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Health inspectors intervened last night to protect patients at an NHS hospital after they discovered it was in flagrant breach of hygiene regulations. The Healthcare Commission served an improvement notice on Chase Farm hospital in Enfield, north London, after a spot check found staff were breaking the rules for combating the superbugs MRSA and Clostridium difficile. It was the first use of a new legal power to enforce the hygiene code introduced in October to stop the spread of healthcare-linked infections.
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Hospital is first to be given official MRSA warning - The Independent 9th July 2007
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First hospital is given warning over failures to tackle superbug - The Times 9th July 2007
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Hospitals receive sharp warning for 'wide-ranging and serious' breaches of the hygiene code - Daily Mail 9th July 2007
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Hospital is first to be given official MRSA warning - The Independent 9th July 2007
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First hospital is given warning over failures to tackle superbug - The Times 9th July 2007
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Hospitals receive sharp warning for 'wide-ranging and serious' breaches of the hygiene code - Daily Mail 9th July 2007
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Scientists have identified a genetic factor that is linked with a 20% to 30% increased risk of developing bowel cancer. Although very rare genetic mutations have been associated with the disease previously, the newly identified mutation - which is carried by over half the general population - is the most common yet discovered.
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Hope for bowel cancer sufferers as scientists discover gene link - The Independent 9th July 2007
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Bowel cancer risk gene pinpointed - BBC Health News 8th July 2007
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Hope for bowel cancer sufferers as scientists discover gene link - The Independent 9th July 2007
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Bowel cancer risk gene pinpointed - BBC Health News 8th July 2007
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Fears that hundreds of thousands of high-quality British jobs have been outsourced to low-cost emerging economies such as India are largely unfounded, but developing nations are being plundered for skilled staff to keep Britain growing, according to reports out today. A third study, by the financial services arm of Siemens, suggests outsourcing of public services to private sector companies is modest - contrary to popular perception, notably among unions.
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It's the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, 80% of UK adults use it on a weekly basis and globally it's estimated that the market for C8H10N402 (or caffeine, if you prefer) is worth around £35bn annually. Traditionally, the UK has been known as the nation where everything stops for tea. But we are rapidly becoming yet another country where nothing stops for anything, thanks to the stimulating properties of caffeine. For most of us, it is an integral part of our working lives, providing a much-needed boost at strategic times throughout the day - from the morning wake-up to the mid-afternoon pick-me-up. But are we drinking too much?
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The number of children in Britain with autism is far higher than previously thought, according to dramatic new evidence by the country's leading experts in the field. A study, as yet unpublished, shows that as many as one in 58 children may have some form of the condition, a lifelong disability that leads to many sufferers becoming isolated because they have trouble making friends and often display obsessional behaviour.
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I told the truth all along, says doctor at heart of autism row - The Observer 8th July 2007
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New fear over MMR link with rising autism - The Telegraph 9th July 2007
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Autism 'is twice as common as doctors believed' - Daily Mail 8th July 2007
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Traditional 'one size fits all' hospitals are to be replaced by tightly focused specialist centres which will transform the experience of NHS patients. In a major shake-up of health care, the government will announce that London's major hospitals will be transformed to focus their work on acute care.
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The health risks of cannabis are so great that it should now be reclassified as a class B drug, carrying much greater penalties for possession and trafficking, says David Cameron's new blueprint for dealing with Britain's growing addiction problems. The Tory leader has been convinced by emerging evidence that a strong form of the drug, skunk, is causing an epidemic of mental health disorders. A report being published this week by a Conservative policy commission will confront the issue, recommending an upgrading of the drug to class B, as well as arguing the case for a complete transformation of addiction treatment in Britain.
