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Supermarkets selling cheap booze to young drinkers face Brown's iron fist - The Observer 22nd July 2007
A crackdown on supermarkets that sell cheap drink to young people is being considered by Gordon Brown as he decides how to tackle Britain's burgeoning binge-drinking culture. Experts have told Downing Street that the easy availability of super-strength lager and cider lies behind the rise in alcohol-fuelled violence and the epidemic of related health problems, such as liver disease.
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Teenage girls drink boys under table - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
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£1bn cost of waiting to see a GP - The Observer 22nd July 2007
Business leaders are to deliver a tough warning to the government that employees are spending millions of hours a year sitting in doctors' waiting rooms during office hours because of the lack of weekend GP clinics. Three and a half million working days were lost last year because employees had to see a doctor during working hours, according to the Confederation of British Industry. This was more than four times the number of days lost to industrial action in 2006.
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Women called back to clinic have breast cancer - The Observer 22nd July 2007
Four women recalled to a breast cancer clinic after concerns emerged over the quality of its screening have been diagnosed with the disease. Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock told 198 patients to return for re-examination last month after the NHS said they had not received the full range of checks.
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What's in Donny Osmond's basket - The Observer 22nd July 2007
Having to appear in a loincloth on Broadway sorted out Donny Osmond's diet, but he is short of protein, says Dr John Briffa
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'Nothing I do now can wipe out your terrible experiences. I'm deeply sorry' - The Observer 22nd July 2007
Last week we published a heartfelt open letter from a young man, Jamal. In it, he told Gordon Brown that he had been forced into prostitution and drugs because there was no state safety net to help him. Here Beverley Hughes, the Children's Minister, replies.
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The Observer and autism: a clarification - The Observer 22nd July 2007
On 8 July, The Observer published a news report under the headline 'New health fears over big surge in autism'. The article revealed details of an unpublished report by the Autism Research Centre (ARC) at Cambridge University which showed that a statistical analysis of autism prevalence among primary schoolchildren in Cambridgeshire had produced a figure that as many as 1 in 58 children could be suffering from forms of the disorder. This figure is nearly double the presently accepted prevalence of autism of 1 in 100.
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Your letters - The Observer 22nd July 2007
Abortion advice? Ask someone disabled I must hold up my hands, all one and a half of them, to say I am an interested party in the issues raised by your article 'The parents with the hardest choice of all' (Focus, last week). And I am grateful to you. Being a disabled person, born with a genetically transmitted impairment, is at the heart of my personal identity. It may surprise people that I see it as almost entirely positive.
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We may as well bind their feet - The Observer 22nd July 2007
I'm in Milan talking to girls of 10 to 16, all from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds. What they are saying chills me, despite having heard it plenty of times before. They are fretful about what goes in their mouths, and critical about their bodies.
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Casual sexual behaviour, often fuelled by alcohol, is causing an alarming rise in sexually transmitted infections among teenage girls and young men, the Health Protection Agency said yesterday. Gay men are also contracting increasing numbers of infections, which suggests the fear of HIV/Aids has decreased and that more people are having unsafe sex.
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Herpes drives epidemic of sexual diseases hits 10-year high - The Independent 21st July 2007
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Message of safe sex is fading for the young - The Times 21st July 2007
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Teenagers rampant as STIs increase - The Telegraph 21st June 2007
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Girls most at risk from increase in sex diseases - Daily Mail 20th July 2007
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Debunking myths about cannabis - The Guardian 21st July 2007Additional Story
Teenagers rampant as STIs increase - The Telegraph 21st June 2007
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Girls most at risk from increase in sex diseases - Daily Mail 20th July 2007
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Your sober and sensible assessment of the government's latest decision to look again at the classification of cannabis (More smoke than reason, July 20) misses one point. The Home Office decision in January 2006 to retain its C classification was backed by the then home secretary Charles Clarke's promise of a "massive" public education campaign to highlight the dangers to mental health posed by the drug. We are still waiting for it. Given the new home secretary Jacqui Smith's past - as a mental health minister and cannabis user - we have every hope that it is just around the corner.
