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Parents are to be warned of the dangers of giving their young children drinks, sweets and cakes containing specified artificial additives, as a result of new findings being made public for the first time today which confirm their link with hyperactivity and disruptive behaviour.
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What's added takes away - The Guardian 6th September 2007
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New link between E-numbers and hyperactivity - The Independent 6th September 2007
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Food alert as every additive comes under new suspicion - The Times 6th September 2007
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Parents warned: additives in food DO harm our children - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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Additives 'cause bad behaviour' - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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New link between E-numbers and hyperactivity - The Independent 6th September 2007
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Food alert as every additive comes under new suspicion - The Times 6th September 2007
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Parents warned: additives in food DO harm our children - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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Additives 'cause bad behaviour' - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Grapes are still deemed appropriate and boxes of chocolates welcomed, but a hospital has banned gifts of flowers because of fears that they pose a health risk. Visitors arriving at Dorset county hospital in Dorchester armed with a bouquet will be politely but firmly told that the blooms are not allowed on the premises.
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Children who have begun binge drinking by the age of 16 are more likely to use drugs as adults, become alcoholics and acquire a string of criminal convictions, researchers at the Institute of Child Health in London said today. In a long-term study of the lives led by 11,000 British children born in 1970, they found those who drank heavily in their mid-teens encountered a wide range of social and medical problems by the age of 30.
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Teen boozing 'stores up problems' - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Teen boozing 'stores up problems' - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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A radical strategy to help developing countries improve their healthcare and retain desperately needed doctors and nurses was launched by the prime minister, Gordon Brown, yesterday. While increasing amounts of money and effort have gone into initiatives to fight specific diseases such as HIV/Aids and immunise children against polio, it has become clear that the fight against disease in poor countries is being lost.
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PM's bid for global health care - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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PM's bid for global health care - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Designers might think the aged will need smart homes to make their lives easier, but it's the simple things like can openers that really count
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Medical use of Afghanistan's opium won't solve the problem - The Guardian 6th September 2007
Prescribed heroin for long-term addicts would be a better way of reducing the drug trade, says Steve Rolles. This week's alarming UN reports on the Afghan opium crop, showing that it now accounts for over 93% of global illicit production, prompted much debate. A Guardian leader (The drugs don't work, August 27) acknowledged the futility of eradication efforts, but gave qualified support to the Senlis Council plan to pilot the licensing of Afghan opium production for medical use.
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My partner's mother is being very critical about the way we are bringing up our baby daughter. It is undermining my confidence as a parent, and has resulted in deeply strained relations between us
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Millions of patients being transferred to cheaper generic versions of statin drugs may suffer a greater risk of heart attacks and strokes, a study says. Patients in Britain who have been prescribed branded statins such as Lipitor or Crestor are being switched by their GPs to a cheaper drug, simvastatin, to save money.
Heart attack risks of cheap cholesterol drugs - The Telegraph 6th September 2007
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Advice that dummies could dramatically reduce the risk of cot death is being overlooked by nursery staff, who still regard them as the lazy way to pacify a child. New research has found that years of anti-dummy prejudice means that child care professionals are failing to implement the potentially life-saving advice and passing it on to parents.
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A judge killed himself by jumping 50ft from his third-floor apartment because he was suffering from depression and anxiety – induced partly by drugs that were prescribed for his high blood pressure, an inquest was told yesterday.
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Judge's death fall was suicide, says coroner - The Telegraph 6th September 2007
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Judge who leapt 50ft to his death did commit suicide, rules coroner - Daily Mail 5th September 2007
A talented musician killed herself after a single joint of skunk cannabis destroyed her life, her family claimed yesterday. Laura Bower-McKnight’s life of promise disintegrated after she smoked a joint of skunk – the strongest form of cannabis – and was tipped into a psychotic episode.
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Mother blames cannabis for suicide of promising violinist daughter - Daily Mail 5th September 2007
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Multiple sclerosis is hard to live with, but advice and drugs are at hand. A district nurse allocated to my first practice was a rather difficult woman who needed, in the words of my senior partner, careful handling.