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Why it's all about the Family - The Observer 8th July 2007
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Tories 'binge drinking tax' to add 7p on a pint - Daily Mail 7th July 2007
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Tories 'binge drinking tax' to add 7p on a pint - Daily Mail 7th July 2007
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The fact that the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) say that women are far more likely to be raging insomniacs isn't news to me. It is very female to be a creature of the night (something to do with moons and menstrual cycles), and only the most extraordinary of men manage it. I was a night person even as a child, most often to be found staring at the dark sky into the small hours in my Mary Mungo & Midge pyjamas. Even then, night-time was magic - a time for plotting, scheming, becoming a new liberal kind of vampire, who desires only to sink their teeth into the depths of their own soul. It was either that or I'd wet the bed again. Either way, what kind of fool would waste such precious me-time by sleeping through it?
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For 25 years, the clinical psychologist Dorothy Rowe has helped millions out of depression. Now she tells Louise Carpenter about her own tormented childhood and marriage - and why happiness is a state of mind
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Friends of the NHS? They want to scrap it Michael Gove ('Make no mistake, the Cameroons are coming', Comment, last week), perhaps unwittingly, has given us a fascinating insight into the current state of mind of a Tory moderniser. The claim that I adopted their health policy is not just untrue, it also reveals a certain desperation in their search for a credible political identity.
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Health chiefs were yesterday ordered to carry out an urgent review of all killings by people being treated for mental illness after it emerged that the NHS has failed in its duty to hold independent inquiries into many cases in accordance with government rules and human rights law.
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Just last month, a senior Iraqi doctor wrote a report for the all-party commission on Iraq detailing the deaths and kidnapping of Iraqi intellectuals and calling for pressure on the Home Office to stop turning away Iraqi doctors wanting to work in the UK. Senior doctors fear this week may have wrecked any hope of that. Arab and Indian doctors, who have given great service to the NHS over the years, are dismayed and apprehensive for their future in the UK.
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I was alarmed to read recently that parents should make sure that children over the age of three wear sunglasses as a matter of course in sunny weather, and that there was a danger of cataracts and other eye problems in later life if they didn't. I have five children ranging from an 18-month-old to a teenager of 14. They wear sunglasses when they feel like it, and with the younger ones when they can find them and feel like wearing them. Should I be stricter with them? And what should I be looking for? Are all sunglasses sold for children automatically OK?
Lee Galpin took an unconventional route into his career as a firefighter. The only member of his Kent village to have gone on to higher education, he began his professional life in the 1970s as an actor and writer. Getting regular work in his 20s, he might have continued down that path had he not been knocked sideways by a period of depression after writing a historical drama for Radio 4.
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Thousands of "hidden victims" of the 7/7 terrorist bombings are still struggling to cope with the trauma of the event, according to campaigners. Experts believe that up to 3,000 people still suffer some level of psychological trauma following the 2005 attacks on the London Underground and a London bus, which killed 52 people.
Linking artistic genius and insanity is a romantic folly - isn't it? Alexander Linklater delves into the sources of creativity in light of a new exhibition
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A pensioner aged 84 is suing an NHS trust over its refusal to pay for drugs to save his sight in the first such case to be backed by Britain's leading charity for the blind. Dennis Devier of Henley-on-Thames has been told by Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust that he cannot have drugs to treat his macular degeneration, the commonest cause of sight loss, unless he can prove he is an " exceptional case".
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War veteran leads legal fight over sight drugs - Daily Mail 8th July 2007
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Charity to fund sight-drug fight - BBC Health News 9th July 2007
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War veteran leads legal fight over sight drugs - Daily Mail 8th July 2007
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Charity to fund sight-drug fight - BBC Health News 9th July 2007
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Clinics for people with sexually transmitted infections are unable to treat patients properly because they don't have the right information, according to health watchdogs. Gaps in data make it difficult for health workers to find and provide services for high-risk groups or to monitor levels of sexual health in England, said the Healthcare Commission. As a result, government moves to tackle a huge increase in sexually transmitted diseases may be failing to reach the right people.
