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Council takes overweight child into care - The Guardian 10th September 2007
A child has been taken away from his parents because, it is understood, they were not coping with his disability and social workers became anxious about his weight. Social services in Tower Hamlets, east London, removed the boy earlier this year and placed him in council care. He has not been returned to his home.
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Three children go into care because they are too fat - Daily Mail 9th Spetember 2007
Eating healthily taxes the willpower more than the intellect. You already know what to do; it's actually doing it that can be a struggle. Football fans chant about the perils of eating all the pies, but come the half-time whistle they queue up for a Ginsters. In this battle of wills, adults' better natures can need a bit of help - and the same is even more true of impressionable children. Youngsters received that with the ban that begins this term on school vending machines selling crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks. This gives pupils respite from Coca-Cola, Nestlé and the rest; it also establishes a distinction between junk cuisine and healthier eating.
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Caught on camera: 3D images give early warning of genetic disorders in children - The Guardian 10th September 2007
Tens of thousands of children with rare genetic disorders could be diagnosed earlier and more cheaply following pioneering research that uses computers to analyse images of people's faces. The technique will help doctors make a swift diagnosis by identifying the most likely genetic disorder a child has purely by examining their features.
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3-D facial images of children can reveal genetic disorders - The Independent 10th September 2007
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Face reading revived to give doctors a head start in detecting rare disorders - The Times 10th September 2007
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Face can help diagnose rare genetic disorders - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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The question: Is there arsenic in our food? - The Guardian 10th September 2007
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3-D facial images of children can reveal genetic disorders - The Independent 10th September 2007
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Face reading revived to give doctors a head start in detecting rare disorders - The Times 10th September 2007
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Face can help diagnose rare genetic disorders - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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Child face scans will spot genetic disorders - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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3D face scans spot gene syndromes - BBC Health News 9th September 2007
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3D face scans spot gene syndromes - BBC Health News 9th September 2007
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The question: Is there arsenic in our food? - The Guardian 10th September 2007
If you eat rice, and particularly - in a monstrous irony - the "healthy" brown variety, or the kind used in baby food, the answer is almost certainly yes. According to Andrew Meharg, professor of biogeochemistry at Aberdeen University and a world authority on one of the most notoriously poisonous elements known to man, 10% of rice found on British supermarket shelves and 30% of rice-based baby food contains levels of arsenic higher than would be allowed in China, which as the world's largest consumer of the staple has the strictest standards (Britain's were set in 1959).
Ministers are considering proposals to prosecute men for buying sex in a new effort to curb the demand for prostitution, the Guardian has learned. Senior members of the government are discussing whether to criminalise the purchase, rather than sale, of sex - as Sweden did eight years ago - in part because of the growth in sex trafficking. According to the government, 85% of women in brothels come from outside the UK.
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Pregnant women to get cash for good diet - The Observer 9th September 2007
All expectant mothers are to be given a one-off payment of around £120 that they will be encouraged to spend on fresh fruit and vegetables as a way of protecting their children from diseases and incurable conditions later in life. The plan for a 'health in pregnancy' grant will be outlined by Health Secretary Alan Johnson this week in his first major speech outlining how the government plans to tackle the yawning health divide between the richest and poorest in England and Wales.
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Pregnant women to be offered £120 'good food' grants - The Independent 10th September 2007
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Pregnant women to get £120 for fruit and veg - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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£120 'veg aid' for pregnant - The Sunday Times 9th September 2007
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Eat well cash for mothers-to-be - BBC Health News 8th September 2007
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Pregnant women to be offered £120 'good food' grants - The Independent 10th September 2007
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Pregnant women to get £120 for fruit and veg - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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Comment: Pregnancy pay-outs 'ludicrous' - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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£120 'veg aid' for pregnant - The Sunday Times 9th September 2007
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Eat well cash for mothers-to-be - BBC Health News 8th September 2007
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Despite a five per cent increase, year on year, in prescriptions dished out by docs, there remains a 'medically anomalous' group of over 10 per cent of the population who extremely rarely or plain never visit their GP. Such people upset NHS trusts' heads of contractor performance something rotten; currently causing them to dispatch letters demanding confirmation of existence within a fortnight, under threat of being removed from their GP's patient list.