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Debunked: politicians' excuse that cannabis has become stronger - The Independent 21st July 2007
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Let’s be honest about this dreadful drug - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
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Don’t blame us - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
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Time to wake up and smell the skunk - The Sunday Telegraph 22nd July 2007
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German group bids for embattled iSoft - The Guardian 21st July 2007
The government's multi-billion pound upgrade of the NHS IT systems was plunged into fresh confusion yesterday as German technology group CompuGroup launched a last-minute bid for iSoft, valuing one of the main software contractors on the project at roughly £300m.
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CompuGroup swoops to front of race to buy iSoft - The Times 21st July 2007
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'We give back some of the power taken away during an assault' - The Guardian 21st July 2007Additional Story
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From the outside the Haven could pass for a normal Victorian terrace home. But inside the red brick walls highly-trained staff help victims of some of the worst crimes in London. The Haven, discreetly attached to King's College hospital in Camberwell, south London, is one of 18 sexual assault referral units in England and Wales.
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Patients at risk if filling of doctor posts not speeded up, says BMA - The Guardian 21st July 2007
Patient safety will be at risk in NHS hospitals across England if the government does not intervene to speed up the appointment of more than 2,000 junior doctors within the next two weeks, the British Medical Association warned yesterday.
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First class News - The Guardian 21st July 2007
Why the healing power of music is not enough Health-promotion programmes should form a key part of music degree courses, as the stresses of being a professional musician are comparable to those of an elite athlete, concludes a study published this month. Conducted by the Royal Northern College of Music, the study says students need information on how to stay healthy and prevent and treat problems that arise from music making.
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Illness is all in the body - The Guardian 21st July 2007
One after another, theories of disease that blame the sufferer have wilted under scrutiny. The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or at least some grave moral failing just took another hit. A major new study shows that women on a virtuous low-fat diet with an abundance of fruit and veg were no less likely to die of breast cancer than women who grazed more freely. Media around the world have picked up on the finding, cautioning, prudishly, that you can't beat breast cancer with cheeseburgers and beer.
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Fat: a middle-class issue - The Independent on Sunday 22nd July 2007
Unprecedented study by Great Ormond Street Hospital says mothers who work risk their children becoming overweight Middle-class mothers who work long hours increase the risk of their offspring being overweight or obese, according to an astonishing new study.
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Wi-Fi fears to be investigated - The Independent on Sunday 22nd July 2007
Britain's top environmental investigative body is considering looking into radiation from mobile phones and their masts, Wi-Fi networks and electric power lines following articles in The Independent on Sunday.
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UK Army doctors in Baha Mousa case 'colluded in cover-up' - The Independent on Sunday 22nd July 2007
Doctors who examined Baha Mousa, a 24-year-old Basra hotel worker who was kicked and beaten to death in British custody in 2003, have been reported to the General Medical Council. The move follows allegations that army doctors who treated the detainees colluded in a cover-up by misdiagnosing and failing to properly document the extent of prisoners' injuries. Doctors who examined Baha Mousa said in legal evidence that they saw no injuries on his body, except "a little dried blood" around his nostril.
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Few parents admit it, but nearly half of us sleep with our babies, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of After months of silence on the subject, I decided to come clean in baby yoga. Prompted by that stock new-parent-to-new-parent question, “Is your baby sleeping well?”, I admitted it. Yes he is, because he sleeps with us. My name is Harriet Perry and I am a co-sleeper.
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Nobody's perfect - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
Worrying about your health is enough to make you sick. But is there a cure for ‘health perfectionism’? I’ve been told the recurrent pain in my side is nothing to worry about. That it’s not, for instance, ovarian cancer. So I try to ignore it. But, being a creative thinker and inveterate worrier, I can always drum up dire scenarios. And once I’ve had such thoughts, I can’t decide whether it would be silly or sensible to double-check.
