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Scientists have developed a test for the early diagnosis of lung cancer. They hope the analysis of which genes are switched on and off in cells lining the airways leading to the lungs can be used to diagnose patients sooner and make treatments more effective. Lung cancer is the most deadly form of the disease. In Britain it is the most common cancer in men and the third most common in women. In 2002 about 37,700 new cases were recorded and nearly 29,000 deaths.
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Test may show smokers their risk of developing lung cancer - The Times 5th December 2007
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Test may show smokers their risk of developing lung cancer - The Times 5th December 2007
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The NHS will start recruiting alternative software suppliers to its troubled £6.2bn IT upgrade project this month, in a move which could see the government's vision for a single IT system for the health service in England unravelling. The move is a tacit admission that a fully integrated IT system may never be completed. NHS bosses had until recently discouraged hospital trusts from deserting the scheme. But disaffection is now so widespread and delays so long that officials are working on a list of accredited alternative suppliers, which is widely seen as a move to appease hospital trusts.
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Uneducated youngsters are becoming "ideal fodder" for pimps and drug dealers to recruit for a life of crime, the education secretary, Alan Johnson, will warn tomorrow. They are wasting their lives in and out of prison or turning to prostitution in a "spiral of despair" hitting the least educated in Britain, he will say. The stark assessment from the minister, who left school at 15, comes after a spate of killings of teenagers in south London. He said: "There is a spiral of despair which starts with disinterest at school, turns to disillusionment with society and ends with huge problems for society.
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Thousands of women with the brittle bone disease osteoporosis have been denied the necessary drugs to ease their condition because the medical debate about the most cost-effective treatment has taken five years to complete. Sufferers in some areas have been faced with 'treatment blight' - the reluctance of doctors to prescribe drugs because no decision has been made by Nice, the independent body that decides which drugs can be used.
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The husband of the mother who is believed to have killed her two children and then herself after suffering from debilitating postnatal depression spoke for the first time yesterday of his sorrow. Richard Talby also released a series of pictures of his wife, Susan, and the children, two-year-old Paul and Joseph, aged four, saying he loved his wife wholeheartedly and found it hard to believe that his family life was over.
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Father’s grief over wife and murdered sons - The Sunday Times 4th March 2007
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A new advertising campaign which will show ordinary people arguing for and against their right to smoke in public has been devised as part of the government's attempt to win hearts and minds over the smoking bans being introduced in England and Wales this year. The adverts, filmed by a Hollywood cinematographer, feature smokers and non-smokers in a hairdressing salon, a cafe and a bar. The characters make the same statements, such as 'I pay taxes, I have rights' but are looking at the issue from opposing points of view. The commercials close with the line: 'Secondhand smoke kills. The new ban won't.'
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Anti-passive smoking ad unveiled- BBC Health News 3rd March 2007
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A shocking new report claims that too many of the 4,300 women in Britain's prisons are vulnerable and a danger to themselves - and already this year two have taken their own lives
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Unions are warning of 'big trouble' ahead over the level of public sector pay awards this year after the government sought to keep rises for hundreds of thousands of workers to inflation or below. Unison, the public service union, will this week consult its membership over offers made to nurses and other health service workers that it says amount to an increase of 1.9 per cent this year.
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Unemployed junior doctors are fundraising to mount a legal challenge to the government's new Modernising Medical Careers system, which they say has unfairly denied some of the best-qualified young doctors interviews at NHS hospitals. All junior doctors have had to reapply for jobs as part of the system to modernise job applications. But a row broke out this week after hundreds were denied interviews despite being overqualified .
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Dr Work - The Guardian 3rd March 2007
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Training crisis is 'driving doctors abroad' - The Telegraph 5th March 2007
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Training crisis is 'driving doctors abroad' - The Telegraph 5th March 2007
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Rose Ballard always found her son Theo's behaviour disturbing and difficult, and thought she must be a terrible mother. Then, when he was 22, he was diagnosed as having Asperger's
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In the cold war paranoia made sense, but a bold new documentary argues that the west has become trapped in a false idea of what it means to be human.