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Two-thirds of Britons believe radiation from mobile phones and their masts has affected their health, a startling official survey shows. And huge majorities are dissatisfied with government assurances about the potential threat. The survey is the result of a giant European Union exercise that polled more than 27,000 people across the continent, 1,375 of them in Britain. It shows that concern about the radiation is far greater than even the most ardent campaigners had dared to believe, and that official attempts to downplay the issue have backfired.
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The number of smokers trying to give up more than trebled to an estimated 7.5 million people in the run-up to last Sunday's ban on smoking in public places in England. The surge in would-be quitters has brought windfalls for pharmacists and other retailers who have enjoyed massive surges in sales of nicotine replacement therapy products, including patches, chewing gums and inhalators, since July last year.
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Mental health campaigners have vowed to battle on after controversial legislation to allow people to be forcibly treated against their will cleared its final hurdle last week. An alliance of 77 campaign groups - and The Independent on Sunday - have campaigned against the legislation for five years and won key concessions when the Mental Health Bill went before the House of Lords on Tuesday.
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New research shows that drivers are nearly twice as likely to be taken by surprise if a pedestrian walks in front of their car when they are snacking at the wheel. The research will bolster calls for eating while driving to be made illegal. At present, it is not against the law to eat or drink while driving, but the police can bring charges if they consider drivers are not in full control of their vehicle while eating.
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One in three nurses who work alone in the community has been assaulted or harassed in the past two years, a survey suggests. The survey of nearly 1,000 nurses by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) also shows that more than half (52 per cent) of those who work alone consider that the threat of violence or abuse has increased over the same period.
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It may look like something out of The Return of the Jedi, but this helmet could help cyclists to breathe more easily, according to its designer. The “Breathe Air” helmet was created to filter out particles that irritate hay fever and asthma sufferers. It covers the cyclist’s nose and mouth with a shield behind which the filtered air circulates.
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When Jamie Oliver revolutionised school meals he was lauded by teachers, health-conscious parents and politicians keen for some reflected glory. His campaign has, however, proved less popular with the children. There has been a 20 per cent fall in the uptake of secondary school meals since Jamie’s School Dinners was screened two years ago, according to official figures. Numbers have reportedly fallen to about four in ten pupils – thought to be the lowest level since provision became mandatory in 1944. Older pupils in particular are rejecting the organic and healthy meals in favour of packed lunches or takeaways.
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A £9bn controversy over a diabetes pill raises vital questions about the future of blockbuster drugs. It may rank as one of the costliest sentences to run in a medical journal. On May 21, The New England Journal of Medicine broke its usual embargo and posted online a paper by scientists who had been studying data on a diabetes drug, rosiglitazone.
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MORE than half of the country’s hospital consultants have turned to private medical treatment instead of using the National Health Service. A survey commissioned by Bupa, the health insurer, found that 55% of senior doctors pay medical insurance, despite the reduction in waiting times for operations on the NHS.
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Twenty years ago, Marjorie Wallace’s report on the mentally ill shocked Britain to the core. Today, this tireless campaigner for the neglected and forgotten asks: why is our mental-health system still in such a state Were you to see an elegant woman of a certain age in a smart London restaurant laughing at Establishment gossip with Lord Snowdon, you might take her for a socialite. If you saw her talking with the Prince of Wales at a party or joking with Sting, you could take her for an A-lister – she is, after all, a countess. Her portrait hangs in the National Gallery, and if you knew the names of her powerful friends, you would realise she is a formidable networker.
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PRIVATE plastic surgeons are developing creams that claim to allow black and Asian patients to lighten the colour of their skins with no health risk. The Harley Street doctors say the new products could drive backstreet suppliers of potentially dangerous creams out of business. But the trade in treatments has been described as “horrifying” by critics, who claim it perpetuates racist attitudes.
