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More than a third of women say they have had fertility problems, according to a survey which suggests that many are leaving it too late before they think about trying to conceive. The study, commissioned by Red magazine, said that many women did not appear to realise that peak fertility would be in their 20s and fertility would sharply decline from their mid-30s.
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We're not going local when it comes to health - The Guardian 5th September 2007
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Couples spend £4,800 trying for a baby - The Times 5th September 2007
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Third of couples face being infertile - The Telegraph 5th September 2007
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Third of couples face being infertile - The Telegraph 5th September 2007
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We're not going local when it comes to health - The Guardian 5th September 2007
"Even before it has passed parliament, the local government and public involvement in the health bill is being condemned as lukewarm" What a difference a couple of months makes, give or take a new prime minister. In June, the idea of an independent NHS was all the rage. "Get those politicians out of it!" was the cry. Schemes were drafted to turn David Nicholson's NHS executive into a fully-fledged corporation, at arm's length from ministers.
The NHS could gain financially if it made more of the altruism that exists inside the health service and among patients It is easy to think that money rules the world, and sometimes it does. But NHS money often seems curiously unreal. Like a drunk person, we stagger from one annual funding crisis to the next, drinking each watering hole dry, but never quite being called to account.
The north-east of England demonstrates that investment in public services will not on its own deliver better performance. Over the past decade, large sums of taxpayers' money have been pumped into the region, and yet outcomes in health, education, criminal justice and welfare-to-work are mixed, and inequalities remain stubbornly entrenched. We need a new approach.
Thatcherite reforms to schools and the NHS systematically undermined the role of teachers and medical staff, a Tory review acknowledged yesterday as it unveiled plans to hand power back to professionals. The report called for a chief education and skills officer - akin to the chief medical officer - to advise the government and a new royal college to create a "senior cadre" of teachers as part of a package strengthening the voice of public service workers.
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Latest Conservative policy review - The Telegraph 5th September 2007
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Lose weight and win 'health mile' rewards, pledge Tories - Daily Mail 4th September 2007
Gordon Brown today joined those paying tribute to Jane Tomlinson, the charity fundraiser who has died seven years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. The prime minister praised the 43-year-old, who took up running after being told she had six months to live.
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After raising £1.75m, Jane Tomlinson dies of cancer aged 43 - The Independent 5th September 2007
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Jane Tomlinson: An inspiration to the end - Daily Mail 4th September 2007
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Jane Tomlinson loses cancer fight - BBC Health News 4th September 2007
Benefits squeeze deprives the voluntary sector Peter Beresford ('Second thoughts') rightly highlights the perversity of some of the current earnings rules in our benefits system. The rules can result in those who rely on benefits being left out of pocket or even stop them taking part entirely. The end result is depriving public bodies of an essential pool of expertise, as well as further marginalising disabled benefits recipients.
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Letters: The heart of the health service still beats strong - The Guardian 5th September 2007
I was sorry to read of Ms Davis's experience in a London hospital (Letters, September 4). My own experience is so different. In June I went into a hospital in Margate for a booked orthopaedic operation. Everything was so well organised, with caring staff, that I lost my fears. After my operation I was taken to a spacious ward with six beds, well spaced, with only women patients.
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When Patricia Hewitt was Health Secretary, she didn’t know what to do. So she commissioned a study, breathlessly described as the “biggest public consultation of its kind ever held in England”, to find out what people wanted her to do. It was to be a “major, large-scale deliberative event . . . beyond anything the Government has embarked upon before in the health field”. No fewer than 125,000 questionnaires were sent out asking people what they wanted from their NHS. Some 42,000 responded or attended regional events. A 1,000-strong “citizens’ summit” was then selected for a round-table discussion in Birmingham to discover “the people’s priorities” – and broadcast live on the web, they exclaimed! It was so unbearably exciting that not a single report was filed from it.