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The minimum for a newly-qualified nurse is £19,166 a year. If Gordon Brown had accepted recommendations from an independent pay review body, that would have gone up by 2.5% to £19,645 from April 1 - almost exactly the same as the minimum for a newly qualified classroom teacher. Instead, the Chancellor announced on Thursday that nurses will get 1.5% next month and the rest in November. Leaders of the healthcare unions were furious.
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Brushing and flossing can be good for your heart and blood vessels as well as you teeth, according to research. Dental treatments and good oral hygiene can help the flow of blood through arteries, the study by British and US researchers found. It could help prevent heart attacks and strokes, they say.
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Record numbers of women are being harmed or dying as a direct result of childbirth in what doctors are labelling a "crisis" in maternity care. There has been a rise of 21 per cent in deaths of pregnant women in the care of NHS maternity services. Deaths over the past three years now total 391, up one fifth on the comparable period, and 17,000 women have suffered physical harm while on labour wards.
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Birth in Britain: Too few midwives, too many risks - The Independent on Sunday 4th March 2007
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Controversial measures to control mental health patients outside hospitals will not work and could deter sufferers from seeking help, according to a report commissioned by the Government. The measures, known as Community Treatment Orders (CTOs), are a key plank of the Government's Mental Health Bill, which is currently before Parliament.
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Kissing after eating food containing peanuts could lead to the development of nut allergies, according to a team of medical specialists. They say it may explain why almost all people who have peanut allergy have an eczema rash during their first six months of life. It is suggested that the allergens get in through the skin of infants with eczema, increasing their risk of developing an allergy.
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The wind was fierce and freezing. The cars moved slowly on the Humber Bridge, drivers concentrating hard. Few can have noticed the small group of men, women and children on the walkway, high above the river. Some were shuffling, not walking, because they were bound together by the iron chain looped around their wrists. Three men wore a wooden yoke on their necks that would snap vertebrae if they stumbled.
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Public services will be tailored more to the individual under Tony Blair's final reforms before he stands down this summer. Greater "personalisation" of state-funded services has emerged as a key theme in the Government's wholesale policy review, which will be discussed by the Cabinet next Thursday. One example would be "individual budgets" to give people more choice over who provides services to them.
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Hutton's carrot and stick welfare reforms - The Telegraph 5th March 2007
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Single parents could lose benefits unless they work - Daily Mail 4th March 2007
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Greenfield land would be turned into burial grounds for thousands of victims in the event of an avian flu pandemic, under emergency plans being considered by the Government. A nationwide shortage of cemetery space means that room would be needed to bury as many as 400,000 victims. A search is now under way to find greenfield sites on the edge of cities. Mass burial pits for the dead have been ruled out. Instead the plan is to create dignified, landscaped cemeteries that could become a memorial for victims.
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Hutton's carrot and stick welfare reforms - The Telegraph 5th March 2007
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Single parents could lose benefits unless they work - Daily Mail 4th March 2007
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Greenfield land would be turned into burial grounds for thousands of victims in the event of an avian flu pandemic, under emergency plans being considered by the Government. A nationwide shortage of cemetery space means that room would be needed to bury as many as 400,000 victims. A search is now under way to find greenfield sites on the edge of cities. Mass burial pits for the dead have been ruled out. Instead the plan is to create dignified, landscaped cemeteries that could become a memorial for victims.
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Key ingredients in common foods and snacks are often refined to the same extent as petroleum or hewn from mines deep underground before travelling thousands of miles to reach your plate, an analysis by The Times has found. The ingredients list of several foods includes additives, such as “mono and diglycerides”, “polysorbate 60” or “locust bean gum”, that are related more closely to industrial chemicals than any main food group.
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THE government is to allow GPs to prescribe free air-conditioning on the NHS to help those who have trouble breathing. Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, will announce this week that doctors should prescribe mobile units for those with serious lung conditions.
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It sounds like an activity designed for masochists, but a triathlon is not as hard as it first appears, given the right training. And according to the British Triathlon Federation it has never been more popular, attracting devotees faster than any other sport in Britain. Triathlon is a three-part race that requires participants to swim, cycle and run over set distances. It started with an event called “les trois sports” in France during the 1920s where competitors had to complete a 3km run, 12km ride and finish by swimming across the River Marne.
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I was glad to read in “Branson plans a joint NHS Virgin operation” (February 4) that Virgin and Asda are becoming involved with primary care trusts (PCTs) to provide healthcare. The NHS needs more contact with such companies.
