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Scientists have made a major leap in unravelling the genetic causes of seven common diseases, including diabetes, arthritis and high blood pressure, by completing the largest analysis of the human genome. The discoveries pave the way for improved treatments and possible cures for the millions of people in the UK who develop the diseases every year. Using new techniques to examine the DNA of thousands of patients, scientists also found common genetic links in heart disease cases. The findings raise the prospect of improved medical treatment and preventative work with people identified as carrying a genetic risk of disease.
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The genetic revolution - The Independent 7th June 2007
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Genetic find set to transform medicine and serve millions - The Times 7th June 2007
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The genetic revolution - The Independent 7th June 2007
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Genetic find set to transform medicine and serve millions - The Times 7th June 2007
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Traumatic it may have been, but the operation has been a success. That was Patricia Hewitt's message yesterday as it was reported that the tough treatment administered in response to last year's NHS deficit had got the service back in the black. Last year's overspend generated anxiety. If, however, the health secretary had hoped that this would be mirrored by joy at news of a £500m surplus for 2006-07, she will have been disappointed. Professionals and opposition parties stressed the cost with which the surplus had been achieved - not least the loss of 17,000 NHS posts. Gloomy press reports, meanwhile, suggested that cost-cutting was jeopardising Labour's goals on waiting times.
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Hewitt praises the NHS for balancing its books - but doctors attack 'meddling' - The Independent 7th June 2007
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Hewitt praises the NHS for balancing its books - but doctors attack 'meddling' - The Independent 7th June 2007
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Millions in NHS savings ‘should have gone on jobs and services’ - The Times 7th June 2007
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Do the NHS accounts add up? - BBC Health News 6th June 2007
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Patient promised knee operation within months had to wait a year - The Times 7th June 2007
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NHS back in black but 'figures are fiddled' - The Telegraph 7th June 2007
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Hewitt should resign over NHS, say doctors - The Telegraph 7th June 2007
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Hewitt has brought NHS is 'to its knees' say doctors - Daily Mail 6th June 2007
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NHS back in black but 'figures are fiddled' - The Telegraph 7th June 2007
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Hewitt should resign over NHS, say doctors - The Telegraph 7th June 2007
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Hewitt has brought NHS is 'to its knees' say doctors - Daily Mail 6th June 2007
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Do the NHS accounts add up? - BBC Health News 6th June 2007
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NHS bosses have forced iSoft and other squabbling companies linked to the troubled £6.2bn health service IT upgrade to suspend an increasingly acrimonious dispute over the software firm's future and attempt to reach a compromise before the business goes bust. Richard Granger, the director general of NHS IT, has made it clear that he will invoke draconian intervention rights - tearing up billion-pound contracts and replacing suppliers - if the dispute over iSoft's future is not resolved swiftly.
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CSC confirms interest in bidding for iSoft - The Independent 7th June 2007
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CSC confirms interest in bidding for iSoft - The Independent 7th June 2007
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An unprecedented emergency recall of all stocks of an Aids drug in the UK and the rest of Europe was ordered last night because the tablets contain a dangerously high level of a cancer-causing chemical. All those taking the drug Viracept are being asked to see their doctor immediately so that they can be prescribed an alternative medicine.
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'Contaminated' HIV drug recalled over cancer fears - The Independent 7th June 2007
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Anti-HIV drugs withdrawn worldwide over cancer link - The Times 7th June 2007
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'Contaminated' HIV drug recalled over cancer fears - The Independent 7th June 2007
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Anti-HIV drugs withdrawn worldwide over cancer link - The Times 7th June 2007
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Denying surgery to drinkers and smokers goes against the ethos of the NHS: to provide care on the basis of need First it was the sensible point that if you're an alcoholic about to receive someone else's liver, or a smoker someone else's lung, then you should drop the booze and fags and stick to it. Then it was the reasonable argument that if smoking (or drinking, or obesity) made an operation significantly less likely to succeed, then you should be asked to address that. Now, a primary health trust is considering a policy of denying smokers routine surgery that has nothing to do with smoking.
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HIV sufferer Franco Di Giovanni was out of work and out of touch with the world - but then volunteering helped rejuvenate his life
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Foundation hospitals in England have accumulated a £1bn treasure chest in profits from treating NHS patients and selling off assets provided free by the government, their regulator disclosed yesterday. Their uninvested reserves came in addition to a £500m underspend by other NHS organisations revealed in the Guardian last week and confirmed yesterday by Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary.
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As foreigners we have no vested interests in either the British IVF industry or in the way the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) does or does not protect women from exploitation by colleagues who are money driven rather than having the best interests of their patients at heart. The point Robert Winston raises on the introduction of new IVF technologies is, however, extremely important and concerns millions of subfertile couples all over the world (IVF clinics corrupt and greedy, May 31).
