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Almost half of all hospital kitchens in England are failing to meet basic standards of cleanliness, with evidence of medical waste found on food handling equipment, staff with poor standards of hygiene and infestations of cockroaches and mice, according to inspection reports.
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Scandal of filthy hospital kitchens - The Observer 12th August 2007
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Hospital kitchens unhygienic and unclean - The Sunday Times 12th August 2007
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The hospital kitchens that'll make you sick - Daily Mail 12th August 2007
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Mental health services are failing the elderly - The Guardian 13th July 2007
More than 3.5 million over-65s experience mental health problems, but most of those with depression or dementia are not even diagnosed, according to an extensive inquiry into services. The report reveals the alarming extent of illnesses, including schizophrenia, stress and alcohol abuse, predicting that by 2021, one in 15 Britons will be an older person suffering a mental health problem.
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It is not Britain's addiction to junk food that is chiefly to blame for our obesity crisis, but our love affair with the car, a report will claim this week. Researchers have found that when households take possession of a car the time they spend walking falls from an average of nearly two hours to less than one hour a week.
Basic human rights of thousands of elderly people are failing to be acknowledged in hospitals and care homes, an influential parliamentary committee will conclude next week. MPs and peers on the Joint Committee on Human Rights will call on health managers and carers to be more sensitive to the needs of the elderly. Andrew Dismore, Labour chairman of the committee, said: 'The Human Rights Act is not just about terrorists and criminals. It is also about ordinary people's rights in the way that they are dealt with by public bodies.'
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Workers are suffering from the growing problem of 'email stress' as they struggle to cope with an unending tide of messages, new research reveals. Employees are becoming tired, frustrated and unproductive after constantly monitoring the electronic messages that keep interrupting them as they try to concentrate at work.
The government was last night accused of turning the clock back 25 years by introducing a law that will allow courts to imprison prostitutes who are arrested for soliciting. The move has provoked the fury of women's support groups, who say the move will do nothing to address the root causes of the illicit trade in sex.
Drug companies and campaigners yesterday lost a high court appeal for people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's to be prescribed on the NHS a £2.50-a-day drug which is said to provide relief from the symptoms and respite for families.
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A tough call - The Guardian 11th August 2007
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NHS does not have to provide Alzheimer's drug, court rules - The Independent 11th August 2007
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Jeremy Laurance: Why does no one ask why the drugs are so expensive? - The Independent 11th August 2007
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The public must understand NICE balance - The Times 13th August 2007
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NICE’s Work - The Times 11th August 2007
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Alzheimer's drug ban to stay, court rules - The Telegraph 11th August 2007
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Bitter blow as court rules Alzheimer's drug ban still stands - Daily Mail 10th August 2007
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Alzheimer's drugs remain limited - BBC Health News 10th August 2007
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Colonic irrigation works, clinic insists as watchdog bans advert - The Guardian 11th August 2007
An advert which claimed that colonic irrigation was capable of relieving the symptoms of 19 conditions including ME, psoriasis, bad breath and colitis has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.
When Stephen Bailey was eight years old, he was prescribed Librium by his doctor. That was the beginning of a 24-year addiction to mind-altering drugs which, Bailey says, changed the course of his life and saw him descend into a world of fits, screaming and violence whenever he tried to withdraw. A commonly-used tranquilliser, Librium is one of the benzodiazepine family, and was prescribed to calm Bailey after he suffered from migraines and flashing lights in response to a routine set of vaccinations.
Each year, two hundred mentally ill people locked up by police because there is no room in the health service commit suicide within 48 hours of release. Andrew Johnson uncovers a scandal that has astonished even hardened campaigners
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A new technique that uses the body’s natural building materials to seal a hole in the heart has been developed and approved for use in Britain, avoiding the need for open-heart surgery or metal implants. Doctors will be able to deploy an umbrella-like device made of proteins to mend the common defect, which is thought to increase greatly the chance of having a stroke. The implant is eventually absorbed by the body and replaced by the patient’s own tissue.
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Hole-in-the-heart self repair kit - BBC Health News 12th August 2007
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Climbie council faces inquiry after boy dies - The Times 13th August 2007
The mother of a 17-month-old boy and her boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the child died from horrific injuries. It is understood that the boy was taken to a North London hospital with a broken back, fractured ribs and at least two fingernails missing. The child, who is believed to have been monitored by social services, died an hour after arriving at hospital. A police source described the case as horrific.
Almost half of all hospital kitchens in England are failing to meet basic standards of cleanliness, with evidence of medical waste found on food handling equipment, staff with poor standards of hygiene and infestations of cockroaches and mice, according to inspection reports.