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A SCIENTIFIC study into the controversial Atkins diet suggests that it can be one of the most effective ways for women to lose weight. At the end of 12 months, overweight subjects on the Atkins regime had lost twice as much weight on average as women on three competing diets. Atkins minimises carbohydrates, such as bread and sugar, in favour of meat and other proteins.
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ALCOHOL and tobacco could be ranked as more damaging than the class-A drug ecstasy if the government adopts recommendations to reclassify drugs according to the harm they do. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) will recommend in a new report that alcohol should be moved higher up the harm scale because of its links to violence and car accidents. Tobacco is also in the top 10 most harmful drugs because it is estimated to cause 40% of all hospital illnesses.
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It was only when jazz legend George Melly began shouting at strangers that his wife Diana accepted that he had dementia, she tells Victoria Lambert Stuck to the fridge in George Melly's kitchen is an intriguing note: a hand-written list of the food that the jazz singer, art historian, showman, bon viveur and all-round eccentric will now permit his wife, Diana, to serve him.
Drugs policy has failed. Do not take my word for it. That was, essentially, the conclusion of the Prime Minister's strategy unit in a report published last year after initially being suppressed. The aim of drugs policy over the past four decades has been to reduce demand and curb supply. It has done neither. Crime associated with drug-taking is as rife as ever. A new way needs to be found. In order to explore whether one exists and is worth pursuing, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), a venerable institution born during the Enlightenment of the 18th century, decided to establish a commission of experts and lay people to examine the impact of drugs policy and consider the merits of alternative approaches.
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Government officials were made aware of some problems with a version of the MMR vaccine in other countries but still introduced it in Britain in the late 1980s, newly released documents show. The MMR vaccine with the Urabe strain of mumps was first used in Britain in October 1988. It was blamed for the deaths of several children after being withdrawn by the Department of Health in September 1992.
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A blood test that would prevent hundreds of miscarriages a year could be routinely available within a few years. The test would reliably assess the health of the unborn child without risk and much earlier than at present.
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It was only when jazz legend George Melly began shouting at strangers that his wife Diana accepted that he had dementia, she tells Victoria Lambert Stuck to the fridge in George Melly's kitchen is an intriguing note: a hand-written list of the food that the jazz singer, art historian, showman, bon viveur and all-round eccentric will now permit his wife, Diana, to serve him.
Lower taxes and more choice in public services: I expect that, in your heart of hearts, those are the things you would like to be offered by a future government. But I'll bet that you are embarrassed to say so. If you are a reasonably affluent, socially competent person, you probably feel that even though such a regime would suit you down to the ground - enabling you to keep more of your own earnings and spend them on the basis of your own informed judgments - that it would be unfair to the poor, who must depend on governments to provide them with what they are ill-equipped to procure for themselves.
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Drugs policy has failed. Do not take my word for it. That was, essentially, the conclusion of the Prime Minister's strategy unit in a report published last year after initially being suppressed. The aim of drugs policy over the past four decades has been to reduce demand and curb supply. It has done neither. Crime associated with drug-taking is as rife as ever. A new way needs to be found. In order to explore whether one exists and is worth pursuing, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), a venerable institution born during the Enlightenment of the 18th century, decided to establish a commission of experts and lay people to examine the impact of drugs policy and consider the merits of alternative approaches.
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Government officials were made aware of some problems with a version of the MMR vaccine in other countries but still introduced it in Britain in the late 1980s, newly released documents show. The MMR vaccine with the Urabe strain of mumps was first used in Britain in October 1988. It was blamed for the deaths of several children after being withdrawn by the Department of Health in September 1992.
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act, signalling yet another round of that endlessly rehearsed, but ultimately futile, debate between the two camps - as it is inconceivable the Act will ever be repealed. Nonetheless there is an interesting parallel with the situation that prevailed at the time the Act was introduced that suggests one way in which the number of abortions might be reduced to the satisfaction of both parties. Perhaps surprisingly, the original arguments back in the 1960s scarcely touched on the moral status of the embryo, at what stage it might be considered human and thus worthy of protection. Rather, abortion was a social issue, and in particular a class issue. The rich and well-connected had no difficulty in "procuring a miscarriage" finding a sympathetic gynaecologist to perform an emergency "D&C", a standard operation for menstrual disorders. Who was to know that the woman's problem was not "heavy bleeding" but that she was pregnant and did not wish to be so?
