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Junior doctors will this week take the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, to court in a final attempt to stop a job selection process she admits "has simply not worked". Remedy UK, an organisation representing 10,000 young doctors, is seeking a judicial review that would mean all training posts granted under the discredited system would only last for a year, allowing for a fairer system to be introduced in six months.
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Hewitt's shambles is wrecking our careers - The Observer 13th May 2007
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Doctors' job system 'has failed at all stages - and its review is a fiasco too' - The Times 14th May 2007
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Recruitment fiasco critics sent 'gagging order' - The Telegraph 12th May 2007
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What difference have smoking prohibitions made in places where they have already been introduced? Polly Curtis reports
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Warning: giving up smoking can seriously damage your health - The Guardian 14th May 2007
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Now drivers face ban on smoking at the wheel - The Observer 13th May 2007
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Churches incensed by 'stop smoking' signs - The Telegraph 14th May 2007
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'Half' unaware of smoke ban date - BBC Health News 12th May 2007
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'Half' unaware of smoke ban date - BBC Health News 12th May 2007
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Now Gordon Brown is openly pitching for promotion, he looks much less like a man facing a job interview. That may seem paradoxical, but for months, if not years, Mr Brown has weighed every public word for fear that he would either tie himself too tightly to the outgoing prime minister's plans or else would damage his own standing by looking disloyal.
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Brown to take on Tories over NHS - The Guardian 14th May 2007
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Health service policy one of four Blair era ‘mistakes’ - The Times 14th May 2007
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Health service policy one of four Blair era ‘mistakes’ - The Times 14th May 2007
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Labour's health policy giving people the right to choose between NHS hospitals in England is regarded by most patients as irrelevant, the government's health watchdog will disclose this week. The Healthcare Commission found the issues people regard as most important are whether they have confidence in a hospital's doctors and nurses, whether staff answer questions clearly and whether they wash their hands after contact with a patient before they touch another.
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Angela Christie's world collapsed when she was 13. Her mother was in hospital for a routine operation, and her father, Malcolm Pattinson, a tall, fit 36-year-old, who had worked with plutonium at Sellafield nuclear plant, fell ill and asked her to accompany her younger sister and brother to school. That was in 1971, on Wednesday, May 26. The next day Malcolm was taken to West Cumberland hospital. By Friday he was dead. But it was not until a fortnight ago that Mrs Christie, now 49 and a mother of three children, discovered what had happened next.
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Ministers urged to give women legal right to breastfeed in public - The Guardian 14th May 2007
Proposals to give women the legal right to breastfeed in public and take work breaks to express milk for their infants will be put before health ministers this week. The guidelines, drawn up by a coalition of leading support groups including the Royal College of Midwives and the National Childbirth Trust, will urge businesses to provide facilities for breastfeeding mothers and call on ministers to consider making it an offence to bar women from breastfeeding in restaurants, shops and elsewhere, such as on public transport.
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Women may get right to breastfeed in public - The Sunday Times 13th May 2007
Synergy Healthcare is in talks with a number of NHS trusts over the launch of a new screening service designed to catch patients carrying deadly superbugs before they are admitted to hospital. Patients laid low by superbugs are thought to cost the NHS £1bn a year, but up to 7 per cent of patients may be already infected before they set foot on a ward.
Cancer sufferers are to have scans, smear tests and chemotherapy in mobile clinics and health centres near their homes in an attempt to reduce repeated visits to hospital. Professor Michael Richards, the government's cancer expert, will unveil the plans tomorrow in a report that urges the NHS to make radical reforms to the way it treats those with the disease in England in order to make services more patient-friendly.
It's sold as happiness in a blister pack - a cure-all that has changed the way we think about wellbeing. As Prozac reaches its 20th birthday, Anna Moore presents 20 things you need to know about the most widely used antidepressant in the world
Blueberries began the superfood trend. The hype continued with pomegranates, acai berries and seaweed. Now a long list of expensive and exotic foods has been credited with health-enhancing and memory-boosting qualities.
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Trendy superfoods 'are no better than an apple' - Daily Mail 14th May 2007
New touring photographic exhibition to raise awareness of toll on lives of youngsters
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17,000 children are forced to care for mentally-ill parents - Daily Mail 14th May 2007
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Whistleblowers can only blow their whistles briefly, for they are swiftly taken away - to jail. So here, I shall attempt to blow for them and not merely a whistle, but a trumpet. David Keogh had been a civil servant for 25 years, but this morning, rather than eating porridge with his family, he is doing porridge with criminals. This did not appear on the charge sheet, but his offence was to pose questions about Britain's identity and its relationship with America. And this is a crime for which the British establishment will display no mercy.
