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A remarkably simple technique in bypass surgery could be used by paramedics to help reduce permanent damage in heart attack victims, specialists from University College London report. They have discovered that temporarily restricting the blood supply in the arm of a patient before heart bypass surgery can significantly improve the chances of a full recovery.
Official advice that 30 minutes of gentle exercise a day is enough to improve your health has been revised by the scientists who first developed the international fitness guidelines. Until now, government recommendations have suggested that people can achieve a minimum level of fitness through their normal daily routines. But amid fears that the lightest of activities such as dusting and the stroll to the car are being counted as exercise, a new study by the public health experts behind the formula concludes adults need to add jogging and twice-weekly weight training sessions if they want to cut their risk of heart disease and obesity.
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Health campaigners last night urged doctors to be wary of prescribing an arthritis drug after concerns over its safety and an order to ban it in Australia following reports of liver damage. UK and European drug regulators are reviewing the safety data on the painkiller, Prexige, after eight cases of serious liver damage in Australia, including two fatalities.
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Ministers ready to outlaw cut-price promotions to make young sober up Ministers are close to a decision to crack down on the promotional sale of cheap alcohol and happy-hour discounts as part of a drive to tackle Britain's binge-drinking culture.
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‘James downed the vodka like a tramp’ - The Times 16th August 2007
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Supermarkets blamed for teen thuggery as they sell alcohol cheaper than water - Daily Mail 16th August 2007
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NHS Direct deluged with people complaining of mosquito bites - The Independent 17th August 2007
The number of people complaining of insect bites has jumped this summer compared to last year's figures, NHS Direct reported. Heavy rain followed by warm weather, especially at night, has been blamed for the increase in the past three months, said the government agency.
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The wet summer was bad enough - now there's a nasty nip in the air - The Times 17th August 2007
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Buzz Off - The Times 17th August 2007
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Summer wash-out brings mosquito plague - The Telegraph 17th August 2007
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Topsy-turvy summer is to blame for all those mosquito bites - Daily Mail 16th August 2007
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NHS Direct deluged with people complaining of mosquito bites - The Independent 17th August 2007
The number of people complaining of insect bites has jumped this summer compared to last year's figures, NHS Direct reported. Heavy rain followed by warm weather, especially at night, has been blamed for the increase in the past three months, said the government agency.
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Professor Janet Treasure explains her controversial theory that eating disorders may be genetic. When I was training at the Maudsley 30 years ago, anorexic girls were treated as little more than malfunctioning machines. Even when a friend at medical school became terribly thin and suddenly “disappeared” from class one day, no one talked about it.
Congratulations to Libby Purves on her article “Send in the storm-trooper nurses” (Comment, August 14). No one could have summarised so succinctly the problems of the NHS today. One of the worst decisions made by the nursing chiefs was to make nurse training a mandatory degree course and to abolish the training for state enrolled nurses. In the hospitals the decision to remove from the ward sisters or charge nurses the responsibilty for domestic and catering services was a further retrograde step.
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NHS Direct deluged with people complaining of mosquito bites - The Independent 17th August 2007
The number of people complaining of insect bites has jumped this summer compared to last year's figures, NHS Direct reported. Heavy rain followed by warm weather, especially at night, has been blamed for the increase in the past three months, said the government agency.
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The wet summer was bad enough - now there's a nasty nip in the air - The Times 17th August 2007
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Buzz Off - The Times 17th August 2007
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Summer wash-out brings mosquito plague - The Telegraph 17th August 2007
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Topsy-turvy summer is to blame for all those mosquito bites - Daily Mail 16th August 2007
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NHS Direct deluged with people complaining of mosquito bites - The Independent 17th August 2007
The number of people complaining of insect bites has jumped this summer compared to last year's figures, NHS Direct reported. Heavy rain followed by warm weather, especially at night, has been blamed for the increase in the past three months, said the government agency.
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Cutting or clamping the umbilical cord immediately after birth could be harmful to the newborn child, doctors say. About half of maternity units are estimated to clamp and then remove the cord between mother and child soon after birth, but this could increase the risk of serious blood disorders, according to research.