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British scientists have developed a new drug which government medical experts believe represents a major breakthrough for up to 500,000 people estimated to be suffering from hepatitis C in the UK. The drug, which will be unveiled at a conference on the disease in Glasgow this week, has already been shown to limit the progress of the virus in the body in laboratory tests.
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Prince Charles has them. So has Martin Clunes, the actor, and Charles Clarke, the politician. Sticking-out ears may be a joke to some people, but they are not so funny for those who suffer teasing and bullying and wisecracks about Mr Spock. An estimated one in five Britons is affected by prominent ears, defined as projecting more than 17mm from the head. Yet each year the NHS carries out only 6,500 'corrective procedures'.
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She was the breezy, blonde TV presenter who lit up Parliament, but she was also a desperate self-harmer, dogged by binges and breakdowns, sleeping pills and Prozac. Still, this no-nonsense Edinburgh lass wouldn't dream of therapy. And then there's the baldness.
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Talking Shop: Gail Porter - BBC Health News 7th September 2007
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Our ideas of ageing have changed radically over the past 20 years. Now, as children mature earlier, generational differences disappear and our lifespans continue to lengthen, we are forced to reappraise our ideas of childhood, adulthood and old age. Here, eight writers covering different decades offer their poignant and revealing meditations on ageing, from a teenager to an eightysomething
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The obesity epidemic will cost Britain £7bn by 2010. Now firms are taking action to combat the problem themselves.
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Britain's big four supermarkets will be allowed to continue selling alcohol at rock-bottom prices despite complaints that they are driving pubs, corner shops and off-licences out of business. The Competition Commission has rejected calls for it to stop chains such as Tesco and Asda from offering beer, wine and other drinks at well below their true cost in an attempt to woo customers.
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My friend Jane has been running back and forth to Bournemouth for the past six months. 'It's hell,' she tells us, 'absolute hell.' No, not Bournemouth. Her visits to her father in a care home there. Jane's father, 73, is a widower in perfect health who was found wandering in his pyjamas down the street where he lived.
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Biobank database needs half a million volunteers to help unravel what causes cancer and dementia. Scientists will this week launch a recruitment campaign aimed at five million members of the British public. Volunteers will be asked to give blood and DNA samples to the UK Biobank, a controversial new national gene database.
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Britain is becoming increasingly segregated across all age groups by wealth, health, education and other factors, according to a pioneering atlas based on people rather than geography. The cradle-to-grave "atlas of identity", to be published on Monday, provides a visual representation of the stark social contrasts now dividing different areas of Britain, and even adjoining neighbourhoods.
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I read a news story about a girl sent to hospital after 'overdosing' on espresso. How damaging is caffeine and should I steer clear altogether?
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At least 20% of young women have cancer-causing virus - The Independent on Sunday 9th September 2007
An alarming new report has revealed that at least 20 per cent of UK women between the ages of 10 and 29 have been infected with the sexually transmitted Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which can cause everything from genital warts to cervical, anal, mouth and skin cancers.
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Study: one in five young women has HPV virus - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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Study: one in five young women has HPV virus - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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Overwhelming pressure to be perfect leads to increased risk of teenage eating disorders Young women who strive for perfection, under pressure to excel in everything from school exams to looks and relationships, run an increased risk of suffering emotional problems and eating disorders, according to new research.
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Superwoman syndrome 'harms girls' health' - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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The British fashion industry will come under fire this week for failing to send a strong message out to women with eating disorders by not banning size-zero models from London catwalks. An influential report into models' health, to be published on the eve of London Fashion Week, missed the opportunity to tackle the negative influence the industry has on fashion fans, experts warned yesterday.
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Catwalk stars face random drug tests - The Sunday Times 9th September 2007
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Check models for eating disorders, says report - The Sunday Telegraph 9th September 2007
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British patients suffering from a rare disease will be among the first to try a new drug based on the “magic ingredient” in red wine. A small trial in Newcastle upon Tyne will test resveratrol, a chemical that could lead to a whole family of new drugs with powerful effects against the diseases of ageing. The proprietary version of resveratrol, SRT501, is also under trial in India for use against diabetes and newer versions hundreds of times more powerful are in the pipeline.