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For Lakeesha Sexton, and the tens of thousands of women like her, escaping a violent partner can seem impossible. But a revolutionary one-stop centre in San Diego - which has now been cloned in Croydon - is bringing police, lawyers and care workers together in an attempt to break them free. David Rose reports
A new mother is struggling with breastfeeding, but she feels guilty about giving her son a bottle. Three experts offer a reassuring take on the breastfeeding vs formula debate
A poodle is helping to transform the life of a young woman with epilepsy. Hannah Baker, 20, from Dedham in Essex, has severe epilepsy, brought on by a non-malignant tumour diagnosed when she was six years old. Milo has been trained by the charity Support Dogs to spot changes to her pupils or skin tone before she has a seizure and alert her.
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Special dog helps epilepsy woman - BBC Health News 11th May 2007
A husband who had not intended to watch the birth of his second child was forced to deliver his baby daughter on the bathroom floor when a midwife failed to attend a home birth, it was revealed yesterday. Jet Malong, 39, of Bath, Somerset, paged the midwife as arranged when his wife, Steph, went into labour. Ninety minutes later Steph's waters broke, but no one had contacted them and he delivered his baby girl, Lara, on his own.
Folic acid should be added to all flour to help reduce birth defects, the UK's official food watchdog said last night. The addition of the vitamin to all flour would be the first mandatory fortification of a food since the second world war.
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Watchdog calls for folic acid in flour - The Independent 12th May 2007
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Experts back folic acid in flour - BBC Health News 11th May 2007
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The long history of food additive tests - The Guardian 12th May 2007
I puzzled over your front-page headline (New fears over additives in children's food, May 7). I wondered the first time why the Food Standards Agency had bothered to commission Southampton University's study on artificial colourings and behaviour, but to commission a second one seems to be testing the test rather than the additives.
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Time to resist their fondant fancies - The Telegraph 14th May 2007
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Tantrum-linked additives in 132 new products - The Sunday Telegraph 13th May 2007
Isabella Blow, fashion stylist and muse, told doctors just before she died that she had drunk weedkiller, a coroner has revealed. Blow, 48, who collapsed at her country home in Gloucester last Saturday, had spoken to one friend not long before she died of being "very, very depressed" and of her intention to take her own life. Early reports of her death wrongly suggested she died from cancer.
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Country walks can help reduce depression and raise self-esteem according to research published today, leading to calls for "ecotherapy" to become a recognised treatment for people with mental health problems. Ecotherapy: the green agenda for mental health is the first study looking at how "green" exercise specifically affects those suffering from depression.
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Calcium and vitamin D in dairy products may be helping to cause brain damage and dementia in older men and women, new research suggests. Scientists believe too much calcium can narrow blood vessels in the brain, leading to neural damage.
Those who work long hours and scrape by on scant slumber, beware: Sleep deprivation causes areas of the brain to malfunction, making people blunder. American researchers, using brain scans of volunteers playing a computer card game, have discovered that the sleep-deprived show increased signs of rash risk-taking. That has been linked to changing activity levels in the parts of people's brains responsible for appreciating reward and understanding the significance of heavy debt.
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Ministers are to investigate arrangements for erecting mobile phone masts in the light of growing fears that they may cause cancer and other diseases because of "electronic smog". They will review the exceptionally favourable rules that allow mobile phone companies to escape normal planning regulations and stop councils from considering the effects of the masts on health, even when they are sited near homes and schools.
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Victory for IoS on mental health care for children - The Independent on Sunday 13th May 2007
Ministers have pledged to ensure that children suffering from mental health problems are not placed on adult wards after a long campaign waged by The Independent on Sunday. Following an outcry over the fact that children as young as 12 are being incarcerated with adults in psychiatric institutions, the Government is preparing to ensure that children are not made to share wards with mentally ill adults.
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Simple DIY kit will show mental health dangers of cannabis - The Independent on Sunday 13th May 2007
Scientists are developing a revolutionary test to identify people at risk of cannabis-induced schizophrenia. Experts at the Institute of Psychiatry in London have been able to isolate a type of gene found in people who are five times more likely to become mentally ill from using the drug.