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To puree or not to puree? Shop-bought or home-made? Plum Baby or iced cubes? These days, feeding your baby is a social minefield undefined If the cartoonist HM Bateman were still with us today, he would undoubtedly have turned his caustic eye to modern motherhood. What a rich vein of satire there is to be explored: the woman who breast-fed on the Tube; the woman who used disposable nappies at a National Childbirth Trust tea party...
Lunchtime drinking could be stopped under new plans to make Britain more healthy THE IDEA of banning all alcohol around the workplace is gathering force as the evidence against the demon drink piles up. Earlier this year a report published by a group of experts from the Academy for Medical Sciences said that alcohol is more harmful than some Class A drugs.
She had it all – the glamorous career, the happy family, the big house – but the struggle to lead the perfect life was too much for our correspondent. She describes her physical and mental burnout I woke up one morning with only a blinding white emptiness to fill my head. My body had given in and my mind had burnt out. For someone used to fizzing with ideas and energy, dependent on my creativity to hold down a demanding job in the film industry, reliant on my salary to pay the mortgage on our lovely house, and with three wild, adorable children who needed their mum, it was terrifying.
There’s nothing like a good massage to help you bond with baby Chasing a crawling year-old baby clad in nothing but a slippery coating of sunflower oil is not easy. This is meant to be our first baby massage class at Pure Massage, a posh spa studio in Fulham, West London; Charlotte, however, has other intentions. Luckily, I am made to feel relaxed about my daughter’s desire to explore. “This is a class for baby,” says Beata Aleksandrowicz, the founder of Pure Massage and tutor of the baby massage course. “Baby can cry, sleep, eat, poo or pee; don’t worry.”
Three sisters had surgery minutes apart in an attempt to save their lives after discovering they shared a gene that greatly increased their risk of cancer. Joanne Kavanagh, Louise Lambert and Michelle King found that they were all carriers of the BRCA1 gene after Mrs King had breast cancer diagnosed. Carrying the gene gave them all an 80 per cent lifetime risk of breast cancer and a 40 per cent risk of ovarian cancer. The options were to have regular tests to detect any cancers early, or operations to remove the organs at risk.
The GMTV presenter Anna Williamson, 25, describes how she coped when her life fell apart and she found herself living in a cycle of fear I’ve always been an oversensitive perfectionist. My family used to call me “Miss 35” because, at 11, I acted so much older than my years. But I thought of myself as a strong, pragmatic person who didn’t have any problems dealing with stress. Perhaps that’s why when I did develop an anxiety disorder I found it so hard to accept that I’d lost control.
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My lady is 60, 15 years younger than me. She wants more sex and thinks I should eat more meat to boost my libido. I don’t want drugs; is she right?
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Thousands of girls as young as 11 can obtain the morning after pill at school without telling their parents, it was disclosed last night. Sexual health clinics are being set up in secondary schools in England as part of a Government drive to cut teenage pregnancy.
Zita West is an expert on the difficulties of conception and motherhood. It comes from painful experience, says Genevieve Fox There's one woman who will be raising a glass at the announcement that the Countess of Wessex is more than 12 weeks pregnant with her second child - and I don't mean Granny Elizabeth.
Seasonal Affective Disorder is normally banished by the sunshine, but this year it is lingering on, reports Chloe Rhodes Now is the winter of our discontent. The fact that it's July is irrelevant. Flooding, freak hail and attempted terrorist attacks have blighted what is usually our sunniest and most carefree time of year, while grey skies and incessant showers have turned midsummer into one long, gloomy February afternoon.
Having problems squeezing into your swimming trunks ahead of this summer? Two-thirds of employers believe fat staff don't work hard enough and cost more to have around. Further, more than half of 500 managers surveyed by YouGov (and paid for by Nuffield Proactive Health) thought fatties need more time off sick, while nearly 70pc linked tubbiness with "laziness and a lack of self-control".
