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Noise of modern life blamed for thousands of heart deaths - The Guardian 23rd August 2007
Thousands of people in Britain and around the world are dying prematurely from heart disease triggered by long-term exposure to excessive noise, according to research by the World Health Organisation. Coronary heart disease caused 101,000 deaths in the UK in 2006, and the study suggests that 3,030 of these are caused by chronic noise exposure, including to daytime traffic.
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Since it has been noted that we cyclists have a not-very- attractive tendency towards smugness, it seems only fair to point out that it's not just conceitedness; there is an objective, scientific basis for us being utterly self-satisfied. Vindication comes in the form of a soon-to-be-published report from Cycling England, entitled Cycling and Health. It is not, in fact, a new piece of research in its own right, but it pulls together all the existing studies in a very handy résumé.
When the independent Dr Richard Taylor swept away the Labour MP for Wyre Forest in 2001 by promising to stop the closure of the local Kidderminster hospital, he sent a shockwave far beyond Worcestershire. Ever since that moment, Britain's political parties have had to recognise that the closure and reorganisation of local hospitals are among the most potent of modern electoral issues.
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'Exhausted' Lansley admits errors over bungled Tory NHS offensive - The Independent 23rd August 2007
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Double row halts Cameron's new policy drive - The Times 23rd August 2007
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When Martin Cowie, Professor of Cardi-ology at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, arrived to meet journalists recently his audience was initially less interested than usual in his research papers. Although it later transpired that the research was of fundamental importance, everyone’s attention was grabbed by the professor’s other props: two high-tech forms of pacemaker that are now available in Britain.
A reader noticed in the gym that people sweat to varying degrees in hot weather even when they are taking the same amount of exercise. She believes she sweats excessively. Why does it happen and what can she do about it?
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Beware that brisk seaside stroll – it could just be the death of you - The Times 23rd August 2007
As millions prepare to head for the coast on the last Bank Holiday of the year, the new biggest killer at the seaside can be disclosed today. It is a walk by the shore. The fast-growing popularity of walking for pleasure along beaches and cliffs has led to it becoming the main cause of recreational deaths on the British coastline.
For a brief time this week, until it was taken down, there was an extraordinary posting on YouTube. It was a covert recording, made by a 34-year-old mother, of her meeting with the social worker who wants to take her next baby into care.
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Results of lung cancer drug’s new trial send Antisoma’s shares soaring - The Times 23rd August 2007
Shares in the biotechnology group Antisoma soared 19 per cent yesterday after the company announced promising results from a clinical trial of an experimental lung cancer medicine. Antisoma said that a new Phase-II study of the drug, known as ASA404, supported earlier findings suggesting that its use in combination with chemotherapy had led to one of the biggest increases in survival reported in the treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer.
Low-fat foods for children can deprive them of vital nutrients and lead to obesity later in life, according to recent research. The solution is for parents to lead by example with a varied diet
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Hospitals are trying to renege on the Government's promise that junior doctors would not be left out of work as a result of a botched recruitment system, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. The former health secretary Patricia Hewitt said junior doctors would not be disadvantaged as a result of the fiasco over training jobs. All doctors should have started their new jobs on Aug 1, but as round two of the recruitment process was still going on those who were still applying and still in "substantive" NHS employment were assured that they would be given work for a further three months.
Doctors have been told to take ME - a debilitating condition once dismissed as "yuppie flu" - seriously and not just tell patients to go to the gym. Patients with ME should be given individual plans to help them manage their condition, guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said yesterday.
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Doubting doctors are ordered to take ME patients seriously - Daily Mail 22nd August 2007
Ticks that can carry a potentially fatal disease have "exploded" in number because of the wet summer, experts said yesterday. One bite can pass on Lyme disease, which can cause blindness or paralysis, and can kill in one in 30 cases.
Before forecasting the deaths of thousands, if various inadequately staffed accident and emergency departments are closed, it might be worth contemplating how many will die through deficient treatment if they are kept open.