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Why is my son so scared of food? - The Times 10th September 2007
My three-year-old boy is a selective eater. He is not just fussy: he is scared of food and lives on Weetabix and Marmite sandwiches. We have been seeing an NHS psychologist with little progress, and the usual strategies haven’t worked.
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Catwalk stars face random drug tests - The Sunday Times 9th September 2007
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Check models for eating disorders, says report - The Sunday Telegraph 9th September 2007
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GPs will be asked to work in the evening and at weekends after the Government indicated that it is to reopen the contentious issue of out-of-hours care by family doctors, The Times has learnt. Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, will tell doctors this week that it is ludicrous that surgeries shut their doors as people leave work and that GPs, whose average salary now tops £100,000, must become more flexible and “customer orientated”.
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British patients suffering from a rare disease will be among the first to try a new drug based on the “magic ingredient” in red wine. A small trial in Newcastle upon Tyne will test resveratrol, a chemical that could lead to a whole family of new drugs with powerful effects against the diseases of ageing. The proprietary version of resveratrol, SRT501, is also under trial in India for use against diabetes and newer versions hundreds of times more powerful are in the pipeline.
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Why is my son so scared of food? - The Times 10th September 2007
My three-year-old boy is a selective eater. He is not just fussy: he is scared of food and lives on Weetabix and Marmite sandwiches. We have been seeing an NHS psychologist with little progress, and the usual strategies haven’t worked.
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Hurtling down steep, muddy terrain at 40mph takes nerves of steel and high fitness levels – which is probably why so many mountain bike owners avoid off-road trails and stick to the occasional Sunday pootle down country lanes. However, Britain has some of the best mountain biking terrain in the world, and the thrill of using your bike in the way it was designed to be ridden is hard to beat. There are hundreds of clubs you can join and routes where you can test your skills, but to get the most out of a hilltop excursion you first have to get fit.
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I have been diagnosed with rosacea, and was prescribed antibiotics, which upset my stomach. The lotion I was given subsequently does not seem to be helping, and my skin is really dry. The irritation, bumps and redness appear to get worse when I am stressed. Can you recommend something herbal that might help?
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I suffer from eczema for which my GP prescribed steroid cream, antihistamines and a short course of antibiotics. Unfortunately, the cream has aggravated the acne on my back. What can I do?
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Women are not less fertile, they are just waiting longer THERE were many alarming headlines this week about infertility, some focusing on couples apparently spending £4,800 trying for a baby. They were based on a magazine survey claiming that more than a third of couples who want a baby are struggling to conceive.
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A long-established family butcher who was responsible for food poisoning that killed a five-year-old boy and infected more than 100 other children was yesterday jailed for 12 months. William Tudor, managing director of the firm that supplied school lunches across South Wales, had failed to observe basic food hygiene precautions.
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Packing party bags left Sarah Standing with an injured shoulder normally associated with top athletes - but there have been compensations… I belong to a rare breed: I adore getting up early. I was born with a weird natural body rhythm that unfailingly springs into action at 5.45am precisely - irrespective of the time I've gone to bed. I've never owned an alarm clock and effortlessly morph from deep sleep to fully alert in less time than it takes to boil the kettle for my first cup of coffee.
As husband and wife team Gareth Davies and Andrea Manzi-Davies embark on their extreme regime, we ask… The herbal supplements in branded hemp bags arrived last week. Then the enema kits. They were followed by some very strange looks from Mia and Lottie, our two teenage daughters.
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Doctors diary: diagnosis by the pulse - - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
Self-diagnosis is a tricky business, but if you're unwell it can pay dividends to take your pulse. This is easily done by feeling for it at the wrist and counting the number of beats per minute. If fast (more than 120) and irregular, the chances are that you have an abnormality of the heart rhythm know as atrial fibrillation.