James LeFanu laments pharmaceutical profligacy and doctors seduced by Utopia The most striking change in medical practice in recent years is the trend for pharmaceutical profligacy, reversing the traditional (and sensible) adage of "the fewer drugs prescribed, the better". Nowadays, it is not unusual for patients to turn up in the surgery, discharged from hospital, taking half a dozen or more different medications.
Deadly cases of skin cancer are rising dramatically across Britain as people spend more time outdoors, experts have revealed. The incidence of malignant melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, has soared by almost 20 per cent in two years in the warmest parts of the country.
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Skin cancer exposed - The Telegraph 7th July 2007
Pupils have come up with an enticing alternative to the four-wheel drive school run. In a scheme which Government ministers are encouraging others to follow, one school has begun loaning scooters to its pupils.
Money can't buy happiness, so the old saying goes, but a new report finds that it can. Economics researchers examined the spending habits and personal finances of 600 "high-net worth" individuals worldwide, each with investable assets of more than £100,000.
I play a fair amount of sport and suffer from a burning pain on the sole of my right foot, in the padded area right next to the toes. My GP thinks it might be caused by arthritis in my big toe, but I can't understand how this could be. The pain is very severe and I would appreciate your opinion.
"Is it really possible for a woman to continue breastfeeding once she is back at work? My wife is returning to work three days a week when our son is nine months old. She is determined to continue breastfeeding, but I am worried that she is asking too much of herself. I would really appreciate some honest advice."
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NHS pays out £592m a year for blunders - and a third goes to lawyers - Daily Mail 9th July 2007
More than half a billion pounds of Health Service cash has been paid out over blunders as the compensation culture booms. Of the £592million spent on negligence claims last year, almost a third went directly into the pockets of lawyers.
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The TV bike: A cure for child obesity or excuse for lazy parents? - Daily Mail 9th July 2007
Once upon a time parents would take their children to the park when they wanted to ride their bike. But these days many mothers and fathers are too busy to tear their children away from the television and leave the house. Now toy-makers have responded to this trend - by bringing out an exercise bike for youngsters.
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Thousands of patients with a cancer linked to asbestos will receive a life-prolonging drug thanks to a crusade by doctors. NICE, which rations the money the NHS spends on drugs, has bowed to pressure and approved the drug Alimta.
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For children with a fertile imagination, a make-believe friend is a constant source of comfort and companionship. But for their parents - who believe children should talk to real friends rather than invisible ones - it can be a cause for concern.
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Channel 4 presenter Alex Thomson and his partner describe their battle with the bureaucracy that rules the teaching of children with special needs. On a bright spring morning, we headed for luxurious offices in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral. For all its modern exterior, Procession House sits in an ancient part of London. Holborn is famous for its lawyers, for their interminable battles and, of course, for their fees.
It could be the ultimate accessory for smokers out to beat the tobacco ban. The new Electronik cigarette lights up, appears to blow smoke and satisfies the most desperate nicotine craving. Yet it stays strictly inside the law banning lighting up in public buildings which, after just a week in force, is already testing smokers' willpower to the limit.
Breast cancer patients can fight the side effects of chemotherapy by wearing antiseasickness wristbands, say doctors. A study found that so- called acupressure wristbands halved the symptoms of nausea and vomiting caused by the treatment.
They have always been a close-knit family group. But the bond between these three sisters has been strengthened by the scourge of cancer. For in an extraordinary attempt to ensure they live long and healthy lives, they have all undergone preventive hysterectomies and are all having mastectomies as well.
Thousands of women having a hysterectomy can now take low-dose HRT to stop hot flushes and thinning bones without any fear of side-effects. An oestrogen-only pill has been launched for women under 50 who face a premature menopause because of womb surgery.
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Plastic surgeons have raised concerns about sales of cosmetic treatments through a UK clothing catalogue. Grattan offers customers a range of non-surgical procedures, such as Botox, from Transform Cosmetic Surgery.