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What's the alternative? - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
As an alternative to HRT, I have been skipping three times a week for 19 years. I think it has helped, as in that time I’ve tumbled twice and not broken anything. Next year I am 60, and I wonder if I have done enough groundwork. Can I ease up on the skipping?
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Investing in training is worthwhile - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
Julian Topping, head of workplace health and employment at NHS Employers Acas is doing a lot of work with NHS organisations on mediation training. Is that costly when there are so many other financial demands on the NHS? Well, when you look at the award of £800,000 to the Deutsche Bank employee last year, an investment of £2,000 or £3,000 for training isn’t that expensive. Mediation works very well – people aren’t always aware that they’re bullying – and you have to train people to deal with disputes before they become very nasty.
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Dr Know - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
I have a smoker’s cough that I just can’t shift. It’s not particularly painful, but I am occasionally short of breath. Should I be worried?
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More than 3m UK employees are said to be harassed, but now organisations are starting to tackle the problem BRITISH workers are more at risk of being attacked and harassed at work than their counterparts in many other European countries, according to the Institute for Employment Studies, which also says that UK employers today are vulnerable to litigation from affected staff.
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DRUG addicts are to be offered gift vouchers and prizes on the National Health Service under plans by the government’s medicine watchdog to encourage them to stay clean. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) will recommend the system of inducements, which could enable clinics to offer televisions and iPods as prizes, to tackle the burgeoning drugs problem. But patients denied drugs for blindness, Alzheimer’s and lung cancer under Nice rationing are likely to accuse it of wasting public money.
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Hey Nonny Handbook just may stop you cracking up - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
In the tamed and prosperous countryside of the soft south of England, the middle-class dream is lived out. The Mercs and Beemers whisk commuting City husbands from expensively restored houses to Tunbridge Wells station, the privately educated, pony-riding children grow up free-range and organic, and the women . . . crack up. At least, in the case of Julia Jeffries and Janice Warman, the clever ones do — and now they've written a book about it.
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A huge new PFI hospital project has been scrapped after costs rose. The rebuilding of three hospitals run by the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust was due to cost £711 million, and £23.4 million had been spent on planning the project. But the price rose to £921 million and there were fears that it would go even higher, prompting a review that yesterday led to the project being abandoned. The trust said that the plans were no longer value for money.
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Hospitals scrap £711m revamp plan - BBC Health News 20th July 2007
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First kiss . . . first car . . . first hearing aid? As rites of passage go, it’s about as sexy as false teeth or a senior citizen’s bus pass. But having just taken delivery of a pair of Spirit 3 digital aids at the tender age of 38, I can testify that they’re almost as life-changing as my first snog. Hearing loss crept up on me. I didn’t know what I was missing, from whispered gossip at parties to the pivotal lines in TV programmes. I only realised I had a problem when friends pointed out that I never answered my mobile – because I couldn’t hear it ring.
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Colonoscopy is a diagnostic procedure of choice used to exclude either the presence of potentially malignant polyps or of actual cancers of the colon or rectum. Colonoscopies may be carried out either for diagnostic or screening purposes. The instrument gives the surgeon, and the patient, who usually watches the scope by looking at an image of it on a screen, an excellent view. The surgeon gives a running commentary to the patient.
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Dr Andrew Wakefield has a lot to answer for. It’s not the effect he’s had on MMR immunisation rates that bothers me. After all, missing out on my jab bonuses is hardly going to dent an income that, according to recent reports, could be around £250,000, a figure about as credible as the autism/MMR link.
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Two friends who had waited years for kidney transplants have received organs from the same donor. Rob Fowler, 52, and Heather Jones, 46, met in hospital after both suffered kidney failure and became friends as they underwent daily dialysis.
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The friends who share kidneys of one donor - Daily Mail 20th July 2007
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My wife’s put on a lot of weight in the past ten years. It is affecting our love life as I no longer find her attractive. Any tips that might bring back the magic?