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Violence as a spectacle deeply worries Max Pemberton 'They shouldn't be doing that, it's wrong," says the old man standing next to me at the bus stop. I glance at him while I telephone the police about the two men fighting on the other side of the street. "Ain't they got anything better to do?" he says as one of them smashes the window of a phone box.
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Will we ever be given honest statistics? - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
Knowledge is power, as Sir Francis Bacon said; and when you have access to it, as government ministers do, it is hard to resist the temptation to abuse such a privilege. This is particularly so with the statistics that enable us to hold them to account for the vast amounts of our money that they spend and the actions they take.
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A hospital investigation is under way into claims that a stillborn baby was left in a plastic bag next to his parents. Mother of four Lisa Bundock, 33, was 19 weeks pregnant when she had a miscarriage at home in Brighton, on Aug 29.
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A generation of children are being "contaminated" by a cocktail of addictive computer games, test-driven schooling, increased traffic and an irrational fear of strangers which leaves them unable to play outside, according to a lobby of more than 270 experts.
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'Let our children play' signatories - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
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Over-protective parents robbing children of their childhood, experts warn - Daily Mail 9th Spetember 2007
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No outdoor play 'hurts children' - BBC Health News 10th September 2007
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Over-protective parents robbing children of their childhood, experts warn - Daily Mail 9th Spetember 2007
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No outdoor play 'hurts children' - BBC Health News 10th September 2007
Packing party bags left Sarah Standing with an injured shoulder normally associated with top athletes - but there have been compensations… I belong to a rare breed: I adore getting up early. I was born with a weird natural body rhythm that unfailingly springs into action at 5.45am precisely - irrespective of the time I've gone to bed. I've never owned an alarm clock and effortlessly morph from deep sleep to fully alert in less time than it takes to boil the kettle for my first cup of coffee.
As husband and wife team Gareth Davies and Andrea Manzi-Davies embark on their extreme regime, we ask… The herbal supplements in branded hemp bags arrived last week. Then the enema kits. They were followed by some very strange looks from Mia and Lottie, our two teenage daughters.
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Doctors diary: diagnosis by the pulse - - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
Self-diagnosis is a tricky business, but if you're unwell it can pay dividends to take your pulse. This is easily done by feeling for it at the wrist and counting the number of beats per minute. If fast (more than 120) and irregular, the chances are that you have an abnormality of the heart rhythm know as atrial fibrillation.
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Violence as a spectacle deeply worries Max Pemberton 'They shouldn't be doing that, it's wrong," says the old man standing next to me at the bus stop. I glance at him while I telephone the police about the two men fighting on the other side of the street. "Ain't they got anything better to do?" he says as one of them smashes the window of a phone box.
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Will we ever be given honest statistics? - The Telegraph 10th September 2007
Knowledge is power, as Sir Francis Bacon said; and when you have access to it, as government ministers do, it is hard to resist the temptation to abuse such a privilege. This is particularly so with the statistics that enable us to hold them to account for the vast amounts of our money that they spend and the actions they take.
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The amount of taxpayers' money spent on the National Health Service has more than doubled in the last five years. The annual cost of our system of universal public healthcare is now approaching £100bn - more than £1,500 a year for every man, woman and child.
Patients' needs have been ignored under Labour's reform of the NHS, the man who was tasked with protecting their rights believes. GP care has taken a "step backwards", while endlessly reorganising the health service has been a "waste of time and money", according to Harry Cayton, until last month the NHS "patients' tsar".
An alliance of churchmen and MPs led by the Bishop of Rochester has united against Government plans to change the law so that IVF can be granted more easily to single parents and lesbians.
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Jean-Pierre Garnier has no idea what his shares closed at last night but the chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, Europe's largest drugs company, could be forgiven for not keeping up with what the market thinks.
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There's a new cure for tiredness ... going to sleep. Lucy Atkins on the power nap 'I fell asleep mid-afternoon on the Oxford Tube coach," says junior doctor Zoe MacArthur. "Unfortunately, I was on the loo." Power nap Power nap: set your alarm for 15 minutes "The bus lurched, the door sprang open and I woke up as I was thrown into the aisle. Had I been drinking, it might have been more bearable, but I was just exhausted from too many night shifts."