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'Cutting umbilical cord early could be harmful' - The Telegraph 17th August 2007
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Early cord clamping may harm baby - BBC Health News 16th August 2007
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'Cutting umbilical cord early could be harmful' - The Telegraph 17th August 2007
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Early cord clamping may harm baby - BBC Health News 16th August 2007
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Professor Janet Treasure explains her controversial theory that eating disorders may be genetic. When I was training at the Maudsley 30 years ago, anorexic girls were treated as little more than malfunctioning machines. Even when a friend at medical school became terribly thin and suddenly “disappeared” from class one day, no one talked about it.
Congratulations to Libby Purves on her article “Send in the storm-trooper nurses” (Comment, August 14). No one could have summarised so succinctly the problems of the NHS today. One of the worst decisions made by the nursing chiefs was to make nurse training a mandatory degree course and to abolish the training for state enrolled nurses. In the hospitals the decision to remove from the ward sisters or charge nurses the responsibilty for domestic and catering services was a further retrograde step.
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When the Roman Tenth Legion was stationed in Trefriw, near Conwy in North Wales, its soldiers went prospecting in the local hills. Sometime in the first two hundred years of the first millennium a Roman stumbled upon a spring trickling out of the Snowdonian hills behind Trefriw.
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A 45-year-old divorced banker from Holland Park has read that oral cancers are rising and could be linked to increased smoking and drinking. A friend has also told him that kissing may be a factor as it could spread HPV, the human papilloma virus. Can kissing spread the virus and should he be worried?
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Calls for military hospital amid overcrowding - The Telegraph 17th August 2007
War veterans and MPs are calling for a dedicated military hospital amid an overcrowding crisis at the country's only ward reserved for soldiers. Rising casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent weeks have put a massive strain on the ward at Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham.
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Demand for military hospital grows as UK's only war ward struggles with casualties - Daily Mail 17th August 2007
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Calls for military hospital amid overcrowding - The Telegraph 17th August 2007
War veterans and MPs are calling for a dedicated military hospital amid an overcrowding crisis at the country's only ward reserved for soldiers. Rising casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent weeks have put a massive strain on the ward at Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham.
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Demand for military hospital grows as UK's only war ward struggles with casualties - Daily Mail 17th August 2007
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The crisis facing Britain's mental health wards is laid bare today. Speaking exclusively to The Daily Telegraph, a senior consultant psychiatrist, who cannot be named, painted a picture of a service at breaking point.
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Too many patients are diagnosed with depression when they are merely feeling "down in the dumps", according to a leading psychiatrist. Professor Gordon Parker warns that the medicalisation of unhappiness has fed a booming trade in prescription drugs and ineffective treatments.
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Blood pressure epidemic spirals as doctors warn our lifestyle is killing us - Daily Mail 16th August 2007
Nine in ten Britons can expect to suffer high blood pressure, putting them at risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney failure. Alcohol abuse, smoking, a salt-rich diet and a lack of exercise have caused the condition to soar out of control, warn medical experts today.
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The law to help people with mental health problems and learning disabilities should be overhauled, a new report has said. The key recommendation said it was important to safeguard the rights and dignity of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
For many women, the scan which shows their unborn squirming, kicking and sucking its thumb is one of the important milestones of pregnancy. For the vast majority it provides reassurance that all is well, and it enables parents to prepare if all is not.
An intensive course of leech therapy has helped save the leg of a lorry driver injured in a freak accident. David Isitt needed more than 30 leeches over a week to suck blood out of a large skin flap on his leg where the skin was struggling to survive.
Half are smoking less since the ban on smoking in indoor public spaces in England took effect six weeks ago, a survey reveals. A third of 1,000 smokers polled by Ciao Surveys said they now smoked less when out in bars and clubs and more than one in 10 said they smoked less altogether.
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'Faulty' hip replacements removed - BBC Health News 16th August 2007
wo UK patients have had their hip implants replaced after a packaging error meant they were given the wrong size, it has emerged. Around half of the 185 implants involved, which have since been recalled by manufacturer Smith & Nephew, had been distributed in the UK.
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New guidelines have been published for early-stage clinical trials after tests on volunteers went badly wrong last year. Six healthy volunteers were left seriously ill in March 2006 after being given TGN 1412, an experimental rheumatoid arthritis and leukaemia drug.
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Too many patients are diagnosed with depression when they are merely feeling "down in the dumps", according to a leading psychiatrist. Professor Gordon Parker warns that the medicalisation of unhappiness has fed a booming trade in prescription drugs and ineffective treatments.
