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The steep rise in dementia in England is presenting a "significant and urgent challenge" to health and care services, yet the condition is still given low priority by the government and remains surrounded by misunderstanding and stigma, according to a new report.
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Health service must act to tackle rise in dementia, says watchdog - The Guardian 4th July 2007
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Dementia victims 'being failed by NHS' - The Telegraph 4th July 2007
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Dementia treatment 'as bad as cancer care in the 1950s' - Daily Mail 3rd July 2007
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Call for improved dementia care- BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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'We paid for dementia diagnosis' - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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Call for improved dementia care- BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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'We paid for dementia diagnosis' - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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Twenty five years ago today, Terrence Higgins, who worked as a Hansard reporter at the House of Commons and as a barman in the London nightclub Heaven, died isolated in his room at St Thomas' hospital, south London. He succumbed, finally, to a frightening and fatal combination of symptoms. The medics who fought to save him had no idea what they were battling, or its future global significance. The virus HIV had yet to be discovered and given the name we now know so well.
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Many 'still ignorant about HIV' - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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Many 'still ignorant about HIV' - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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No extra vetting of overseas doctors and medical students was being contemplated yesterday by hospitals or the Department of Health in spite of reports linking the recent terrorist car bomb attacks to health service staff.
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NHS Muslim medics fear backlash from arrests - The Times 4th July 2007
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How doctors from abroad are vetted - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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How doctors from abroad are vetted - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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Cornwall has worked hard to help the learning disabled people involved in its abuse scandal - but some feel more helped than others. Twelve months ago 44-year-old Mark Janus could only dream of riding the waves on a Cornish beach - a patient with severe learning disabilities and at a special hospital, he had suffered a fractured skull, and was allegedly beaten by staff who tried to keep him sedated with drugs.
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Pregnant women are being denied antenatal care by the NHS because of their immigration status, endangering mother and baby, a medical charity has found. Médecins du Monde, which normally works in deprived and developing parts of the world, set up a clinic in London a year ago because of concerns that some people were struggling to get healthcare in one of the world's richest cities.
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The Care Leavers' Association (CLA) welcomes the Care Matters white paper as an opportunity to make much-needed reforms to the current care system. However, we believe the white paper does not go far enough in addressing the needs of care leavers. Young people leaving care are more likely to suffer from disadvantage. Care leavers are represented among many of society's most disadvantaged groups, including the homeless, the unemployed, people in the prison service and sufferers of mental illness.
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IVF is expensive and harrowing, and carries significant health risks. That is why some fertility experts are turning to an alternative method called 'mild IVF', which they say is cheaper, safer and equally effective. But Britain's most powerful fertility doctors remain to be convinced.
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It all began with a mug. I was sitting in reception at my local community care centre (CCC), waiting to see my social worker. On the wall behind me, a rack of leaflets on parking permits and sexual health; to my left, on the council phone, a woman screaming at housing repairs; opposite, a poster warning that abuse would not be tolerated; and round to my right, the reception desk, behind a screen of steel strands. It is not a prepossessing place. The walls appear to be made of cardboard, there's graffiti outside on the sign, and yet, despite all this, the CCC still manages to feel both warm and welcoming.
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The new ministry for children, schools and families will dominate Labour's social policy agenda. Ed Balls, the man in charge, tells Polly Toynbee why youngsters are a priority.
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A unique collection of art that challenges people to question their preconceptions about mental illness goes on display from July 5 in central London. Redefining Bedlam brings together 36 artists via a gallery based at the Bethlem Psychiatric Hospital (the original 'Bedlam') in south London.
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Smokers are not a drain on the country’s finances (“Smoke and mirrors”, July 2 ). The NHS estimates that smoking related illnesses cost it between £2 billion and £3 billion a year. However, the Treasury reaps some £7 billion to £8 billion a year in tobacco tax. So not only are smokers supporting their own healthcare, but also providing a useful stream of income for other government spending. This £4 billion£5 billion would still be needed if we all gave up smoking today. Higher income tax, anyone?
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See yourself not as a smoker but as a happy, healthy adult, says Paul McKenna The way we see ourselves affects everything about us. If you see yourself as a kind person, you are more likely to behave kindly towards others. Stop for a moment and think about yourself. What images do you see in your mind’s eye? What do you say to yourself about who and what you really are?