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Pupils have been given an overdose of the MMR vaccine at three schools in Birmingham, health chiefs have confirmed. Ninety-three children at the Holyhead School in Handsworth, Aston Manor School and King Edward VI School, both in Aston, were affected. They were given an extra vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella after already having received the recommended two doses.
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Lethal, those Crocs. And I’m not just talking about the admonitory tales of slippage posted on the “Tell Us Your Crocs Story” page of the Crocs Shoes Fans Forum. (Sample: “Almost broke my wrist after a rainfall today. Scary fall. Just happened so damn fast.”) Now the shoes have been allegedly “implicated” in the malfunction of equipment in a Swedish hospital, where a build-up of static electricity in the Crocs of medical staff supposedly took down a patient’s respirator. NHS trusts are considering a ban; and the general consumer may also reflect soberly on this new threat, which raises the terrifying prospect of an innocent Crocs-wearer going to the dishwasher and causing a power outage within a 15-mile radius.
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Comfy Crocs banned in hospitals over safety fears - Daily Mail 5th September 2007
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Crocs cause nurse safety concern - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Comfy Crocs banned in hospitals over safety fears - Daily Mail 5th September 2007
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Crocs cause nurse safety concern - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Your report “NHS bill for treatment of ‘health tourists’ soars to more than £62m” (September 2) repeats a number of discredited myths and ignores some fundamental truths. There is no evidence of significant numbers of people coming to the UK with the main purpose of accessing healthcare – in fact all the evidence suggests that HIV in infected migrants is diagnosed some time after arrival, and that they access care much later than others, at great risk to their own health.
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A patient who found out that she had breast cancer after she was allegedly given the all-clear by a consultant told a medical disciplinary hearing that she did not want other women to suffer the same fate. Jane Andrews, from Winchester, was giving evidence at a General Medical Council hearing in Manchester yesterday into allegations that Lan Keng Lun failed to carry out breast screening assessments to the required standards at the Epping NHS Breast Screening Service at St Margaret’s Hospital.
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A postcode lottery for IVF treatment is leaving thousands of couples childless, a report has said. Health authorities are using different criteria to decide if they will treat a woman, with some not treating them until they are 36 and others placing restrictions because of a woman's lifestyle.
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Big variation in fertility care - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Big variation in fertility care - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Cancer - Funding - Medical treatment - NHS - Prescriptions - NHS funding - Drugs not available for normal prescription - Exceptional circumstances - Avastin - Anticancer drugs
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After eight surrogate pregnancies in little more than a decade, you might think that Carole Horlock would have tired of giving birth. But Britain's most prolific surrogate mother is expecting again - and this time it's triplets.
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Doctors could be just years away from being able to test blood for signs of serious illness such as cancer well before symptoms arise, it was revealed today.
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Hope to find cancer 'holy grail' - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Hope to find cancer 'holy grail' - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
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Animal-human hybrid embryos could be created in British laboratories within months after the fertility regulator gave the controversial research its blessing. Two teams of scientists are poised to start making cow-human hybrids for research into incurable diseases - with at least one project starting by the end of the year.
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Cancer patients can now donate tissue samples to a national biobank set up to aid research. It is hoped that scientists will be able to use samples housed at OnCore UK to learn more about cancer, and develop new treatments for the disease.
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Home mould removal 'eases asthma' - BBC Health News 5th September 2007
Asthma sufferers who remove mould from their homes could see an improvement in their symptoms, a Cardiff University study has found. Half of the south Wales homes used in the research were cleaned of mould and ventilation was improved, and the other half were left mouldy for 12 months.
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Schoolchildren in Japan's whaling capital have been served dolphin meat containing dangerous levels of mercury, councillors from the region have revealed, prompting warnings of a potential public health disaster as the country attempts to boost consumption of the meat.
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A tropical virus that has caused severe illness and widespread panic on the islands of the Indian Ocean has become established in Europe for the first time. The Ministry of Health in Italy has confirmed a* outbreak of Chikungunya virus near Ravenna in the region of Emilia Romagna, 200 miles north of Rome. A total of 151 cases were reported in two villages near the town of Cervia between 4 July and 3 September. Eleven patients were taken to hospital; one died.
