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Decision due on Alzheimer's drugs - BBC Health News 10th August 2007
Campaigners are set to learn if they have won their High Court battle over the availability of Alzheimer's drugs for people with early-stage disease.
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Decision day on Alzheimer's drugs - The Daily Mail 10 th August 2007
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Pirbright worker contracts legionnaires' disease - The Guardian 9th August 2007
A worker at the government research facility in Pirbright that is at the centre of the foot and mouth outbreak has contracted legionnaires' disease, with officials saying the lab is a possible source of contamination, Guardian Unlimited can reveal.
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Legionnaire's Disease found at Pirbright lab - The Times 9th August 2007
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Deadly Legionnaire's disease found at foot and mouth lab - The Daily Mail 9th August 2007
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NHS receptionist awarded £90,000 after bungled op left her with hospital phobia the Daily Mail
As a hospital receptionist for over two decades, Janice Evans was confident she would be well looked after as a patient.
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Scientists have found the "Homer hormone", which controls our desire for food and leaves the Simpsons character salivating uncontrollably at the mention of doughnuts.
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Fat hormone sheds new light on obesity: study - Reuters 9th August 2007
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Cancer screening programmes are failing to detect nearly half of the earliest cases of breast cancer according to research which suggests women's lives could be saved if all were offered hi-tech MRI scans.
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Foreign doctors face competence inquiry - The Times 10th August 2007
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Gambling ads on TV 'will fuel addiction', warns top doctors - The Daily Mail 10th August 2007
Doctors warned of a surge in gambling addiction last night as ministers prepared to allow the first TV ads for casinos, bookmakers and betting websites.
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Twelve million fashion-conscious women drivers are risking their lives by wearing sunglasses which limit their view of the road. The vast majority of
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Prevention 'may not help elderly' - BBC Health News 10th August 2007
Use of medicines to prevent disease may not prolong or improve life in elderly people, say doctors. Drugs such as statins, prescribed to combat heart disease, may simply switch the cause of death to cancer or dementia in older people, they warn.
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Panel worried about baby bottle chemical - Reuters 9th August 2007
A chemical used in plastic baby bottles and other products may affect unborn babies and young children and more study on its safety is needed, a
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Migraines raise women's stroke risk: study - Reuters 9th August 2007
Recent migraine headaches with visual symptoms often known as "aura" dramatically raise a woman's risk of stroke, researchers reported on Thursday in a study that adds to a growing body of evidence linking the two.
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Bosses search for life after super-surgeries - Warrington Guardian 10th August 2007
SENIOR health figures are holding regular meetings to come up with a successor to the failed super surgery' plan.
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Hospitals reorganisation hit by nurse strike threat - Lancashire Telegraph 9th August 2007
THE threat of a nurses strike has left a further cloud over the controversial shake-up of
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Lack of exercise is killing us - Lancashire Telegraph 9th August 2007
PEOPLE in
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Club Offers Free Soft Drinks In Road Safety Drive - Lancashire Telegraph 8th August 2007
A TOWN centre nightclub is offering customers free soft drinks all night long in a effort to cut down on drink driving. Liquid Envy's designated driver scheme encourages groups of people going out for the night in
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MP's back Wilson's plea - Manchester Evening News 9th August 2007
TWO Manchester MPs are backing a campaign by music legend Anthony Wilson to persuade local health bosses to provide a pioneering cancer drug on the NHS.
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Hospital waiting lists to be cut - The Bolton News 9th August 2007
DOCTORS are working extra shifts and a mobile unit has been installed at the
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Baby girl in prescription blunder - Bolton News 9th August 2007
A baby girl was given drugs which were only suitable for youngsters aged five and over when an emergency doctor made a serious prescription blunder.
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