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Genetically modified skin cells could be used to fight a cancer which strikes the very young, a UK study suggests. Scientists at UCL said they were able to stimulate the immune system of mice by injecting the animals' skin cells into a neuroblastoma tumour.
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"From the first breath each morning I savour my life and enjoy it to the full," says Emily Thackray, who has cystic fibrosis (CF). Seven months ago Emily had just weeks to live. She had just celebrated what she believed would be her last Christmas, she had written her will and organised her end of life care.
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Drug companies are bombarding GPs with promotional materials and inducements, campaigners say. A poll of 200 GPs by consumer group Which? found they received four visits per month on average from drug reps.
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Nearly a third of newly qualified nurses had not found a job six months after qualifying, figures show. And over half of physiotherapist graduates were unemployed, along with one in five midwives, according to a government census in March 2007.
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Hopes among nurses that the revamp of government could signal a change of heart over the staging of their pay rise are likely to be dashed. Unions were optimistic after it emerged pay would be discussed on Monday at a meeting with negotiators, but the BBC understands there will be no U-turn.
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This weekend sees the start of the biggest annual sporting event in the world - the Tour de France - and for the very first time it will be starting in London. But what makes these cyclists stand out from the man in the street - is it their years of dedicated training?
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Extra security has been drafted in at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool to combat abusive smokers who are flouting new rules. The entire hospital grounds are no smoking since the national 1 July ban.
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Scots of South Asian descent are significantly more likely to suffer a heart attack than the rest of the population, according to new research. Scientists at Edinburgh university found that Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan women and their descendents are at 80% higher risk of cardiac arrest.
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A new technique for creating artificial blood vessels outside the body using a patient's own stem cells has offered hope for people with heart disease. One in four men and one in six women in the UK will die from heart disease and around 300,000 people a year suffer a heart attack. The disease is caused by a build-up of fatty deposits in blood vessels supplying the heart muscle with blood. If these are blocked completely the heart is starved of oxygen and stops.
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The extent of the Aids epidemic in India was dramatically scaled down yesterday as new, more reliable government figures revealed less than half the number of infections previously suggested by UN estimates. India has been portrayed as the country with probably the most catastrophic HIV prospects in the world because of the danger of infection spreading through its population of more than a billion.
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India has 'less than half' estimated HIV cases - The Times 7th July 2007
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The European Commission will state today that there is no such thing as a safe suntan, by banning the words “sunblock” and “100 per cent sun protection” from bottles of sun cream. Requiring sunscreen labels to conform to a common standard of information would, the Commission says, put an end to consumer confusion and help to reduce skin cancer, which kills up to 1,800 Britons a year.
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The pumpkin could reduce the need for diabetics to have insulin injections, according to a study published yesterday.
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Remember the name Chainsaw Rick. I have added the chainsaw bit, but you will see why. He appears in a so-called documentary that has not yet secured a British distributor but will spawn an awful lot more about Rick when it does. The film is Sicko, a two-hour take-down of the mighty US healthcare industry directed by and starring the potato-faced Michael Moore (he of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911 and subject of too many right-wing diatribes to count). In it, Rick is an uninsured sadster who loses two fingers to a chainsaw and has to talk hard cash with an accountant before his general anaesthetic. It’ll be $12,000 to reattach the easy finger, he is told; $60,000 for the pair. Rick goes for the budget option.
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Egg donation shows how science is bringing us closer together undefined THE NEWS that a Canadian mother has had her eggs frozen for potential use by her daughter illustrates the way that eggs are joining a list of altruistic medical donations among family members.
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People moan about the NHS - try being old and poor in South Africa, says junior doctor Max Pemberton 'I'm not going, I'm ill," I say, as I make myself a Lemsip. Feeling sorry for myself, I settle down to watch some black and white films on television, as my mum gives me one of her withering looks of disapproval.
