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Thousands of promising young doctors who were contemplating emigrating or switching careers are to have a second chance at a high-flying job in the NHS following a government climbdown last night. The computerised application system for the training posts that lead to consultant jobs was scrapped by a review set up this week to establish why many of the best-qualified candidates had been left without a single interview.
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Hewitt U-turn over junior doctors - The Telegraph 10th March 2007
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We're training doctors for Australia - The Telegraph 10th March 2007
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Interview chaos forces a U-turn over doctors - Daily Mail 9th March 2007
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Doctors' selection system changed - BBC Health News 10th March 2007
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Hewitt U-turn over junior doctors - The Telegraph 10th March 2007
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We're training doctors for Australia - The Telegraph 10th March 2007
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Interview chaos forces a U-turn over doctors - Daily Mail 9th March 2007
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Doctors' selection system changed - BBC Health News 10th March 2007
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A lot of people come to our clinic and think there will be a magic cure; we'll give them some nicotine replacement and they'll be fine. But you've got to really want to do it yourself. By attending a clinic you get the group support; you get a chance to feed back to the group about your week.
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Smokers, your time is up. Not literally, we hope, but at work. As you know, from July 1 it will be illegal to spark up in the workplace (with a few exceptions) as well as in enclosed or "substantially enclosed" public spaces. And don't think that you can go outside for a quick puff - employers are increasingly banning smoking breaks altogether.
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While waiting for the Arsenal defender Justin Hoyte to call me back yesterday morning, Thierry Henry rings to say he wants to come on board. My roll call is looking pretty impressive for a gal who doesn't know her nutcracker from her nutmeg - I now have 11 clubs where I have entrees, over half the Premiership. I'm trying to get every Premiership footballer to give a day's pay to nurses on May 13, the final day of the season, which coincides with the end of International Nursing Week. The £1.5m or more that the players earn on that day would make a real difference to the nurses among whom the money will be redistributed.
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Hundreds of midwives will be forced to quit or work illegally because of new rules governing births at home. The chief nursing officer has sent a letter to all independent midwives saying that if they do not obtain professional indemnity insurance within the next 12 to 18 months they must stop practising.
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Threat to independent midwifery - BBC Health News 10th March 2007
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Threat to independent midwifery - BBC Health News 10th March 2007
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The slave trade was abolished in the UK 200 years ago this month. But that means nothing to Lily, whose shocking story proves that people trafficking is a reality in Britain even today
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She's just been busted for the second time, but Patricia Tabram's unusual (and illegal) cottage industry goes on. Ian Herbert joins her in the kitchen for a masterclass in class C culinary delights
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Young children and babies are routinely being given medicines containing artificial dyes, sweeteners and preservatives that are banned from food and drink for the under 3s. Research carried out by the Food Commission has found that just one of 41 medications intended for children was free of additives, while many contained a cocktail of colourings, sweeteners and preservatives that can trigger allergic reactions such as rashes, eye irritation, stomach upsets and diarrhoea.
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Child medicines 'are packed with banned additives' - Daily Mail 9th March 2007
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Child medicine additive concern - BBC Health News 10th March 2007
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Child medicines 'are packed with banned additives' - Daily Mail 9th March 2007
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Child medicine additive concern - BBC Health News 10th March 2007
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They were promised the body beautiful and their mantra was “No pain no gain”. Two decades later they are feeling it again — in their knees, hips and lower backs. They are the casualties of the aerobics boom. The craze began in the late 1970s but it was the actress Jane Fonda who really got people moving. Following her lead, thousands climbed into Spandex, donned headbands and twisted and punched the air in church halls across Britain.
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The Government's food watchdog is poised to approve the addition of folic acid to bread in an attempt to stop hundreds of babies being born with serious disabilities each year. The Food Standards Agency is expected to back the proposals after a three-month public consultation.
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National no-smoking day next Wednesday should provide yet another prompt for choking smokers to stub out their suicidal habit. Yes, they will feel uncomfortable for a few days but millions of addicts have already successfully survived the cure and there are immediate benefits. Not only will they be healthier but a little wealthier, too. Quite apart from saving a fiver for every packet of cancer sticks they forgo, they can often cut the cost of life cover in half.
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The psychiatrist who identified attention deficit disorder - the condition blamed for the bad behaviour of hundreds of thousands of children - has admitted that many may not really be ill. Dr Robert Spitzer said that up to 30 per cent of youngsters classified as suffering from disruptive and hyperactive conditions could have been misdiagnosed.
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Four of the victims of the 'Elephant Man' drug debacle are launching a multi-million pound compensation case against the firm behind the trials. The men, who became dangerously ill after being given an experimental drug, have instructed lawyers to start proceedings for damages against the U.S. research company Parexel.
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Teenagers may be encouraged to drink more because television soap operas are "awash with alcohol", according to a survey published in The Food Magazine. It reveals alcohol, shown in background scenes or being consumed by characters, accounts for considerable screen time.
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Lifting toddlers Jessica, aged one and Mia, who is two, into their car seats has become a logistical nightmare for their parents. Both girls have been diagnosed with hip dysplasia, or clicky hips.
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A police force says it will pay for hypnotherapy to help officers quit smoking when legislation on lighting up in the workplace comes into force. It could cost £100,000 if all of the estimated 3,500 smokers who work for West Midlands Police take up the offer.
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A doctor who sent home a schoolboy asthma sufferer who later died will have to serve a three-month suspension. Three appeal judges upheld a serious professional misconduct ruling against Dr Julie Mallon, from Stirlingshire.
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Actress Kate Winslet has accepted a "substantial" settlement in her libel action over a magazine claim that she had visited a diet doctor. Grazia magazine had suggested she was concerned about her weight, despite publicly criticising Hollywood's obsession with thin women.
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A businessman whose charitable trust is trying to buy a Surrey hospital says he believes the idea may represent the future for the NHS. Multi-millionaire Adrian White's £20m plan for Epsom District Hospital could lead to major redevelopment of the site and state-of-the-art new facilities.
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A doctor who boarded a plane in protective goggles, overalls, gloves and overshoes, alarming passengers over the Sars virus, has been struck off. The General Medical Council had found Dr Egidius Panis guilty of inappropriate conduct, and suspended his registration with immediate effect.
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French workers used to be envied, but after suicides at car-maker Renault, unions are blaming US-style methods for shattering the harmony. Kim Willsher reports from Paris
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Portugal's parliament has voted to legalise abortion on demand, after a referendum failed to settle the issue in the mainly Catholic country. The bill allows the procedure until the 10th week of pregnancy.
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A US woman who has been in a coma-like state for over six years has astonished doctors by waking up for a period of three days. Colorado resident Christa Lilly, 49, was able to talk to her family and meet her grandchildren for the first time.
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Selling organs to survive - BBC Health News 8th March 2007
In a hot, bare hut in Tsunami Nagar in Madras, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, lives Lata Kala. Two years ago when the tsunami destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, Lata's fisherman husband lost his fishing boat and nets.
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