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British scientists are to try out a new way to repair damage caused by heart attacks. By injecting patients' damaged hearts with stem cells from their own bone marrow scientists hope to regenerate tissue. Raimondo Ascione of the University of Bristol will lead the trial on 60 people who have recently had large heart attacks. During coronary bypass operations Dr Ascione will inject the patients with stem cells that may transform into the types of heart cells that repair damaged tissue.
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Stem-cell trial for heart attack victims - The Independent 22nd June 2007
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Stem cell trial offers heart attack hope - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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Stem cell surgery could repair damage left by heart attack - Daily Mail 21st June 2007
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Cardiac team in stem-cell tests - BBC Health News 21st June 2007
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Young males most at risk as Northern Ireland sees sharp rise in self-inflicted deaths. The Pond area, a park overshadowed by tall trees, stands at the heart of Laurelvale in County Armagh. It has got no playground or bench but it is here that teenagers gather in the evening. From Dorothy Browne's front door on the redbrick estate opposite, raw marks are visible on a tree where two low branches were sawn off. They mark the spot where 28-year-old Stuart Fletcher hanged himself three months ago.
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Death-list rumours take hold in town haunted by suicide mystery - The Times 22nd June 2007
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The head of the NHS in England was last night on a collision course with the health unions after he accused doctors' and nurses' leaders of putting vested interests ahead of patients. David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, dismissed as unacceptable remarks made this month by Jonathan Fielden, the hospital consultants' leader, and Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, and accused them of telling untruths about the health service.
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The zombie health inspectors should be replaced with a risk commission - The Guardian 22nd June 2007
The only mystery in the banning of the re-run 'Go to work on an egg' ads is why the danger wasn't spotted earlier. This week's decision to ban "Go to work on an egg" as an advertising slogan marks a new low in British government. Enjoyed by the nation for a quarter of a century after it was recorded in the 1950s by Tony Hancock, it has fallen foul of Tony Blair's cultural Taliban. I wonder what would happen to "Drinka-pinta-milka-day".
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Misuse of an electronic database holding sensitive information on 11 million children in England could lead to millions of breaches of security each year, it is claimed today. Privacy campaigners and independent schools have warned of the "enormous" potential for abuse of the huge IT system to be launched next year.
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The state of England's health is revealed today in a series of regional snapshots published by the Government. Prepared for local councils across the country, these "health profiles" provide details on a range of issues such as life expectancy, obesity and smoking. They are designed to help local authorities and the NHS target resources to tackle health inequalities in their particular area. But they also provide an insight into the nation's health as a whole, and highlight the differences between areas.
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North West is bottom of national health league - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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The 'unhealthy' state of the nation shows North-South divide - Daily Mail 22nd June 2007
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Maps reveal 'unhealthy' England - BBC Health News 21st June 2007
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A mental patient shot dead a teenager 11 weeks after a senior psychiatrist agreed his release from hospital, a GMC disciplinary panel was told yesterday. Mark Harrington, 21, who suffers from schizophrenia and has a history of violence, asked a nurse: “Has anyone ever left here and gone and murdered anyone?” Less than three months after Shashank Chattree, a consultant psychiatrist, signed his release from Queen’s Park Hospital, in Blackburn, Lancashire, Harrington had killed a childhood friend.
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Doctor faces tribunal over patient who killed - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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Schizophrenic obsessed by Hannibal the Cannibal freed to kill friend - Daily Mail 21st June 2007
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Doctor faces tribunal over patient who killed - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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Schizophrenic obsessed by Hannibal the Cannibal freed to kill friend - Daily Mail 21st June 2007
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There is a chasm in the underprovision of funds, resources and research into mental illness in our prison population and for offenders in general (report, June 20). There should be robust and early assessment and treatment for offenders with mental illness who comprise the majority of this population. In time this would not only give them their rightful healthcare but reduce criminal behaviour and the need for places in our prisons.
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Pubs and restaurants, those well-proven stumbling blocks for the quitting smoker, will stock nicotine gums and patches after the smoking ban comes into force on July 1, The Times has learnt. Leading firms are taking advantage of changes in the regulation of nicotine replacement products by targeting areas where smokers are most likely to suffer cravings. The first nicotine gum machines, the postsmoking ban equivalent of the dingy fixtures found in the corner of watering holes across the country, will arrive in venues next month.
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Insulin pill promises an end to the needle for diabetics - The Times 22nd June 2007New Story
People with diabetes may soon be able to take a pill to control the disease instead of needing several daily insulin injections. A British company will report at a conference in the US today that it has developed a form of insulin that can be taken by mouth, which it believes will provide better control of symptoms.
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The growing popularity of adventure sports is contributing to a rise in the number of serious spinal injuries, doctors said yesterday. Snowboarding: Drive for adventure brings more spine injuries Winter sports are causing more people to suffer serious spinal injuries New figures show that the number of patients in England undergoing surgery after such an injury has increased by 33 per cent from 1,723 to 2,293 between 2001 and 2006.