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I am 38 and have had two miscarriages at about six weeks within the past six months. I found it easy to get pregnant. Following the first miscarriage I had an acutely acidic stomach, was found to have H pylori and was treated with a large amount of antibiotics. I now feel extremely worn out and tired. What do you recommend I do? I am keen to try and get pregnant again soon.
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Prescription charges are to rise by 20p on April 1, Rosie Winterton, the health minister, said yesterday. The cost of each quantity of drug will rise from £6.65 to £6.85, raising £425 million for the NHS in 2007/08, she said in a written statement to the Commons.
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Prescription charges go up again - BBC Health News 2nd March 2007
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There are two National Health Services in Britain. First, there is the one we encounter in our own lives. This NHS is shedding staff while digesting vast sums of money. Its computer systems don't work, its junior doctors go jobless because of bureaucratic errors, its staff are demoralised, its patients grumpy. In this actual NHS, wards are so filthy that hospitals risk becoming, as in the Middle Ages, places where we go to die. Some are lucky enough to be sent abroad for treatment; others pay twice so as to buy their way out.
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Do you remember the piety and the self-righteousness with which Labour politicians used to attack the last government's record on the public services when they were in opposition? The NHS was, you will recall, not safe in their hands. Schools were a quagmire of social divisiveness and low standards. Only a Labour government could possibly run these services in a way that would repay the public's trust and safeguard their lives: or so it was alleged. This week we have seen the full, insulting result of this fine stewardship of our public services. In the NHS, up to 8,000 junior doctors are to discover at the end of their training that there is no job for them to go to. This is the result of three out of four NHS trusts restricting treatment because of the health service's financial crisis: and that it should have such a crisis when extra tens of billions have been thrown at it over the past 10 years is a monument to blithering idiocy.
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When Lisa Butler took a photograph of her six-month old daughter Grace, she noticed a strange white light in one of her eyes. Miss Butler took her daughter to her health visitor, convinced that something was wrong. She was told her daughter’s eye was developing and there was nothing wrong.
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Prince Charles has been accused of meddling in politics again by promoting alternative remedies around Westminster. The prince, who last year urged politicians to abandon their "conventional mindsets" on health policy, faces claims that he tried to use his position to exert influence.
Children turn to crime because their parents are too scared to smack them, so they lack discipline, according to a police chief. Superintendent Leroy Logan says many parents no longer use physical punishment because they fear an assault charge.
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They say that cats have nine lives but three-yearold Joe Way has already gone one better. The little boy has shown astonishing resilience by fighting off ten superbugs - any one of which could have killed him.
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When Lisa Butler took a photograph of her six-month old daughter Grace, she noticed a strange white light in one of her eyes. Miss Butler took her daughter to her health visitor, convinced that something was wrong. She was told her daughter’s eye was developing and there was nothing wrong.
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Prince Charles has been accused of meddling in politics again by promoting alternative remedies around Westminster. The prince, who last year urged politicians to abandon their "conventional mindsets" on health policy, faces claims that he tried to use his position to exert influence.
Children turn to crime because their parents are too scared to smack them, so they lack discipline, according to a police chief. Superintendent Leroy Logan says many parents no longer use physical punishment because they fear an assault charge.
Health chiefs are spending thousands of pounds ordering churches to put up signs banning smoking. The decision has left religious leaders bemused because, they say, no one smokes in places of worship anyway.
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A split second changed the life of Jonathan Smallman. One minute he was an army officer cadet nearing the end of training, the next he was in a head-on collision.
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There has been a large rise in the number of emergency calls to the ambulance service, according to figures obtained by the BBC. The increase in 999 call-outs is about a fifth in some areas, which the Ambulance Service Union says is placing extra stress on paramedics.
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A split second changed the life of Jonathan Smallman. One minute he was an army officer cadet nearing the end of training, the next he was in a head-on collision.
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Fiona McCrea has had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) since she was 12. Trips and holidays take meticulous planning because she needs to know where toilets are positioned enroute.
