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Babies who need big money and unflagging commitment - The Guardian 12th June 2007
he evidence is piling up that Labour is not making enough impact on child poverty and inequality. It's not too late to do more These are Labour's babies, all born in 2000-02 into a boom in public spending aimed particularly at them. Yesterday the millennium cohort study reported on how they were doing at the age of three. In time, we shall know how they fare on their journey through school, college and life. It's far too early to tell, but we will eventually know if Labour made a difference. Long after Blair and Brown are gone, this is where Labour's real legacy will be etched.
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What’s the secret to raising bright children? - The Times 12th June 2007
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I thought we'd abolished the workhouse - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
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Do what doctors say, not what we do - The Guardian 12th June 2007
Of course doctors are human too (In praise of Dr Human, June 11). We make mistakes just like anyone else, sometimes we drink too much, eat unhealthily and some of us even smoke. However, does this mean we should not try and pass information on to the public that we believe will protect them against disease? No one lives for ever, but a healthy life is surely more preferable to a life dogged by heart disease, liver problems, low-energy levels and generally feeling miserable? If individuals don't have the information, they will be unable to improve their health.
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Really shocking - The Guardian 12th June 2007
A TV hoax has managed to highlight the shortage of willing kidney donors. It's a good lesson for students, says Judith Kneen The Big Donor Show turned out to be the big hoax. A show that was castigated for sinking to the lowest depths of reality television was elevated into an inspired publicity stunt by the Dutch television channel BNN, highlighting the chronic shortage of kidney donors.
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Hay fever: the cure and the catch - The Independent 12th June 2007
A once-a-day pill for hay fever that could transform the lives of sufferers is being denied to thousands of those most severely affected because of the cost. The pill, which is dissolved under the tongue, is the first oral vaccine developed for hay fever. But the majority of NHS trusts have failed to fund it. With the hay fever season at its peak, millions of people with an allergy to grass pollen are sneezing, snuffling and rubbing itchy eyes. Hay fever affects about 20 per cent of the UK population - more than 10 million people - of whom up to one million are so badly affected it interferes with their lives.
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Hockney fumes at the 'dreary people' threatening his beloved habit - The Independent 12th June 2007
In the background: some of the finest examples of JMW Turner watercolours ever assembled in the UK; delicate works of drama, beauty, subtlety. In the foreground: David Hockney. And an irascible Hockney was not content to talk just about the paintings. At the Tate Britain's Clore Gallery, surrounded by the great and good of the art world, he launched a blistering attack on the impending smoking ban, the youth of today and the decline of strident national protests.
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Skin cancer and social class - The Times 12th June 2007
An association between occupation, social class, dress, race and therefore skin colour, as well as family history, has been recognised for at least 100 years. The association between exposure of the skin to sun and melanoma, epitheliomas and basal cell carcinomas (rodent ulcers), the three common skin cancers, was noted originally because of the link between the jobs of the people suffering from them and the site of the cancers. At the time when both men and women kept as much of their skin as possible hidden from the sun's rays, and would always wear hats, all three of the more common skin cancers were found principally in those whose work kept them in the sun.
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Deadliest skin cancer hits affluent - The Times 12th June 2007
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Been down at the beach self-harming again? Nice - The Times 12th June 2007
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Modern morals - The Times 12th June 2007
A colleague cycles to work without wearing a helmet. This upsets me, not just because I’m fond of him and would hate to see him injured, but because I think it is reckless – to himself, his family and to the NHS, which would have to pick up the bill to fix him. Do I have any right to be upset? Your workmate is a fool. But the world is full of fools. We are surrounded by fools. Often we choose to surround ourselves with fools because fools make bright company.
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Eat wisely – and fly safely - The Times 12th June 2007
Looking forward to that long-haul holiday? Just make sure that you eat and drink the right things to reduce the risk of DVT. Our correspondent has the lowdown for high-flyers It may be increasingly unPC to jump on a plane and jet off to sunny destinations for your summer break, but tens of thousands of us are still due to do so this holiday season. If you are one of them, or if you fly often for business, you will find plenty of advice in in-flight magazines and audiovisual systems telling you how to exercise in your seat to reduce the risk of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT).
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Bumps and bruises are 'good for children’ - The Times 12th June 2007
Children should be allowed to play dangerous games and risk minor injuries as part of a wider lesson in life, the organisation responsible for avoiding accidents has said. By scraping knees, grazing elbows and getting bruises, children learn “valuable lifelong lessons” that will help them to avoid more serious injuries in later life.