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Who ate all the pies? People in the West Midlands and the South-west, says research showing where the highest numbers of Britons are obese - in some places over one in three - or overweight. The new research, to be published in theSocial Science and Medicine journal, contrasts the overweight - those with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 30 - and the obese, whose BMI is above 30.
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Those seeking to reverse the ravages of the ageing process have been warned to be on their guard against the proliferation of unregulated "medi-spas" offering wrinkle-busting treatments such as "filler" injections and facial peels.
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Botox and a rub down - The Times 12th May 2007
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Plastic surgeons warn against using 'medi-spas' for anti-ageing treatments - Daily Mail 11th May 2007
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A new drug for head and neck cancer will not be made available on the NHS because it is claimed that it is no better or cheaper than existing drugs. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is set to reject Erbitux (cetuximab) for cancer sufferers in England and Wales. The decision is contained in draft guidance and is subject to appeal.
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After working in a Norfolk practice it was a surprise to find that patients in Whitechapel, East London, regarded the British countryside as a place of peril. They weren’t frightened of being attacked by angry beasts, whether bullocks on the marshes or rats in the yard. But they feared the silence of the night, the emptiness of the fens or marshes and, inevitably, the vulnerability of any lonely country house to burglary and spiders.
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The number of Britons prescribed antidepressants is at a record high, despite official warnings that many patients may not need them. More than 31 million prescriptions were written by doctors for antidepressant drugs last year, figures published today reveal, with the use of drugs such as Seroxat and Prozac increasing by 10 per cent. The findings, which show a big increase on previous years, come despite growing concerns over the country’s excessive reliance on chemical treatments and over their possible side-effects.
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Boosting your brain power by taking a pill could become a reality in the next few years – but such drugs raise serious ethical and medical issues.
You have to wonder at some people. I have been wondering at Jon Sudbo, a Norwegian scientist who published a paper in The Lancet in 2005 showing that a certain class of painkillers cut the risk of oral cancer. Sudbo, it turned out, made the whole lot up. And he was astoundingly dim in the way he went about inventing his 908 patients: he gave 250 the same date of birth.
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A WOMAN who confronted Tony Blair on television over the failings of the National Health Service has lost her father to MRSA, the hospital superbug. During the 2001 election campaign Carol Maddocks described on the BBC’s Question Time programme, where Blair was a panellist, how the health service was letting down her daughter Alice, who had a rare blood condition.
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The laser eye surgeon, 44, is the medical director of the London ?Vision Clinic. He is also professor of ophthalmology at the University of Paris. He and his wife, Ursula, live in central London with their children: Julia, 7, Maxwell, 4, and Oscar, 2
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The media: every Viagra story has newspaper editors throbbing with excitement. Drug companies don’t mind erectile dysfunction being medicalised, either.
New evidence linking obesity to genetics means clinics are now offering tailor-made plans. But are they just another dieting gimmick
One baby has asthma; another is obese. But it isn’t ?just their diet or their upbringing that is to blame. Science has now discovered another culprit: history. It turns out that our bodies are programmed to live the lives of our grandparents.
BODYBUILDERS seeking more impressive physiques are turning themselves into living versions of the cartoon character Popeye by injecting a form of synthetic oil into their muscles, writes Daniel Foggo.
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CLIMATE change may be triggering a surge in cases of asthma and hay fever, according to a report by the world’s leading scientists. Earlier springs, increased pollen production by plants and the spread of pollen-producing species could be causing allergic attacks in people who have never before suffered from hay fever.
Snoring is no laughing matter: it keeps spouses awake, causes marital discord and can even be harmful. Nearly half of men in the UK snore, and age, weight, alcohol and smoking are all factors. Snoring occurs when the soft tissue at the back of the throat vibrates during breathing. As you get older, muscle tone deteriorates, making this tissue more likely to vibrate. Fat deposits around the neck can also narrow the airway.
Yesterday Mr Brown spoke the language of “personalisation” about the National Health Service; enabling patients to see their doctor when they want, including evenings and weekends. That is welcome, but difficult given the contract the government has signed with GPs.
My new job involves public speaking and, though I am a confident professional, I am experiencing a few problems with my voice. I am having to strain somewhat to get my message across. I am probably a little more tense than normal, as I feel I have to prove myself. Can you suggest anything to help?