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Junk medicine: parliamentary committees At first glance, the Chief Medical Officer’s proposal for an opt-out system of organ donation does not appear to have much in common with a report into links between power lines and childhood leukaemia, other than the fact that both were published on the same day this week. Each, however, raises the sort of issue that has become classic territory for investigation by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
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Warning over the rising risk of sunbeds - The Sunday Telegraph 22nd July 2007
Sunbed users are being warned that four out of five of the devices emit dangerous levels of cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation. More than 80 per cent of sunbeds transmit UVB, the most damaging type of UV ray, at levels above European and British standards, a study has found. Researchers discovered a huge rise in sunbed use and a growing danger linked to the use of increasingly high-strength, stand-up booths and sunbeds.
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Up to 150 NHS bosses will receive bumper redundancy payouts after their jobs were axed under a so-called "cost-cutting" programme, writes Laura Donnelly. Chief executives of health authorities, primary care trusts (PCTs) and ambulance services on six-figure salaries will walk away with packages worth as much as £1 million after their organisations were abolished in the latest restructuring of the NHS.
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Record numbers of junior doctors have been forced to seek work abroad after the Health Service's botched recruitment system left 16,000 trainees chasing 2,000 jobs. The number of young -medics, who are unable to find NHS jobs and looking for work in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East, has risen twenty fold.
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Food safety experts are calling for stricter production controls on ready-to-eat salads after tests revealed that many contain bacteria which can cause potentially deadly food poisoning. A report compiled by the government's Health Protection Agency (HPA), found that one in 10 pre-packaged salads containing meat or seafood was contaminated with the listeria bacteria. Evidence of E. coli and salmonella was found in some bags of salad.
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Their baby was healthy and happy, and they have not been accused of harming her, but a professional couple are fighting to get their daughter back after social workers took her away. The child was removed earlier this year at the age of just four months. Council officials claimed that she was "likely to suffer significant emotional and physical harm" because of her mother's history of mental illness.
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Warning over the rising risk of sunbeds - The Sunday Telegraph 22nd July 2007
Sunbed users are being warned that four out of five of the devices emit dangerous levels of cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation. More than 80 per cent of sunbeds transmit UVB, the most damaging type of UV ray, at levels above European and British standards, a study has found. Researchers discovered a huge rise in sunbed use and a growing danger linked to the use of increasingly high-strength, stand-up booths and sunbeds.
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Sir Liam Donaldson has never smoked a spliff, he hasn't even inhaled a cigarette. His grandson tells him: "Don't eat too much or you'll get fat." The chief medical officer is not just trying to set an example - he says the job is more stressful now than it was for his predecessors in the Victorian age who had to cope with cholera.
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Midwives are being balloted on industrial action for the first time, it was announced yesterday. The Royal College of Midwives is taking the unprecedented action over the Government's decision to stage its pay rise for this year.
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Just how British are you? If I asked you to show off about everything you've ever done, would it be very difficult or could you do it? I know, we all dislike what we might call "show-offs". They always want to trump our every story with one better and barely let us get a word in, as they tell us about all their "thrilling" adventures, but I don't want you to be one of those.
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Gout is indelibly linked with gross self-indulgence. But Max Davidson begs to differ "Could I have an X-ray please?" I asked, pushing my way to the front of the queue at A&E. "Urgently. I'm in absolute agony. My left big toe's broken." "How did you break it?" "Not sure. Must have dropped something on it.
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Now ambulance crews get 'dirty bomb' alarms - Daily Mail 21st July 2007
Britain's ambulance crews have been issued with personal radiation monitors in response to the growing threat of 'dirty bomb' attacks by terrorists. The pager-size devices, which sound an alarm if they detect radiation, have been supplied by the Department of Health to all of the UK's ambulance trusts, at a cost of £2.5million.
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Now ambulance crews get 'dirty bomb' alarms - Daily Mail 21st July 2007
Britain's ambulance crews have been issued with personal radiation monitors in response to the growing threat of 'dirty bomb' attacks by terrorists. The pager-size devices, which sound an alarm if they detect radiation, have been supplied by the Department of Health to all of the UK's ambulance trusts, at a cost of £2.5million.
