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Government drug policy is failing and drinking and smoking should be considered as dangerous as many illegal substances, according to a report published yesterday. The two-year study headed by academics, drugs workers, journalists and a senior police officer called for a radical rethink of government drugs policy. It said addiction should be treated as a health and social problem, not as a crime issue.
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A question of damage - The Guardian 9th March 2007
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Expert commission calls for total overhaul of UK drugs legislation - The Independent 9th March 2007
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So exactly how harmless is alcohol? - The Times 9th March 2007
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Subliminal messages do leave a mark on the brain, say scientists. Using brain scanners, they found we often record images we are not even aware of having seen. The study shows how subliminal advertising, banned in the UK but still legal in the US, might work.
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The selling power of secret messages - Daily Mail 8th March 2007
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The selling power of secret messages - Daily Mail 8th March 2007
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Re continuing cuts in the NHS (Report, March 7): the health minister announced last week that the much-publicised community hospital fund of £750m is no longer an allocation specifically for community hospitals, but for many other services, including district general hospitals and clinics. The much-publicised promise of 50 new or refurbished community hospitals was officially revoked two weeks ago.
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The scourge of antisocial behaviour among young people could be reversed by teaching their parents how to raise their offspring, researchers claim. Psychologists in Wales have shown that helping parents to build relationships with children who are overly aggressive, demanding and disobedient, significantly reduces the risk of their developing behavioural disorders and falling into crime, drug abuse and violence as teenagers.
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NHS dentistry faces a £120 million shortfall because the Health Department wrongly estimated how many patients would contribute to the cost of their treatment, the Tories claimed yesterday. Many people appear to have abandoned the NHS to go private, reducing the amount of money that NHS dentists are able to collect through patient charges.
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Dentists see 'million fewer people' on the NHS - The Telegraph 9th March 2007
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The row over training of junior doctors intensified yesterday as more senior consultants decided to boycott the interview panels. Hopes that a Government climbdown on Tuesday would reduce pressure to abandon the new system faded as two more groups decided they could not conduct the interviews when they were not confident that the right candidates had been selected for interview.
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Children as young as six months could be given flu jabs in an attempt to cut rates of the disease, the Government's expert on immunisation said yesterday.
If you're feeling slightly bleary-eyed as you read this, the chances are you're living with a snorer. A study has shown that partners of millions of snorers are kept awake for two hours each night thanks to the noise from the other side of the bed - losing an astonishing two years' sleep over the average course of a marriage.
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Snorers cost two years of sleep - BBC Health News 8th March 2007
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The government needs to work harder on some of its policies on encouraging the nation to eat healthily, according to a consumer watchdog. Which? said it particularly wanted to see more action on the advertising of unhealthy foods to children.
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A new DNA test will help police in the UK solve rape cases even when the attacker has not left any traces of sperm, scientists say. The test looks for the genetic hallmark of other cells present in semen, such as skin and immune cells.
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Scientists in Glasgow have devised a new method of attacking cancer cells. A team of experts from the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research gave mice a chemical which caused cancer cells to "commit suicide".
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Getting up at dawn for physical training is not something normally associated with a paramedic's work But it's just part of the preparation a new breed of ambulance personnel have had to undergo.
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One in 20 patients in Northern Ireland catches an infection while in hospital, according to a new survey. The survey suggests patients in Musgrave Park in Belfast are the most likely to catch an infection.
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The NHS is overburdened by inspections by at least 56 different bodies, a report has warned. The NHS Confederation, which represents 90% of managers, says inspection and assessment are important.
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More than 100 hospital jobs cut - BBC Health News 8th March 2007New Story
More than 100 jobs are to go at Warrington Hospital as part of a cost cutting initiative. The plan also includes the loss of 90 beds between April and June this year.
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A worldwide alert about rising levels of toxic mercury in the food chain is issued today by scientists. Fish concentrate harmful mercury in their bodies The risks posed by mercury-contaminated fish are now big enough to trigger a warning to the public to be careful about how much and which fish they eat.
The idea of a beetle moving around inside your body may be the stuff of horror films. But scientists believe an insect-shaped robot could be a major weapon in the fight against cancer. The device, just under an inch long, is designed to be inserted into the body through a small incision.
The Polish government has announced that it plans to spend up to $6bn (£3.1bn) over the next seven years to support families. According to figures released this week, Poland has the lowest fertility rate in the European Union.