Cancer patients are being systematically let down by the radiotherapy services in England, a damning government report concludes. Lengthy waits and huge variations in service from place to place mean that tens of thousands of patients every year are receiving substandard service, reducing their chances of survival. The report to ministers from a top-level committee, whose broad conclusions were first revealed in The Times last month, calls for urgent action
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Being able to predict whether a toddler will grow up to develop a mental illness or personality disorder, and to treat them before it becomes a serious affliction, could solve lots of problems. Imagine if a health visitor’s routine check of a two-year-old included a brain scan, revealing whether the child was being nurtured or neglected. This could not only show how parents are coping, but also the chances of a child developing personality problems in the future.
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Doctors to stay open longer in NHS shake-up - The Telegraph 14th May 2007
Doctors will have to alter their working hours radically by opening their surgeries in the evenings and at weekends as part of a shake-up of the NHS being considered by Gordon Brown. The Chancellor - who will learn today whether he is to face a Left-wing challenge for the Labour leadership - could change GPs' contracts to encourage them to tailor opening hours more to busy working people.
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Brown to target the £100,000 a year GPs - Daily Mail 14th May 2007
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A former nurse who tackled Tony Blair over NHS failures in her daughter's treatment has lost her father to the MRSA superbug. During the 2001 election campaign Carol Maddocks confronted the Prime Minister during an appearance on the BBC's Question Time programme and told him that the health service was letting down her daughter Alice, who had a rare blood condition. She was later invited to Downing Street where he pledged funding to improve registries of bone marrow donors to help save Alice's life.
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Patients suffering from head and neck cancer are to be denied a new drug on the National Health Service because it is claimed it is no more effective than existing drugs. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has rejected Erbitux, also known as cetuximab, for cancer sufferers in England and Wales. The drug is available in Scotland.
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James Le Fanu on the doctor's dilemma, night-time sadness and naked sunbathing Last week in this paper, former RAF pilot WEV Malins from Oxfordshire (the first person to locate the vanguard of the German army crossing into Belgium in 1940) claimed there was a "conspiracy of silence" over treatments that aren't available on the NHS.
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A huge rise in deaths linked to the superbug MRSA in just over a decade has been revealed in official figures. The number of death certificates that name the infection as a "contributory factor" has soared from 51 cases in 1993 - the first year in which records were kept - to 1,629 in 2005, a 30-fold increase.
Hundreds of thousands of elderly people have had their "social care" cut in the past decade. Seven in 10 councils in England have been forced to "ration" services since Labour came to power, according to the Local Government -Association.
Doctors at a hospital popular with celebrity mothers will this week rebel against a proposed ban on providing contraceptives and abortion referrals and demand that Britain's most senior Catholic cleric step down as its patron.
Pregnant women are being offered the chance to buy tests online to detect foetal abnormalities, and receive potentially devastating results in the post. Ethics experts, however, have criticised the service, which will mean women who find out that their child has a high chance of Down's Syndrome, or other rarer conditions, will receive the news at home, leaving their GP to pick up the pieces
Tourists are at increasing risk from malaria because of their "complacent package-holiday mentality" and ignorance about the disease, medical experts have warned.
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I suffer unsightly psoriasis on my legs, feet, elbows and, lately, my knuckles. I've tried UV light treatment but the effect doesn't last. I use Dovonex vitamin D cream, but find applying the greasy ointment tiresome and worry about long-term use. Besides, after initially working well it now doesn't seem to help much. Dead Sea salts soothe, but don't remove the patches. I try to get the sun to my skin, but the urge is to cover up to avoid embarrassment. Do you have any suggestions, please?
Children who drink alcohol at home are less likely to become problem drinkers, researchers said yesterday. A survey of teenagers found that while almost all of them had started drinking, two out of five were regularly binge drinking.
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Drinking at home 'cuts bingeing' - BBC Health News 11th May 2007
Children's books are "demonising" overweight pupils by portraying fat characters as spoilt, greedy and mean, according to an academic. Popular stories, including the Harry Potter series, may be fuelling bullying of obese children in schools, it is claimed.
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Desperately ill patients will be able to instruct relatives to end their lives. They will have the right to appoint a family member or friend to tell doctors to withdraw the tubes feeding them when they become too ill to communicate.
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Just imagine if you could transform your looks by popping a pill. No need to spend hours in the gym in pursuit of a perfect body; no fake tans, sunbeds or hours baking on the beach to get a tan; and you could say goodbye to facials and expensive anti-ageing treatments.