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Scandal of filthy hospital kitchens - The Observer 12th August 2007
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Hospital kitchens unhygienic and unclean - The Sunday Times 12th August 2007
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The hospital kitchens that'll make you sick - Daily Mail 12th August 2007
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Mental health services are failing the elderly - The Guardian 13th July 2007
More than 3.5 million over-65s experience mental health problems, but most of those with depression or dementia are not even diagnosed, according to an extensive inquiry into services. The report reveals the alarming extent of illnesses, including schizophrenia, stress and alcohol abuse, predicting that by 2021, one in 15 Britons will be an older person suffering a mental health problem.
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It is not Britain's addiction to junk food that is chiefly to blame for our obesity crisis, but our love affair with the car, a report will claim this week. Researchers have found that when households take possession of a car the time they spend walking falls from an average of nearly two hours to less than one hour a week.
Basic human rights of thousands of elderly people are failing to be acknowledged in hospitals and care homes, an influential parliamentary committee will conclude next week. MPs and peers on the Joint Committee on Human Rights will call on health managers and carers to be more sensitive to the needs of the elderly. Andrew Dismore, Labour chairman of the committee, said: 'The Human Rights Act is not just about terrorists and criminals. It is also about ordinary people's rights in the way that they are dealt with by public bodies.'
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Workers are suffering from the growing problem of 'email stress' as they struggle to cope with an unending tide of messages, new research reveals. Employees are becoming tired, frustrated and unproductive after constantly monitoring the electronic messages that keep interrupting them as they try to concentrate at work.
The government was last night accused of turning the clock back 25 years by introducing a law that will allow courts to imprison prostitutes who are arrested for soliciting. The move has provoked the fury of women's support groups, who say the move will do nothing to address the root causes of the illicit trade in sex.
Drug companies and campaigners yesterday lost a high court appeal for people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's to be prescribed on the NHS a £2.50-a-day drug which is said to provide relief from the symptoms and respite for families.
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A tough call - The Guardian 11th August 2007
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NHS does not have to provide Alzheimer's drug, court rules - The Independent 11th August 2007
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Jeremy Laurance: Why does no one ask why the drugs are so expensive? - The Independent 11th August 2007
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The public must understand NICE balance - The Times 13th August 2007
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Judge upholds decision that limits Alzheimer’s drug to few NHS patients - The Times 11th August 2007
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Alzheimer's drug ban to stay, court rules - The Telegraph 11th August 2007
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Bitter blow as court rules Alzheimer's drug ban still stands - Daily Mail 10th August 2007
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Alzheimer's drugs remain limited - BBC Health News 10th August 2007
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An advert which claimed that colonic irrigation was capable of relieving the symptoms of 19 conditions including ME, psoriasis, bad breath and colitis has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.
When Stephen Bailey was eight years old, he was prescribed Librium by his doctor. That was the beginning of a 24-year addiction to mind-altering drugs which, Bailey says, changed the course of his life and saw him descend into a world of fits, screaming and violence whenever he tried to withdraw. A commonly-used tranquilliser, Librium is one of the benzodiazepine family, and was prescribed to calm Bailey after he suffered from migraines and flashing lights in response to a routine set of vaccinations.
Each year, two hundred mentally ill people locked up by police because there is no room in the health service commit suicide within 48 hours of release. Andrew Johnson uncovers a scandal that has astonished even hardened campaigners
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A new technique that uses the body’s natural building materials to seal a hole in the heart has been developed and approved for use in Britain, avoiding the need for open-heart surgery or metal implants. Doctors will be able to deploy an umbrella-like device made of proteins to mend the common defect, which is thought to increase greatly the chance of having a stroke. The implant is eventually absorbed by the body and replaced by the patient’s own tissue.
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Hole-in-the-heart self repair kit - BBC Health News 12th August 2007
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Climbie council faces inquiry after boy dies - The Times 13th August 2007
The mother of a 17-month-old boy and her boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the child died from horrific injuries. It is understood that the boy was taken to a North London hospital with a broken back, fractured ribs and at least two fingernails missing. The child, who is believed to have been monitored by social services, died an hour after arriving at hospital. A police source described the case as horrific.
I knew intuitively when the Bush House receptionist said, “Take a seat please”, that I would be forgotten. Intuition tells me that being invited to take a seat, though punctual, is a way of being ignored. But I sat obediently for 20 minutes, then marched back to the desk. I was right: no message had reached Dr Mark Lythgoe, whose radio programme on intuition I had come to discuss. How would he see my hunch? Was it intuition, or was it experience, from years of dealing with incompetence at reception desks? He decided that I had exercised “informed intuition”: anticipation based on the wisdom of long experience.
Yesterday, when I came home early, I caught my 13-year-old daughter having sex and I feel devastated. We have discussed sex openly in our family, but I didn’t see this coming for at least another couple of years.
