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Four out of 10 early heart attacks could be prevented if the partners and relatives of people with heart disease were routinely screened, according to a study in the British Medical Journal today.
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Sibling screening could prevent premature heart attacks - The Times 7th September 2007
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NHS should screen heart attack relatives - The Telegraph 7th September 2007
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Sibling screening could prevent premature heart attacks - The Times 7th September 2007
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NHS should screen heart attack relatives - The Telegraph 7th September 2007
Higher salt diets in children lead to raised blood pressure which increases the risk of heart disease and stroke in later life, according to a study based on data collected in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey. A total of 1,658 children had their salt intake and blood pressure recorded during a seven-day watch on their diet.
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Salt intake gives toddlers high blood pressure - The Times 7th September 2007
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Parents warned of salt threat - The Telegraph 7th September 2007
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Salt gives 4-year-olds high blood pressure - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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Salt intake gives toddlers high blood pressure - The Times 7th September 2007
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Parents warned of salt threat - The Telegraph 7th September 2007
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Salt gives 4-year-olds high blood pressure - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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The dramatic new evidence on the "cocktail" effect of certain food additives having a negative affect on children's behaviour (Report, September 6) has proved what parents and teachers have been saying for years. This is a blow to the Food Standards Agency, as it approved the use of such additives
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Brown’s plea to take the additives out of children’s food - The Times 7th September 2007
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Brown’s plea to take the additives out of children’s food - The Times 7th September 2007
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Demand to ban bad food additives for kids - The Telegraph 7th September 2007
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Food watchdog condemned for 'totally inadequate' response to harmful food additives - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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'My son's diet made him hyperactive' - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
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Food watchdog condemned for 'totally inadequate' response to harmful food additives - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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'My son's diet made him hyperactive' - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
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Staff at a Kent hospital have been banned from using the Facebook website because social networking during working hours has been slowing down the NHS trust's computer systems. A spokeswoman for Medway Maritime hospital said increased internet usage was "affecting our ability to process normal trust business".
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Facebook addicts costing businesses £123m each day in lost productivity - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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Facebook addicts costing businesses £123m each day in lost productivity - Daily Mail 6th September 2007
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Government policy that affects children is no excuse for trendy puerility If you don’t know what to do, consult, goes the old Whitehall saying. But the Government should be wary of too much consultation. For despite all the hyperactivity the first citizen’s jury on children’s policy met yesterday, and many others are to follow on other subjects it seems all too obvious that the “conversation” is something of a soliloquy.
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People with arthritis, back pain or other health problems recover more quickly by staying at work, a report claimed yesterday. The Work Foundation said early intervention and an emphasis on keeping sufferers of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in work would boost productivity and reduce the 2.6 million people claiming incapacity benefit.
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Back pain sufferers need to work - BBC Health News 7th September 2007
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Back pain sufferers need to work - BBC Health News 7th September 2007
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Baroness Greenfield, the well known neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, has joined the likes of Nicole Kidman and Chris Tarrant by putting her name to a computer game designed to train the brain.
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Mind games - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
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Mind games - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
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Most modern, chaotic parents can never decide whether they are overparenting or underparenting. We are so busy, so concerned, so guilty and so lovingly inept that, as comedian Hugh Dennis asserted in the marvellous sitcom Outnumbered, we're usually doing both at once.
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A doctor who killed a grandmother with an accidental overdose of morphine is being investigated over the deaths of other patients. Dr Michael Stevenson was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for two years in April, after admitting the manslaughter of Marjorie Wright, 57.
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GP faces probe into 14 overdoses - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
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GP faces probe into 14 overdoses - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
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A brave little girl born with a host of serious health complications and struck down by a deadly superbug has defied all the odds - and started her first day at school. Kaychanel Willson was bright as a button when she began at her local infant school as her delighted mum Louise looked on beaming with pride.
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A spray made from coffee bean extracts has been found to stop women's hair thinning, scientists said yesterday. The treatment - which goes on sale next month - is said to increase the thickness and health of each strand of hair.
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A man spoke of his shock today after being diagnosed with breast cancer just six years after his brother beat the same rare disease. John Hall, 68, is undergoing chemotherapy after his brother Richard, 63, successfully overcame the cancer.
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The daughter of teachers and with a glittering academic future, Fran was delighted when she became pregnant. But social services discovered the illness she thought she'd put behind her - and will confiscate her daughter when she is born...
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Almost 11,000 women are caught up in a breast cancer screening crisis. The women are suffering X-ray delays of up to five years after blunders led to the closure of an NHS clinic.
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Tiny tots Kian and Lyndon Davies have been hailed miracle babies by repeatedly fighting back from the brink of death having been born four months premature. The identical twins, who have different birth dates after being delivered either side of midnight, were given hardly any chance of survival as they were born so small.
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A last-minute deal has been struck by health chiefs at a debt-ridden NHS trust, averting hundreds of planned job cuts, the BBC has learned. Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust, which runs hospitals in Scarborough and Bridlington, had warned it intended to cut 600 jobs.
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Depression can do more physical damage to a person's health than several long-term diseases, according to a study. Saba Moussavi of the World Health Organisation led the largest population-based study on the physical effects of several illnesses by analysing data from more than 245,000 people in 60 countries. His results, published today in the Lancet, showed that depression had more impact on sufferers than angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes.