Ministers will launch a multi-million pound, large-scale study next week into long-term health risks of mobile phone use. The decision indicates that mobile phone use has not yet been given a clean bill of health even though a Government committee is poised to report that research shows no proven health hazards associated with mobiles.
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Nina Grunfeld's 7 steps to success. Step 3: Ugly ducklings Quite a few years ago, when I was in the middle of being a mummy (but not yummy), one of our friendly dustmen took me aside and said: "I know you've just moved to London, but you've got to smarten up. You can't go around looking like that."
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More than five million Britons are living with potentially fatal high blood pressure and don't even know it. If all these sufferers were diagnosed, 21,000 more lives could be saved each year, according to a medical charity.
Top-selling children's medicines contain artificial additives which have been shown to trigger hyperactive behaviour, the Daily Mail can reveal. As fears grow over the effects of such dyes in food, a study has found one or more of these additives in 18 over-the-counter and GP-prescribed medicines.
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Thousands of lives could be saved by a new type of keyhole heart surgery being pioneered by a British hospital. Doctors are testing a procedure for replacing the aortic valve without the need for open heart surgery, which involves a large incision down the centre of the chest and opening up the ribcage.
The Department of Health spends millions of pounds a year trying to curb Britain's growing obesity epidemic - apparently in vain. But now researchers believe they have discovered a far cheaper and more effective solution to the problem: putting notices on public stairways to encourage people to use them.
When Dawn Brooke became the world's oldest natural mother at 59 it left doctors with a mystery to solve. How was it possible for the British housewife, who was well beyond the average age for the menopause of 51 and was not having any fertility treatment, to produce the egg that allowed her to conceive?
The legal drinking age must be raised to 21 because police are becoming "overwhelmed" by alcohol-fuelled rapes and assaults, a chief constable said yesterday. Michael Craik, who leads the Northumbria force, echoed the call of another police chief following the death of family man Garry Newlove who was punched and kicked by youths outside his home.
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Depression 'is worse for your health than asthma or diabetes' - Daily Mail 7th September 2007
Depression does more harm to a person's wellbeing than physical diseases such as asthma, angina and diabetes, a study has found. The World Health Organistion, which examined data on 250,000 patients in 60 countries, warned that depression has a far greater impact on public health than previously thought.
People who deprive themselves of sleep may be more likely to die of heart disease, researchers have found. A new study has identified a link between lack of sleep, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
Britain's step towards the creation of human-animal hybrids has been condemned by the Vatican as a "monstrous act against human dignity". Days after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority agreed in principle to license experiments for research, the Vatican's Bishop Elio Sgreccia accused the quango of crumbling "when confronted by requests from a group of scientists", who, he said, were "absolutely against morality".
A high street chemist has launched a drop-in Botox treatment service, sparking concerns about patient safety. From Monday customers at some Superdrug stores will be able to undergo a range of 'nonsurgical cosmetic treatments'.
Overweight mothers-to-be may be condemning their children to a lifetime of weight problems. Research shows that women who are heavier than they should be while pregnant are more likely to have children who are fat by the age of nine.
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The surrogate mother who gave her OWN baby away by mistake - Daily Mail 7th September 2007
Britain's most prolific surrogate is now having triplets for another woman but more incredible is the story of how she gave away her own baby...by mistake! When Carole Horlock went to hospital last Friday for her first seven-week scan, she was expecting to be told something had disastrously gone wrong with her ninth surrogate pregnancy.
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The Scottish smoking ban has led to a significant advance in public health, the most detailed scientific study of the measure so far has suggested. Research found that there has been a 17% drop in heart attack admissions to hospitals since the ban was introduced in Scotland in March 2006.
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The mystery of how we read a sentence has been unlocked by scientists. Previously, researchers thought that, when reading, both eyes focused on the same letter of a word. But a UK team has found this is not always the case.
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The number of people detained in secure psychiatric wards in England has reached a record high, figures show. More than 3,500 were being detained in secure hospitals in July 2007, experts at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health said.