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Vegetarians plan to boycott Mars bars after their recipe changed to include animal products. Other big brands from the same company -including Snickers, Galaxy, Twix, Bounty, Milky Way, Maltesers and Minstrels - are also affected.
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The nurse slumped against the door of my ward and clasped her hands to her mouth. "I thought," she whispered as I bent over my newborn son, "that was blood."
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British scientists have developed a vaccine to control high blood pressure which could save tens of thousands of lives a year in the UK alone. Based on a protein found in limpets, it would need a course of just three jabs, with a booster every six months.
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Parents could need permits to drive their children to school under a proposal to curb obesity. Schools would issue only a limited number, to encourage more youngsters to walk or cycle.
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A Conservative MP is seeking to change the abortion law to make women faced with unexpected pregnancies receive mandatory counselling. Ann Winterton, the MP for Congleton in Cheshire, also wants a seven-day "cooling off" period following meetings with counsellors.
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If anyone knows about sitting comfortably - and safely - at work it is a team of university physiotherapists. Which is why staff at Bath University began using giant inflatable balls as office chairs.
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When Richard Murray called his banking clients, his strong Birmingham accent heavily laced with a Hereford twang made him instantly recognisable. But a year ago, Richard, 30, had a stroke and lost the power of speech. Now he speaks with a heavy foreign accent.
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Scientists create 'plastic' blood - BBC Health News 11th May 2007
Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies. Researchers at Sheffield University said their creation could be a huge advantage in war zones.
A debt-ridden salesman who tried to sell one of his own kidneys over the internet has been given a 12-month suspended jail sentence. Daniel Tuck, from Oldbury, West Midlands, is the first person to be successfully prosecuted under a new law preventing the sale of body parts.
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Health authorities in Panama have ordered toothpaste to be removed from shelves over fears it contains a chemical that killed at least 51 people last year. The government warned against using Excel or Mr Cool, because they may contain diethylene glycol. Testing was under way to see if the products contained the chemical, which had previously been linked to deaths of 51 people who took a medication containing it.
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That old cinema moment when, at a point of heightened tension and to the sound of rousing orchestral music, the star reaches for a packet of cigarettes, lights up, then exhales with an expression of deep satisfaction may be heading for the cutting room floor. The American board in charge of film ratings has announced that smoking will now be considered alongside sex, violence and bad language.
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China unveiled plans yesterday to deploy police in hospital wards and outpatient clinics to protect medical staff from the public, amid growing instances of physical violence meted out by patients furious at charges and dubious treatment.
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Tobacco companies are lobbying the European Union to lift a ban on a smokeless alternative to cigarettes that could evade the incoming smoking ban in England, The Times has learnt. An oral snuff, known as snus, could satisfy people determined to get a nicotine fix while avoiding the most serious health dangers of cigarettes and the smoking bans in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, which will spread to England on July 1.
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Thousands of cafés, pubs and takeaways will be freed from strict food safety controls under an EU initiative that risks a dramatic rise in food poisoning, The Times has learnt. The European Union wants to exempt food outlets with fewer than ten staff from statutory rules covering food hygiene, including temperature checks on fridges and freezers and maintenance of proper records.
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I disagree with Lois Rogers (French hospitals are as sick as our own NHS, News Review, last week). It’s wrong to give significant weight to issues of privacy, keeping the patient informed and reassured. She was promptly and correctly diagnosed and treated. If I ever go into hospital that’s what I shall want - not reassurance, deferential staff or a consultant who says “Good morning”. I’ll want expert staff, not new friends.
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Asthma remedy that has a health warning - The Telegraph 11th May 2007
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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I disagree with Lois Rogers (French hospitals are as sick as our own NHS, News Review, last week). It’s wrong to give significant weight to issues of privacy, keeping the patient informed and reassured. She was promptly and correctly diagnosed and treated. If I ever go into hospital that’s what I shall want - not reassurance, deferential staff or a consultant who says “Good morning”. I’ll want expert staff, not new friends.
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Asthma remedy that has a health warning - The Telegraph 11th May 2007
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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Drugs developed to tackle obesity and diabetes may also fight breast cancer, scientists have found. They believe they work by blocking an enzyme behind two our of five cases of the cancer
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Ipods can cause pacemakers to malfunction by making them go too fast, too slow or even stop altogether, according to a study. Researchers found that iPods could make pacemakers malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart rate.