Cardiologists and surgeons are at war with each other over how best to treat heart disease. What does the row mean for patients?
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I see the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) is going through one of its attacks of semi-hysterical sanctimony, although come to think of it hysterical sanctimony, parading as anguished concern, is pretty much its raison d’être — odd, really, for an organisation that claims to want to help women.
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What is second if breast is best? - The Times 11th August 2007
When our comedy writer’s brain scan was handed to a doctor the medic thought he must already be dead. What follows is his macabre tale of a journey through the modern health service
A muscle in my arm is twisted, I can’t raise the arm and it’s painful. My doctor recommended physiotherapy, but it has had little effect. Any suggestions?
My dad read me the letters about doctors ("Better pay contracts ensured keener GPs", August 5). As a 10-year-old girl keen to be a doctor, I am writing to ask you to support the NHS. I don’t care how much our doctors get paid — what is important is that they are there for us when we need them.
Anti-smoking groups say that people who are really serious about giving up smoking are better off taking holidays in the UK this summer. Several hundred thousand people have quit smoking since the ban in enclosed public places began in July, but many thousands are expected to slip up on summer holiday breaks in countries where smoking is allowed in bars, cafés and restaurants.
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Online consultations are a growing phenomenon. But could internet doctors be bad for our health
Mo Lawson wanted more than one child, but secondary infertility has shattered her dream. She explains the devastation of her loss and warns: don’t leave it too late
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Hope when IVF fails - The Telegraph 11th July 2007
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Patients are paying less for some private dental treatment than they do on the NHS because of controversial changes introduced by the Government. The price for a filling on the NHS is now £43.60 but some private surgeries charge just £35, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
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Trust me, I'm a junior doctor - The Telegraph 13th August 2007
Private investment has no place in healthcare, argues Max Pemberton "Can I have a biscuit, please?" asked Mrs McMahon. A fairly reasonable request, you might think. Not least because Mrs McMahon had fallen at home and lay on the floor until a neighbour found her, so she hadn't eaten anything for nearly 36 hours. If I was her, I'd want more than just a biscuit.
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Thousands of women have been forced to wait years for hospital test results that will show whether they have inherited a deadly breast cancer gene. All breast cancer patients with a family history of the disease are supposed to be offered NHS tests to discover if they carry the faulty gene. However, an investigation by the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer has found that half of the groups running the NHS laboratories that perform the tests are failing to meet a government target to provide results in eight weeks.
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Shocking failures in the child protection system are being hidden by the secrecy of England's family courts. Even in cases where it has emerged that children were abused while monitored by social services and the NHS, judges' criticisms and recommendations have been withheld from the public.
The botched recruitment system for junior doctors has created the "biggest crisis in the medical profession in a generation", a report by senior medics has concluded.
Almost 700,000 people are so fat that they need drastic surgery to tackle their weight problems, the Government's health watchdog has found. Despite the scale of the obesity crisis, primary care trusts (PCTs), fearful that the £3 billion cost of the operations would cripple the NHS, are restricting surgery to the most desperate cases. Last year, fewer than 5,000 such operations were performed.
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A rural community has begun an extraordinary campaign to have its "old-fashioned" family doctor reinstated after she was forced to resign over clashes with her staff. Dr Maris Buchanan's patients are petitioning the Prime Minister in an attempt to keep their GP, who has spent the last 15 years providing care to one of Britain's most remote communities.
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Surviving in a safety helmet, the little boy who has only half a skull - Daily Mail 12th August 2007
Like any three-year-old, Tom Trueman is constantly at risk of taking a tumble. But in his case every fall could prove fatal - which is why he wears a safety helmet every waking moment.
MRI scanning is far better at detecting an 'early' form of breast cancer than conventional X-rays, researchers have claimed. They are calling for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to be taken more seriously as a method of identifying early-stage breast cancer.
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MRI scan 'out-performs' mammogram - BBC Health News 10th August 2007
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As a seasoned mother of two, Amanda Ellerton wasn't going to make a big deal about delivery number three. But in the end she didn't really have a choice. After a six-hour struggle and with the help of four midwives, her son Shaune made his entry into the world weighing an astonishing 14lb 7oz, almost twice the birth weight of the average baby.
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The vast majority of women do not know that most cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted infection. In a survey of 1,600 women only 2.5% cited human papillomavirus as a risk factor for cervical cancer.
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Obese 'under-report' sugar intake - BBC Health News 12th August 2007
Obese people underestimate the amount of sugar they eat, making studies into the condition based on self-reporting very unreliable, UK researchers say. But a new urine test has been developed which can for the first time work out how much sugar people have consumed.
