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Alan Johnson, the health secretary, yesterday announced a thorough review of the NHS, with an admission that the government was responsible for the battered morale evident among its 1.3 million staff. Sir Ara Darzi, a world-renowned surgeon, who became a health minister in last week's reshuffle, will be conducting the 11-month reappraisal, looking at how doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff can regain ownership of NHS reform.
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Soothing treatment - The Guardian 5th June 2007
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Labour's 'once-in-a-lifetime' health review attacked by patient groups - The Independent 5th July 2007
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Second NHS review in two years is aimed at boosting staff morale - The Times 5th July 2007
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Labour's 'once-in-a-lifetime' health review attacked by patient groups - The Independent 5th July 2007
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Second NHS review in two years is aimed at boosting staff morale - The Times 5th July 2007
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Infertile women who supplement their fertility treatment with alternative medicines may be harming their chances of becoming pregnant, according to controversial research by psychologists. A year-long study of 818 women found that those who turned to complementary therapies such as herbal medicines, reflexology and acupuncture while having IVF treatment were at least 30% less likely to become pregnant than women who did not.
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Complementary therapies ‘reduce the effectiveness of IVF treatment’ - The Times 5th July 2007
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Complementary therapies ‘reduce the effectiveness of IVF treatment’ - The Times 5th July 2007
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Alternative fertility treatments 'reduce chances of becoming pregnant' - Daily Mail 4th July 2007
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Complementary therapy hampers IVF - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
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Complementary therapy hampers IVF - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
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An urgent review of recruitment checks on overseas staff working in the NHS is to be launched by the new counter-terrorism minister Admiral Sir Alan West, Gordon Brown announced yesterday, in the wake of the revelations that all eight suspects in the London and Glasgow terror bombings worked in the health service.
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MI5 asked to check foreign medical workers - The Times 5th July 2007
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Terror checks pledge on NHS staff - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
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MI5 asked to check foreign medical workers - The Times 5th July 2007
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Terror checks pledge on NHS staff - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
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AstraZeneca has delayed the implementation of its controversial new distribution deal - which will see the wholesalers AAH Pharmaceuticals and UniChem become the sole suppliers of its medicines - until next year. The company said: "The decision to extend the implementation phase has been made internally at AstraZeneca and is not a reflection of either company's performance."
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It has not been the best of weeks for foreign-born medics working in the NHS. But the appointment yesterday of Sir Ara Darzi to spearhead Gordon Brown's "I Love NHS Staff" campaign tells a more positive story about their contribution.
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My husband and I have been married for over 30 years and are now retired. But over the past year, he has shown no interest in sex. Last time I instigated sex, he was unable to get an erection, so I have not approached him since. This has created a distance between us and I now feel he no longer loves me or finds me attractive. He assures me this is not the case and says it is part of his general loss of interest and energy. He is also slightly overweight and taking medication for high blood pressure.
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A gene that significantly increases the risk of asthma in children has been discovered by scientists who described it as the strongest link yet in the search to find a genetic basis for the condition. Inheriting the gene raises the risk of developing asthma by between 60 and 70 per cent - enough for researchers to believe that the discovery may eventually open the way to new treatments for the condition.
Day four: when you say 'Never again!' - The Times 5th July 2007 You may already have felt a loss of interest in smoking cigarettes. It may even feel easy and almost natural for you to say the phrase “No thanks, I don’t smoke”. Whether you have already quit or are simply moving in that direction, many people find today’s technique enough to push them “over the threshold” – past the point where it is easier to say no than to smoke yet another cigarette.
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An anxious Scotswoman has written to us about in-flight health. She says that she is not a hypochondriac but worries before flying on holiday about who would care for her if she was taken ill en route. She fears waking up in an under-equipped hospital in remotest sub-Saharan Africa. Are these anxieties justified?
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Seal v Chief Constable of South Wales Police Before Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Woolf, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carswell and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood Speeches July 4, 2007 A claim brought in respect of an act purporting to be done under the powers of the Mental Health Act 1983 was a complete nullity if the claimant had failed to obtain the leave of a High Court judge under section 139(2) of that Act before issuing proceedings.
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The type of treatment, and the likelihood of survival, that a patient suffering from burns can expect is determined by the percentage of the surface area of their body that has been affected. Doctors make a rough estimate of this by using a formula known as the rule of nines. This divides the body’s surface into sections, each of which represents 9 per cent of the total and a further 1 per cent is added if the genitalia is also damaged.
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Marcia and Millie Biggs, are twin sisters, but one is black and the other is white. Born within minutes of each other, Millie has inherited the genes and dark skin of her 40-year-old Jamaican father, Michael, while Marcia has the paler complexion of their mother, Amanda.
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Thousands of young women with diabetes are skipping insulin injections to lose weight, at the risk of blindness, heart disease and even death. Type 1 diabetes sufferers need daily injections to help them to absorb glucose for energy. Failure to take correct doses can lead to rapid weight loss.
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'I suppose I just freaked out' - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
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Little babies are not so innocent after all, it would seem. Infants as young as six months, new research claims, are capable of lying to their doting parents, by crying when they are not truly in pain or distress. Once the parent has arrived and is giving the loving hugs and cuddles the baby so badly craves, it is reported that it then does its best to prolong this reward by offering fake smiles.
Gordon Ramsay has lashed out at parents of obese children, calling for them to be taken to court and fined. The 40-year-old father of four believes the threat of legal action is the only way to get through to parents who let their children over-eat.
Pre-packed sandwiches may contain as much salt as several bags of crisps, a study carried out for the BBC suggests. The health lobby group Cash looked at 140 sandwiches on sale and found over 40% had 2g or more of salt - or a third of an adult's recommended daily intake.