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Every Tuesday Britain's leading nutritionist, Jane Clarke, explains how to eat your way to health. This week Jane advises on fortified foods and how to deal with crisp cravings: What do you think about foods that have 'extra' vitamins and minerals added, such as eggs with omega 3?
Around one in ten people suffers from excessive blushing. Clive Benson, 35, a property developer from East Lancashire, underwent a new form of surgery for it last year and is now cured. Here, he tells THEA JOURDAN about the experience, while his surgeon explains the procedure
When Sarah Roper felt a bit feverish after going out for a pizza, she thought it might be the start of a bout of 'flu and went to bed. The next morning her skin felt clammy, she was shivering and running a temperature.
Whenever hurdler Sally Gunnell sprinted to the finishing line, her superbly fit body set on victory, fans saw only the elation and tears of joy. What they didn't see were the agonising training sessions and the pain she endured during competitions. While few of us can relate to this, what then happened to her is drearily familiar to millions of Britons.
Tongue tying may be the answer to snoring and sleep apnoea. Surgeons are now testing a new device which effectively pulls the tongue closer to the jaw bone, and opens up the airways. They say early results are promising. It's been estimated that as many as one in four adults in the UK are regular snorers and around three million people have sleep apnoea. This condition is linked with heart disease, and even stroke.
British scientists believe they have made a vital breakthrough in the battle against deadly food allergies. A team at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has identified a molecule that could protect against allergies to foods such as nuts, fish and milk which are becoming an increasing threat.
As doctors say HRT scare stories are putting women's health at risk, a writer who has studied the controversy for years helps you separate the fact from the fiction On July 9, 2002, American health officials changed the course of thinking about women's health for ever.
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Health scares take their toll on HRT - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
Girls as young as 15 are using the powerful clubbing drug speed to help them lose weight, experts have warned. The amphetamine, a Class B drug when sniffed and Class A when injected, suppresses the appetite and causes manic behaviour, which also helps to burn calories.
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Thousands of young diabetics could be skipping insulin injections in order to lose weight, the BBC has learned. People with type 1 diabetes need daily injections to help them absorb glucose to use as fuel. Failure to take correct doses can lead to rapid weight loss.
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NHS staff protest at parking fees - BBC Health News 2nd July 2007
Hospital workers have staged a demonstration against the introduction of £120-a-year car parking charges. Gwent NHS Trust has brought in staff fees at Ysbyty'r Tri Chwm in Ebbw Vale, and may do the same at Newport's Royal Gwent and Nevill Hall in Abergavenny.
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Young women diagnosed with cancer may be able to protect their fertility from harm caused by aggressive chemotherapy with a new drug which has impressed doctors in preliminary trials.
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Fertility hope for cancer sufferers - Daily Mail 4th July 2007
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Fertility hope for cancer sufferers - Daily Mail 4th July 2007
You cannot change your past, but what if you could alter the way you remember it? What if you could even delete some memories entirely? Many people who have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder seek psychological help to do just that. In North America, scientists are going further, looking for ways to alter memories neurochemically.
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Drug can dampen down bad memories - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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Mother donates ovarian eggs to infertile daughter aged seven - The Independent 4th July 2007
A mother has donated some of her ovarian eggs to her own daughter who could, as a result, give birth to her half-sister or half-brother if she decides in the future to become pregnant through IVF treatment. The daughter, who is just seven years old, has an inherited condition that makes her infertile, so her mother decided to freeze her own eggs in the hope of giving her daughter the opportunity of having a baby with similar genes.
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‘She would be the real mother. I want her to have the option.’ - The Times 4th July 2007
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The little girl who can give birth to her own brother or sister - Daily Mail 3rd July 2007
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Tobacco giants ‘targeted African children to boost flagging profits’ - The Times 4th July 2007
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The little girl who can give birth to her own brother or sister - Daily Mail 3rd July 2007
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Tobacco giants ‘targeted African children to boost flagging profits’ - The Times 4th July 2007
British American Tobacco (BAT) and Philip Morris face allegations that they targeted young and underage smokers in Nigeria to increase smoking rates in developing countries as sales decline in the West. Lawyers for Nigeria’s largest state, Kano, will argue today that the tobacco companies sponsored pop concerts and sporting events and, in some instances, gave away free cigarettes, to recruit minors to smoking.