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Children born following IVF treatment are almost twice as likely to suffer ill-health, experts have warned. A study of hundreds of seven-year-olds has revealed that they are admitted to hospital much more frequently than other youngsters of the same age.
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A pub landlord is the first person to be taken to court for flouting the new ban on smoking in public places. Hamish Howitt, a Scot who runs a bar in Blackpool, claims the ban breaches smokers' human rights.
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A baby died of a rare heart condition because doctors treating him looked at the wrong X- ray, his parents claimed. Hospital staff said one-year-old Jack Garland was merely suffering from teething troubles and gave his parents Calpol to help ease the pain.
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Teenage mothers will be offered contraceptive jabs or implants to prevent them having a second child, ministers said yesterday. They will be steered towards long-lasting contraception through schools and drop-in centres to curb future unplanned pregnancies, said the Government.
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A red dye used in sausages and burgers is being banned because it could cause cancer, the European Commission said today. The move came after a unanimous vote of an EU committee of national food health experts, and will be put into force within days.
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A rough guide to the inside of your brain - BBC Health News 21st July 2007
People have always been fascinated by the workings of the mind. Now a book in the Rough Guides series offers an insight. Anatomically speaking, the brain is nothing more than a collection of interconnected nerve cells, a coordinating hub for the body's electrical system.
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Fear of what the symptoms of prostate cancer may mean stops men from seeking medical help, a study suggests. A Birmingham University team quizzed 20 men with prostate cancer about how they made the decision to consult a doctor.
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A rough guide to the inside of your brain - BBC Health News 21st July 2007
People have always been fascinated by the workings of the mind. Now a book in the Rough Guides series offers an insight. Anatomically speaking, the brain is nothing more than a collection of interconnected nerve cells, a coordinating hub for the body's electrical system.
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An NHS photographer at a children's hospital has been arrested and charged after pornographic material was allegedly found on a computer. Leonard Cumming, 57, was arrested over material discovered at Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
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Overseas doctors face prejudice after suspected failed bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, medics have warned. The Lancet says there is a danger that such incidents will be used as an excuse to discriminate against the many NHS overseas doctors.
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In a series focusing on medical specialisms, the BBC News website meets Andrew Menzies-Gow, a consultant in respiratory medicine, who talks about managing asthma. Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory lung disease characterised by recurrent breathing problems. People with the disease suffer attacks when the air passages in their lungs narrow and breathing becomes difficult.
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Using chemotherapy instead of radiotherapy in children with brain tumours reduces the risk of long-term brain damage, say UK researchers. Radiotherapy was thought to offer the best chance of survival for such tumours, despite a likelihood of future learning difficulties.
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I AM sitting in a field in central Oregon with an 11-year-old boy who calls himself “Twelve Thirty Savage”. His real name is Matt Evans-Spate, but last year he jumped off a stage at his children’s summer camp, hit his head on a rock and was taken to hospital by ambulance. His new name commemorates the time of the accident and the way he felt about it afterwards.
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The blade runner generation - The Sunday Times 22nd July 2007
Forget iPods and BlackBerries. Soon, we will transfer information by thought, run faster and further without tiring, and orgasm on demand. What started as a quest to help the disabled will revolutionise the lives of the able-bodied. Even Bill Gates agrees: robotics is the next giant leap for mankind
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Pfizer, the world’s biggest pharmaceuticals group, faces a new $6.5 billion (£3.1 billion) lawsuit from the Nigerian Government over tests conducted on children more a decade ago. The case centres around an outbreak of meningitis in 1996, during which the company tested the antibiotic Trovan and another drug called ceftriaxone on 200 children at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in the northern Nigerian state of Kano.
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Celibacy teaching dropped by US states - The Sunday Telegraph 22nd July 2007
For more than a decade, America's campaigners for sexual abstinence have successfully preached that the best thing for teenagers is to stay celibate - and that the best thing for schools is to teach chastity and never mention condoms. With an evangelical Texan as president and social conservatives running Congress, their campaign held sway - especially when the teenage pop star Britney Spears took a vow of celibacy.
