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MPs are to launch an inquiry into the impact of scientific developments on abortion law, including whether medical advances in the care of very premature babies mean the 24-week time limit should be reduced.
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MPs to examine abortion science - BBC Health News 20th June 2007
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Schoolgirls across Britain are to be offered a vaccine to protect them against cervical cancer from as early as autumn next year, ministers said yesterday.
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Cervical cancer vaccine for girls aged 12 - The Times 21st June 2007
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Cervical cancer jabs for all young girls - The Telegraph 21st June 2007
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I have always had trouble getting to sleep but it has become much worse since I had glandular fever. I've tried everything from exercise and diet to taking sleeping pills. Now I'm at the end of my tether
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My theory that getting in a sweat makes a person stupid is upheld by every experience I've ever had. Recently I found myself forced into undergoing frequent bouts of excessive exercise. No need to go into details, there is sponsorship involved, and Salem-style group enthusiasm, a substantial amount of which fizzled out long before the compulsory purchase of suitable footwear.
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David Cameron has some interesting proposals in his plans for the NHS, (Health of patients will set GP pay - Tory plan, June 20) not least the expansion of commissioning of services by GPs. Some of the things he mentions are, however, already a reality. Under the new GP contract, GPs' income is directly linked to patient satisfaction and to the success of the treatment they provide through the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) which acts as a mechanism for performance-related pay. The QOF requires practices to carry out patient satisfaction surveys and act on the results.
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People with mental health problems have much to gain from volunteering and need not be feared by those who would employ them. When I worked for a project helping people with mental health issues to volunteer, I got used to being asked: "Isn't that dangerous? Is it safe?" Many people's perceptions of mental illness are coloured by stories of care in the community gone wrong. I was determined to show that nothing could be further from the truth.
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Sir Henry Wellcome, the philanthropist and pharmacist, spent his life assembling an archive as gigantic as it is gruesome. Now it has gone on show. It is one of life's constants: the heart beats approximately one billion times before it expires. What determines how long a creature lives is the speed at which its heart beats, whether it belongs to a whale, a humming bird or a human. The hearts of all three, along with several others, are displayed in the stunning new Wellcome Collection, the medical museum renovated at a cost of £30m, which reopened yesterday.
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David Cameron will today propose an overhaul of the Government’s administration of the NHS, with the Department of Health’s brief scaled down and day-to-day decisions passed to an independent board. In a what would be a substantial transfer of power from Whitehall, the Tories have pledged to hand over control of the health service to an independent NHS board as part of their next election manifesto.
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Cameron pledges law to protect NHS principles - The Telegraph 21st June 2007
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Tories pledge 'independent NHS' - BBC Health News 20th June 2007
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A reader has written about her 78-year-old father. He makes no concessions to the weather. Is this endangering his health as in winter he is usually blue, but doesn’t notice it, and in the summer he still wears corduroy trousers, a pullover and a jacket when everyone else is sweating? His pleasant Victorian house in Hammersmith doesn’t have any form of air conditioning. What should she do?
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Confused by what can and can't be said in reguard to disability, then Remploy's etiquette guide may help Presumably most people know that shouting “Oi! Cripple” across the office to a disabled colleague is unacceptable. But in a survey of employers by Remploy, an employment services provider for disabled people, there was confusion over what language can and can’t be used to describe disabilities and disabled people.
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The father of modern genetics predicted yesterday that genetic profiles will be used to diagnose illnesses within a decade. Professor James Watson, one of the researchers who discovered the double helix structure of DNA, said that patients with mental illnesses and cancers would be the first to benefit.
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The Financial Services Authority is considering calling Christopher Moore, the former chairman at Torex Retail, as a witness for the City watchdog’s investigation into iSoft, the NHS software supplier. It is understood that the FSA is working with the Serious Fraud Office, which is conducting a separate inquiry into Torex Retail.
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There is a simple solution to the hygiene problem in hospitals – the ward sister (report, June 18 ). She used to have absolute authority over every activity on her ward, including miscreant junior doctors and consultants, and in turn was held to account by matron.
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Letters to The Daily Telegraph - The Telegraph 21st June 2007
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A suicidal teenager had both her legs cut off when she was run over by a train, hours after being released from a police station. The 18-year-old girl was taken into police care on Tuesday afternoon, after trying to take her own life by throwing herself in front of a train in Hampshire. After her release she went straight back to the railway line, where she lay on the track and waited for an approaching train.
