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The health secretary, Alan Johnson, today puts the issue of an "opt-out" organ donor register firmly on to the political agenda with the announcement of a taskforce to explore the moral and medical implications of introducing presumed consent in the UK.
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Alan Johnson to make everyone organ donors - The Telegraph 20th September 2007
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Organ donor plan under scrutiny - BBC Health News 20th September 2007
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Private lives: My parents make me feel suicidal - The Guardian 20th September 2007
I am a 28-year-old woman and I am battling with my conscience regarding my feelings towards my parents. Whenever they get in touch with me, I feel depressed, anxious, even suicidal. I am a healthier, happier person when I have no contact with them. They were addicted to heroin and cocaine for most of my life, and my sisters and I suffered from the consequences of their drug use: emotional abuse, theft, betrayal, and being abandoned for four years when they were too unwell and insolvent to look after us.
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Ministers to assess migrant groups' impact on public services - The Guardian 20th September 2007
The first comprehensive official analysis of the impact of migration on public services and British life will be published next month, Liam Byrne, the immigration minister, promised yesterday.
Your article (September 18) on government departments not complying with the race equality laws came as no surprise to us, nor to the thousands of Public and Commmercial Services Union members who work there.
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Cardinal under pressure to ban abortion referrals at hospital - The Independent 20th September 2007
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, is under growing pressure to impose rules on a hospital in north London, banning doctors from offering contraception or referring patients for abortions.
One in ten teenage girls has been infected by the age of 16 with a sexually transmitted virus linked to cancer, official figures suggest. A study by the Health Protection Agency estimates that at least 10 per cent of young women in England have caught one or more strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) by the age of 16. The authors say that there is also a substantial risk of girls having an infection by 14, prompting calls for children to be vaccinated against the virus before they become sexually active.
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The answer is to vaccinate everyone and do it early - The Times 20th September 2007
Whatever your musculoskeletal disorder, returning to work may be the speediest road to recovery Sick with back pain, arthritis, muscle strain or tendon damage? Get back to work, it will do you good. So claims a new study by the Work Foundation.
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A reader from Oxfordshire has written to complain that no sooner has a new school year started than her eight-year-old has again caught lice. So has his younger brother. Is there any way that she can prevent both becoming infested?
In an age of obesity and anorexia it’s vital to understand the best shape and composition for our bodies Before the First World War Karen Blixen, the renowned writer on Africa, was an art student at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. She was determined to lose weight as she equated a lean figure with being interesting and bohemian, like her aristocratic cousins. Conversely, obesity represented the bourgeois solidarity that she was trying to escape. So keen was Blixen to become thin that one morning she threw her lunch-time sandwiches that her mother made out of the train window.
A man who has a history of Alzheimer’s in his family will undergo an embryo screening with his wife to avoid the risk of passing it onto their child. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has granted a licence to a fertility clinic to carry out IVF treatment on Charl and Danielle de Beer from London.
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The health service is even more depressing than the banks. Despite their increased salaries, it is now impossible in many areas to rely on family doctors. Instead, you have to queue on the morning and be grateful to whoever happens to come in that day.
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More people in Britain are addicted to gambling than to heroin, an official report revealed yesterday. The largest-ever study of gambling patterns in the UK puts the number of those hooked at up to 284,000.
Serious violence and murder near pubs and clubs in the early hours rose by almost 130 per cent in the year after licensing laws were relaxed. But the Home Office omitted the figure from its report into the impact of 24-hour opening, claiming it was "not statistically significant".
Mothers who shield their babies from peanut products may be doing more harm than good, a major report will warn next week. It suggests that Britain's allergy epidemic is being fuelled by Government advice which has led many mothers to stop eating peanuts during pregnancy and to avoid giving them to children at an early age.
Sharon and Keith Eley-Smith are celebrating their miracle baby Mark after he survived a lumber punch, meningitis, jaundice and anaemia over just six weeks. The couple from Suffolk had opted for IVF after a decade of trying for a baby. Sharon, 38, lost 11 stone in weight to become eligible for the treatment.
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Only nine per cent of GPs provide out-of-hours care to their patients, according to a family doctors' survey. Two thirds of those who didn't provide the service said more money and resources would be needed to persuade them to return to providing care from 6pm to 8am on weekdays and 24 hours on weekends.
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Many women are confused about the signs of breast cancer, a survey suggests. The charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer found a quarter of women polled thought wrongly that having a persistent cough was a sign of breast cancer.
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A man's testicles might be a source of stem cells to help him fight serious diseases, US scientists have shown. They extracted early-stage sperm cells from mice, then turned them into cells capable of becoming different tissues.
This week it emerged that some three million people in the UK suffer from imaginary food intolerances. Are we really a nation of hypochondriacs? The "worried well", it would appear, are everywhere: an estimated one in four GP appointments is now taken up by someone who has absolutely nothing wrong with them.