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Sun can damage unborn babies - The Times 12th June 2007
Pregnant women are being urged to stay out of the sun to protect their unborn babies as well as themselves. The warning came from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in anticipation of a heatwave this summer. Studies have suggested that babies can be affected by heat during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. One found that exposure to high temperatures at this time could lead to lower birth weight. Exposure to low temperatures in the final three months of pregnancy had a similar effect
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Pregnant women told to stay out of the sun - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
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Pregnant women 'should avoid the sun' - Daily Mail 11th June 2007
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Eye drug only on NHS in Scotland - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
A drug that improves the eyesight of almost a third of people suffering from the biggest cause of blindness in Britain will be available on the NHS in Scotland from today, but not in England. While Scottish patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) will receive free Lucentis injections, thousands living south of the border could go blind if they cannot find up to £28,000 to obtain the treatment privately.
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New gel to tackle 'male menopause' - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
A new gel that treats the symptoms of the "male menopause" has been launched by a British company. Tostran is aimed at men over 40 who suffer from hypogonadism - a condition that causes baldness, weight gain, lethargy, irritability, reduced libido and erectile dysfunction.
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Firms in a fog over 'no-smoking' signs - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
ens of thousands of businesses are completely unaware that they will be required by law to display "No Smoking" signs at the entrances to their shops and offices in 19 days time, according to the latest Government-backed research. Mandy Talbot in 'The Cabin Cafe'; tens of thousands of businesses are completely unaware that they will be required by law to display 'No Smoking' signs at the entrances to their shops and offices in 19 days time Mandy Talbot and her father adopted a "no smoking policy" in their cafe three years ago Even businesses with no-smoking policies will have to replace existing signage with new ones of a certain minimum size with the warning: "No smoking. It is against the law to smoke in these premises". The signage rule also extends to company cars driven by staff.
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Smoke-free England: the smoking ban - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
A persecuted minority? On July 1st, the ban on smoking in most public space comes into play, and smokers will be banished to the pavements. Have your say on all the issues here.
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Quit smoking Day 2: The choice is yours - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
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'Your eyes are feeling heavy. . . you will not smoke again' - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
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Determination may not be enough - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
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Cravings are likely to be fiercest when you're tired or bored - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
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Start slowly, it may take up to nine months to stop coughing - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
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Calls for warnings on foods full of additives - Daily Mail 12th June 2007
Artificial additives used in popular soft drinks and food should carry health warnings, campaigners have claimed. child additives. They point out that these same chemicals – mainly vivid colours and preservatives – are required to carry warnings when used in medicines.
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Two elderly women terrorised on mixed ward - Daily Mail 12th June 2007
Two elderly women have reported being indecently assaulted by a male patient on a mixed- sex hospital ward. The pensioners, aged 76 and 82, were said to have been attacked in the early hours of the morning.
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Our child's brush with death brought us back together - Daily Mail 12th June 2007
Every year more than 2,000 child pedestrians are killed or seriously injured - an average of 47 a week. And behind the statistics lie the stories of family lives shattered in seconds. While emergency teams perform miracles, many of the children who survive - and their families - live with the physical and emotional impact for years.
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Hospital's 'blunders cost my newborn son his life' - Daily Mail 12th June 2007
A BBC radio journalist has claimed a series of blunders at a top London teaching hospital led to the death of his newborn child. Iain Croft, 42, told an inquest how his pleas for help were repeatedly ignored after his wife Heather had her labour induced at the Royal Free Hospital.
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Antibiotics linked to asthma in children - Daily Mail 11th June 2007
Giving babies antibiotics doubles the chances they will suffer from asthma by their seventh birthday, research has revealed. A study of more than 13,000 children added to the growing evidence that exposure to germs in the first few months of life aids the development of a healthy immune system and protects against allergies.
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Thirty-five die after out-of-hours GP care fails - Daily Mail 11th June 2007
hirty-five patients died last year after failures in GP out-of-hours care, the Medical Defence Union has revealed. Research following the case of Penny Campbell, 41, who died in 2005 after consulting eight out-of- hours GPs, has also revealed that the number of complaints over such services increased from 155 in 2005 to 182 last year.