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British patients treated in France owe its health system millions of euros and came second in a table of unpaid bills, it emerged yesterday. According to a French senate report, more British patients failed to cough up medical fees than any other foreigners, with the exception of Moroccans. America came third and Madagascar fourth.
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A therapist has been accused of taking advantage of a patient with a split personality - using one of her alter egos for sex, another to be his cleaner and a third to lend him cash for holidays. When confronted by his alleged victim he refused to comment, saying he had a duty of confidentiality to her other personalities.
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NURSES based just a few miles apart between Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales will be paid different salaries for doing the same jobs, according to a nursing union. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has slammed the Government’s decision to phase in a 2.5% pay rise for nurses in England despite those in Wales being given the entire increase.
PROPOSALS for three GP practices to be replaced by a new super-surgery will rob a community of greenbelt land and leave patients without access to their doctors, Wirral residents have warned. Furious homeowners who live near to Arrowe Park say they will do whatever it takes to stop Wirral Primary Care Trust from building their planned super-surgery on a 2.2acre greenbelt site at The Warrens.
GERARD Houllier will make an emotional return to Liverpool's Cardiothoracic Centre on Tuesday to officially open a new type of operating room, known as a hybrid theatre. The former Liverpool manager will fly from France for the occasion and will be reunited with heart surgeon Abbas Rashid.
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A WIRRAL hospital is investigating claims by a family that a father and uncle died within days of each other as a result of neglect. John Ryan, 68, died on Saturday June 16, in the Royal Liverpool University Hospital following treatment at Arrowe Park Hospital where his brother in law, Peter Doyle, had died.
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Reprieve for surgeon who experimented on patients - Liverpool Daily Post 7th July 2007
A MERSEYSIDE eye surgeon who used his patients as guinea pigs without their consent has been allowed to start practising again – just a year after being made to stop. Dr Deepak Kumar Chitkara, of Blundellsands, fitted patients with untested lenses from a company with which he later signed a lucrative contract.
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Half-a-million pound hospital re-vamp - Blackpool Citizen 6th July 2007
The Pharmacy Aseptic Unit at Blackpool Victoria Hospital has been given a £500,000 state-of-the-art makeover. The improvements have been made to ensure the facility is more receptive to patients' needs. Due to open in August, the aseptic unit's major refit includes the installation of four new isolators and a new support room.
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A PINK coffin and multi-coloured balloons lifted the mood at the funeral of a woman who died of skin cancer after using sunbeds twice a day for seven years. Hundreds crammed into Salford's St James Roman Catholic Church and many more stood outside in the pouring rain to pay their last respects to Zita Farrelly.
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A FURIOUS pub owner has branded Bolton Council "weak" for failing to prosecute landlord Nick Hogan as he continues to allow smoking in The Swan and Barristers. Darren Miller, who owns The Flying Flute in Bradshawgate, has complied with the smoking ban since it was introduced on Sunday, and he is livid that Mr Hogan is still flouting the law.
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BOLTON'S poor health record has prompted MP Dr Brian Iddon to demand more funding for the borough. Dr Iddon, who represents Bolton South-east, asked new Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, for more cash during a question and answer session in the House of Commons
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Manchester has seen the sharpest rise in calls to a pest control company over bedbugs. Rentokil said bedbugs were on the increase and complaints had risen by 179 per cent in the area in the past 12 months. Nationwide, calls rose by 52 per cent.
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MORE people are being urged to return a questionnaire designed to paint a picture of Bolton's health. Almost 7,500 people have filled in the questionnaire, compiled by chiefs at Bolton Primary Care Trust (PCT). But health bosses need 20,000 people to get back to them so they can build up an accurate picture of the town.
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Rare condition killed new born baby - Altrincham Messenger 6th July 2007
A MIDWIFE was so concerned about the condition of a newly born baby that she overrode doctors to have her transferred to a special unit. Sister Fiona O'Connor took the drastic step following the birth of Sophie Jackson at Trafford General Hospital, an inquest at Stockport heard.
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