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Blood pressure epidemic spirals as doctors warn our lifestyle is killing us - Daily Mail 16th August 2007
Nine in ten Britons can expect to suffer high blood pressure, putting them at risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney failure. Alcohol abuse, smoking, a salt-rich diet and a lack of exercise have caused the condition to soar out of control, warn medical experts today.
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Dundee University has received £1.5m to carry out research into parasites that cause some of the developing world's most serious diseases. Illnesses such as African sleeping sickness and Chagas' disease kill tens of thousands of people every year.
The law to help people with mental health problems and learning disabilities should be overhauled, a new report has said. The key recommendation said it was important to safeguard the rights and dignity of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
For many women, the scan which shows their unborn squirming, kicking and sucking its thumb is one of the important milestones of pregnancy. For the vast majority it provides reassurance that all is well, and it enables parents to prepare if all is not.
An intensive course of leech therapy has helped save the leg of a lorry driver injured in a freak accident. David Isitt needed more than 30 leeches over a week to suck blood out of a large skin flap on his leg where the skin was struggling to survive.
Half are smoking less since the ban on smoking in indoor public spaces in England took effect six weeks ago, a survey reveals. A third of 1,000 smokers polled by Ciao Surveys said they now smoked less when out in bars and clubs and more than one in 10 said they smoked less altogether.
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'Faulty' hip replacements removed - BBC Health News 16th August 2007
wo UK patients have had their hip implants replaced after a packaging error meant they were given the wrong size, it has emerged. Around half of the 185 implants involved, which have since been recalled by manufacturer Smith & Nephew, had been distributed in the UK.
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At least once, every day, a baby who has started the labour process in apparently good health, dies. There are 500 cases of these so-called intrapartum-related deaths in the UK annually, a figure which has remained stubbornly static for the past five years.
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Middle-age most miserable for men - BBC Health News 15th August 2007
Men in their late 30s and early 40s are the least satisfied members of society, according to a survey. They are even more dissatisfied than teenagers and the elderly, a study for the government found.
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The strain on US forces of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan was exposed yesterday when the Pentagon published a report showing that the number of suicides among US troops is at its highest level since the 1991 Gulf war.
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Army Suicides Highest in 26 Years - The Guardian 16th August 2007
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Expensive anti-bacterial washes are no better at cleaning hands than ordinary soap and may actually encourage superbugs, scientists have warned. A team in America has carried out the first known comprehensive analysis of whether anti-bacterial soap works better than plain soap.
Young people who use crystal meth risk long-term damage to their brain cells similar to that caused by Parkinson's disease. The crystal drug destroys nerve cells that produce dopamine. These are directly related to movement control.
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The prospect of holding back the years with a simple injection could be closer than we think. Scientists have taken a step towards developing a treatment that could erase the health problems associated with ageing.
Parents who cut out all fat from their children's diets are placing their health at risk, scientists have warned. Experts have long advised that a moderate intake of 'good' fats - such as olive and sunflower oils - is essential for proper growth and development.
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Fat 'crucial' in children's diet - BBC Health News 15th August 2007
A fall in breast cancer cases has been triggered by women giving up HRT, researchers are claiming. Millions worldwide have abandoned hormone replacement therapy to treat menopausal symptoms since safety scares five years ago.
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Bird flu vaccine production boost - BBC Health News 16th August 2007
Bird flu vaccine may be available to more people in the event of a pandemic after researchers engineered a way to make stocks go further, it has emerged. Combining the vaccine with a special solution makes it six times more effective, meaning much less vaccine is needed to protect individuals.
HIV can trigger learning and memory deficits by launching a double attack on the brain, research shows. It was already known that a protein on the surface of the virus could kill off mature brain cells.
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Infection test for false joints - BBC Health News 15th August 2007
US scientists have perfected a more accurate way to detect infection in prosthetic joints. The new method, which samples bacteria which stick to surface of the joint, was tested on 331 patients with a problematic prosthetic hip or knee.
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THE president of the Royal College of Physicians last night disagreed with calls by the chief constables of Cheshire and Merseyside to raise the legal alcohol age to 21. Professor Ian Gilmore, consultant gastro-enterologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, joined politicians, public health experts and the drinks industry to dismiss the idea.
