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Two cot deaths in a family may be rarer than has been claimed, says a study that is set to reopen the fraught issue that was the key factor in several highly publicised court cases over such deaths of babies. A British Medical Journal paper re-analyses a study that was central to assumptions on multiple cot deaths in families.
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Doctors reopen controversy over cot deaths and murder - The Independent 20th July 2007
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Cot-death suspicions are revived - The Times 20th July 2007
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Getting rights right - The Guardian 20th July 2007
Primary care trusts need to develop a strategy to tackle equality and human rights, writes Blair McPherson. "GPs say obesity in children is a form of child abuse" is the headline on the evening news.
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Teenage mothers and young fathers are to be given more access to contraception in an attempt to stop girls becoming pregnant again. The young mothers will also be encouraged to remain in their family homes. The proposals came in a new strategy to help teenage parents cope with the demands of bringing up children. Figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families show that one fifth of teenage pregnancies involve girls under 18 who are already mothers.
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Teenage mothers get contraception counsellors - The Telegraph 20th July 2007
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Teen contraceptive plans unveiled - BBC Health News 19th July 2007
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Teenage mothers get contraception counsellors - The Telegraph 20th July 2007
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Teen contraceptive plans unveiled - BBC Health News 19th July 2007
Psychiatrist Cathy Wield tells Penny Wark how she recovered after years of drug-resistant mental illness Cathy Wield can still see the brown and gaudy curtains that surrounded her bed when she was a psychiatric patient in Southampton. “I remember the pattern because I used to trace it and retrace it. I desperately wanted a window and I was so miserable when I could look only at the curtains.”
My life was transformed almost 20 years ago by a kidney transplant, after I endured more than two decades of renal dialysis treatment. Organ transplantation is one of the most successful developments in modern medicine. It grieves me to see the waiting list grow each year, knowing that others are being denied the wonderful benefits that I have been fortunate to receive. I therefore find it difficult to understand the objections to switching to an “opting out” system, since it has been tested in several other countries and found successful.
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A high-flying television producer died from a suspected epileptic fit while waiting for vital brain scans on the NHS. Laura Price: died from a suspected epileptic fit while waiting for vital brain scans on the NHS Laura Price was found dead in her home Laura Price, 30, who worked on shows such as Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing, was found dead in her home just hours after she had been discharged from casualty.
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TV producer dies from epileptic fit just hours after begging doctors for drugs - Daily Mail 19th July 2007
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TV producer dies from epileptic fit just hours after begging doctors for drugs - Daily Mail 19th July 2007
Take this advice to heart: wine goes best with food, says Roger Corder Fine wine combined with good food increases the pleasure and satisfaction of a meal. But many people also drink red wine because they believe it is doing their heart some good.
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Babies should not be left asleep in car seats because of a higher risk of stopping breathing, experts warn today. Children aged under one month old are particularly vulnerable when seated, a study has found.
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Bipolar disorder 'shrinks brain' - BBC Health News 20th July 2007
People with bipolar disorder suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain, UK researchers have found. Imaging studies carried out four years apart showed loss of brain tissue in the areas controlling memory, face recognition and co-ordination.
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Rise in bodies for medic training - BBC Health News 19th July 2007
More people are signing up to leave their bodies to medical science, say government regulators. Recent media coverage of a shortage of donors has prompted a rise in enquiries to medical schools, early figures from the Human Tissue Authority indicate.
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Fast food brands are getting around laws banning the promotion of unhealthy snacks online, research suggests. New Advertising Standards Association rules prevent the online and offline advertising of fast food to children.
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Major decrease in coronary deaths - BBC Health News 19th July 2007
Coronary heart disease deaths among men and women under 75 have been reduced by 71% over the last 20 years, new British Heart Foundation statistics indicate.