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Neurosurgery closure put on hold - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
Controversial plans to close the neurosurgery unit at Morriston Hospital in Swansea and centralise the service in Cardiff have been put on hold. Health Minister Edwina Hart is expected to announce a full review of neurosurgery in the assembly later.
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A technique for testing the health of an IVF embryo makes it less, rather than more, likely that a woman will have a successful pregnancy and birth, a study has found. The test, which involves taking and analysing a single cell from an early embryo, appears to increase the risk of failed pregnancies or stillbirths, despite being a tool for detecting abnormal chromosomes.
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Expensive 'fertility aid' fails - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
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The diabetes way of death - The Times 5th July 2007
Diabetics in Africa are dying because they cannot afford insulin, says Dr Thomas Stuttaford Mention Kenya to most people and they think of the film White Mischief or Elspeth’s Huxley’s book The Flame Trees of Thika. The film portrayed an Africa rife with alcohol, adultery, drugs and money. This proved such an explosive mix that when Lord Erroll, a louche charmer, was murdered after becoming involved in one too many an adulterous scrape centred around the Muthaiga Club, there were few husbands in his Kenyan set who were without a motive for revenge. In contrast, The Flame Trees of Thikais the story of the struggle that Elspeth Huxley’s pioneering parents faced when farming virgin land.
Organic fruit and vegetables may be better for the heart and general health than eating conventionally grown crops, new research has found. A ten-year study comparing organic tomatoes with standard produce found that they had almost double the quantity of antioxidants called flavonoids which help to prevent high blood pressure and thus reduce the likelihood of heart disease and strokes.
Many of the effects of long-distance flight may be the result of altitude sickness rather than fatigue or jet lag, experiments carried out by Boeing doctors suggest. Headache, nausea and dizziness, fatigue and a general feeling of malaise are symptoms of acute mountain sickness, which 75 per cent of people will experience at altitudes of more than 10,000ft (3,000m).
Brazil has accepted an offer from a manufacturer of an important anti-Aids drug to cut its price by around 30%. The move which will save the country around $10m (£4.95m) a year.
A Scottish student has described how cataract surgery on the elderly can help them care for children orphaned by Aids in Africa. Ruth Anderson, 23, has just graduated from Aberdeen University in medicine after spending two months researching the project in Swaziland.
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Fake menopause can cheat cancer - BBC Health News 4th July 2007
A therapy that temporarily shuts down the ovaries could protect the fertility of women with cancer, say researchers. Australian scientists used a drug to turn off a hormonal "switch" in the brain that triggers ovulation.
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CHURCH Street could soon be the new home of the controversial drugs clinic currently based at Manchester Road. This week, there have been two meetings with councillors, the Primary Care Trust, Drug Action Team and local residents to decide whether the former GP practice building is a more suitable location.
A WIDOWER has been awarded £80,000 compensation in an out-of-court settlement following the death of his wife from a flesh-eating infection contracted in hospital. Trevor Druce, 62, of Pipers Ash, Winsford, lost his wife Brenda, 56, in August 2002.
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Hospital bug victim’s widower wins payout - Warrington Guardian 4th July 2007
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ABSENT-MINDED smokers who forget about the smoking ban are to be given a reminder by the borough council. With the ban on smoking in all enclosed public spaces now in effect, council 'smoke-free co-ordinators' are distributing 'no-smoking' beer mats to pubs in the area containing information on how to quit.
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WIRRAL Hospital, which takes patients from the borough, has become an NHS Foundation Trust. And with its new status from July 1 the organisation is known by the name of Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
A PRO-LIFE GP has spoken out against a decision to recommend that women in their first trimester of pregnancy have easier access to abortions. Doctors at a British Medical Association conference have backed a motion calling for abortions at under 14 weeks to be available on the same informed consent basis as other treatments.
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Smoker threatens to defy laws - Knutsford Guardian 4th June 2007
SMOKER Keith Wragge was last week enjoying a cigarette at a bus shelter where smoking is now banned. He lit up on Friday - just two days before the nationwide ban was imposed - as he waited for a bus in Mobberley Road, Knutsford. "They've not stopped it in the Houses of Parliament, so why stop it in bus shelters, the pub or anywhere else?" he said.
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Transplant teams who care for patients in north and west Cumbria are looking to see if they can introduce lifesaving live adult-to-adult transplants to Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. The liver transplant centre of excellence there is looking into the possibility of doing transplants with live donors after the success of a pioneering operation involving a Cumbrian father and son last month.
CANCER patients were treated to an afternoon of pampering at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle. The charitable trust Look Good Feel Better has put a smile on the face of 84 patients with its make-up workshops since it arrived in the city a year ago.
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Hospital savings plan in jeopardy - Lancashire Telegraph 4th July 2007
A MAJOR savings plan for hospitals across East Lancashire is already falling behind targets - just two months into the financial year. Fifty three per cent of East Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust's financial savings targets are in some kind of jeopardy, management has admitted.
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A YOUNG mother died of skin cancer after using a sun bed twice a day for seven years. Zita Farrelly, 29, lost her battle for life three days after her daughter's first birthday. The mum-of-two from Seedley in Salford started using sun beds at the age of 14 and gave them up at 21 - but by then it was too late.
AIR quality in Manchester pubs has dramatically improved since Sunday’s smoking ban. In one city centre bar the air is now 94 per cent cleaner. We approached leading air pollution expert Dr Adrian Watson, from Manchester Metropolitan University, to carry out a study on our behalf.
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Make right choice over baby unit - The Bolton News 4th July 2007
LET'S hope the new Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, makes the right decision when it comes to choosing the super-centres for maternity care. The Royal Bolton Hospital is rightly in the frame for one of this region's, along with St Mary's in Manchester and the Royal Oldham Hosptal.
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