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Breast reduction surgery soars (for him as well as her) - Daily Mail 11th June 2007
A surge in demand for male breast reduction operations is a result of men becoming more image-conscious, according to experts. BMI Healthcare, the largest private hospital group in Britain, says the number resorting to liposuction to reduce the size of their 'man boobs' has soared this year.
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The flip-flops that give you shapely legs: Introducing the FitFlops - Daily Mail 11th June 2007
If you're not already pounding the streets - and pounding your cellulite - with a pair of FitFlops, you'll have to join the thousands in the queue for this summer's must-have footwear. The innovative flip flops, dubbed 'FitFlops', are designed to help tone and trim your legs by engaging muscles for a longer period of time with each step.
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Monkhouse to appear in cancer ads - BBC Health News 12th June 2007
Late comedian Bob Monkhouse is to feature in television advertisements about the disease which killed him as part of a prostate awareness campaign. Computer wizardry was used to show a warning by Monkhouse in Prostate Cancer Research's Give A Few Bob campaign.
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Double cot death risk 'distorted' - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
he chances of your second child dying of cot death after losing your first have been overestimated, according to a new study set to reignite the debate. Failure to hold a post-mortem, rule out murder or check for familial causes meant eight studies into the condition were defective, the UK research said.
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Tick disease warning to doctors - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
Doctors have been warned to look out for a tick disease which is thought to be on the increase in Britain. The Medical Defence Union, a doctors' insurance body, has told its members to stay vigilant for possible cases of Lyme disease.
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Diagnosis by computer statistics - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
It is a dilemma faced by decision makers - do I go with my "gut feeling" or do I go with the stats? In business the wrong decision may wipe thousands off a share price but in medicine it could be the difference between life and death.
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MPs prepare for abortion debate - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
Pro and anti-abortion MPs are preparing for the first full Parliament debate for 17 years on the 24 week limit. An attempt is expected to be made this week to amend the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, calling for the upper time limit to be reduced.
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Council aims to close more homes - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
Ten more care homes in Staffordshire could close, affecting 200 residents and 450 staff. A seven-week public consultation has begun to decide about the future of the homes for people with learning difficulties and physical disabilities.
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Patient's cross-channel operation - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
A pensioner spent £13,000 on operations in a French hospital to avoid waiting almost a year for NHS treatment. Barbara Spalding, 69, from Suffolk, had a 10-month wait to have both her knee joints replaced at Ipswich Hospital. Mrs Spalding, who suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis, was quoted up to £24,000 for private treatment in the UK so decided to look abroad instead.
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Critical error: The Lisa Norris story - BBC Health News 10th June 2007
When news broke in February 2006 that teenager Lisa Norris had received a massive overdose of radiation whilst undergoing treatment for brain cancer at the Beatson Oncology Unit in Glasgow, the shock was felt far beyond Girvan, the small Ayrshire town where she lived. Lisa died eight months later - the cause of her death was given as cancer. But her parents have never accepted this, believing the radiation overdose killed their daughter.
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MoD expands veterans' healthcare - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
More armed forces veterans will get free mental health assessments under plans due to be announced by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The government's Medical Assessment Programme, set up in 1993, has provided services only for veterans of the first Gulf War and the current Iraq conflict.
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You can't get it right every time - The Guardian 12th June 2007
We all like to think that medicine is an exact science. But Atul Gawande, an American surgeon whose bestselling book inspired the hit TV series Grey's Anatomy, has news for you. Atul Gawande cannot forget the first time he sliced someone open. "I was in my final year at medical school," he says, "and the surgeon in the operating room just handed me the knife on the spur of the moment and said, 'You start.' The knife was still warm from the autoclave [sterilising machine] and I started cutting down the line he had drawn for the hernia incision. The skin was much tougher and more rubbery than I expected and my first cut barely went through, so I had to make a second. It wasn't frightening or nauseating in any way, but I did have a surreal sense that I was committing a violation. It felt an odd claim to make, that cutting someone open could make them better."
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Scientists make rice strain with cholera vaccine - The Guardian 12th June 2007
Scientists have created a strain of rice that carries a vaccine for cholera which would be cheaper and easier to distribute than the standard injection-based vaccine, scientists said. Cholera is a disease of the gut that is passed to humans through water or food contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It can kill within a few hours of infection and is highly prevalent in many of the world's poorest countries.