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The possible side-effects of one of GlaxoSmithKline’s biggest drugs fuelled further concern yesterday after a new clinical study suggested that the group’s blockbuster diabetes treatment could lead to bone fractures in men as well as women. Avandia, GSK’s type2 diabetes drug, is the pharmaceutical group’s second-biggest-selling drug, with sales of £1.6 billion last year. Yesterday Diabetes Care, the American medical research journal, published an article which claimed that men taking Avandia may be exposed to similar risks of suffering bone fractures as have previously been reported in women taking the drug.
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Workaholics are fooling themselves if they think a weekend lie-in can make up for lost sleep. The first hard evidence has emerged that we are unable to catch up on lost sleep if it happens night after night - increasing the risk of obesity, heart disease and depression, while cutting mental dexterity.
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Pollution kills three quarters of a million people in China every year, according to previously unreleased World Bank statistics. The figures, almost twice previous estimates, were calculated using a new statistical model. But they have been suppressed until now because the government feared they would cause social unrest, according to reports.
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China 'buried smog death finding' - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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Scientists have taken a first controversial step towards cloning sperm to help infertile men. Researchers in the U.S. duplicated the genetic material of mouse sperm and used it to fertilise eggs.
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Cloned sperm created in the lab - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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Cloned sperm created in the lab - BBC Health News 3rd July 2007
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These extraordinary pictures show the moment when identical twins are formed from a single cluster of cells. Scientists in Japan used timelapse photography to capture the amazing images for the first time.
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Eating a small amount of dark chocolate every day could be good for you, scientists say. A study has found that a regular 2oz dose can lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of having a heart attack or stroke - without any weight gain.
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TACKLING the country's binge drinking culture is one of the biggest social problems of recent years - and young people are generally on the receiving end of the harshest criticism. In response to the anti-social behaviour that can ensue as a result, Merseyside Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe has asked Prime Minister Gordon Brown to consider a number of changes in the law, with his most drastic suggestion being increasing the legal age for buying alcohol from 18 to 21, like most American states.
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A WIDOWER has won £80,000 in an-out-of-court settlement from a Cheshire hospital after his wife died from a flesh-eating bacteria infection. Brenda Druce, 56, died after being admitted for a routine hip replacement operation which was carried out at the South Cheshire private hospital.
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Hospital gets new name - Wirral Globe 3rd July 2007
ARROWE Park Hospital has this week been renamed as Wirral University Teaching Hospital. The move comes after it was granted NHS Foundation Trust status by Monitor, the independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts.
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Dad and son in swap op - Carlisle News & Star 3rd July 2007
A CUMBRIAN father and son have become the first pair to take part in the NHS’s live adult-to-adult donor liver transplant. David Lomas, 20, has donated more than half of his liver to his father Stephen, 51. Stephen, from Ulverston, is said to be making excellent progress following the eight-hour operation on June 21 at St James’ Hospital in Leeds.
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A MAJOR overhaul of stroke services is being carried out at the Royal Bolton Hospital. The number of beds for seriously-ill stroke patients are to be increased and they will be moved closer to accident and emergency so that patients can be treated more quickly.
SMOKERS continued to defy the ban yesterday with dozens of them lighting up in Barristers, in Bradshawgate, Bolton. Barristers is run by landlord Nick Hogan who also runs The Swan pub, in Churchgate, where a protest against the smoking ban was held on Sunday.
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HEALTH chiefs have refused to reopen the beds at Altrincham General Hospital - despite overwhelming public support for the move. Trafford Healthcare Trust's board unanimously agreed the 26 beds would remain closed, on the grounds of patient safety and value for money.
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Hundreds will be affected by cuts - Altrincham Messenger 3rd July 2007
HUNDREDS of elderly residents at care homes, day centres and sheltered accommodation schemes will be affected by the decision to axe the courses. Kempton Court is a sheltered housing scheme in Sale where about 90 per cent of residents are on housing benefits or income support.
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