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The NHS could save £50m by 2010 if Trusts meet their targets to cut energy consumption, a new report claims. The money saved is equivalent to the cost of one small community hospital or 7,000 heart bypass operations.
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A record number of 999 ambulance calls are being made in England, official figures revealed yesterday. There were 6.3 million 999 calls in the year 2006/07, a 6.3 per cent rise on the previous year and almost double the number of calls received 10 years ago.
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Emergency ambulance calls 'peak' - BBC Health News 21st June 2007
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Thousands of youngsters are risking their sight by buying fashionable sunglasses that offer little or no protection from harmful UV rays, experts have warned. Teenagers and young adults often choose sunglasses purely on the basis of price and style without considering safety, a survey for the College of Optometrists found.
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Parents should give a dummy to newborn babies every time they sleep to halve the risk of cot death, experts said yesterday. It is the first time such advice has been issued to British parents but doctors have been recommending the practice in the U.S. for some time.
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A surgeon has been suspended over claims that he said a white colleague who returned from holiday with a suntan looked like a "jungle bunny". John Riddington Young, 58, was sent home on full pay pending a disciplinary investigation into the alleged "racist" incident.
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With its mirrored walls and waitresses dressed as naughty nurses, the Hey Jo club caters to a particular type of male clientele. Which makes a visit by the Prime Minister's wife all the more extraordinary. Cherie Blair was shown around the "erotic nightclub" in Central London before owner Dave West invited her into his flat above the premises.
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The Scottish government has signalled an end to future partnerships between the NHS and the private sector. Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon told a conference in London that she opposed the use of public money to help the private sector "compete" with the NHS.
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Foster carers who smoke will be banned from looking after children under the age of five, a charity has proposed. The UK's leading fostering group is advising local authorities to introduce the policy on the day the English smoking ban comes into force on 1 July.
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Taking part in clinical trials for new drugs is not a pastime with a good reputation. Certainly not since the following appeared in the News of the World almost a year ago: "An anguished victim of the Elephant Man drug trials has broken his silence to tell how doctors discovered the early stages of cancer in his ravaged body."
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The NHS should focus more on customer service in order to improve performance and staff morale, say senior managers. The NHS Confederation says the health service should follow the example of other organisations, including John Lewis and British Telecom.
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Public support for smoking ban - BBC Health News 21st June 2007
The introduction of the smoking ban on July 1st could be a smooth ride, national survey results suggest. Almost eight out of 10 people questioned said they agreed with banning smoking in public places.
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Children around the world love to play doctor, but a 15-year-old boy in a town in southern India has shocked the medical world by performing a caesarean section in a hospital run by his parents, who wanted their son's name in the Guinness book of world records. Dhileepan Raj, a schoolboy in Manapparai town in Tamil Nadu state, was filmed by his proud father, a general surgeon, while performing the surgery on a 20-year-old woman to deliver her baby, keenly watched by his gynaecologist mother.
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Doctors in India 'let son, 15, perform surgery' - The Independent 22nd June 2007
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Parents film son, 15, doing surgery - The Times 22nd June 2007
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Parents film son, 15, doing surgery - The Times 22nd June 2007
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The first gene-therapy trial for treating Parkinson's disease has resulted in a significant improvement in all the patients who took part, with none suffering any side-effects, it was announced yesterday. Doctors believe the trial marks a milestone in the treatment of one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders of elderly people for which there is no effective cure.
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Pioneer gene therapy for Parkinson’s produces year of benefit - The Times 22nd June 2007
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Gene breakthrough against brain diseases - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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Gene breakthrough against brain diseases - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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An anti-inflammatory drug is helping arthritis sufferers both human and equine Norfolk and Denmark were joined together by a strip of forested land, now the Dogger Bank, until it was flooded by melting icecaps 10,000 years ago. Thousands of years later East Anglia was invaded regularly by Vikings, who were desperate for arable land. Local village names, and even some of the region’s old family names, reflect a Viking influence.
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Thousands of frogs could be shipped into the Indian capital as part of a government drive to prevent a severe outbreak of the mosquito-borne dengue fever after the monsoon rains. City authorities are considering paying farmers in the neighbouring states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to catch mosquito-guzzling frogs, to be introduced to the 500-odd lakes, ponds, canals and rivers in Delhi. Environmental activists say that the Government must first clean up the city’s water bodies, especially the Yamuna River, which has become a vast open sewer despite being revered by Hindus.
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The child raised as the eldest in a family tends to have the highest IQ, according to a study published last night. The report appears to end years of academic disagreements over how birth order influences personality, intelligence and achievement.