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Obesity pill 'could lead to suicide' - Daily Mail 20th July 2007
A weight-loss pill heightens the risk of suicide among those taking anti-depressants, a watchdog has warned. Patients with severe depression should not be prescribed Acomplia, said the European Medicines Agency. More than 40,000 Britons have been treated with the pill, also known as rimonabant, since it was unveiled last June.
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ST HELENS is to receive £225,000 from the Big Lottery Fund over the next five years to improve the lives of young families. The grant is part of a £7m well-being programme supporting 27 Healthy Living Programmes across the north west, between 2007 and 2012.
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SYPHILIS is increasing in Merseyside, new figures show. The number of men with the sexually-transmitted infection has gone up by 69% in a year. The number of women with syphilis went up by 17% over the same period. The alarming news comes months after Liverpool’s Primary Care Trust announced it was revamping its sexual health clinic in the city centre.
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A MERSEYSIDE hospital consultant and his family are opening an Indian restaurant with a difference – to try to end the belief that all curry is bad for you. Mashood Siddiqi, by day a consultant physician at Aintree Hospital, and his wife, son, daughter and son-in-law have created Mayur in Liverpool, a five-star restaurant that serves an array of Indian specialities including healthy grilled options, seafood and game.
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THE number of people donating their bodies to medical science is rising in Merseyside while the country as a whole is suffering a downturn. In the last three months, 90 people from across the region have willed their corpses to be used for medical research, according to figures released by the Human Tissue Authority.
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MORE than a million pounds of NHS cash has been used to pay for damages and to cover the fees of lawyers pursuing medical negligence claims in Southport. In the financial year 2005/06, Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals had damages paid out on its behalf of £1.28m, with a total of 26 claims made.
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NEARLY 90 people attended a specially organised event for carers across Cheshire. The carers, all unpaid and looking after disabled, frail or elderly friends or relatives, spent a day at the Macdonald Portal Golf Club, Tarporley.
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DISABLED staff fear they may never work again if company plans to close a textile-cutting factory in Seacombe are approved. Following a review, Remploy - the UK's leading provider of employment for disabled people - plans to cease operations at the unit on West Float Industrial Estate.
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A&E closes after burst pipe - Warrington Guardian 20th July 2007
WARRINGTON hospital's A&E department was forced to close after a water pipe burst. The leak came to light at 1am this morning, Friday and shut half an hour later to deal with the problem.
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THE nurses of Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland are to bike and hike around the length and breadth of their service area. The mission is to raise £3,000 as part of a fundraising appeal to mark the 10th anniversary of the charity.
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CASES of chlamydia in East Lancashire have seen a sharp increase despite a huge effort to bring it under control, according to latest figures. The figures released by the Health Protection Agency show that in 2002 there were 663 reported cases of chlamydia in men and 842 cases in women. In 2006, this figure rose to 1,230 and 1,323 respectively.
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A TEAM which has helped reduce the number of everday accidents in East Lancashire has been nominated for a national award. The East Lancashire Primary Care Trust workers are dedicated to reducing the number of people injured in Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale and Ribble Valley.
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Rebel landlord Hamish Howitt has been issued with court proceedings on seven counts of failure to prevent customers smoking in his Blackpool pub. Mr Howitt's appearance could become a landmark test case on the new smoking legislation which came into force this month.
Defiant landlord faces £17,500 fine for flouting smoking ban - Daily Mail 20th July 2007
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SEXUALLY transmitted diseases are up in Greater Manchester - showing the safe sex message is not getting through. The number of patients seeking help at the region's sexual health clinics rose by six per cent to almost 13,000 in 2006, according to new Health Protection Agency (HPA) figures.
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Housebound claimants £330K better off - Bury Times 20th July 2007
HOUSEBOUND people in Bury are £330,000 better off thanks to the local Citizens Advice Bureau. The service, which has been funded by Bury Council since 2003, makes home visits to ill people and those with caring responsibilities
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