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Bush urges Libya to free Bulgarian nurses - The Independent 12th June 2007
US President George W. Bush urged Libya yesterday to free five Bulgarian nurses who face the death penalty for allegedly deliberately infecting children with HIV - charges the medics contend were based on confessions obtained through torture. "We're deeply concerned about the plight of the nurses," Bush told reporters after meeting with Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, whose government has been working with the European Union and the United States to gain the medics' freedom.
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Libya talks aim to release medics - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
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Relief for India over new HIV figures - The Times 12th June 2007
India has fewer cases of HIV-Aids than previously thought and has almost certainly dropped behind South Africa as the country with the highest caseload. UNAids, the United Nations agency, estimated last year that India had 5.7 million HIV cases compared with about 5.5 million in South Africa.
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G8 was a failure - The Times 12th June 2007
Your description of the G8 in 2007 as being “strong on specifics” in its commitments to Africa (leading article, June 9 ) is exactly what the headline figure of $60 billion for Aids, TB, malaria and strengthening health systems was not. The G8 chose not to set a timetable for the delivery of this money, instead promising to provide it merely “over the coming years”. This makes the promise both nebulous and unaccountable.
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Veterans offered mental health screening - The Telegraph 12th June 2007
Doctors are being urged to look out for suicidal tendencies among former soldiers after an American study found they were mush more likely to kill themselves. Researchers found that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were twice as likely to commit suicide as men who had never seen combat.
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US veterans 'high suicide risk' - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
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Smoking ads 'do not always work' - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
Anti-smoking advertising can have the opposite effect of what is intended and actually encourage people to keep smoking, an Australian study says. A poll of 3,100 young cinema-goers found ads before films that glamorise smoking made it more likely smokers would continue the habit.
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Smart clothes to monitor health - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
European scientists are developing clothing which they say will be able to monitor your health. The "intelligent textiles" contain embedded sensors designed to monitor body fluids such as blood and sweat.
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Drug offers hope for Parkinson's - BBC Health News 11th June 2007
he progression of Parkinson's disease could be slowed or even stopped by a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure, a study in Nature suggests. Tests on mice at Northwestern University in Chicago showed isradipine can rejuvenate the brain neurons which are dying in Parkinson's patients.
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The school run: is it harming children? - Liverpool Daily Post 12th June 2007
Vicky Anderson on a problem facing many parents THE school run has come under fire for a number of reasons in recent years. The necessity of the journey, its environmental impact, and the effect it can have on the health of children have all come under close scrutiny.
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Let youngsters walk into a healthy adulthood - Liverpool Daily Post 12th June 2007
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‘You can understand why parents are concerned’ - Liverpool Daily Post 12th June 2007
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School run makes Mersey pupils fat - Liverpool Daily Post 11th June 2007
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Employers warned of fines risk as smoking ban looms - Liverpool Echo 12th June 2007
SOLICITORS across Merseyside have been advising businesses on the legal implications of the smoking ban, which comes into force on July 1. Merseyside employers seeking legal advice are being told they can expect fines of £2,500 for breaches of the ban.
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Stroke victim forced to wait 75 minutes in street for ambulance - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
A STROKE victim was left lying in the street waiting for an ambulance for more than an hour. Ben Cree, 59, collapsed unconscious as he walked along North Sudley Road in Aigburth.
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How city is using Gates’ cash in war on malaria - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
Computer billionaire Bill Gates has given more than £40m to Liverpool’s School of Tropical Medicine. Adrian Butler meets the scientists who will be spending the money to save millions of lives KEN SHERLOCK picks up a clear plastic box full of mosquitoes, opens it, and sucks two out through a tube. Then he coaxes them onto his skin, where they start feeding straight away.
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Bill pursues his mission - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
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Bait to trap the tsetse fly - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
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The great breakthrough - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
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Plan costs £350,000 - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
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The fight against disease - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
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Success at the double - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
LIVERPOOL Women’s hospital is celebrating a twin success. The hospital has had two glowing reports, as twin girls Millie and Sophie Burgess from Mossley Hill were born. Independent body Monitor rated the Women’s hospital as one of the top five trusts in the country, while the Top Hospitals Programme rated the hospital in the top 40 for patient safety.
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Drug users wanted for research - Liverpool Echo 11th June 2007
MERSEYSIDE students who have used ecstasy and cannabis are being asked to take part in research into the drugs’ effects on the brain. Researchers at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, are looking for a mixture of reformed ravers to current pot smokers and ecstasy users.