Children with allergic conditions such as asthma may be receiving too high a dose of steroids, drug experts warn. A Scottish study found almost one in 10 children prescribed corticosteroids for asthma were also given the drugs for other conditions such as hay fever.
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Rabies could be wiped out across the world within a decade if sufficient vaccination programmes are carried out on domestic dogs, according to experts. Edinburgh University's Royal Dick Vet School staff have carried out extensive research into the disease, which kills about 55,000 people per year.
Almost one in five dental students plans to shun NHS work completely, a study has suggested. The results suggest a new contract designed to make NHS work more attractive has had limited success.
Almost a quarter of care agencies fail to protect disabled and elderly people from thefts in their own homes by carers, the BBC has discovered. The Commission for Social Care Inspection said more than 1,000 agencies do not meet the minimum standards on financial protection.
Children as young as four are eating so much salt it is putting their health at risk by raising their blood pressure, a study suggests. The average four-year-old ate 4.7g a day, which is way above the 2-3g recommended for this age group, the Journal of Human Hypertension reports.
When Billy Murison started back at school this week he had more than a few ideas about what he wanted to eat during his lunch breaks. His mother Janet was left in no doubt about what her seven-year-old does and does not like.
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More than two-thirds of young people who regularly use MP3 players face premature hearing damage because the volume is too high, a charity warns. The Royal National Institute for Deaf People said its findings were alarming, particularly with eight million MP3 players sold last year alone in the UK.
A man who weighs 22 stone and has a two-foot wide hernia has been in hospital since March while waiting for an operation. Alan Kaminski was 30 stone when he was admitted to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and his weight has caused complications, a spokesman said.
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Heart tests for at-risk families - BBC Health News 7th September 2007
Screening relatives of middle-aged heart attack sufferers would save lives, say experts. Siblings and children of younger heart attack victims have a high risk of heart disease but are not routinely assessed, say researchers from Glasgow.
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A teenage student has become the latest victim in Dallas to die from a powerful and highly addictive new street drug known as 'cheese'. The rise of the drug, a mixture of black tar heroin and powdered headache tablets, has been described as an epidemic. Dealers often sell it at $2 a time to get youngsters hooked. Because it is snorted, teenagers do not realise they are taking such a lethal heroin-based drug.
As New York fashion week kicks off the latest catwalk shows, the guidelines on model weight are debated more furiously than ever. Emily Nussbaum goes backstage and begins to suspect the skinny issue might be more loaded than we know. The celebrity supermodel has been replaced by the anonymous minimodel - nameless, voiceless, size zero and shrinking. Is her dwindling weight a reflection of her dwindling power, wealth and status?
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Germany warns citizens to avoid using Wi-Fi - The Independent on Sunday 9th September 2007
Environment Ministry's verdict on the health risks from wireless technology puts the British government to shame. People should avoid using Wi-Fi wherever possible because of the risks it may pose to health, the German government has said.
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My battle to keep walking 2412902 - The Times 10th September 2007
When Daniel Max was 27 his legs started to fail him. Within a year he could barely walk. Fifteen years later, while writing a book, he came across research offering hope that there might be a cure to his condition
WEIGHT-CONSCIOUS eater? You may be better off avoiding the healthy dishes on restaurant menus. They can make you scoff far more, says a study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The report, by French and American scientists, discovered that foods marketed as “healthy” exert an unfortunate halo effect on our imaginations.
From more potted plants to fewer e-mails, Roger Dobson reports on the latest research on wellbeing in the workplace If you’re depressed at being back at work after the summer, it’s time to do something about it. There is increasing evidence that a happy employee is a healthy employee and new research suggests that only takes a few small changes to make your workplace a healthy environment in which you can thrive.
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Depression 'is worse for your health than asthma or diabetes' - Daily Mail 7th September 2007
Depression does more harm to a person's wellbeing than physical diseases such as asthma, angina and diabetes, a study has found. The World Health Organistion, which examined data on 250,000 patients in 60 countries, warned that depression has a far greater impact on public health than previously thought.
