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National News
Doctors 'deny elderly treatments' - BBC Health News 14th February 2007
Doctors deny older people treatments they would offer younger patients, according to a study. Researchers writing in the Quality and Safety in Health Care journal said it demonstrated doctors in the NHS were guilty of ageism.
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First aiders prepare for big push - The Times 14th February 2007
WHITWICK A portly dummy called Fat Fred is giving first-aiders at the Hermitage Leisure Centre, Leicestershire, the chance to practise their resuscitation techniques on larger patients. Steve Perry, who runs a first-aid course at the centre in Whitwick, Leicestershire, said that most patients in need of CPR today were more like Fat Fred - whose sternum is harder to find for chest compressions - than traditional dummies. Ninety-one of the larger models have been sold.
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£20bn NHS computer system 'doomed to fail' - The Telegraph 14th February 2007
Labour's multi-billion- pound project to create the NHS's first ever national computer system "isn't working and isn't going to work", a senior insider has warned. The damning verdict on the ambitious £20 billion plans to store patients' records, and allow people to book hospital appointments, on a central computer network has been delivered by a top executive at one of the system's main suppliers.
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Breastfeeding 'aids class status' - BBC Health News 14th February 2007
Babies who are breastfed are more likely to move up the social ladder as adults, a study has suggested. The University of Bristol team looked at 1,400 babies born from 1937-1939 and followed their progress for 60 years.
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Breast fed children climb social ladder - The Daily Mail 14th February 2007
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'Hugging my dad gave me cancer' - The Daily Mail February 2007
A woman is to sue the Ministry of Defence for £75,000, claiming that hugging her dockyard worker father caused her cancer. Debra Brewer has been diagnosed with the asbestos-related condition mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer.
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Office staff 'could weigh babies' - BBC Health News 14th February 2007
Secretaries could take on the role of weighing babies at medical facilities to save money, a union has claimed. Amicus said proposals for office staff to weigh children at clinics and health centres run by Bexley Care Trust (BCT) in south London were "frightening".
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Greater Manchester News
Call for public inquiry on cancer test blunders - Manchester Evening News 14th February 2007
MP Beverley Hughes is demanding a full public inquiry into `serious' management failures that allowed 20 breast cancer patients to be misdiagnosed by a senior doctor. Ms Hughes - MP for Stretford and Urmston and minister for children and families - said events at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust had been a `scandalous failure to put patients' interests first'.
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Virtual classroom for cancer car - Manchester Evening News 14th February 2007
A "VIRTUAL classroom" to teach students around the world how to care for young people with cancer was launched today. The Teenage Cancer Trust developed the website for people who wish to study for a postgraduate certificate in cancer care for teenagers and young adults.
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Fluoride in water moves ever closer - The Bolton News 14th February 2007
BOLTON has moved a step closer to having fluoride added to its water supply. Health bosses are preparing to sign up to become members of the North-west Fluoridation Evaluation Group.
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Meeting over NHS plans - The Lancashire Telegraph 14th February 2007
A MEETING will take place tonight on controversial plans to use private firms for NHS patients. Health chiefs will discuss the Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Support Services project at the New Era Centre, Paradise Street, Accrington, from 7pm.
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