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Lancet condemns hospital deep-clean proposals - The Guardian 28th September 2007
Recent government initiatives to combat superbugs in hospitals were today condemned by a leading medical journal for not being based on scientific fact. The Lancet said there was little or no evidence to support either hospital "deep cleans" or medical staff wearing short sleeves.
Blitz on MRSA 'is doomed to failure' - Daily Mail 27th September 2007
Hospital overhaul 'under attack' - BBC Health News 28th September 2007
Superbug plans 'ignore' evidence - BBC Health News 27th September 2007
Blitz on MRSA 'is doomed to failure' - Daily Mail 27th September 2007
Hospital overhaul 'under attack' - BBC Health News 28th September 2007
Superbug plans 'ignore' evidence - BBC Health News 27th September 2007
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Doctors can keep sex advice to 13-year-olds from parents - The Independent 28th Spetember 2007
Children aged 13 who consult a doctor for advice about contraception, abortion or sexually transmitted diseases are entitled to be treated without the knowledge of their parents, the General Medical Council (GMC) will say today.
Children to overrule parents on GP treatment - The Telegraph 28th September 2007
Doctors' code of silence will hide under-age sex from parents - Daily Mail 27th September 2007
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Beauty clinics accused of using their customers as guinea pigs - The Independent 28th September 2007Doctors' code of silence will hide under-age sex from parents - Daily Mail 27th September 2007
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Customers of high-street beauty clinics are being used as guinea pigs for unproven cosmetic techniques peddled by cowboy practitioners, doctors have claimed.
Beauty-conscious women put health at risk with ‘cowboy’ cosmetic fixes - The Times 28th September 2007
Anger over 'cowboy' cosmetic risk - BBC Health News 27th September 2007
Reading the reports of this week’s Labour Party conference at Bournemouth, and listening to the Today programme bouts of WWF wrestling between Sarah “The Slayer” Montague and assorted ministers, I find myself wishing that I could live in MinisterWorld, a realm in which every state school pupil has a personal tutor, every policeman a hand-held computer, and in which the most intractable problems submit meekly to a “crackdown”. Filthy hospital?
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A boy who suffers from a severe nut allergy has been excluded from school because he is considered to be a health and safety hazard.
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Our series continues on how to deal with common problems in family health Asthma is becoming more common, but fortunately its treatment has improved. The death rate from acute asthma 45 years ago was very high, mainly because of the innate medical conservatism of doctors who were reluctant to use adequate medication.
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Tens of thousands of patients with MS could benefit from the revolutionary treatment if the tests taking place at the Frenchay hospital, near Bristol, are successful. The procedure involves patients being injected with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow, in the hope that they will travel to damaged parts of the brain and repair them.
Stem cells trial for MS patients - BBC Health News 26th September 2007
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A business consultant died after being bitten by his children's pet rat. Matthew Wareing was described at his inquest as a fit and healthy 36 year old until he suffered the bite on his right hand from the rat, called Roger. The bite infected his blood with a still-unidentified bacterium.
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Could anorexia be passed genetically from mother to daughter? That's the disturbing new theory being investigated by a professor of psychiatry at King's College, London. Janet Treasure, head of the Eating Disorders Unit at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, says there are certain brain patterns - passed on in a woman's DNA - which can increase the risk of her falling prey to an eating disorder. So a woman could be described as carrying an "anorexia gene".
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Now Highway Code targets smokers - for lighting up at the wheel - Daily Mail 27th September 2007
Drivers who smoke at the wheel could face prosecution under changes to the Highway Code. Lighting-up at the wheel has been added to the list of "distractions" which police and lawyers can cite in court when seeking a conviction for a traffic offence.
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We're tired all the time, say 60 per cent of working mothers - Daily Mail 27th September 2007
Women in their thirties are exhausted by the demands of a career, motherhood and running a home, researchers say. A study has found that these women believe this is their "hardest decade", with many admitting to feeling stressed, missing sleep and skipping meals.
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More than a million people in England put their health at risk every year by not taking up the offer of a flu jab, the chief medical officer has warned. Some 58% of the at-risk under 65s, which include those with asthma and diabetes, did not receive the vaccine last year, figures show.
