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A&E closures row intensifies as survival chances linked to ambulance journey. Long ambulance journeys are putting the lives of severely ill patients at risk, according to the first research to test the government's plans to close some A&E departments.
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High-risk patients ‘more likely to die after long ambulance journey’ - The Times 21st August 2007
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Hospital downgrades 'could kill thousands' - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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Striking a balance is a life-or-death decision - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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'Quality' care useless if you're dead on arrival - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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Specialist units: the case for and against - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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A&E closures 'put lives at risk' - BBC Health News 20th August 2007
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High-risk patients ‘more likely to die after long ambulance journey’ - The Times 21st August 2007
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Hospital downgrades 'could kill thousands' - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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Striking a balance is a life-or-death decision - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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'Quality' care useless if you're dead on arrival - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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Specialist units: the case for and against - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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A&E closures 'put lives at risk' - BBC Health News 20th August 2007
Cancer survival rates in the UK are trailing behind much of the continent and in some cases struggling to stay ahead of eastern European countries despite significantly more funding, according to a study published today.
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UK cancer survival rates are among the worst in Europe - The Times 21st August 2007
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UK cancer survival rate lowest in Europe - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
UK 'lags behind' on cancer deaths - BBC Health News 21st August 2007
Antibiotics consumption is rising again, despite warnings over their misuse. Deborah Cohen asks the experts how we can avoid taking them unnecessarily
Food products promoted by popular cartoons and film characters are undermining parents' efforts to make their children eat healthily, according to a survey published by a consumer group today.
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Cartoon heroes enticing children to eat junk food - The Independent 21st August 2007
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Parents demand cartoon heroes banned from junk food ads - Daily Mail 20th August 2007
I know from experience that policy initiatives have never had any effect on levels of use or on addicts themselves. Drug statistics can make depressing reading. According to a recent report, nearly 35% of the UK population has tried illegal drugs. That's nearly 19 million people.
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Our correspondent, an unmarried therapist, was a sperm donor in the late 1980s. Last year he got a call from his son
Cigarette sales fell by 6.9 per cent last month after the smoking ban was introduced in England and Wales. Smokers bought just over three billion cigarettes in Britain in the four weeks to July 28, down from the same period last year, according to the consumer research group AC Nielsen. Consumption had already been falling by about 2 per cent a year.
Nursing home staff slapped and punched pensioners in their care because they wanted to get their work done as quickly as possible. Zonke Nzimande, 35, and Wimon Hill, 29, treated elderly residents of Cornelia Lodge Nursing Home in Southsea, Hampshire, as if they were on a cattle farm, Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court was told.
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Family doctors have been warned that unless they agree to open at weekends and evenings, private companies will take over their practices. In what has been described as a "very aggressive letter", the Department of Health has ordered them to improve people's access and choice of GPs.
Junior doctors working in emergency care are gaining less experience in routine practical procedures, a new study claims today. Shorter working hours, more formal teaching and assessment and the fact that they now spend just four months in emergency departments rather than a minimum of six, are all contributing to their lack of confidence.
Thousands of newly qualified nurses are facing unemployment because of hospital cutbacks, with vacancies at their lowest for 10 years. New National Health Service figures have revealed how difficult it is for nurses, physiotherapists, scientists and doctors to find jobs.
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Full of life, the transplant girl whose heart beat the traffic - Daily Mail 20th August 2007
Like all successful transplant patients, Laura Whitworth owes her life to the skill of her medical team and the courage of a heart donor's grieving family. But in two-year-old Laura's case, the roll of honour also includes a resourceful ambulance driver and council worker Margaret Rollinson and her old Volvo saloon.
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Transplant girl joy despite delivery near miss - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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Demand for sex drugs and heart pills is fuelling an explosion in illegal internet pharmacies, a report reveals. Tens of thousands of people are risking their health and money by buying Viagra and cholesterol-lowering pills online.
Racing driver David Coulthard has revealed how he suffered from an eating disorder as a teenager. The Formula 1 star developed bulimia as he battled to keep his weight down for racing.
Last week, super-skinny songstress Amy Winehouse was snapped flashing her cleavage - complete with unsightly stretch marks. At age 24, weighing a mere 7st and yet to have children, she is hardly a prime candidate for striae as they are known. But, in today's climate where celebs wear 23in waist jeans and slip into size zero clothes, these angry-looking scars are no longer solely the badge of the overweight or pregnant.
One in five 15-year-olds in England drinks at least seven units of alcohol a week - the equivalent of almost a bottle of wine, shocking research shows. Nineteen per cent admitted getting through that much, while in some parts of the country one in eight 12-year-olds is drinking this heavily, the Governmentcommissioned study found.
Researchers have found middle-age spread occurs in two distinct phases - casting doubt on the merits of using weight as a guide to health. They found a thickening waistline in early middle age is accompanied by a rise in weight.
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Q&A: Hospitals under threat - BBC Health News 20th August 2007
The Tories have promised the government a "bare-knuckle fight" to save hospitals. They say that 29 district general hospitals are under threat of losing their A&E or maternity services. What is happening? Reviews into hospital services are happening across England, although they are all at very different stages.
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Hospitals under threat - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
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Sore throat virus linked to obesity - The Guardian 21st August 2007
A common virus that causes throat and eye infections may also play a role in obesity, according to US scientists. Laboratory tests found the virus triggered changes in human fat tissue that left people with more, and larger, fat cells than people who were not infected.
