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Worrying diagnosis - The Guardian 12th September 2007
Sir Derek Wanless is not a man that the government can easily ignore. The banker was hand-picked by the then chancellor Gordon Brown to review the NHS in 2001, and his findings were not allowed to gather dust in the way that so many other Whitehall reports have done. Instead, ministers made a point of the weight they attached to the analysis, and implemented - almost to the letter - the Wanless proposals for sharp increases in spending. Five years on, and now outside government, he has returned to his patient to gauge its response to the financial medicine that he prescribed. Sir Derek delivered his diagnosis yesterday, and it was a decidedly mixed one.
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Michael White: Welcome for Wanless - The Guardian 12th September 2007
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The Big Question: What is to show for the extra £43bn spent on the NHS in the last five years? - The Independent 12th September 2007
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The Big Question: What is to show for the extra £43bn spent on the NHS in the last five years? - The Independent 12th September 2007
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Autism-like behaviour in children is linked to the amount of testosterone they receive whilst in their mother's womb, according to a long-term study of behavioural changes in children. The research provides support for the theory that neural changes predisposing a child to autism happen while its brain is developing in the womb and that autism is the result of an "extreme male brain".
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Scientists link autism with higher testosterone levels - The Independent 12th September 2007
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Hormone linked to autistic traits - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
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Scientists link autism with higher testosterone levels - The Independent 12th September 2007
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Hormone linked to autistic traits - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
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The contraceptive pill actually protects women against cancer in later life, according to the largest study ever set up to evaluate the risks and benefits. The pill, which has been a source of controversy since it was introduced in the 1960s, is today revealed to have an overall net benefit for the women who take it. Researchers who have followed 46,000 women taking the pill - beginning in 1968 - say that it cuts the individual's risk of cancer of any kind by up to 12%.
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The Pill 'protects against cancer' - The Independent 12th September 2007
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Taking the Pill cuts the risk of cancer - The Times 12th September 2007
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Taking Pill 'can reduce cancer risk' - The Telegraph 12th September 2007
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The Pill 'protects against cancer' - The Independent 12th September 2007
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Taking the Pill cuts the risk of cancer - The Times 12th September 2007
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Taking Pill 'can reduce cancer risk' - The Telegraph 12th September 2007
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The Pill that 'reduces the risk of cancer in later life' - Daily Mail 11th September 2007
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Pill use 'may cut risk of cancer' - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
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Pill use 'may cut risk of cancer' - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
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Womb to tomb replaces cradle to grave as focus for health service - The Guardian 12th September 2007
Alan Johnson, the health secretary, will begin a sustained political effort today to improve the nation's health "from the womb to the tomb". Responding to criticism from Sir Derek Wanless, Gordon Brown's adviser, disclosed in the Guardian yesterday, he will make the promotion of healthier lifestyles his department's top priority. Campaigns to tackle the increasing levels of obesity and alcoholism, which are driving thousands of people towards an early grave, will be aimed at deprived areas where life expectancy is lowest.
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The private finance initiative has played havoc with some NHS trusts' budgets and services - but worse is yet to come
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Hospital PFI costs 'set to soar' - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
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Hospital PFI costs 'set to soar' - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
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After the wet, then warm, summer, Britain is in the midst of a mosquito explosion. Will the little monsters become a growing menace? And, worse still, is malaria on the way back?
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A community engagement scheme has improved drug awareness, services, and researchers' opportunities Asking drug dealers to talk candidly might seem like taking your life in your hands. But local volunteers recruited to carry out research among pushers, users and their families in the BD5 postal area of Bradford have presented a vivid portrait of the impact of drugs on their community.
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In my younger days, going on holiday meant tucking a toothbrush behind my ear, loading up on red wine for emergencies, and arriving at the airport with a millisecond to spare. I have run for so many planes it is surprising I've not been invited to be something important on the Olympics committee.
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There are promising findings in the new report on young people's mental health, published today by the Mental Health Foundation. It suggests the voluntary sector is providing the kind of services young people between the ages of 16 and 25 want. This is welcome news: this group is most at risk of developing long-term severe conditions such as schizophrenia, yet highly likely to encounter problems accessing appropriate statutory treatment when they need it most.
Children's health campaigners accused the government's School Food Trust yesterday of watering down new regulations aimed at providing healthier drinks in schools after succumbing to pressure from the food industry.
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My experience as former chairman of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS trust patient and public involvement in health (PPIH) does not encourage optimism that the proposed reconfiguration of local healthcare monitoring will increase the accountability of foundation trusts (We're not going local when it comes to health, September 5).