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With the ban on smoking in bars and restaurants just three weeks away smoker Emilia Fox has a final cigarette at her favourite place and Stephen Ferns considers snuff
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We all have a finite capacity for anxiety. If we were Victorians, we would worry about our children catching diphtheria or scarlet fever. If we were parents in Zimbabwe, we would worry about them getting enough to eat. What we wouldn’t worry about is them being abducted by a stranger. Victorian children were certainly allowed to play outside together. So are Zimbabweans. Yet now that 21st-century British parents have so little else to fear – no starvation, hardly any killer diseases, not even measles, mumps or rubella – they allow their imaginations to be swept away with visions of that incredibly rare occurrence, the theft of their offspring.
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An American reader has asked about her relative, who is an international banker. She thinks her niece may have travelled in the same plane as the 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer who had been suffering from a form of TB that is resistant to most of the drugs used to treat tuberculosis. Does she still need to see her GP for tests?
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Reducing waiting lists was one of Tony Blair's top priorities when he came to power in 1997. Significant progress has been made including achieving targets to reduce maximum waiting times for hospital appointments to three months and for operations to six months. Reports indicate that reducing the maximum time from GP referral to hospital treatment to 18 weeks by the end of 2008 will prove difficult for many local NHS organisations.
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Police are investigating the death of a baby girl from meningitis amid claims she had been sent home from hospital with a bottle of Calpol. Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust confirmed yesterday that a doctor had been suspended following the death of nine-month-old Aleesha Evans, from Bettws, near Newport, south Wales.
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Police examine meningitis death - BBC Health News 6th June 2007
And there I was - all set to blame Brussels. As soon as I heard there was some loony plan to put health warnings on wine bottles, my Eurosceptic aero engines began to rev and whirr. I knew where the culprits must be, and the all-purpose vertical take-off Euro-rant began to throb on the launching pad. Could they really be serious?
Smokers will be banned from adopting children under the age of five in an attempt to protect young people from health risks such as asthma and lung cancer. The ban, approved by council chiefs in Portsmouth, Hants, will also mean that children who need a home are not placed with parents more at risk of developing tobacco-related illnesses.
The rise of sleeplessness in increasingly sophisticated economies such as Britain could lead to the creation of a "zombie nation". Scientists fear that this lack of sleep could sap the ability of Western society to develop the next generation of technology. Because of the rise of cheap labour in countries such as China, there has been an increasing emphasis in the West on the ability to innovate.
The first pictured of the two-year-old girl alleged to have been beaten into a coma by her millionaire father emerged last night. It shows little Yanire Izaga held tightly in the arms of her proud mother Ligia. The picture was taken late last year by Yanire's father Alberto - the City executive who could now face a murder charge over the toddler's death.
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'Mother' held after baby is thrown out of first-floor clinic window - Daily Mail 7th June 2007
Baby was fighting for his life last night after he was dropped from a first-floor window at a clinic for mothers with post-natal depression. The month-old boy was in a critical but stable condition after suffering multiple injuries when he plunged 12ft on to concrete.
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The NHS is still spending too much on stand-in nurses to cover absences, with the 2005 bill topping £1bn, MPs say. The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee pointed out this was 9% of the total nursing budget.
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Microwaves may be to blame for kick-starting the obesity epidemic, a UK scientist suggests. Professor Jane Wardle says obesity rates started to rise soon after 1984 - around the time of the rapid spread of microwave ownership.
Disgraced former GP Clifford Ayling is seeking a judicial review into a government report on his conduct. Ayling who worked in Folkestone, Kent, was jailed for four years in 2000 for 13 counts of indecent assault on 10 women patients between 1991 and 1998.
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Jobs to go as hospital cuts costs - BBC Health News 5th June 2007
Two hundred and fifty jobs will be lost as a Coventry hospital struggles to balance its books. The University Hospital, which closed two operating theatres last year, has to find £15m in one year to pay its way.
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Stem cells capable of making any tissue in the body have been created from ordinary skin cells, a world first that paves the way for revolutionary new treatments tailored to individual patients. The pioneering research overcomes one of the most pressing ethical issues faced by stem cell scientists today - that the most promising variety of stem cells known can be obtained only from embryos, which are cannibalised when the cells are collected.
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New way to create stem cells without embryos - The Times 7th June 2007
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Skin tests offer stem cell hope - BBC Health News 6th June 2007
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The controversy surrounding Avandia deepened yesterday after a medical expert in the United States claimed that GlaxoSmithKline had tried to silence him when he questioned the drug’s safety. John Buse, a diabetes expert from the University of North Carolina, said that he had received telephone calls from Glaxo executives as the drug went on sale in 1999, claiming that his “actions were scurrilous enough to attempt to hold me liable for a loss in market capitalisation”.