Mary Shelley’s Dr Frankenstein made much more than a mere monster – he also inspired an enduring mistrust in the public’s attitudes towards research in human genetics and embryology. Stem cell research has reopened the ethical debate about the status of human embryos. It is hard to understand those who entertain the notion that the fertilised egg is a human being: until an embryo is around 12 days in development it is impossible even to tell whether it will potentially grow into one person or twins. Nearly a third of fertilised eggs fail to develop in the mother because of common abnormalities, and no one contends that this represents human death.
Hospital trusts are considering banning staff from wearing pairs of rubber clogs, known as Crocs, because of health and safety fears. Static electricity caused by the popular footwear has been implicated in the malfunctioning of electrical medical equipment at hospitals in Sweden. There have also been concerns that blood or bodily fluids could seep through the holes in the top of the shoes, and that needles could penetrate the rubbery resin.
You report (Sept 3 ) that fewer pupils are eating healthier school meals. Despite Jamie Oliver’s best efforts, 250,000 fewer school meals were served in our secondary schools last year. At a time when more than a third of all children are overweight, this is indeed alarming news. The Government announced £640 million extra funding for healthy food, but the spending is left to local authority discretion.
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Britain's smallest ever baby, who was given just a one per cent chance of survival when she was born four years ago, will start her first day at school today. Aaliyah Hart weighed only 12oz and was 7ins long - not much bigger than a mobile phone - after being born three months premature.
MPs have called for an independent audit of Australia's IBA Health as it finalises a deal to buy iSoft, a key contractor to the multi-billion pound programme to upgrade the NHS computer systems. Shadow health minister Stephen O'Brien said: "For a contract involving such huge sums of taxpayers' money, intended to deliver such vital and key reforms to improve patient care, anything less than a thorough audit of any potential new owner of iSoft is a minimum that both patients and taxpayers have a right to expect."
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She would have had her heart in her mouth - if it wasn't already in a jar. Arriving at an art gallery, Jennifer Sutton was faced with the organ removed from her body in a transplant operation just three months ago.
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Why women should avoid using anti-perspirants that could cause breast cancer - Daily Mail 4th September 2007
New research suggests that the aluminium in many anti-perspirants has a potential link with breast cancer. Here, a leading breast cancer specialist explains why he suggests avoiding the products
A businesswoman is set to win up to £225,000 after an employment tribunal found bosses at Estee Lauder had forced her out of her job after learning she suffered from epilepsy.
The relentless pain of slipped spinal discs was already keeping footballer-turned-manager Bryan Robson awake at night. But then he was faced with the difficult decision of whether to go ahead with a high-risk operation to remove the discs and fuse three vertebrae.
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Reduced to a frail seven stone, too weak to climb the stairs and wracked with pain, Trevor Baylis, the normally energetic inventor, feared he was about to die. The man who brought the world the wind-up radio had been reduced to this state by constant diarrhoea that would strike without warning dozens of times a day. He dreaded eating because of the fierce reaction of his body.
Each year, 45,000 patients in the UK have their tonsils removed. A new technique dramatically speeds up recovery time. Here, Harriet Shore, 34, who lives with her husband and children, aged three and four, in Tarporley, Cheshire, tells ANGELA BROOKS about her experience, and her surgeon explains the procedure
Melatonin is known as the hormone that is vital for sleep, but it may also cut your risk of cancer, help prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and reduce the sagging skin and thinning hair that accompany ageing.
As Kathryn Harvard carried her six-week-old son into the operating theatre at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, she bent down and looked into his eyes. "I gave him a kiss and told him I loved him," she says. "His little fingers were curled around mine. Then I handed him over to the theatre nurse, who promised to take good care of him."
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Brushing and flossing your teeth could save you from a heart attack, claim experts. Doctors found those with the worst blockages in their arteries had the most severe gum disease.
By picking up a food labelled "organic" you might assume you're taking a positive step towards a more nutritious and healthy diet.
A number of cancer patients denied a new drug by the NHS may get free treatment as part of a clinical trial taking place in Manchester. The drug Sutent can in some cases prolong the lives of patients with kidney cancer.
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Patients are regularly waiting more than 50 minutes in ambulances outside south east Wales A&E departments. Over the last three months an average 106 vehicles a week have waited more than 50 minutes to deliver patients, the Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed.
