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An £8bn increase in NHS spending in England this year will buy 390,000 extra operations, 400,000 more outpatient appointments and a new outreach service to help thousands of vulnerable people with long-term medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma, Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, said yesterday.
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We've all got the message on sunbathing: too much of it can give you cancer. But we're still not using sunscreen lotions properly
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A new hotline for those who suspect malpractice in medical research has not been universally welcomed. Jessica Shepherd reports
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Following our G2 special on the smoking ban, artist David Hockney offers a personal view on why he will always be devoted to cigarettes
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The walkers I passed looked deliriously happy despite foul weather the other day. They were probably sniggering at my jogging style, but research for the charity Mind has found that people do feel less depressed after a country walk. A stroll in a park increased self-esteem in 90% of a group of people suffering from depression and 71% reported decreased levels of depression. After a walk through a shopping centre, 44% said their self-esteem had dropped and 22% felt more depressed.
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The Yorkshire-based Centre for Crisis Psychology (CCP), which has two senior counsellors working with the McCanns, brings 10 years of experience in helping British holidaymakers deal with traumas. Its senior partner, Peter Hodgkinson, has advised on a hostage situation although the centre has not dealt with an ordeal such as that being faced by the McCanns.
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How can Gordon Brown have the effrontery to blame Tony Blair for the fiasco in NHS finances (report, May 14 ), when he directed and supervised the Treasury in applying the illogical and vindictive financial resource allocation and budget regime at the root of the present series of cutbacks in local services?
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A key target in the Government’s health reforms – to have thousands of community nurses treating the most seriously ill patients outside hospital – has been missed, with fewer than half the promised numbers in place. A pledge made three years ago to have 3,000 experienced nurses in post by March this year has been delayed, with social workers and less qualified staff having to make up the numbers looking after patients with chronic illnesses.
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MOST people hate cleaning and would be happy to get someone in to do it. But NHS managers under pressure to ensure that their hospitals are bug-free don’t want to leave just anyone to do the mopping up. Health Investor (May) says that NHS managers have asked the Department of Health to keep cleaning services in-house and stop them being included in Private Finance Initiative contracts. This is despite there being no evidence that outsourcing increases rates of MRSA and C difficile.
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METAPHYSICS, “complemen-tarity” and an ambitious voyage of discovery that may or may not end in Dumfries. Tiptoeing through the complex world of “wellbeing”, Health Service Journal (May 22) refers to a range of concepts rarely seen in the health-sector press. The metaphysical component lies in the inquiry often made of patients by doctors and nurses: “And how are you feeling in yourself?”
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Ten years of rising prosperity, ten years’ boom in prescriptions for Prozac. Interesting. This week’s news that Britain is on antidepressants (31 million prescriptions a year) is a bit like hearing that a crutch-and-splint factory has doubled its profits. You're glad all those people are being helped to walk upright, but wonder why so many are getting hurt. And as pills are a mental rather than physical crutch, another question pops up.
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Doctors hand out a record 31m anti-depressant prescriptions - Daily Mail 14th May 2007
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Doctors hand out a record 31m anti-depressant prescriptions - Daily Mail 14th May 2007
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IS IT fair for the Government to change a policy without consulting those who will be affected by it? This question was put to the High Court recently by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) when the Government changed the rules to make it harder for doctors from abroad to enter Britain for postgraduate training and to obtain posts within the NHS.
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Fewer than one in a hundred new mothers follows government advice and feeds their baby on breast milk alone for the first six months, according to new figures. Although 76 per cent of mothers start out breast-feeding, up 7 per cent from 2000, the figures show that most soon give up.
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Mothers reject six months of breastfeeding - Daily Mail 14th May 2007
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Mothers reject six months of breastfeeding - Daily Mail 14th May 2007
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If your child could wear an implant – a microchip that could tell a computer where he or she was at any time to within a few metres – would you buy it? After the horrific snatch of three-year-old Madeleine McCann from her bed in Portugal, the answer from many parents seems to be “yes”.
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Major depression kills thousands of people in this country each year and many more around the world by suicide (reports, May 14 ). The difficulty that primary care doctors have is in distinguishing minor depression and mood swings (comparable to the common cold) from major depression (comparable to old-fashioned pneumonia). Like the common cold and pneumonia one sometimes develops into the other.