They are two of the most marked trends in modern Britain - an ageing population and a booming industry in cosmetic surgery. So perhaps it should not be so much of a surprise that pensioners are turning to plastic surgery.
The Medical Research Council is to set up a new research centre to monitor the emergence of infectious diseases across the world. The aim of the new centre is to identify virulent new diseases early and stop their spread as quickly as possible.
Damp and mould-infested houses could be the cause of permanent asthma in children, researchers have said. Poor housing conditions are already linked to the illness but there is debate whether they cause asthma, or simply trigger attacks.
Health workers have been holding marches and rallies to protest about cuts to NHS jobs and services, and below-inflation pay increases. Demonstrations took place in a number of towns and cities, including London, Manchester, Preston, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield and Belfast.
Children as young as three are being treated for obesity, an expert warns. In a normal child 20-25% of their body weight will be fat but specialists report that they are seeing toddlers with up to 50% body fat.
An eight-year-old boy from Sussex who needed a rare bone marrow transplant has died from leukaemia. Keiton Knight, from Hove, was of mixed race, so finding a suitable donor had proved difficult despite a high profile campaign led by his family last year.
Elderly patients may be losing their sight because some health trusts are refusing to fund a specific drug, a BBC investigation has revealed. BBC South's Inside Out programme has found that some primary care trusts are refusing to let consultants prescribe a drug that can save people's vision.
A group of UK drugs wholesalers are seeking an injunction to stop the world's biggest pharmaceutical firm changing the way it supplies medicine. From Monday, Viagra-maker Pfizer will sell its prescription drugs through just one medical wholesaler, Unichem.
One in three landlords have said they are not ready for the public smoking ban which begins in Wales in a month. Only 69 of the 100 pubs across Wales contacted by BBC Radio Cymru for the snap survey said they were prepared for the new law.
Thousands of asthma sufferers across Scotland may benefit from a new three-year project to improve treatment methods. The scheme includes specialist training for 450 nurses from every health board.
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The routine giving of oxygen to boost levels in the blood of heart attack patients could do more harm than good, an expert warns today. Richard Beasley, director of the Medical Research Institute in Wellington, New Zealand, said that there was little evidence to support the routine use of oxygen and that clinical dogma over the issue needed to be challenged as studies showed that giving pure oxygen could damage the heart. But the British Heart Foundation (BHF) said there was no need to change current practice.
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Oxygen treatment 'may harm' heart attack patients - Daily Mail 4th March 2007
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Girls who are obese at the age of four are significantly more likely to hit puberty before their 10th birthday, according to research which predicts that puberty will come earlier in the UK as the child obesity crisis worsens. The study is the first to track children from when they were toddlers to aged 12, and to establish a firm link between childhood obesity and early onset puberty.
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Fat toddlers 'risk early puberty' - BBC Health News 5th March 2007
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Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into a clinic after unsubstantiated allegations that a vaccine made by the British drugs company GlaxoSmithKline has had disturbing side effects in a clinical trial. Prosecutors in Volgograd are investigating a clinic that tested the chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on 100 babies between the ages of one and two.
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Men seeking to become a father should avoid soaking in hot baths, according to a study on male fertility. A three-year pilot project involving 11 men found that there was some truth in the old wives' tale about hot baths being bad for a man's prospects of conceiving. The men were exposed to "wet heat" in the form of a hot tub, Jacuzzi or bath, at least once a week for 30 minutes or more for three months.
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Want a baby? Ban long hot baths - Daily Mail 5th March 2007
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A key study showing that adult stem cells are just as useful as those derived from early embryos has been called into question following the discovery of serious errors in the original research. The study, published in 2002, was thought to be one of the most important discoveries in the field of stem- cell research and was seized upon by opponents of human embryo experiments, who claimed that it undermined the case for using embryos at all. However, an official inquiry has concluded that some of the study's data is "significantly flawed" and that its conclusions were "weakened" as a result.
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Whole-grain breakfast cereals 'good for the heart' - The Independent 3rd March 2007
To some it is like chewing soggy cardboard. To others it is the only way to start the day. Now researchers have come to the defence of lovers of muesli, Weetabix, Shredded Wheat and similar breakfast cereals with a study showing they really are better for the heart. People who eat whole grain breakfast cereals seven or more times a week have a 28 per cent lower risk of developing heart failure, researchers found.