Sex is talked about in the media more than ever before. But 50 years after a landmark report that pushed boundaries in public discourse on sex, what impact has this culture had on relationships? Has it bred a more honest approach between partners?
A woman has spoken of her surprise after giving birth in her bath, just eight minutes after going into labour. Connor Blain was born almost a week before his due date at the family home in Clackmannan on Monday 10 September.
A consultant pathologist has been dismissed at a Llanelli hospital for misdiagnosing some patients. Carmarthenshire NHS Trust said checks revealed mistakes in 34 cases involving the locum over five months.
Pregnant adolescent sheep having small lambs may explain why teenage mothers have underweight babies, according to researchers. Younger sheep becoming pregnant while still growing means the nutrient supply from the mother to the foetus can be reduced - leading to small lambs.
Scientists at Durham University have developed a method of routinely growing stem cells in conditions similar to the human body. The new technology allows the cells to be grown on a small polystyrene scaffold, rather than on the flat surface of a Petri dish.
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Cancer sufferers could be treated with immune cells from donors resistant to the diseases, according to scientists. The US Food and Drug Administration has given researchers permission to test the experimental treatment on human beings.
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If you dread the mere thought of a doctor's needle, it's a development you'll find reassuring. For scientists have come up with a skin patch which can inject drugs into the body without pain.
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Zoe Young of the medical NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), shares her diary with the BBC News Website from the Democratic Republic of Congo where she is dealing with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Since the first MSF team arrived in Kampungu at the beginning of September, 25 severe cases suspected to be Ebola haemorrhagic fever have been hospitalised at Kampungu's health centre. Of these, eight patients have already died.
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Scores ill in Peru 'meteor crash' - BBC Health News 19th September 2007
Hundreds of people in Peru have needed treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say. They say the object left a deep crater after crashing down over the weekend near the town of Carancas in the Andes.
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LIVERPOOL’S specialist heart and chest hospital has received a cheque for £33,000. Bentley Rally fund- raisers were impressed with projects already undertaken at the Cardiothoracic Centre and raised the money to go towards an investigation into pat- tients’ recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery.
MERSEYSIDE doctors are to hand out books on prescription and send patients to libraries. The scheme being launched in St Helens next month has attracted concerns from health campaigners who fear books will be dished out as a replacement for treatment.
SUPERFIT stuntwoman Eunice Huthart knows three weeks beforehand when she’s getting a cold. So she was stunned when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
REBECCA Watts’ father, John, has vowed to leave no stone unturned in his quest to find out how his daughter contracted a rare form of cancer. The possibility of contaminated land at Muirfield Estate in Leftwich being responsible was ruled out yesterday following a two-and-a-half-year investigation.
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GPs back plans for one-stop centre - Knutsford Guardian 19th September 2007
DOCTORS in Knutsford this week revealed they want to move into the same building. Dr Tim Mallon, speaking for all three practices, said they were now supporting plans to share a new, one-stop medical centre.
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CARLISLE police have warned addicts about a batch of poisonous heroin linked to the death of a man in south Cumbria. Officers say there have been no reports of potentially deadly drugs in the city or the north of the county but are making sure users are aware of the risks.
THE daughter of a former Sellafield worker whose organs were taken for testing after his death is spearheading the formation of a family support group for others who may also have been affected. Angela Christie is organising the group so it can run alongside the inquiry into the Sellafield body parts scandal being conducted by Michael Redfern QC.
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Support for families - Carlisle News & Star 19th September 2007
THE daughter of a former Sellafield worker whose organs were taken for testing after his death is spearheading the formation of a family support group. Angela Christie is organising the group so it can run alongside the inquiry into the Sellafield body parts scandal being conducted by Michael Redfern QC.
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STAFF at Bolton Primary Care Trust who handle out-of-hours calls are facing an uncertain future as the service will transferred to Wigan. Bolton PCT is finalising plans to provide out-of-hours GP services "in house" when the contract with the current provider CMEDS expires in December.
THE way neurological services are delivered in Bolton is being reorganised as part of a strategy to improve health services. Bolton Primary Care Trust (PCT) is working with its partners in health and social services to reduce the need for hospital-based care and to help the PCT provide care as near to home as possible.
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Dentist to face panel over scarf patient row - Prestwich and Whitfield Guide 19th September 2007
A DENTIST in Unsworth is to appear before a disciplinary hearing to face allegations that he made a woman wear an Islamic headscarf before he would treat her. Omer Shaukat Butt, who works at the Unsworth Smile Clinic on Parr Lane, is accused of serious professional misconduct by imposing an Islamic dress code on a patient and must answer two charges to a committee at a London hearing on September 24.
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