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With the ban on smoking in public places only weeks away, it’s time to think how dietary changes could help you to quit
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Such is their concern over the cost of new generation drugs for the treatment of cancer that many specialists are now arguing for a fundamental change in NHS policy. They want to allow patients the right to pay for such medication themselves if they so wish. Were this proposal to be accepted, it would create a valuable and instructive precedent for our system of funding healthcare: the ideological wall between private and public treatment that persists in many areas of England, even though it has in effect been abandoned in Scotland, would be definitively dismantled.
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Though it once had the brilliance to invent the National Health Service, the Labour Party has since spent quite a lot of time mucking it around. Let us start with the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. These hospitals are famous centres of clinical excellence, their records and their research the envy of the world's healthcare institutions.
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Those who believe they are treated unfairly in life are more likely to suffer a heart attack, a study claims. The stress of thinking you are a victim can have a dramatic effect on health, researchers said.
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Gordon Brown will have to fund a massive increase in the number of doctors and nurses if GP surgeries are to open during the evenings and at weekends, doctors leaders said last night. The Chancellor sparked the first controversy of his leadership campaign by making clear family doctors should provide services to people "when they need it". Allies of Mr Brown said they were looking at how to adapt existing GP contracts to ensure more of them open for business outside the normal hours of 8am to 6.30 pm. Yesterday, the British Medical Association said it would be happy to meet Mr Brown to discuss his ideas.
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Alzheimer's drugs banned by the NHS for not being "cost-effective" could have a significant effect on the brain of some dementia patients, research has revealed. It shows the drugs cut down the amount of proteins linked to damaging brain plaques - even in patients in the first stages of Alzheimer's.
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Alzheimer's drug's impact hailed - BBC Health News 14th May 2007
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Alzheimer's drug's impact hailed - BBC Health News 14th May 2007
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First paralysis claims your legs - if you don't quickly find somewhere to rest, they'll crumple beneath you. Then, in rapid succession, the muscle tone and sense of feeling ebbs from your arms and torso, and your neck flops over.
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A British couple are hoping to send their eight-year-old daughter to China for revolutionary treatment for cerebral palsy. Kishor Tahiliani and his wife, Priti, believe that stem cell treatment will help their daughter, Vaishnavi, known as Shonia, to lead a more normal life.
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Recruitment row 'risks patients' - BBC Health News 15th May 2007
Leading consultants have warned the continuing crisis over junior doctors' training could potentially put patients at risk. They say the system for recruitment is deeply flawed.
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Recruitment row 'risks patients' - BBC Health News 15th May 2007
Leading consultants have warned the continuing crisis over junior doctors' training could potentially put patients at risk. They say the system for recruitment is deeply flawed.
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Only one in eight people considering cosmetic surgery consults their GP about the risks and benefits before going ahead, a survey suggests. Consumer group Which? questioned more than 300 people and warned that getting independent advice was vital.
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Charlotte Esler, daughter of the BBC journalist Gavin, talks about her experience of dealing with cancer. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last November at the age of 14, and, after months of treatment, she is now in remission.
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From the US - home of the super-size burger drive-through and the cup-holder designed to allow the consumption of gallons of coke in the car - comes an invention intended to undo all that damage: the walk and work desk. James Levine and Jennifer Miller, at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, have designed what they call a vertical workstation. It's somewhat taller than the norm and comes not with an ordinary chair, but a treadmill.
'Treadmill desks' could cut obesity rates in the office - The Independent 15th May 2007
Grab your keyboard and mouse and join rat race to stay slim - The Times 15th May 2007
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'Treadmill desks' could cut obesity rates in the office - The Independent 15th May 2007
Grab your keyboard and mouse and join rat race to stay slim - The Times 15th May 2007
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Thirty years after a boycott of Nestlé products was launched to highlight its unethical marketing of baby formula in developing countries, baby formula manufacturers are still failing in their responsibilities towards the world's poorest mothers and babies, Save the Children claims today.