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Two recently qualified doctors believe they could have found an important weapon in the fight against hospital acquired infection - and it costs just pence. Hospital bugs are a serious problem in the UK - a recent report estimates that these infections cost the NHS as much as £1bn each year.
A woman in her 50s has died and four other people are being treated after contracting Legionnaires' disease. The woman died at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley in the West Midlands and the others are recovering at home.
Think of murder and the chances are your mind will spring to guns or knives, maybe even arsenic or strangling. Few would consider the diabetes treatment insulin as a weapon, but over the last 90 years that is just what it has become in a few, often high-profile cases.
Too many people are refusing HIV tests at sex health clinics - and a key government target could be missed as a result, says an Aids charity. The target aimed to halve the number of people whose HIV infection is missed when they visit a sexual health clinic for another reason.
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Scientists have bred mice that are able to produce human liver cells, a breakthrough which could help in understanding liver diseases and the development and testing of new drugs to treat them.
A combination of expensive health insurance and an ever-increasing rate of obesity appear to be behind a startling fall by the US in the world rankings of life expectancy. Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, America has dropped from 11th to 42nd place in 20 years, according to official US figures.
At an altitude of 13,000ft the Andean air is clear. A plume of white smoke rises from the chimney at the La Oroya smelter, hard at work refining arsenic and metals such as lead, cadmium and copper. But today the company is not discharging any gases over this city in central Peru. 'It's a nice day, so the company won't be letting off any gases,' says Hugo Villa, a neurologist at the local hospital. 'They keep the worst emissions to overcast days or after dark.'
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Deputy minister fired by Mbeki fears Aids campaign will falter - The Guardian 11th August 2007
The dismissed deputy health minister who was credited with revamping South Africa's campaign against Aids expressed fears yesterday that her work would be undone now that she has been forced out.
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Infections spread as toll from Asian monsoon hits 2,000 - The Guardian 11th August 2007
Authorities across south Asia fought outbreaks of diarrhoea and cholera yesterday as international aid began to flow into the region after the worst floods in decades. Thousands of displaced people returned to their wrecked homes as the death toll south of the Himalayas since the monsoon began in June rose above 2,000.
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Breakthroughs, tips and trends - The Times 11th August 2007
WALKING on bizarre “split” treadmills, with one leg moving forwards, and the other moving backwards, may help people to learn to walk again after a stroke or brain injury. And by placing healthy volunteers on such treadmills, scientists have discovered that separate brain networks control each leg. Until now it was thought that both legs were controlled by one main network.
The theory that bacteria hasten our death has been questioned by research suggesting living in a sterile world would not boost life expectancy. It has been thought that the immune system response provoked by even harmless bacteria speeds up the ageing process by using up vital energy.
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Bones offer new hope for diabetes - BBC Health News 10th August 2007
Bones may play a more active role than previously thought in regulating the body's chemistry, scientists say. An international team found the molecule osteocalcin, produced by bone cells, is active in helping to regulate blood sugar levels in mice.
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A HEARING has begun into the conduct of a Wirral doctor accused of inappropriately touching two female patients. A General Medical Council hearing into the conduct of Dr Vijay Dwivedi, a GP at the Victoria Park Health Centre, in Rock Ferry, from 1974 to 2003, began in Manchester on Tuesday.
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HOSPITAL bosses in East Lancashire have said they have avoided widespread chaos over the recruitment of junior doctors. More than 160 trainee medics have joined the rotas at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Hospitals this week, taking the first steps in their NHS careers.
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Safety first team in the running - Lancashire Telegraph 10th July 2007
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Safety first team in the running - Lancashire Telegraph 10th July 2007
A SAFETY first approach has seen an East Lancashire health team nominated for a national award. East Lancashire Primary Care Trust's accident prevention team is in the running at the 2007 Public Servant of the Year Awards, which will be announced in London on October 16.
DOZENS of shops in Lancashire have been found to be selling a potentially toxic toothpaste. And Lancashire County Council has received over 100 enquiries in the past three weeks from concerned consumers, highlighting that contaminated, counterfeit 'Sensodyne' toothpaste is still on sale.
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Top marks for hospital's catering and domestic staff - Preston and Leyland Citizen 10th July 2007
Catering and domestic staff at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have cleaned up at two awards ceremonies to mark their success in achieving a 100 per cent attendance or for passing training courses. Forty two members of staff received certificates from Dennis Benson, chairman of the trust, and Alison Slater, the trust's hotel and catering facilities manager.
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Alcohol abuse is costing the town millions - The Bolton News 10th August 2007
The shocking toll of alcohol abuse in Bolton has been spelled out in a report. It says the NHS is spending a total of £7.75 million a year treating injuries caused as a result of drunkenness and treating long-term alcoholism.
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