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Cheshire and Merseyside News
A LIVERPOOL hospital is today at the centre of a sabotage investigation. The Liverpool Women’s has launched an internal inquiry over fears sterile equipment may have been deliberately tampered with.
NINETY beds and 104 jobs are to be axed as part of the latest round of cash cuts at North Cheshire Hospitals Trust. The trust, which runs Halton and Warrington hospitals, agreed last November to a financial recovery plan to solve a huge deficit and save £18.4m.
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Cash-strapped hospital axes beds - Widnes Weekly News 8th March 2007
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More than 100 hospital jobs cut - BBC Health News 8th March 2007
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Theatres hit by NHS trust axe - Runcorn Weekly News 8th March 2007
ON TOP of the bed cuts, two operating theatres are to be closed at Warrington Hospital. The first will close in April and the second in June, when even more planned surgical activity will transfer to the theatre opened at Halton Hospital in December.
DESPITE awarding an excellent score for emergency care the Healthcare Commission says that the Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust still has plenty of room for improvement. The hospitals scored an overall ‘Good’ mark in a national report on children’s services.
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A BATTLE plan to combat ‘fuel poverty’ in Southport has been officially unveiled. Sefton Council believes there could be as many as 10,000 homes in Southport, and latest figures show that as many as 30,000 homes throughout Sefton, which suffer or are at risk of fuel poverty.
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CAN I through your letter page give my sincere thanks to Dr Christine Miles. I have been on the panel of Dr Christine and Dr Laurence for over 20 years, they are two excellent doctors and their receptionists are very friendly and helpful.
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
A GIANT cigarette will join a team of experts hoping to stop stressed drivers from smoking at a motorway service station next week. The event has been organised by Eden Council to coincide with national no-smoking day next Wednesday.
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Health protesters brought Preston city centre to a standstill in a rally against plans to set up a privately-run clinic in the city. More than 500 people, many of them health professionals, joined a march through the city on Saturday afternoon in opposition to the formation of a CATS (Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Support) centre at the newly-built Preston Healthport, close to the former Sharoe Green hospital.
RE parking at the new health centre in Darwen. Firstly, people are still coming out of the entrance, it's a wonder there hasn't been an accident there.
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Greater Manchester News
A GREATER Manchester NHS trust which criticised a coroner who damned filthy conditions at one of its hospitals has had its complaint against him rejected. Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust asked the Office of Judicial Complaints - part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs - to investigate south Manchester coroner John Pollard's conduct after his comments last September.
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A LIFE-SAVING cancer screening programme has been launched in Bolton. The borough has been chosen as one of 12 nationally to screen for bowel cancer among the most at risk group - people aged between 60 and 69. Bowel cancer is the third most common form of the disease in the country.
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ACCIDENT and emergency waiting times at the Royal Bolton Hospital have improved by almost 18 per cent in the last four years. Between October and December 2002, just 78.9 per cent of patients were treated, discharged or admitted within four hours.
MUMS are being urged to breast-feed their babies in a Research has shown breast really is best as babies who are given their mother's milk, rather than being bottle fed, are 15 per cent less likely to be obese at the age of 15. In Bolton, 25 per cent of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese, and almost 30 per cent of 10 and 11-year-olds desperately need to lose weight.
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PATIENTS can become more involved in how their hospital is run. The Pennine Acute Trust, which runs Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, is holding a patient and public involvement awareness week at the hospital, beginning on Monday, March 19.
A DOCTOR who has operated from a run down "shed" for 12 years is set to move to a long-awaited state-of-the-art surgery. Dr Stephen Fox, who has campaigned for a decent building since he set up in a temporary cabin in Henry Street, Leigh in 1995, will join three other town centre general practices at the neighbouring new Bridgewater Centre which is almost complete.
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Health staff anger over 1.9pc pay increase - Bury Times 8th March 2007
STAFF and trade unions at the trust which runs Fairfield Hospital and North Manchester General have reacted angrily to plans for a 1.9 per cent pay increase. The government announced last week that nurses and other healthcare professionals were to receive a 1.9 per cent rise which will be staggered, with 1.5 per cent awarded in April and the remainder in November Trade Union Convenor for the Pennine Acute Trust, Peter Hinchliffe, said: "This is being treated by staff as some sort of sick joke.
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