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Popcorn, the favourite snack of millions of Americans, can cause a potentially fatal health condition known as popcorn workers' lung, an alarmed public is discovering. A love of microwave buttered popcorn caused a relatively healthy 53-year-old American to develop severe breathing problems. The cause of his illness was tracked down to the microwave popcorn he loved so much that he would inhale steam from the bag as it came out of the oven.
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Avocados may prevent mouth cancer and even reduce the rate of cancer growth, research suggests. Hass avocados, which are readily available in British supermarkets, have been shown to inhibit the growth of mouth cancer cells in the laboratory, and even cause the death of precancerous cells and cancer cell lines, leaving normal cells untouched.
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A mother of triplets has beaten odds of 64 million to one by giving birth to her SECOND naturally conceived set of triplets. Victoria Lasita, 39, gave birth last Wednesday to Casey, Carson, and Caden, three years after her first set of triplets with husband Tim.
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Hospital mobile bans 'must stay' - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
Evidence that mobile phones can interfere with vital intensive care equipment has been strengthened. More than half the hospital ventilators tested by Dutch researchers stopped working properly when a mobile was switched on nearby.
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TAILOR-MADE drugs based on patients’ genetic make-up will be developed as part of a project at the University of Liverpool. The “designer” treatments would save the NHS millions of pounds every year, by reducing the number of on patients admitted to hospital following adverse reactions to commonly prescribed medications.
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A SERVICE for vulnerable people condemned by a Government watchdog two years ago is clawing its way back from the brink, Liverpool council insisted last night. The City’s Supporting People Programme has now been rated “fair” by inspectors with “excellent prospects for improvement”.
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TWO wards will vanish every year at the Royal and Broadgreen hospitals until 2014 under redevelopment plans, a patients’ group warned today.
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New centre opens its doors to women - Crewe Chronical 5th September 2007
VULNERABLE women and their children who suffer abuse from their partners are to benefit from a new support centre in Crewe. The Lily Jones Support Centre is named in honour of the founder and first manager of the Crewe Women's Refuge, who died in 2003.
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A TOP doctor credited with saving thousands of lives returned home to see work being done by health professionals in Burnley and Pendle. Sir John Oldham, who until recently headed up the UK's National Primary Care Development Team, has fond memories of being brought up in the area, and jumped at the chance of doing a fact-finding visit for the Department of Health.
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Living with the curse of anorexia - Lancashire Telegraph 5th September 2007
As teen soap Hollyoaks builds up to screening the first ever TV death from anorexia we spoke to one East Lancashire women who has lived with the harrowing eating disorder for 20 years. ELIZABETH Foster's fight with anorexia has blighted all her adult life costing her career as a teacher and her marriage.
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PARENTS of sick children and nurses who care for them face a 400 per cent hike in car parking charges at a Greater Manchester hospital. They must now pay up to £5 instead of £1 for all-day parking at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital in Pendlebury.
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Workers at factories which employ disabled staff are to be balloted for industrial action in protest at closure plans, it has been announced. Members of Unite and the GMB at Remploy will vote over the next few weeks on whether to stage a campaign of industrial action over the closure of 43 sites, including ones in Bolton and Radcliffe, with the loss of more than 2,000 jobs.
A BOLTON optician is offering free eye tests for children as part of International Literacy Day on Saturday. Stephen Waller, store director of Specsavers in Victoria Square, Bolton, is appealing for parents to bring their youngsters in for an examination.
THE parents of a newborn baby who was treated in Fairfield Hospital's children's ward fear that lives will be lost when the unit is closed. Charlotte Jackson had to be rushed to the hospital by ambulance in July when she suddenly became seriously ill.
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Strikers back health worker - Altrincham Messenger 5th September 2007
SEVEN hundred mental health workers have called a second three-day strike in defence of their union representative and her suspension from nursing. Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust (MMHSCT) suspended Karen Reissmann, a community psychiatric nurse, after 25 years of service in June after she organised a series of protests by 250 staff members against planned cuts.
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