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Depression leads to worst health - BBC Health News 7th September 2007
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Depression 'is worse for your health than asthma or diabetes' - Daily Mail 7th September 2007
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Depression leads to worst health - BBC Health News 7th September 2007
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Depression 'is worse for your health than asthma or diabetes' - Daily Mail 7th September 2007
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If you believe their PR, Nevada's legal brothels are safe, healthy - even fun - places in which to work. So why do so many prostitutes tell such horrific tales of abuse?
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Doctors accuse US of 'unethical practices' at Guantanamo Bay - The Independent 7th September 2007
More than 260 doctors from around the world have launched an unprecedented attack on the American medical establishment for its failure to condemn unethical practices by medical practitioners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. In a letter to The Lancet, the doctors from 16 countries, including Britain and America, say the failure of the US regulatory authorities to act is "damaging the reputation of US military medicine".
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How the case of Steve Biko outraged medical opinion - The Independent 7th September 2007
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Life expectancy in the richest countries of the world now exceeds the poorest by more than 30 years, figures show. The gap is widening across the world, with Western countries and the growing economies of Latin America and the Far East advancing more rapidly than Africa and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
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Avocados may prevent mouth cancer and reduce the rate of cancer cell growth, new research suggests. Extracts from Hass avocados, readily available in supermarkets, were able to kill some oral cancer cells and prevented pre-cancerous cells from developing, according to scientists at Ohio State University.
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In the space of one year there has been a dramatic rise in the number of counterfeit medicines seized in the European Union. In 2005 there were five hundred thousand fake medicines discovered - last year that figure shot up to 2.5 million.
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A debilitating tropical virus carried by mosquitoes has become established in Europe for the first time. The Ministry of Health in Italy has confirmed about 160 cases of chikungunya in the Ravenna region in northern Italy.
Cheshire and Merseyside Health News
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MERSEYSIDE’S maternity units are not doing enough to promote breast-feeding, a report claimed today. Only two of the region’s four units have taken steps toward becoming Baby Friendly, claims a Unicef study.
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THE government has launched a new attempt to get more disabled people into mainstream work in Liverpool It also denied it was meant to undermine a campaign to save 43 Remploy sites from closure.
PARENTS in Halton are being urged to add an MMR vaccine onto their list of back-to-school activities as the number of cases of measles looks set to reach record levels. In 2006 there were 756 cases - the highest number recorded since the current method of monitoring began in 1995 - and this year looks set to follow that trend.
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PRIORY bosses are vowing to fight on after their plans to build a secure mental unit in Widnes were dealt a major blow by council planning chiefs. The Priory Group's formal application to Halton Borough Council for a 'Certificate of Lawfulness of Proposed Use or Development' has been declined.
COMMUNITIES are to reap the benefits of a major project that aims to help people towards physical and mental fitness. Target: Well-being, managed by Groundwork, is an £8.9m regional programme awarded by the Big Lottery Fund. It will fund eight initiatives in Ellesmere Port that help to increase physical activity, encourage healthy eating and improve mental health.
A NEW consultant at Leighton Hospital in Crewe has quite literally returned to his roots Consultant histopathologist Dr Paul Simcock was born at the hospital in 1973 and grew up in Sandbach.
THERE were no new cases of MRSA in Warrington and Halton hospitals throughout June and July, according to a report presented to North Cheshire Hospital's NHS Trust board meeting, held last Wednesday. In May there was only one case of hospital-acquired MRSA and the drop in June and July means that the trust does not expect to have more than 12 cases this year.
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Crusade to save jobs for disabled people - Wirral Globe 6th September 2007
TRADE Unions staged a rally at a Birkenhead factory as part of a national crusade to save jobs for disabled people. The whistle-stop tour saw members visit each of the 43 Remploy factories facing closure, to drum up support for disabled employees who fear they could be forced onto incapacity benefits.
Cumbria and Lancashire Health News
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MORE dentists could be on their way to West Lancs thanks to a £1.3m cash injection. The cash from Central Lancs Primary Care Trust will be used to attract new dentists to the area and to encourage existing local dentists to provide additional services. As a result, the PCT has advertised in the British Dental Journal for dentists to submit tenders to provide the additional £1.3m worth of NHS dental appointments.
A NEW hospital planned for west Cumbria WILL have a consultant-led maternity ward – but the number of beds will be dramatically reduced. After months of uncertainty, health bosses today revealed their preferred options before public consultation.
I UNFORTUNATELY had to take my wife to the A&E department at Burnley General Hospital. When we arrived, a sign informed us that there was a three hour wait for treatment.
A doctor who killed a grandmother with an accidental overdose of morphine is being investigated over the deaths of other patients. Dr Michael Stevenson was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for two years in April, after admitting the manslaughter of Marjorie Wright, 57.
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GP faces probe into 14 overdoses - BBC Health News 6th September 2007
Greater Manchester Health News
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Health alert over mobiles - The Bolton News 6th September 2007
PHONE masts opponents have accused council bosses of double standards after town hall staff were advised to cut down on using work mobiles. Bolton Council's new mobile phone policy advises staff to minimise use of their phone and keep calls as short as possible because the possible health risks are not fully known.
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