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Labour's reforms will suck children into Net gambling, say experts - Daily Mail 22nd August 2007
Labour's gambling reforms - which come into effect next week - will make it easier for children to bet online, experts warned yesterday. The Royal College of Psychiatrists issued a last-minute plea for ministers to reconsider letting foreign gambling websites advertise on television here.
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Almost 30,000 cases of breast and colon cancer a year could be prevented if Britons spent more time in the sun, say researchers Vitamin D, which helps protect against the cancers, is created in the body when it is exposed to sunshine.
Pregnant mums are being diverted 21 miles to give birth because midwives at their local hospital are on maternity leave. Campaigners say lives are being put at risk by the 'disgraceful' decision to close the maternity unit at Eastbourne hospital to new admissions.
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Nurses prescribing medicine would put patients' health at risk, doctor warns - Daily Mail 22nd August 2007
The decision to allow nurses to prescribe dangerous medicines is putting patients at risk, a leading doctor claimed last night. The number of powerful drugs they hand out, including antibiotics and anti-depressants, has more than tripled since prescribing rules were relaxed.
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Fussy children who refuse to eat what is put in front of them are not being deliberately awkward, new research suggests. Scientists have found that a child's tendency to avoid unfamiliar foods in largely inherited. In a large study of twins, which included both identical and fraternal twin pairs, Dr Lucy Cooke and her team from University College London and found that nearly 80 per cent of children's tendency to avoid new foods was genetic.
Being unhappy. Being happy. Friends who eat like a horse and never put on weight. Childhood admonishments to think of the starving in Africa. These are some of the reasons the overweight give to explain their size because they are too ashamed to admit they simply eat too much, according to a study.
A top doctor has escaped jail after subjecting his wife to years of vicious abuse - and on one occasion punching her 24 times in a row over buying a new car.
Happy people may be protected against disease, according to a study released today. Researchers found people with a positive mental attitude show different responses to stress.
Thousands of British youngsters may be suffering from undetected high blood pressure, doctors have warned. They said it went hand in hand with the obesity epidemic that is blighting the lives of many children and teenagers. Poor diets, salty foods and a lack of exercise was blamed for the changes.
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Food labels 'hoodwink' shoppers - BBC Health News 22nd August 2007
The public may be being misled about salt content by unrealistic "per serving" information, regulators say. A study of 831 products by UK local authorities found salt had fallen by nearly 11% on average since 2005.
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Anne Wardle used to drive forklifts around a frozen food factory until crippling rheumatoid arthritis meant one day she could not get in her own car to drive to work. She has spent the best part of a decade in severe pain and unable to move various limbs, with protracted periods in hospital up to three times a year.
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Parents must heed children's sometimes inconvenient demands for the toilet to stop them developing urinary tract infections, guidelines say. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has drawn up new guidance for treating a condition which can lead to severe kidney damage.
A government immunisation expert has described how effective the campaign to eliminate measles, mumps and rubella was proving before the MMR controversy. David Salisbury, the government's director of immunisation, was giving evidence in a General Medical Council hearing against Dr Andrew Wakefield.
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Why girls 'really do prefer pink' - BBC Health News 21st August 2007
A little girl's love of all things pink may not be entirely due to marketing by clothes and toy firms say researchers. A University of Newcastle study found that women naturally opted for redder shades when given a choice.
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The comedian Rodney Dangerfield famously said: “I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.” While everybody worries about the young getting too much, nobody expects the old to get any at all.
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A type of cholesterol believed to protect the body against heart disease can make it worse too, scientists have warned. A study has shown HDL - known as "good cholesterol" and credited with helping to remove blockages in arteries - is not always as good as it seems.
Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the World Health Organization annual report says. With about 2.1 billion airline passengers flying each year, there is a high risk of another major epidemic such as Aids, Sars or Ebola fever.
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Burns 'can prompt heart problems' - BBC Health News 22nd August 2007
Severe burns can trigger heart problems in victims which may be a major cause of death, US experts say. Death rates are high among those with bad burns, but doctors have often struggled to pinpoint the exact cause.