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High levels of stress may physically scar a child's brain, a study suggests. US scientists discovered a brain structure involved with memory and emotion had shrunk in children with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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THE Government was on a collision course with nurses and other health workers last night after deciding to award them a staged pay rise below the rate of inflation, while giving the armed forces the highest increase in the public sector. A 2.5% increase for health staff will be paid in two stages in April and November, effectively worth less than 2% a year, while rises of between 3.3% and 9.2% for servicemen and women will be paid "without delay". Union leaders described the announcement as a "kick in the teeth" for NHS staff and raised the threat of industrial action.
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New delay in mum’s eight-year fight for truth over son’s death - Liverpool Echo March 2nd 2007
A MOTHER’S eight-year fight to find out what caused her son’s death has been delayed yet again. Anthony Young, from St Helens, died after being admitted to accident and emergency at Whiston hospital in 1999.
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THE case of a Cumbrian doctor charged with the manslaughter of a patient will be heard next month at York Crown Court.
DEMONSTRATIONS will be taking place across Cumbria today in opposition to plans for new privately-run CATS centres in the county. Union members have joined together to protest against these and other changes within the NHS.
IMPROVEMENTS will be made to hospital services for children in East Lancashire after they were rated "fair" by inspectors, an NHS boss has said. The authority which runs hospitals in the area was given four ratings of fair, one of weak and one of excellent by the Healthcare Commission.
A CANCER sufferer who is due to become mayor has not requested a new treatment drug on the NHS because of a "postcode lottery." And former firefighter Peter Gill, 57, said he could understand the difficulty the Government had in deciding which drugs it should pay for.
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RECENTLY the Royal Blackburn Hospital revamped the car park and entrance to the disabled car park. But we have been given fewer spaces. I have written to the trust, pointing out how far it is for my disabled wife to travel to the entrance and that the mother and baby spaces always seem to be empty and could be utilised for disabled. I have not had a reply.
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HUNDREDS of junior doctors have been left without jobs by a `fundamentally flawed' NHS training system. Now they are looking for work abroad or thinking of abandoning their medical careers.
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MANCHESTER United's Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville have pledged to donate a day's pay - around £10,000 each - to help nurses. Their generosity - for some nurses the combined figure amounts to a year's salary - comes as a row erupted over the government's latest pay offer to nurses. And for Giggs it is a special cause - his mum Lynne is a nurse.
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UP to 300 jobs are hanging in the balance, after a manufacturer of healthcare products announced a review of its operations. Vernacare, which is part of the Verna Group, said that it had begun "a consultation exercise" relating to its manufacturing operations in Folds Road, Bolton.
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A PILOT scheme to raise awareness of drug and alcohol misuse, sexual health and domestic violence among students in Bury has been hailed a success. Bury's Drug and Alcohol Action Team's Health Bytes' project worked by using interactive pop-ups to convey safety messages on computer screens at Bury College and encourage users to click through to national advice web pages.
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MIDWIVES opposing controversial Making it Better plans to axe maternity services from Fairfield Hospital are taking to the streets this weekend in a protest against cuts to the NHS. The demo is to take place on Saturday with protesters assembling at 12 noon in Manchester's Albert Square.
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A GROUP of senior managers is to travel to Barcelona for a three-day conference at a cost of almost £3,000 - despite hospital bosses preparing to axe 95 jobs to balance the books. A consultant doctor, a senior nursing sister, and a member of the senior management team at The Royal Bolton Hospital will fly to Barcelona next month to attend a quality and safety conference.
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A REFERENDUM is to be held in Bolton to gauge public opinion on whether Every resident will be given the chance to have a say, once plans for the public vote are finalised.
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JOBS and services at a nursing home are to be axed - but social services chiefs insist it is for the benefit of local pensioners. Council bosses have decided to scrap intermediate care at Thicketford House in Tonge Moor and transform it into an Active Ageing Centre.
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Hospital gets top marks - Altrincham Messenger 2nd March 2007
WYTHENSHAWE Hospital has scored top marks for its' children's services, in a national survey. A review of children's hospital services by the Healthcare Commission found that the quality of care provided to youngsters at the hospital is excellent' - the highest possible rating.
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