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Eating a Mediterranean diet rich in fruit and vegetables halves the chances of developing lung disease, researchers have found. Anti-oxidant vitamins in the foods help to counteract inflammatory processes that damage the lungs, a study shows.
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Lung disease halved by right diet - The Times 15th May 2007
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Healthy diet 'halves lung disease risk' - The Telegraph 15th May 2007
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Med diet 'cuts lung disease risk' - BBC Health News 15th May 2007
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Healthy diet 'halves lung disease risk' - The Telegraph 15th May 2007
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Med diet 'cuts lung disease risk' - BBC Health News 15th May 2007
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The critical age for children becoming overweight or obese is between 1 and 3 years old, Columbia University investigators told the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Toronto last week. They suggest that this age is when children set their lifetime’s eating habits and is the ideal time for professionals to intervene when bad patterns start to form.
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If you are concerned about weight gain when you give up smoking, research suggests that there are two food supplements which, unusually for nonprescription weight-loss products, really may be effective.
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Eating fish or taking vitamin D supplements can lower the risk of going blind in old age, according to two new studies. Researchers investigating age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the main cause of blindness in Britain, found that people eating more than two servings of fish rich in Omega-3 fats cut their risk of developing AMD by 40 per cent, according to Dr John Paul SanGiovanni, who carried out the study for the National Eye Institute in America.
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A heart donated for transplant was beating inside a third owner last night. The donor heart was first given to a patient several weeks ago.
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'My very own little and large babies' - BBC Health News 13th May 2007
A UK couple who had their own "little and large" twins contacted the BBC News website after hearing about a similar case in Australia. Here is their story. As Georgie Armstrong cradles her identical twins she knows she is a very lucky woman.
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More Merseyside smokers kick the habit and save city £1.4m - Liverpool Daily Post 15th May 2007
More Merseyside smokers kick the habit and save city £1.4m - Liverpool Daily Post 15th May 2007
A HIGHER than anticipated number of smokers on Merseyside are kicking the habit ahead of smoke-free legislation, according to new research. Smoking levels have dropped by nearly three per cent in 15 months, with 30% of adults now smoking, according to an independent study for SmokeFree Liverpool.
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CHILDLINE founder Esther Rantzen gave the 68th Roscoe Lecture at St George’s Hall yesterday. The presenter and broadcaster, who was awarded the CBE last year for her work with young people, spoke on protecting vulnerable children from exploitation and abuse.
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Nurse with 2 jobs ran £7,000 sick notes fiddle - Liverpool Echo 14th May 2007
A JUNIOR nurse conned the NHS out of £7,000 by working for one trust and claiming sick pay from another. Patricia Caddick, 44, of Selby Road, Orrell Park, worked for Mersey Care and Aintree University Hospitals trusts at the same time.
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HEALTH experts have secured £100,000 to tackle the ticking timebomb of childhood obesity in north and west Cumbria. The money will help nearly 600 families with obese and overweight children over the next three years.
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TRAVELLERS from the north of England are being urged to swot up on malaria before they head off on their holidays. A recent survey found nearly one in three in the region thought malaria was contracted by drinking infected water.
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AN international comic book artist is to draw on his experience to offer staff stress-busting sessions. Blackburn-based Tim Perkins is holding the unusual scheme, which will let employees design a comic book or storyboard in a bid to help them relax.
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A healthy way to be a winner - Lancashire Telegraph 14th May 2007
PRIMARY school children throughout East Lancashire are being urged to design a poster to help promote a healthy lifestyle - and win £1,000 for their school in the process. The Stay Healthy, Keep Fit promotion supported by leading uniform manufacturers Trutex, based in Clitheroe, has been backed by both Blackburn Rovers and Burnley football clubs.
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A CAMPAIGN to support sick children in Manchester has raised an amazing £10m in one year. The New Children's Hospital Appeal celebrated its first birthday at the weekend with a party in Albert Square.
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Health services under fire - The Bolton News 14th May 2007
HEALTH services in Bolton have received 26 complaints in the first three months of 2007. The top five reasons are appointment delays at the Lever Chambers walk-in centre, waits for dental treatment, waits for physiotherapy, poor communication with carers and patients and the attitude of staff.
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