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Smokers will be prevented from fostering children under the age of 5 once the smoking ban comes into force on July 1, The Times has learnt. The Fostering Network, which oversees Britain’s 42,000 foster carers, is to change its guidance to local authorities and agencies because of the risk of legal action by children in care whose health may be damaged by smoke.
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Where a private care home, under contract with a local authority, provided care and accommodation for an elderly person which the authority had been under a statutory duty to arrange, the care home was not exercising functions of a public nature so as to allow her to claim a breach of duty under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Why prisoners have more human rights than old folk in care - Daily Mail 20th June 2007
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Law Lords reject care home plea - BBC Health News 20th June 2007
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Law Lords reject care home plea - BBC Health News 20th June 2007
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A leading nutritionist says parents should not purée their babies’ food, sparking a debate on how we wean children For the first year of a baby’s life, the dietary angst experienced by many parents wanting to provide their children with the best nutritional springboard to life is the biggest burden of babydom.
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Camden council executive Mike Cooke tells Martin Baker that a good mix of people is key to taking things forward Mike Cooke's career is proof positive that the line between public and private sector can indeed be a fine one. Cooke, now a senior executive at the London Borough of Camden, got valuable commercial experience early in his career – but he got it in the public sector, as a human resources executive dealing with Luton Airport for the local borough council.
The wrong sort of rain is being blamed for failing to bring relief to the country's 10 million hayfever sufferers. Allergy UK said that much of the recent rainfall had come in localised showers rather than widespread, persistent rain. "Rain has the effect of dampening down the pollen in the air but localised showers do not do a very good job," said a spokesman.
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Hormone replacement therapy could help women to beat heart disease, a controversial study has revealed. Women using one type of HRT were shown to have healthier arteries than those using other forms of the drug or receiving no treatment.
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A man who campaigned for more financial help for the terminally ill has died. Rick Costello*, who was 52, had cancer of the pancreas and lungs. He died at home in Nottingham on Monday. Rick, a father of three, first emailed BBC Five Live before Christmas when the family were strugging to pay their fuel bills.
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One in 10 young people suffers from significant mental health problems, a leading children's charity claims. The NCH said it found the prevalence of emotional problems and conduct disorders had doubled since the 1990s, citing studies of 8,000 children.
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The smoking ban from 1 July is a major victory for health activists, following the ban on tobacco advertising and warnings on cigarette packets. Is this all that they want? A smoke-free indoor communal Britain is almost here - less than two weeks and counting.
Two accident and emergency departments in Sussex could be closed as part of plans to re-organise hospital services. The future of A&E provision at Worthing and Southlands Hospital, St Richard's in Chichester and the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath are all in doubt.
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Man sold drugs 'to pay for IVF' - BBC Health News 19th June 2007
A former hospital porter sold drugs to pay for fertility treatment for his wife, Cardiff Crown Court heard. Ian Woodhouse, 31, from Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent, sold amphetamines and cannabis to help his wife Shelene.
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Hopes are rising that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting children with the HIV will be released within weeks in a deal involving a multimillion-dollar international fund for healthcare to treat the victims. European diplomats said last night they were now "cautiously optimistic" that the eight-year saga could be nearing its end, paving the way for improved relations between the EU and the Gadafy regime.
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Health litigation: “Everyone has the right of access to preventative health care,” according to the charter. But lawyers believe that this very loose definition could lead to a surge in demands for compensation when patients are denied drugs or therapies that they claim would have helped avoid serious illness. Timothy Kirkhope, leader of the Tory MEPs and a commercial lawyer, said: “If preventative medicine is set out as a right — interfering with our position because we have never accepted the EU has control over health, social security or employment — if we sign up, all of these areas of law are going to have to be revisited.”
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The price of organic food could increase because of new rules about GM labelling, campaigners warn today. EU agriculture ministers last week agreed that food accidentally contaminated with up to 0.9 per cent genetically modified content could be labelled "GM free".
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A 'golden bullet' treatment for cancer that tracks down tumours before wiping them out with a blast of heat is to be tested on patients within weeks, it has emerged. The 'seek and destroy' technique uses an injection of microscopic glass spheres, coated in gold, which seek out potentially deadly cancers in the body.
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A chemical found in Teflon non-stick coatings could raise the risk of allergies, researchers have said. The scientists claim the product may prime the immune system to overreact to allergy triggers, or allergens, such as dust mites or animal hair.
Scientists have discovered how mutations in two key proteins may lead to autism. They have shown one protein increases the excitability of nerve cells, while the other inhibits cell activity. The University of Texas team found that in normal circumstances the proteins balance each other out.