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Potato 'fuel of human evolution' - BBC Health News 9th September 2007
Man's ability to digest starchy foods like the potato may explain our success on the planet, genetic work suggests. Compared with primates, humans have many more copies of a gene essential for breaking down calorie-rich starches, Nature Genetics reports.
US military doctors have been accused of turning a blind eye to abuse at Guantanamo Bay prison camp, in a letter published in a British medical journal. The letter in The Lancet focused on accusations of force-feeding of hunger strikers at the prison camp in Cuba.
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Chinese woman's 'needle ordeal' - BBC Health News 7th September 2007
Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman. They think they were inserted into Luo Cuifen's body when she was a baby by grandparents upset she was not a boy.
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THE number of new HIV cases has dropped in Merseyside for the first time in over 10 years. Figures released today by the Centre for Public Health (CPH) at Liverpool John Moores University and the North West Health Protection Agency show a 3% fall in patients diagnosed with the infection from 2005-2006.
INFERTILE couples in Merseyside and Cheshire are being denied NHS treatment in breach of official guidelines, campaigners protested yesterday. A Department of Health (DoH) study revealed that health officials were restricting IVF cycles to couples unable to conceive naturally in three key ways
A MUM-TO-BE was taken on a two-and-a-half hour emergency ambulance journey to give birth to her premature baby. Jodie Harris, from Southport, eventually ended up at Glan Clwyd hospital in North Wales after Ormskirk, Liverpool Women’s or Arrowe Park could not take her.
“SUPERDOC” Robin MacMillan came to the aid of a passenger who collapsed on a ferry. The Whiston hospital specialist stepped up when the captain asked: “Is there a doctor on board?”
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Hospital sets £200,000 budget - St Helens Star 7th September 2007
A £200,000 budget has been set aside for the North Cheshire Hospital's foundation trust bid. If successful the bid will see Warrington Hospital become more accountable to local people because it will have more control over its own future, say hospital bosses.
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A 42-YEAR-old Brampton woman who was employed as a carer has admitted stealing cash from three elderly women whose homes she worked in. Kathleen Warwick, of Gelt Road in the town, admitted three charges of theft when she appeared before Carlisle magistrates on Thursday.
HEALTH chiefs have been condemned for putting wealth before health' in a row over phone systems at a number of East Lancashire medical centres. Patients at medical centres in Padiham, Burnley Wood and Clayton-le-Moors must dial an 0844 number to make appointments or order a repeat prescription.
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Doc’s ‘back to work’ bid - Lancashire Telegraph 7th September 2007
A BLACKBURN doctor who was banned from practising for a year because of her poor English skills and performance was making a bid to return to work at a hearing in Manchester today. Dr Suma Mondal, 64, was reported to the General Medical Council four years ago amid concerns about her work by officials at the former Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Healthcare Trust.
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ONE patient has died and a number injured after falling from hospital windows - bringing calls for better safety on the wards. Mental health trust Pennine Care was prosecuted after a male patient died when he fell from a third-floor window at Birch Hill Hospital.
HEALTH chiefs have issued a fresh warning about the importance of safe sex, despite a fall in new cases of HIV. In 2006, 21 new cases of HIV were diagnosed, compared to 53 the year before, and 27 in 2004. Last year, a total of 181 people in Bolton were HIV positive, or had developed AIDS. Yet Bolton's leading sexual health expert has warned that HIV and AIDS remain major problems.
A MOTHER-TO-BE was transferred to Hope Hospital in Salford after the Royal Bolton's baby unit closed to new admissions because it was so busy. A rush of complex cases meant that for a three-hour period, staff were unable to admit any new routine cases.
New Story
Case for change is not the issue, just its effect on local services - Bury Times 7th September 2007
DR Barrett's report on maternity services in Greater Manchester has been extremely disappointing for all those involved in the campaign to keep a full range of maternity services at Fairfield Hospital. His panel's report endorses last December's decision by local children's health specialists that, for safety reasons, obstetric-led maternity services should be concentrated at eight major hospitals not including Fairfield, Rochdale, Salford or Trafford.
Additional Story
MP’s stance on Fairfield comes as a big surprise - Bury Times 7th September 2007
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