UNIONS are threatening strike action over possible job losses for about 130 home helps. They have demanded talks with Liverpool council after an official notice was sent out warning that dozens of carers who look after vulnerable residents may have to leave.
SOUTHPORT and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust has again scored highly in a recent inspection. The marks were awarded separately for each hospital, and both scored two ‘excellents’ and a ‘good’ in the Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) inspection for environment, food and privacy and dignity.
Cutting or clamping the umbilical cord immediately after birth could be harmful to the newborn child, doctors say. About half of maternity units are estimated to clamp and then remove the cord between mother and child soon after birth, but this could increase the risk of serious blood disorders, according to research.
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A WIRRAL doctor accused of inapprop-riately touching two women patients has been given a formal warning. Officials told Dr Vijay Dwivedi they had “significant concerns” about how he had examined his patients at Rock Ferry health centre.
A NEW medical records unit at Leighton Hospital in Crewe has completed the second phase of a £1.9m investment in patient care. About 500,000 case notes from past and present are kept at the unit, which hospital bosses say will play a vital role in ensuring patients receive the best care.
AN ACCOUNTANT has been slammed as 'appalling and shameful' for swindling £339,000 of NHS money then fleeing to Thailand on a one-way ticket. Michael Buckley, 38, of Plantation Drive, Ellesmere Port, cast a web of lies to cover his tracks.
A NURSE who slept while a frail dementia patient was left lying in urine-soaked bed sheets has been forced out of the profession. Sejo Sany, 29, was found snoring on a chair by colleagues while two care assistants tended to patients at Weatherstones Nursing Home, Neston.
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On course for work opportunities - Ellesmere Port Pioneer 15th August 2007
A PROJECT based at the Links Healthy Living Centre in Ellesmere Port is continuing to help secure employment for people with disabilities or health problems. Ann Usher, the borough council's project officer, said: 'Our clients have told us of their biggest concerns and we have come up with a new range of short courses to help address those.'
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CUMBRIA Primary Care Trust has defended hygiene standards in its hospital kitchens after food hygiene failings were uncovered by environmental health officers. Mary Hewetson Hospital, in Keswick, is one of more than 300 hospitals nationwide which are named in the hospital hygiene roll of shame published on Monday.
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Teen comic's drink advice - Chorley Citizen 15th August 2007
Teenagers in Chorley have produced a comic book warning about the dangers of alcohol. The idea for the comic, came after talks between Chorley Council and an artist at the South Lancashire Arts Partnership (SLAP) and tells the story of two lives, one of a non-drinker and one of a teenager whose life is destroyed by alcohol.
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THE smoking ban has forced a Bury pub landlord out of business. Non-smoker Les Fuller has thrown in the towel at the Seven Stars in Rochdale Road after losing thousands of pounds in income since the nationwide ban came into effect on July 1.
EMERGENCY ambulance crews are getting caught up in roadwork traffic jams outside the Royal Bolton Hospital. It means vital minutes are being wasted as critically ill patients are taken to the hospital's A&E department.
A HOSPITAL patient was sentenced to one day in jail after stealing a prescription pad. Paul Kenyon, aged 30, of Gargrave Avenue, Johnson Fold, was arrested after he was stopped and searched by police outside the Royal Bolton Hospital on Tuesday.
DENTISTS are still not taking on any new NHS patients in Bolton, despite government claims the situation is improving. A government report claimed more NHS dental work had been carried out over the year leading up to April, 2007, compared to the previous 12 months.
MORE than 4,000 Boots pharmacists have been sent a booklet to help them advise alcoholics.
QUITTERS who have stubbed out their cigarettes with a friend could be in line to win thousands of pounds of holiday vouchers. People who have given up smoking in pairs still have until August 20 to enter the Smokefree Uk Quit awards.
Ambulance bosses are hoping a message in a bottle could save lives. The scheme, which has been launched in Bolton, will see hundreds of bottles sent out to the most vulnerable residents in the borough.
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Right to smoke outweighed by other needs - The Bolton News 15th August 2007
I WRITE regarding "Pub smoke ban rebel is put on the spot" (August 7). Landlord Nick Hogan, of The Swan and Barristers, recently stated: "I don't permit smoking in my pubs - but I do allow people to exercise their freedom to choose." When I was a child, I can't ever recall anyone arguing about my "right" to breathe clean air.
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