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Obesity 'caused by infectious virus which turns cells into fatty tissue' - The Independent 21st August 2007
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Is fat catching? Scientists discover the cold virus that makes you obese - Daily Mail 20th August 2007
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Obesity 'affects prostate risk' - BBC Health News 19th August 2007
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Michele Hanson: A man has invented a bra you wear under your skin. They should leave underwear design to women - The Guardian 21st August 2007
Here comes the No 1 gruesome invention of the century: the bra you wear 1cm under your skin, called Cup&Up. Dr Eyal Gur, head of microsurgery at the Sourasky medical centre in Tel Aviv, has thought up this ghastly procedure, and claims that droves of women are clamouring to have it done for a few thousand pounds.
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Thabo Mbeki yesterday stood accused of personally ordering medical staff to allow his ailing Health Minister to jump the queue for a liver transplant. The South African President had spoken directly to surgeons to demand that Manto Tshabalala-Msimang be given priority treatment despite being an alcoholic who continued to drink, it was claimed.
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Mbeki in South Africa liver transplant scandal - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
A new book is causing a storm of controversy by labelling children as annoying and pointless - a charge made all the more inflammatory by the fact that its author is a mother. Entitled No Kid: 40 Reasons Not To Have Children, Corinne Maier's book has sparked fury in France, where it was published. Here, Corinne argues her "no kid" case while another mum, Ursula Hirschkorn, stands firm for parenthood.
Wrinkles and creaking joints are bad enough, but for most people it's middleage spread that really signals the downward spiral of old age. It seems an unwritten rule that once you pass your 45th birthday, almost overnight, weight begins to accumulate around your tummy and
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Obesity 'affects prostate risk' - BBC Health News 19th August 2007
Obese people may be less likely to develop prostate cancer but more likely to die of the disease, a study says. Researchers found the cancer was much less likely to develop in people who are insulin resistant - a pre-diabetes condition linked to obesity.
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When it comes to the science of surviving a potentially deadly outbreak, there is one question that has always proved particularly tricky for experts. How do you study the spread of an epidemic, and thus form an emergency plan to ensure the survival of the human race, without putting the population at risk of a real disease?
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Virtual game is a 'disease model' - BBC Health News 21st August 2007
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Virtual game is a 'disease model' - BBC Health News 21st August 2007
Thabo Mbeki yesterday stood accused of personally ordering medical staff to allow his ailing Health Minister to jump the queue for a liver transplant. The South African President had spoken directly to surgeons to demand that Manto Tshabalala-Msimang be given priority treatment despite being an alcoholic who continued to drink, it was claimed.
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Mbeki in South Africa liver transplant scandal - The Telegraph 21st August 2007
A new book is causing a storm of controversy by labelling children as annoying and pointless - a charge made all the more inflammatory by the fact that its author is a mother. Entitled No Kid: 40 Reasons Not To Have Children, Corinne Maier's book has sparked fury in France, where it was published. Here, Corinne argues her "no kid" case while another mum, Ursula Hirschkorn, stands firm for parenthood.
Wrinkles and creaking joints are bad enough, but for most people it's middleage spread that really signals the downward spiral of old age. It seems an unwritten rule that once you pass your 45th birthday, almost overnight, weight begins to accumulate around your tummy and
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Obesity 'affects prostate risk' - BBC Health News 19th August 2007
Obese people may be less likely to develop prostate cancer but more likely to die of the disease, a study says. Researchers found the cancer was much less likely to develop in people who are insulin resistant - a pre-diabetes condition linked to obesity.
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Cheshire and Merseyside Health News
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TWO SISTERS have been named kidney twins by surgeons after scoring a 100% match for a kidney operation. Diane Swift and Debbie Waller revealed staff at the Royal Liverpool hospital were astonished when results came through.
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26-stone woman in fall rescued by fire service - Liverpool Echo 20th August 2007
A 26-STONE woman who fractured a number of bones in a fall had to be hauled out of her house with the help of a fire engine. It is thought the woman had taken a tumble in her bedroom and was unable to get up because of her weight.
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Cumbria and Lancashire Health News
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LIVES could have been put at risk by thieves who cut phone lines running to Royal Blackburn Hospital so they could steal copper wiring. Phone lines went down at the Haslingden Road hospital at around teatime on Saturday and communications links were still being repaired today.
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NHS workers are marvellous - Lancashire Telegraph 20th August 2007
ALTHOUGH we read nowadays of cases of neglect and inefficiency in the NHS, I must express my gratitude to paramedics who arrived three minutes after call out. My case, which could have had a severe, if not fatal result, was helped by their prompt arrival and their actions.
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Greater Manchester Health News
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A REVAMP of the Royal Bolton Hospital's mental health ward has been completed. The 20-bed unit, which is run by the Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health Trust, provides care for older men with mental health problems.
ORGANISERS of a campaign to change attitudes towards deaf people are calling on people to nominate the news event that has had the most impact on their life. The RNID, a charity for people with hearing problems, is urging people to consider how they would feel about not being able to hear about major news events.
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We’re proud dad left his body to science - The Bolton News 20th August 2007
A FATHER who lost his battle against cancer has donated his body to medical research. Mark Tracey, aged 47, took the decision because he wanted to help others after being told he could not be an organ donor because of his illness.
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