Zoo visitors are risking infections by not paying heed to hygiene after touching animals, research suggests. Canadian researchers sent observers to 36 zoos which allowed people to pet their animals.
A drug made from the sea squirt may help those with a form of cancer, a study in the Lancet suggests. Just over half of a study of 51 patients with a type of soft tissue sarcoma responded positively to treatment with the drug Trabectedin.
A young New Zealand scientist has managed to create the world's first large transgenic animal model for Huntington's disease, a devastating neurodegenerative disorder. For her PhD, 25-year-old Jessie Jacobsen from the University of Auckland worked out how to inject into sheep the DNA containing the gene that causes Huntington's.
A vibrating condom has sparked a fierce debate in India, over whether it is a sex toy - which are banned - or a means of birth control. The controversial condom has caused outrage in the state of Madhya Pradesh, because a government-owned company is involved in marketing it.
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Breastfeeding declines in Asia - BBC Health News 20th June 2007
Two major UN agencies have warned that a decline in breastfeeding in the Asia-Pacific region is lowering the survival rate of babies and children. The World Health Organisation and the UN children's agency, Unicef, say more needs to be done to inform parents of the risks of breast milk substitutes.
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PARENTS in Ellesmere Port have been urged to ditch their children's unhealthy snacks. The Snack Right campaign, led by the national ChaMPs Public Health Network, supports families of pre-school children living in less well-off communities to make healthier choices.
A FRUSTRATED Crewe woman was forced to miss an important breast cancer screening at Leighton Hospital after searching in vain for an hour for a car parking space. Judy Fox, 64, was due for a mammogram as part of the programme of breast cancer screening for women over 50.
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TAXI drivers in Southport and Formby were turning the tables on their customers by giving them a tip or two during Men’s Health Week last week. Hackney and some private hire drivers will be handing out a free information booklet to their passengers as part of Sefton Primary Care Trust’s work to improve the health of all local men.
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On target to combat superbugs - Midweek Visiter 20th June 2007
HYGIENE standards to combat deadly ‘superbugs’ are being met in Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals, the local Trust has disclosed. The hospitals complied with all 24 core standards in the year to the end of March, the governing Trust told the Healthcare Commission, the independent NHS watchdog.
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AN ASTHMATIC pensioner has hit out at hospital bosses for allowing disabled parking spaces to be blocked by a mobile scanning unit. David Ashton, 65, who suffers from severe breathing problems, attended the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle on Saturday, May 19 for a routine lung function test.
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Cancer drug postcode lottery - Carlisle News & Star 20th June 2007
THE FAMILY of a Cumbrian cancer sufferer is having to raise £1,600 every month to pay for the drugs which they say are already giving him a better quality of life. After taking lung cancer drug Tarceva for just over a month, Harry White has seen noticeable improvements.
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A TEENAGER who went onto kill was displaying no outward signs of mental illness when he was discharged from a mental health ward, the General Medical Council has been told. Dr Mark Dziobon felt that Mark Harrington, the 18-year-old who later shot childhood friend Anthony Rigby in the back of the head in January 2002, was "intellectually gifted", the council's fitness to practice panel heard.
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HEALTHY lifestyle gurus could be employed to help tackle the obesity timebomb among children in Burnley. Burnley Council's Healthy Lifestyles team is bidding for £200,000 to tackle the problem of overweight youngsters after the town was identified as having one of the worst levels of health in the north west in terms of fruit and vegetable consumption, coronary heart disease and mental health.
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Medical centre 'may create hundreds of jobs' - Lancashire Telegraph 20th June 2007
MULTI-million pound plans for a new research centre which could create hundreds of jobs look set to finally be kickstarted. Designed to attract cutting-edge science and technology firms to East Lancashire, the Medi-Park project, off Haslingden Road and Shadsworth Road, next to the new Royal Blackburn Hospital, was given outline planning permission in 2004.
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BOLTON North-east MP David Crausby visited Halliwell's Children's Centre to show his support for National Childcare Week. The local MP spoke to staff and heard first-hand how centres such as the one in Shepherd's Cross Street help prepare youngsters for the future.
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Mobile phone health reminders are text in line - Altrincham Messenger 20th June 2007
HEALTH service bosses in Trafford have introduced a mobile phone patient reminder service to tackle a £2.6m a year problem. Every month about 1,500 people fail to turn up for health appointments in the borough, and each did not attend' (DNA) costs £120 and takes a slot which another patient could have taken.
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