arched eyebrows. No more. High eyebrows are out and low brows are the most appealing. Where once Nicole Kidman was considered the acme of beauty - at least as far as her eyebrows are concerned - now the most attractive brows are those that curve lower over the eye, reaching a peak height two-thirds of the way along. The actress Jennifer Connelly is now widely considered to have today's perfect eyebrows.
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AS a doctor who has worked in Britain and Holland, Hajo Grundmann could not have a better insight on why the two countries are so far apart in the battle against the superbug MRSA. While Holland, along with Norway, has emerged as the nation with the lowest rate of MRSA in Europe, Britain has one of the highest, together with Cyprus, Malta and Portugal.
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For the inpatients at Rhodes Farm, a specialist residential centre in North London for children with eating disorders, the Government’s constant mantra of obesity epidemics, nutritious school meals and five-a-day is weighing heavily on some very slight shoulders. “When I first started to lose weight, it was because I thought I ate unhealthily,” says 17-year-old Helen. “Everyone our age thinks that they are eating unhealthily because they have chocolate. You’re told no fat, no sugar . . . Then when you come here and you are made to eat it’s even harder, because it goes against all the messages.”
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Children are becoming obsessed with calorie-counting and face increased playground bullying about their weight as a result of the Government’s antiobesity campaign, experts said yesterday. Pupils are overloaded with information about healthy eating, which can lead to a preoccupation with food and fuel the development of eating disorders, according to the specialists.
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Suffering in silence, the lonely youngsters with eating disorders 'suffer in silence' - The Telegraph 5th February 2007
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Anorexia victims left to starve in 'twilight zone' - The Telegraph 4th February 2007
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Anorexia victims left to starve in 'twilight zone' - The Telegraph 4th February 2007
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It seems that, these days, everyone and everything has got a tsar. From children to trains, if there's a problem, then it's considered the sensible thing to appoint a tsar. Internet security, respect, pensions, oil, education, bullying, the climate, drugs. The list goes on and on. Even squirrels have one. It's a nice way for the Government to appease panic among the populace. Think you might be losing votes on a particular topic? Throw a tsar into the mix and things will soon calm down. Obviously this argument falls down with squirrels, who, when I last checked, weren't eligible to vote – but I'm sure the Government has its reasons.
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Family doctors could be asked to carry out operations for cataracts, hernia and varicose veins and work from "one-stop" health centres under plans published today by the GP tsar. Dr David Colin-Thome says in his report that the best way to improve patient care, increase efficiency and get better value for money is for GPs to take on more roles traditionally carried out by hospitals.
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TV's clean-cut couple Tess Daly and Vernon Kay talk to Cassandra Jardine about their humbling new hospital role Tess Daly is reading from a crib sheet of statistics about Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), of which she has just become a patron.
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By 2025, a new generation of drugs will mean up to 80 per cent of us will survive cancer. We'll just have to sell up to pay for them, says Nick Horley One in three of us gets cancer. I had testicular cancer at the age of 32 and was cured, but this doesn't mean I've had my ration and can take up smoking and gorge myself on lard for the next 50 years without fear of getting another tumour: the statistics say my chances of getting another type of cancer are much the same as yours.
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Britain's leading holistic health practitioner, answers your questions Q. I am 40 years old and childless, and have, I think, started the menopause. I am getting hot sweats. Drinking water only makes it worse. Please can you give me some advice.
Sir Richard Branson is planning to enter into the health care market by opening a chain of doctors' surgeries, it has been reported. The Sunday Times said the entrepreneur had announced plans for a Virgin Medical Centre scheme which would establish a chain of super-surgeries for groups of GPs.
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The controversial doctor who started the MMR scare will return to Britain this week to issue a stark new warning about autism and claim many child victims don't need psychiatric help. Dr Andrew Wakefield will claim that thousands of children with autism should not be receiving psychiatric help, but should be treated with drugs and a change in diet.
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The government's GP leader is to go on a major charm offensive after weeks of damaging stories about the profession. GP tsar Dr David Colin-Thome is to publish a major report which will say that family doctors hold the key to modernisation of the health service.
A family had their home repossessed after they missed mortgage payments so they could send their son to fat camp. Linda Morris-Finn said she risked the family home in Highbury Vale, Nottingham, because she was "desperate" to help her 11-year-old son Carl.
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Blair defends his record on NHS - BBC Health News 5th January 2007
Tony Blair has defended his record on the NHS, and said it was in much better shape than when he came to office. In an interview with the BBC Today programme, Mr Blair said waiting lists - which he called the biggest problem facing the NHS in 1997 - had come down.
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Monthly mood swings may help women to get pregnant, according to a new study. A team of US scientists have discovered that fluctuations in levels of the female sex hormone oestrogen affect the responsiveness of the brain's "reward system", with a peak in the first part of the menstrual cycle.
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Expert doubts widespread HIV risk - BBC Health News 3rd February 2007
HIV/Aids campaigners are circulating "misconceptions" about who is at risk, a former World Health Organization expert has warned. Dr James Chin was head of a WHO Global Programme on Aids unit from 1987-1992.
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HIV can dodge destruction by powerful antiretroviral drugs by hiding out in the testicles, scientists say. The French work in the American Journal of Pathology suggests the gonads provide an ideal environment for the Aids virus to replicate itself.
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Expert doubts widespread HIV risk - BBC Health News 3rd February 2007
HIV/Aids campaigners are circulating "misconceptions" about who is at risk, a former World Health Organization expert has warned. Dr James Chin was head of a WHO Global Programme on Aids unit from 1987-1992.
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