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Videos showing people stammering are being classified as comedy on YouTube. It's typical of people's attitude towards the disability, say those with the condition.
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Scientists in Dundee and St Andrews have been awarded more than £1m to develop new drugs to combat a painful skin condition. The £1.3m grant from the Medical Research Council will fund three new research posts to tackle eczema.
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Bird flu fear for unborn babies - Daily Mail 27th September 2007
The deadly bird flu virus can infect unborn babies, fuelling fears the bug is even more dangerous than first thought. Unlike normal flu, the feared H5N1 strain can be passed from mother to foetus, research shows.
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A 21-YEAR-OLD woman ended up fighting for her life in a critical care unit after an out-of-hours doctor told her she only had tonsillitis. Amanda Owens was actually suffering from a blood clot and pneumonia on her lungs which almost proved fatal.
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ALDER Hey could revise plans for a new hospital amid fears over the cost. A new plan is being considered that involves combining new buildings with refurbishment of existing facilities. Alder Hey fought a long battle to be allowed permission to build a new hospital on land at Springfield Park in West Derby.
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Holy smoke! Church reveals bid to build smoker shelters - Liverpool Echo 27th September 2007
IT will be good news for anyone who is hoping for a holy smoke. Liverpool’s Catholic archdiocese wants to build more than a dozen smoking shelters for people who want to light up.
A LEADING Liverpool charity last night claimed a delay in the decision to provide a lung cancer drug on the NHS is costing lives. NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) has failed to decide the result of an appeal held in June, which contested their recommendation that the drug Tarceva should not be prescribed on the national health.
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Expectant mother orders her father: ‘Pull over – I’m going to give birth’ - Liverpool Daily Post 28th September 2007
IT WAS all hands on deck when 24-year-old Anna Hudson went into labour in the back seat of her parents’ car in the middle of a Merseyside housing estate. People rushed out of their homes to do whatever they could, and a passing police car was flagged down to help deliver the baby girl.
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Volunteer medics praised for care of bomb victims - Liverpool Daily Post 27th September 2007
MERSEYSIDE medics were last night praised for their efforts in treating civilian casualties after a suicide bomber struck in Afghanistan, killing 26 people. The volunteers from the 208 Field Hospital, a Territorial Army Unit based in Liverpool, treated 57 victims who were injured by the suicide bomber in an indiscriminate attack in southern Gereshk.
THIEVES have stolen money from a hospital charity box in one of two separate burglaries at Clatterbridge. The first incident took place on between Friday night and Saturday morning when offenders smashed windows to gain entry to offices and made off with money taken from the hospital's charity box.
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A MAJOR shake-up of health services proposed for north Cumbria will finally go out to public consultation today. The plans include revamping the area’s cottage hospitals and community services, creating a new acute hospital in west Cumbria and modernising emergency care.
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Minister for the elderly - Carlisle News & Star 26th September 2007
THE government must place greater emphasis on issues facing older people as life expectancy continues to rise, a Cumbrian MP has said. Copeland MP Jamie Reed is set to lobby ministers when parliament reconvenes next month for the creation of a minister for older people.
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YOUNGSTERS at a Bolton school were given a healthy eating lesson with a difference when they made their own packed lunches in class. Pupils at St Peter and St Paul's Primary School, in Pilkington Street, were taught how to prepare healthy food using cookery equipment donated by Sainsbury's supermarket.
ONE in five under-16s are smoking - and half of them buy their own cigarettes from local shops. The figure is revealed in a major survey by trading standards officers, just as the legal age for buying tobacco rises to 18 on Monday.
ASSAULT rates on doctors and nurses at the Royal Bolton Hospital have fallen by almost a third in just two years. Measures have been introduced to protect staff from being attacked while caring for patients, and now the hospital will be given Government cash to reduce the number of assaults even further.
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A DENTIST who told a female patient she could not receive treatment from him unless she wore "appropriate Islamic dress" has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct. Dr Omer Butt, registered in Prestwich, received an admonition following a three-day disciplinary hearing of the General Dental Council in London in which he was found guilty of discriminating against the woman, named only as Ms A.
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