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Teenagers who drink alcohol with their parents are less likely to binge drink, according to a survey of 10,000 children which backs the continental style of introducing teenagers to small amounts of alcohol early. Parents who do not want their children drinking behind their backs should limit their pocket money to less than £10 a week, says the study, carried out by academics and trading standards officers.
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Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of Diane Pretty, who desperately wanted a doctor to help her to die. Motor neurone disease left her mind sharp, but gradually destroyed her muscles, making it virtually impossible for her to communicate. She suffered terribly and died in a hospice in 2002, having fought the high court and the European court of human rights.
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Mental health professionals should look beyond the medicalisation of psychosis and recognise the relevance of traumatic life events, writes Dr Warren Larkin
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In 1997, Tony Blair told voters they had 24 hours to save the NHS. But it took him several years in government to realise what the rescue would entail. There was no masterplan like the one for education. Frank Dobson, Blair's first health secretary, had no routemap when he set about abolishing the internal market, the Conservatives' scheme for creating competition among NHS hospitals.
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Blair's legacy: Health - BBC Health News 10th May 2007
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An aspirin a day can prevent bowel cancer but is only worth taking by those at high risk, research shows. People who took at least 300 mgs of aspirin a day for at least five years cut their overall risk of the cancer by more than a third. The effect was even more dramatic in the first 10 to 15 years after treatment started, with a 74 per cent reduction in the risk.
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Aspirin cuts the risk of bowel cancer - The Times 11th May 2007
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One aspirin a day 'can lower threat of bowel cancer' - Daily Mail 10th May 2007
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Aspirin 'prevents bowel cancer' - BBC Health News 10th May 2007
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One aspirin a day 'can lower threat of bowel cancer' - Daily Mail 10th May 2007
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Aspirin 'prevents bowel cancer' - BBC Health News 10th May 2007
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Hospitals built under Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) are so costly to run that they risk a permanent deficit, according to an economic analysis produced by the NHS in London and seen by The Times. But they cannot be closed because the debts incurred would still have to be repaid, and a hospital that treats no patients generates no income.
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The insistence of Andy Burnham, the Health Minister, that rationing in the NHS cannot be countenanced (report, 9 May) suggests that he is deplorably ignorant concerning his area of responsibility.
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Testing for the PCA3 gene is a new and essential tool for catching prostate cancer in time
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British cancer patients have less access to life-saving drugs than those in Europe because of delays caused by the institute that decides if they should be funded by the NHS, a cancer expert said yesterday. Karol Sikora, the professor of Cancer Medicine at Imperial College, London, said the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) took too long to rule.
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The British public will be unfamiliar with Brendan Foster, the revolutionary. More familiar is the former metronomic middle-distance runner who has developed the Great North Run into a world-class-cum-charity event over the last 27 years. Yesterday Foster unveiled a daring, yet potentially revolutionary idea to combat inactivity in Britain. Like all good family games, this one is for anyone aged eight to 80.
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A baby was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend after social workers, police and health service staff missed repeated chances to prevent the tragedy, it has emerged. Thirteen-month-old Aaron Gilbert died from severe brain damage after suffering an horrific campaign of abuse at the hands of Andrew Lloyd.
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injured soldiers and crash victims could have their lives saved with plastic blood, scientists have claimed. The artificial blood is sterile, easily stored and could be given to any patient via transfusion regardless of their blood type.
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Mental health services must renew their efforts to improve community care, the mental health tsar says. Professor Louis Appleby has called on NHS trusts to look at new ways of working to help people rebuild lives.
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Concerns have been raised about the links between pharmaceutical firms and patient groups by the body that advises the NHS about which drugs to use. Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, said charities had to be wary of pharmaceutical donations.
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It's hard to find a way out of the trudge of the daily commute, but some are finding meditation can help. And, don't worry, the lotus position is not a must. Crowded, noisy, smelly, boring. Those in the rat race put up with this on their daily commute to and from work.
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A new drug has been licensed to treat UK patients with advanced breast cancer that has begun to spread. However, patients may find problems getting Avastin, as the NHS drugs watchdogs have yet to consider whether to sanction its use.