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The best move out, so the rest lose out - The Guardian 20th July 2007
Seeking health care in Ethiopia can be a difficult task. For every hundred thousand people, only two doctors are available as the country's physicians flock to the west. Many of the world's least developed countries are losing large parts of their already shallow pool of skilled professionals - hindering their ability to pull themselves out of poverty, a report by the UN said yesterday.
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Genome survey provides clue to HIV's 'Achilles heel' - The Independent 20th July 2007
Three genetic alterations in people infected with HIV may have given them some protection against Aids, scientists say. The discovery, made during a survey of the human genome, could lead to a better understanding of how an effective vaccine for the virus can be developed which helps to prevent HIV from attacking and overwhelming the body's immune defences.
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Acomplia drug patients at psychiatric risk - The Telegraph 20th July 2007
A weight-loss drug used by thousands of UK patients should not be taken by people on anti-depressants, a European health watchdog warned yesterday. The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said it was recommending that anyone taking anti-depressants or suffering ongoing major depression should not take rimonabant, which is sold under the brand name Acomplia.
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Weight loss pill warning issued - BBC Health News 19th July 2007
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Healthy weight link to longevity - BBC Health News 20th July 2007
Keeping a healthy weight may help people live longer by limiting brain exposure to insulin, say US scientists. A study in mice found that reducing insulin signals inside brain cells increased lifespan.
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MORE than 100,000 people in Merseyside and Cheshire have coronary heart disease, suffered a heart attack – or developed angina. The British Heart Foundation’s annual statistics show the scale of the heart disease problem in the Merseyside and Cheshire region, with just over 4% of people – around 108,000 – suffering some from of coronary heart disease.
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TWO paramedics had to be cut free after their vehicle ended up on its roof. The crew, based at Westgate, Old Skelmersdale, had been answering a 999 call when it was involved in a smash near the old Southport Infirmary. The paramedics, aged 42 and 35, have since been discharged hospital with minor injuries. No patients were on board at the time of the crash at 3am on Sunday.
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POLYCLINCS' are the big idea from the new health minister, weeks after Warrington ditched proposals for the health supermarkets amid massive protests. Sir Ara Darzi said last week that he sees the clinics as the future of health care in London and as a way of halving the number of people needing hospital care.
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Putting fags in baby’s mouth - St Helens Star 19th July 2007
IN response to the letter about babies being subjected to all the cigarette fumes Mother might as well have put the fag in her baby's mouth' (Dear Star July 5). Can anyone explain why Morrions in Baxters Lane have sited their designated smoking area next to the Parent and Toddler parking?
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Cash to curb teen pregnancies - Chorley Citizen 19th July 2007
Teenage pregnancy blackspots in Chorley are being targeted. Four wards have been identified as problem areas in the town which has been identified as one of four Lancashire districts where teenage pregnancy rates have increased.
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THERE are currently around 5,500 people diagnosed with diabetes in Bury and it is estimated that there are over 3,000 more people in Bury with diabetes who have the condition and don't know it. Diabetes mellitus is a progressive condition in which the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood is too high. Glucose comes from the digestion of starchy foods such as bread and rice, from sugar and other sweet foods, and from the liver which makes glucose. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas (a gland behind the stomach) that helps the body use the glucose as fuel.
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ON behalf of nurses, midwives and NHS staff in the north Bury area, may I offer a thank you to David Chaytor, MP and our representative of the government. Thank you for the pay award from April 1, 2007, but not for not yet making the award appear in our pay packets . . . four months on.
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THE local ambulance service is one of the best in the country for saving heart attack victims. A new report has placed the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) as the UK's third leading ambulance trust for administering life-saving treatment to heart attack patients before they reach hospital.
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EXPERTS from the textile industry are in Bolton this week to hear about the latest medical textiles and healthcare innovations from around the world. They are visiting the town for the University of Bolton's International Conference and Exhibition on Healthcare and Medical Textiles.
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SMOKERS who drop cigarette butts on the streets of Bolton are being targeted by the council. Fines of £75 have been issued to five people since new laws were introduced earlier this month which ban smoking in enclosed public place.
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