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Adrian Butler speaks to Liverpool’s Lady Mayoress on her four-year battle back to health – and into the public eye WHEN Hilary Clark agreed to become Liverpool’s Lady Mayoress, she knew her chronic shyness meant it would not be easy.
A LIVERPOOL businessman who had a bone marrow transplant from an anonymous donor after his sister refused to help him is fighting leukaemia again. Simon Pretty, a director at one of Liverpool’s best-known media firms, has been told the cancer has returned less than two months after undergoing a bone marrow transplant at the world-famous Christie Hospital in Manchester during June.
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New bone marrow blow - Manchester Evening News 20th August 2007
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Would-be MP: Hard drug taking impossible to stop - Liverpool Daily Post 22nd August 2007
A ROCK star who wants to be a Liverpool MP has told how a cocaine addiction almost destroyed his life. Dave Rowntree, the drummer in the Britpop band Blur, described how taking the drug was “almost religious in its intensity and all my problems seemed to melt away”.
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Alcohol counselling hits funding crisis - Crewe Chronicle 22nd August 2007
ALCOHOL support services are to lose a quarter of their counselling workforce after failing to attract funding. The funding crisis hits the service less than a year after its alcohol youth counselling arm was forced to end due to similar failures to attract financial support.
WEAVERHAM residents with sight problems will have the chance to speak to vision specialists when a mobile support unit visits the village. Vision Support's mobile resource unit will be at Weaverham Community Centre in Russet Road tomorrow, Thursday, between 1pm and 2.30pm.
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PROTESTERS say longer ambulance journeys will put lives at risk if new fears for the future of the West Cumberland Hospital prove correct. Their comments follow its inclusion in a list of 29 district general hospitals identified by the Conservatives as being under-threat of major cuts or closure.
A NEW step-down care ward designed to free up beds at the main Cumberland Infirmary will officially open its doors in Carlisle later today. The centre, named Reiver House, is part of a two building private health complex at the entrance to the hospital.
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Hospital protest attracts 400 supporters - Lancashire Telegraph 22nd August 2007
MORE than 400 people have backed a 12-hour protest over the downgrading of services at Burnley General Hospital. Patients traveled from as far afield as Rossendale and Skipton to show their support for the vigil outside the Casterton Avenue hospital, organised by Burnley council leader Councillor Gordon Birtwistle and colleagues.
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THE widow of a man denied a potentially life-prolonging drug by health bosses says she is angry his last days were spent having to fight for the medication. Terence Booth lost his battle against bowel cancer on Monday in Chorley hospital, surrounded by his wife, Alison, son Niall, aged 14, and his parents.
HEALTH bosses are considering axing a centre where elderly mental health patients receive 24-hour care - just over two years after it opened. Under the plan the patients who live at Brook Heys in Broadheath would be moved to the Moorside unit at Trafford General Hospital.
JUNIOR doctors starting their training in hospitals across Greater Manchester say they are under pressure to take HIV tests. The complaints have come as hospital bosses try to implement new government safety guidelines. Previously all doctors have had to prove they were not carrying tuberculosis but now Department of Health officials want them to be offered tests for HIV and Hepatitis C.
A PUB landlord has been summonsed to appear in court charged with defying the public smoking ban, council bosses confirmed. Nick Hogan licensee of the Swan Hotel and Barristers bar in Churchgate, Bolton, is facing nine charges: five of failing to prevent people from smoking on the premises and four of obstructing council officers.
MANCHESTER is `perhaps the most starkly evident' example of a new divide between rich and poor, claims George Osborne. The shadow chancellor and Tatton MP claimed too few people were sharing in the city's `thriving' economy.
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New bone marrow blow - Manchester Evening News 20th August 2007
A CANCER patient who had a bone marrow transplant from an anonymous donor after his sister refused to help him is fighting the disease again. Simon Pretty had the transplant using bone marrow from an American. The operation was at Christie Hospital, Manchester, in June and it was a success. But now the leukaemia has returned.
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