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Toddlers are to get help learning how to talk in a bid to cut the numbers of children starting school with poor language skills for their age. Half of children enter primary school unable to speak as well as they are expected to, research suggests.
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Warning as tick diseases on rise - BBC Health News 10th May 2007
The public has been warned to take extra precautions against ticks as the warm weather heralds a peak in numbers of the blood-sucking parasites. It follows a huge rise in cases of Lyme Disease in Scotland and encephalitis amongst travellers to mainland Europe, spread by ticks.
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Unpasteurised cow's milk can protect children against asthma, new findings suggest. However, the researchers have refused to recommend drinking raw farm milk because it can cause severe food poisoning.
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Oral sex linked to throat cancer - BBC Health News 10th May 2007
A virus contracted through oral sex is the cause of some throat cancers, say US scientists. HPV infection was found to be a much stronger risk factor than tobacco or alcohol use, the Johns Hopkins University study of 300 people found.
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'Oral sex can cause throat cancer' - Daily Mail 10th May 2007
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THOUSANDS of patients across Merseyside and Cheshire will have surgery at private hospitals to drive down NHS waiting times. The Department of Health yesterday announced a deal with BUPA to treat 6,000 NHS patients across the region a year, which ministers say means no one will have to wait longer than 18 weeks for an operation.
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CITY nurses were rewarded for their work yesterday with celebrations to mark International Nurses Day. Staff from the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and Liverpool University Dental Hospital took advantage of a day of pamper treatment as a thanks for their hard work and commitment.
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A HOSPITAL boss has been accused of “jumping on the bandwagon” over the Ormskirk bypass debate. Veteran campaigner Joan Morrison hit out after reports that Sir Ron Watson, chairman of Southport and Ormskirk NHS trust, had written to MPs and councillors urging them to step up pressure for the new road.
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SMOKERS have been ordered to stub it out at a Runcorn railway station months ahead of the English ban - on the order of the Welsh. The smoking ban in England does not become law until July 1, but anyone lighting up at Runcorn East station is now breaking the law.
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Patients deliver message to PCT health chiefs - Warrington Guardian 10th May 2007
A GARGANTUAN petition, signed by a tenth of the town's population, was handed over in opposition to health proposals on Tuesday. It was endorsed by 20,875 people in objection to the proposal to merge GP practices into five super surgeries.
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CUMBRIAN councils are preparing for the smoking ban by getting scores of new bins. Around 100 new bins are to be placed across Allerdale, and 20 bins in Carlisle are being fitted with stubbing facilities before the start of the ban on July 1.
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SOME 127 jobs are at risk at East Lancashire's hospitals, it was revealed today. Sixty people - mainly managers and administrative staff - have been told that they are at risk of being made redundant as East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Anger at hospital 'job cuts' - Lancashire Telegraph 10th May 2007
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A Chorley doctor is going to Africa this summer to help boost a medical centre he helped build there. Big-hearted Adam Firth first travelled to Zambia in 2005 with a charity called Dignity to help start the centre in a remote village called Mibila.
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Greater Manchester News
AMUM has told how her baby became ill after drinking powdered infant milk that was nine months out of date. La-Fayne Thompson, 37, bought five boxes of SMA Gold powder at Toys R Us in Ancoats to feed four-month-old Jamelia.
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DIABETIC patients with the superbug MRSA are having foot ulcers treated with . . . maggots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team at Manchester University have been using green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA. Results showed that all 13 patients were cured within three weeks - much faster than conventional treatments, which take up 28 weeks.
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A MOONLIGHTING nurse has been struck off for falsifying a patient's records and failing to call a doctor when a woman fell out of bed. Pauline Taylor, aged 55, worked night shifts at Hope Hospital, Salford, despite being signed off sick from her position at the Royal Bolton Hospital.
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Cartoon couple in cancer campaign - The Bolton News 10th May 2007
TWO cartoon characters are to be used to make sure older people in Bolton are aware of a cancer which often strikes people in their 60s. A life-saving bowel cancer screening programme has already been launched in Bolton, but health chiefs want to make this at-risk age group more aware of it.
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