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MP introduces abortion bill - Middlewich Guardian 11th June 2007
MIDDLEWICH'S MP's has introduced a proposed change in the abortion law was introduced into the House of Commons. Ann Winterton, Conservative MP for Congleton constituency, says the Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions) honours the rights of women to be properly informed before deciding to have an abortion.
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Green NHS Trust will - Wirral Globe 11th June 2007
WIDE-ranging plans to reduce Wirral Hospital NHS Trust's carbon footprint' will generate millions of pounds in savings that will ploughed back into patient services. As one of the largest employers in Wirral, the trust endeavours to lead by example. For a number of years it has been taking action to reduce its environmental impact on the local and wider communities in various innovative ways.
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Six-week course to help people living with health conditions - Carlisle News & Star 11th June 2007
A SIX-WEEK course to help people with long-term illnesses get their independence back starts in Carlisle today. Similar sessions, organised by the Expert Patients Programme (EPP), will also take place across the county over the coming months. The NHS-funded scheme, which is free, is open to anyone with a long-term health condition such as arthritis, diabetes, anxiety, cancer or chronic fatigue. Patients will learn how to manage their illness and regain control of their lives.
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Bus shelters full of ‘addicts’ - Lancashire Telegraph 11th June 2007
HE bus shelters around the new Royal Blackburn Hospital are not places visitors would want too much time in. Why? They are strewn with litter discarded by addicts who frequent them several times a day.
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Traffic fumes as bad as nicotine - Lancashire Telegraph 11th June 2007
HE government talks much about the need to curtail inhalation of smoke from cigarettes. But what about car exhaust emissions? Surely nitrous and sulphur oxides, along with carbon dioxide and particulate matter that spew from car engines is equally poisonous to humans?
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Baby born in hospital car park - Manchester Evening News 9th June 2007
WHEN Julie and Alan Charles bought a family car they never knew it would have to act as a maternity unit. The couple rushed to Rochdale Infirmary in their Toyota Rav4 when Julie's waters broke - but they failed to make it into the hospital and baby Liam was born as Julie got out of the car.
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Online records spark concern for patients - The Bolton News 11th June 2007
AN ONLINE medical records scheme being piloted in Bolton is not in the best interests of patients, according to a GPs' group. An independent body representing the interests of family doctors in Bolton is urging GPs to remember it is a pilot project and that participation is optional.
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Last chance for firms to kick habit - The Bolton News 11th June 2007
Businesses in Bolton have one last chance to take advantage of a free smoke workshop to help them prepare for the smoking ban. There are just 19 days to go until smoking is outlawed across England and Bolton Council and the Primary Care Trust are holding the final smoke-free workshop for local firms today.
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Government targets add to MRSA problems - The Bolton News 11th June 2007
IT is surprising that after all this time the Royal Bolton Hospital is still failing to meet Government targets for the control of MRSA and Clostridium difficile, let alone eradicate the superbugs altogether. The policy of moving patients in and out of beds as fast as possible to meet Government targets means that there is insufficient time between patients to clean each bed and the immediate surrounding area properly.
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Beware the danger of old mascara - The Bolton News 11th June 2007
ONE in four women use a mascara that is more than four years old, according to the College of Optometrists. And bacteria on old mascara brushes can cause eye infections that lead to blindness.
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DIY testing for cervical cancer - The Bolton News 11th June 2007
A "DO-IT-YOURSELF" testing kit that will allow women to screen themselves for the virus that causes cervical cancer has been approved in Australia. "Tam Pap" uses a tampon as a swab to test for the human papilloma virus which causes most types of cervical cancer.
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Residents are on the money tackling fuel poverty - Altrincham Messenger 11th June 2007
RESIDENTS of Old Trafford were celebrating after winning a green' award for an affordable warmth project. The project, designed by Trafford Council's sustainability team, won the Energy Institute's Nemex Renewables Innovation Award'. It is aimed at tackling fuel poverty and climate change through the use of renewable energy.
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Two elderly women terrorised on mixed ward - Daily Mail 12th June 2007
Two elderly women have reported being indecently assaulted by a male patient on a mixed- sex hospital ward. The pensioners, aged 76 and 82, were said to have been attacked in the early hours of the morning.
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