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Hospital trust signs up to cut its carbon emissions - Liverpool Daily Post 21st June 2007
HEALTH managers in Liverpool will shelve controversial plans to scrap smaller GP practices in favour of new “super surgeries.” Following a public consultation which showed little support for the proposals, Liverpool Primary Care Trust (PCT) executives last night announced the U-turn and said services would instead be restructured and rebuilt around existing practices.
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Hospital trust signs up to cut its carbon emissions - Liverpool Daily Post 21st June 2007
MERSEYSIDE’S biggest hospital trust has become the second in the region to agree to cut carbon emissions in an effort to turn the NHS “green”. The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust was among 16 across the country which yesterday signed up to collectively cut their energy bills by £8m a year.
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CONTROVERSIAL plans to stop people in Liverpool smoking in their own homes won comments of all-round support from councillors last night. Residents could be told not to smoke for at least half an hour prior to prearranged visits to their homes by council employees.
A FATHER-of-three had an operation cancelled for the second time - with hospital officials blaming it on the hot weather. Terry Lewis, 64, of Sedbergh Grove, Beechwood, was due to have an operation to remove a kidney stone at Warrington Hospital.
A RUNCORN doctor who was obsessed with reality TV and was accused of making false statements on his CV has lost a claim for unfair dismissal. Dr Sushant Varma, 35, formerly a junior doctor at Halton Hospital, told a Liverpool tribunal that he was forced to leave his job because of the way disciplinary proceedings were brought against him.
A REPORT by Save the Children suggests that 1 in 10 children in the North West are living in severe poverty. For a couple with a child that means living on average of £7,000 a year. That’s just £19 per day to cover electricity and gas, phones, other bills, food, clothes, washing, transport, health needs as well as activities for children and all other essential items.
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Virulent stomach bugs hits hospital - Warrington Guardian 21st June 2007
STRICT control measures are in place for 10 hospital patients with a suspected potentially fatal stomach bug. A staff member told the Warrington Guardian patients weren't being told they had the potentially fatal Clostridium difficile.
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YOUNG people are being targeted by a scheme tackling the rise in sexually-transmitted diseases fuelled by drink and drugs. B-Sure has been running in nine college and sixth form locations across the area, including Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington and Colne.
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A HOSPICE day centre plan for West Lancashire is on the brink of collapse. West Lancashire Hospice Association this week withdrew plans to transform Altys Farm, Altys Lane, Ormskirk.
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The Fylde coast's hospitals were handed a boost after meeting every target set for them by the government. The Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust hit all 24 core government standards on care, and crucially, the hygiene targets aimed at tackling bugs like MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C diff).
Police are hunting a man who walked out of the Royal Preston Hospital with a potentially lethal amount of drugs. He went to the hospital complaining of chest pains and gave staff the false name of Michael Harrison.
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A mental patient shot dead a teenager 11 weeks after a senior psychiatrist agreed his release from hospital, a GMC disciplinary panel was told yesterday. Mark Harrington, 21, who suffers from schizophrenia and has a history of violence, asked a nurse: “Has anyone ever left here and gone and murdered anyone?” Less than three months after Shashank Chattree, a consultant psychiatrist, signed his release from Queen’s Park Hospital, in Blackburn, Lancashire, Harrington had killed a childhood friend.
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Doctor faces tribunal over patient who killed - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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Schizophrenic obsessed by Hannibal the Cannibal freed to kill friend - Daily Mail 21st June 2007
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Doctor faces tribunal over patient who killed - The Telegraph 22nd June 2007
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Schizophrenic obsessed by Hannibal the Cannibal freed to kill friend - Daily Mail 21st June 2007
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PLANS for controversial new maternity and children's units costing £28m have been unveiled. Health bosses have agreed initial plans to convert existing wards into a £3m children's accident and emergency unit and build a £25m maternity and baby ward at North Manchester General Hospital.
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A BOY saved his little sister's life weeks after being taught how to do it at school. When Harry Goodwin, 11, saw five-year-old Daisy choking on an ice cube, he quickly hit her five times on the back before putting his arms round her chest and doing abdominal pushes.
MENTAL health patients are demanding health bosses reinstate a nurse suspended after organising industrial action. Manchester Users Network has written to Sheila Foley, the new chief executive of the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust (MMHSCT), to protest after she suspended community psychiatric nurse Karen Reissmann after 25 years' service.
BURY's service for people who want to quit smoking beat national targets last year, according to new figures. Specialist advisors at Bury Primary Care Trust's stop smoking service helped 1,567 people to quit smoking for at least four weeks between April 2006 and April 2007. The number beat the Government target of 1,317.
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Should women be able to breastfeed in public? - The Bolton News 21st June 2007
WOMEN are being treated as "second class citizens" in some clubs and associations, according to Ruth Kelly. The Communities Secretary has launched a green paper consultation to discuss how equality laws can be simplified and improved.
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