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Constantly fidgeting? If so there's a chance your genes could be responsible - and the good news is you are less likely to be fat. Scientists say they have identified a gene that explains why some people burn off calories by simply swinging their legs under a table or drumming their fingers.
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India school 'rejects' HIV pupils - BBC Health News 6th June 2007
Five HIV-positive children in the southern Indian state of Kerala who were turned away from their school last year have failed to get readmission. The school said it feared a backlash from parents of fellow students at the start of the new Indian academic year.
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INCIDENCE of dementia is set to rise by almost 50% in the next 15 years in some parts of Merseyside. The figures were revealed in research for the Alzheimer’s Society carried out by the London School of Economics and King’s College London.
THE Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is warning holidaymakers to beware of potentially deadly ticks this summer. Its pre-travel clinic is supporting a national campaign to make European travellers more aware of tick-borne encephalitis, which can cause meningitis, paralysis and even death.
ONE in seven children in Merseyside will leave primary school clinically obese. St Helens and Halton have the worst childhood obesity rates at 17.43%, while Knowsley and Liverpool have around 15% each.
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PUBS, clubs and restaurants in Mid Cheshire are gearing up for the introduction of the smoking ban. From July 1 all enclosed public spaces in the country will have to be smoke-free by law.
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Officials warn of smoking problem - Crewe Guardian 6th June 2007
MUMS and health professionals presented Southport MP John Pugh with a copy of the new Breastfeeding Manifesto after he pledged his support to the campaign to improve breastfeeding awareness. Dr Pugh is among a host of MPs who have signed up to the new manifesto, produced by more than 30 organisations in the UK, to promote greater understanding of the health benefits of feeding newborns the natural way for their first six months.
SOUTHPORT Euro MP, Chris Davies, is calling for a ban on the use of ‘killer’ fats in foods. The fats – known as Trans Fatty Acids – have been banned in Denmark, and New York Restaurants, and Mr Davies is urging Britain to follow suit.
NEARLY 3,000 families across West Lancashire are living in ‘fuel poverty,’ according to new research. Fuel poverty means that the household spends more than 10 per cent of its income on heating to maintain minimum temperatures of 21ºC in the main living area and 18ºC in other rooms.
A TEAM brought together by Cheshire County Council to safeguard the sexual health and welfare of children has won a national award in recognition of its work. They have scooped the Faculty of Family Planning David Bromham Award for their work in tackling risk-taking behaviours.
A LOCAL cancer support group is considering halting its fundraising efforts following plans to transfer operations to a Manchester hospital. Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support Group has raised a substantial amount of money and awareness for prostate cancer sufferers over the past few years.
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CUMBRIANS are being urged to take part in the north west’s biggest ever health survey, launched this week. It aims to determine how healthy our communities are, looking at diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol intake and other key lifestyle factors.
MORE than 25,000 beer mats are being distributed in Carlisle as pubs gear up for next month’s smoking ban. Council officers have now visited all licensed premises to ensure they are prepared for the new legislation
THE new North West Strategic Health Authority has revealed it has underspent by £161 million this year. The news – which comes just days after it was revealed that nearly 650 operations were cancelled in north Cumbria last year – has angered local health campaigners.
A SEX offender with TB who flouted a judge's orders to attend hospital so he would not become a danger to the community has been jailed. Shahfasal Pervez, 20, of Pendle Street, Accrington, had promised Judge Beverley Lunt he would attend for treatment under a leading medic as part of a community order. She told Burnley Crown Court she now had no alternative to lock him up.
A DOCTOR who grabbed two nurses in bear hugs and groped them has been spared jail by a judge. One victim of Dr Patrick Chanda threatened to scream if he didn't release her but he just laughed, Preston Crown Court heard.
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Freedom honour for army medics - Chorley Citizen 6th June 2007
Chorley's local TA regiment will march through the town this weekend after receiving one of the highest honours the borough can bestow. Members of the 5 General Support Medical Regiment have been granted the Freedom of the Borough.
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COMPANIES who have already outlawed smoking are urging other businesses to stub it out ahead of the national smoking ban. Owners and managers of firms who have already asked their customers to stop smoking are claiming it has been well received.
VIOLENCE and aggression are regular hazards at hospitals in Wigan borough. Raising staff and public appreciation of such incidents and giving advice on how to react to it is one of the themes of Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust's Health & Safety Awareness Week which begins on Monday at all its hospital sites.
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Personal data stolen from hospital - Manchester Evening News 6th June 2007
PERSONAL details of families whose children have died at Manchester's specialist children's hospital have been stolen. A computer memory stick - containing the names and addresses of around 200 families who lost children while being cared for at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital , in Pendlebury - was taken from the hospital's bereavement office on May 9.
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