A health watchdog has issued an urgent warning about a drug used to treat cancer patients following the deaths of two men in Birmingham. Baljit Sunner, 36, of Small Heath, and Paul Richards, 35, of Sutton Coldfield, died a day after treatment on 20 July.
They say rock and pop stars live life in the fast lane and now researchers have proved it. A Liverpool John Moores University study of 1,050 US and European artists found they are twice as likely to die early than the rest of the population.
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'I knew I was not being paranoid' - BBC Health News September 2007
Even before Marilyn Smith's granddaughter was born alarm bells were beginning to ring. Twenty eight years earlier Marilyn had lost her own daughter, Rebecca, who died after an operation to try and rectify a narrowed aorta and holes in her heart - she was just 10 weeks old.
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A skinny gene that may pave the way for a fat-burning pill has been pinpointed by scientists. The gene governs whether the body piles on pounds or burns them off, researchers found.
Mentally ill people in the developing world are being badly neglected, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal. The authors say mental illness makes up about 14% of global disease, more than cancer or heart disease.
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Women 'choosier' over partners - BBC Health News 3rd September 2007
Men look for beauty, while women go for wealth when it comes to assessing future partners, researchers say. An Indiana University team looked at the behaviour of 46 people taking part in a speed-dating session.
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HOSPITAL executives yesterday reassured patients the quality of medical care would not be damaged by the loss of the equivalent of 13 wards in Liverpool city centre. Patients raised concerns about the loss of up to 315 beds at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals as part of a £400m blueprint to build a completely new city hospital for 2014.
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Childhood obesity issue improving, insist experts - Liverpool Daily Post 4th September 2007
HEALTH experts say they are confident more children are taking up exercise, after research showed just a fifth of Merseyside’s youngsters are doing enough to ward off obesity. Yesterday, the Daily Post revealed only one in five 14- and 15-year-olds could confirm they had done strenuous exercise three times a week recently.
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Liverpool doctor: Pop stars twice as likely to die young - Liverpool Daily Post 4th September 2007
ROCK and pop stars are more than twice as likely to suffer a premature death as other people, according to researchers at Liverpool John Moores University. A study of more than 1,000 stars who shot to fame between 1956 and 1999 found they were much more likely to die early, especially within a few years of becoming famous.
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Why rock and roll stars die young - BBC Health News 3rd September 2007
TRADE unions staged a rally in Liverpool to protest against plans to close factories which provide jobs for disabled people. Three Remploy sites are due to close in Aintree, St Helens and Birkenhead where 400 people are employed.
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Hospital meets targets for heart attack treatment - Warrington Guardian 4th September 2007
TARGETS for heart attack treatment times are being met at Warrington and Halton hospitals, but they recommend that only 75 per cent of eligible patients receive thrombolytic treatment within 30 minutes.
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THE traditional school nurse is to be replaced by a team of health professionals in a bid to tackle poor health among children. Health bosses have acted because children in Blackburn and Darwen have some of the poorest health and shortest life expectancy in the UK.
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Hospital workers clock awards - Chorley Citizen 4th September 2007
Workers from both Chorley and Royal Preston hospitals have passed the test of time by clocking up over 2,500 years of service between them. More than 100 members of staff are being honoured by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs the two hospitals, for each completing 25 years' continuous service at the trust.
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A NEW maternity ward is to open at the Royal Bolton Hospital as part of its plans to become a baby and childrens' supercentre. The midwife-led unit will open next February and will give women more choice when deciding where they want to give birth.
EXTRA consultants have been taken on as part of an overhaul of treatment for people with serious lung disease at Royal Bolton Hospital. Soaring numbers of people being diagnosed with lung cancer and life-threatening respiratory illnesses prompted hospital chiefs to employ two new specialist consultants and revamp the service.
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Measles warning - Altrincham Messenger 4th September 2007
DOCTORS are urging Trafford parents to take precautions after an outbreak of measles. The outbreak occurred across nearby Salford where eight cases of the virus were recorded among children to add to the 14 in the past year that have arisen in the North West.
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