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Babies born to women in their mid-40s are more prone to heart problems which can cause death in the first year. The warning comes in a report laying out the health dangers relating to women who delay motherhood, a growing trend.
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Oral sex raises your risk of throat cancer scientists have warned. A new study found the sex act can pass on the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can trigger a specific type of throat cancer in both men and women.
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A dose of vitamin D may help ward off tuberculosis, research suggests. A study of 131 people found the vitamin helped to boost the ability of the body to inhibit the growth of bacteria that causes the respiratory disease.
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Scientists have found a potential target for treating up to 40% of breast cancers. A team from Canada's McGill University were able to block the action of an enzyme which fuels the growth of tumours, Nature Genetics reports.
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Scientists say they have developed a way to deliver lethal drug doses to tumours without causing side-effects, such as nausea and hair loss. The Australian team has used nanotechnology to create tiny particles which specifically attack cancer cells, but leave healthy tissue unaffected.
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MERSEYSIDE patients will have free private operations, including plastic surgery, to relieve struggling NHS hospitals. Health officials announced they would be paying Bupa’s Murrayfield hospital in Thingwall, Wirral to take in patients for surgery.
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Private hospitals to take on operations for NHS - Liverpool Daily Post 11th May 2007
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SEFTON Primary Care Trust or Sefton Council could soon be using one of their own buildings to house the controversial drugs clinic currently based at Manchester Road. Multi-agency partners have considered more than 20 possible sites but only four suitable properties have come up in the past year, meaning the search is still on.
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A PARAMEDIC had to bang on the doors of Chester Fire Station to borrow a stretcher after a man fell 25ft from the City Walls. An ambulance crew had asked the fire service control room for help but believed there would be a delay after learning an on-call senior fire officer, from outside Chester, had been dispatched to make an initial assessment of the scene.
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BODYBUILDERS seeking more impressive physiques are turning themselves into living versions of the cartoon character Popeye by injecting a form of synthetic oil into their muscles, writes Daniel Foggo.
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Children who drink alcohol at home are less likely to become problem drinkers, researchers said yesterday. A survey of teenagers found that while almost all of them had started drinking, two out of five were regularly binge drinking.
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Drinking at home 'cuts bingeing' - BBC Health News 11th May 2007
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WITH just 50 days to go before smoking in public places becomes illegal, education officers are busy updating Carlisle business owners about what they need to do.
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MATRONS are being axed by cash-strapped hospital bosses - just five years after they were returned to wards in a blaze of glory. Eleven matrons at Burnley General and the Royal Blackburn hospitals are being made redundant as part of a £15.6million savings programme.
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EXTRA sports lessons could be one of the keys to tackling East Lancashire's childhood obesity epidemic. That is one of the findings of a major new study into the eating habits of youngsters in Burnley, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Rossendale and Hyndburn.
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Daughter calls for inquiry after discovery of body parts files - The Guardian 14th May 2007
Angela Christie's world collapsed when she was 13. Her mother was in hospital for a routine operation, and her father, Malcolm Pattinson, a tall, fit 36-year-old, who had worked with plutonium at Sellafield nuclear plant, fell ill and asked her to accompany her younger sister and brother to school. That was in 1971, on Wednesday, May 26. The next day Malcolm was taken to West Cumberland hospital. By Friday he was dead. But it was not until a fortnight ago that Mrs Christie, now 49 and a mother of three children, discovered what had happened next.
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A CAMPAIGN to improve access to information for Bolton people who are blind or have sight problems has been backed by Bolton South-east MP Brian Iddon. Dr Iddon was at a reception hosted by the Royal National Institute of the Blind and Royal Mail to find out about the problems facing the 3,000 people in his constituency with sight loss.
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EMPLOYERS should do all they can to help their staff stub it out, according to the president of the Bolton Chamber Council - formerly the Bolton Chamber of Commerce. Jonathan Sharrock, who is also a partner with the law firm KBL, is calling for local companies to provide all the support necessary for employees who want to quit smoking following the July 1 ban.
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Don't be a cancer chancer - Altrincham Messenger 11th May 2007
A NEW campaign is warning people not to leave it too late to check out possible lung cancer symptoms with their GP. The Don't be a cancer chancer' initiative urges people to visit their GP early with possible cancer symptoms.
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