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Letter: Phone mast data - The Guardian 12th September 2007
There is no clear reason why information on where mobile phone masts are located should no longer be available to the public (Ruling threatens service enabling parents to trace phone masts, September 7). Last year I ordered Ofcom to disclose all data on mobile-phone base stations held within its Sitefinder database.
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Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, is to close its last British manufacturing plant, with the loss of 420 jobs. The New York-based maker of blockbuster drugs such as Viagra and the cholesterol-fighter Lipitor said that it planned to stop all manufacturing on its largest European site, at Sandwich, Kent.
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Breast-feeding does not protect children against developing asthma or allergies, a study suggests. A large trial involving more than 13,000 women and children found no evidence of a protective effect. Previous research has suggested that breast-feeding helps to boost a baby’s immune system and can protect against respiratory infections.
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Breastfed babies 'are just as likely to have allergies' - Daily Mail 11th September 2007
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Breastfed babies 'are just as likely to have allergies' - Daily Mail 11th September 2007
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The Government is to look into whether children should be vaccinated against chickenpox, possibly in a four-in-one jab combined with the measles, mumps and rubella inoculation. A group of scientists has been asked by the Department of Health to examine the case for the vaccine, on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
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Children may get chickenpox vaccine - The Telegraph 12th September 2007
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I was having dinner the other night with some friends, a married couple. They were consultants, she for art, he for the heart. He’s a surgeon. We got chatting about art in hospitals. He said that in the anteroom to his operating theatre there was an interactive video installation. It is there to distract patients from the thought that they are about to have someone up to his elbows in their chest cavity.
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On the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act, the debate as to how late a woman can leave it before she terminates her pregnancy has been reignited. Yesterday in the Mail, Amanda Platell argued that the current 24-week limit should be cut. But what do women who have had abortions think? Here, seven of them give their views . . .
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Sick yobs degraded a dying disabled woman as she lay collapsed on the floor outside her home - and filmed the whole attack on a mobile phone. During an horrific ordeal, Christine Lakinski, 50, was drenched with a bucket of water and had shaving foam sprayed all over her face and body.
It has been cursed by every footballer, runner and tennis star forced to remain on the bench because of injury. But according to a new study, the much maligned Achilles tendon turns out to have played a crucial role in human history.
Most women have used deodorant for years without a second thought, yet following research published last week many might now be thinking twice before applying it. A potential link between aluminium - commonly found in the form of aluminium salts in anti-perspirants - and breast cancer was found in the study by Chris Exley, at Keele University.
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Two girls, one genetic 'blip' and a story of hope and courage - Daily Mail 11th September 2007
At her holiday apartment, Peggy Heron waited, heart pounding, to meet her daughter's genetic 'twin' for the first time. Peggy's daughter Lottie, now 15, was born with a genetic disorder so rare that, until two years ago, they thought no other child in the world had it.
Hot, thick-cut smoked salmon is a local delicacy where we live, and I have it for breakfast or lunch almost daily. However, one of my fellow villagers pointed out that the smoking process creates chemicals that cause cancer. So far I have not taken heed of her warning, but is there any truth in this dire prophecy?
For a drug that flopped in clinical trials, Viagra has subsequently been an extraordinary success story. When scientists first concocted the little blue pill more than 20 years ago, it was as a treatment for the heart condition angina.
Theresa Smith started losing her hair following her father's death - within months it was so bad she was reduced to colouring-in her bald patches with a felt-tip.
The NHS should gear itself up to push the case for overhauling hospital care, the head of the health service says. NHS chief executive David Nicholson said deficits had poisoned the debate.
Many NHS trusts are failing to meet core standards over the care of patients needing out-of-hours GP services, performance statistics show. The Lib Dem data from 92 of the 152 primary care trusts show problems in areas such as assessing patients.
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Strolling out along the narrow tracks between the streams and the golden wheat harvest, Dr Alex Duncan is clutching a set of children's scales and is off for his first consultation of the day. With him are two of his daughters, Ruth, three, and two-year-old Libby, who jump around the fields and irrigation ditches as if it was their back garden.
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Results from a major research programme probing mobile phone technology safety will be announced on Wednesday. The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHR) has received £8.8m in funding from the government and communications industry.
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Trust warns of £15m hospital debt - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
Swansea NHS Trust says it faces going £15.5m into the red unless it closes 86 beds and cuts around 750 jobs. But health officials say the efficiency programme will mean it will still treat the same number of patients by cutting down the time they spend in hospital.
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Children who eat a diet that has plenty of fruit, vegetables and fish can cut their risk of developing asthma and allergies, according to research that has monitored more than 400 youngsters for the first six years of their lives. Leda Chatzi, of the social medicine department at the University of Crete, Greece, said: "We believe this is the first study that has assessed the impact of a child's diet on asthma and allergies and also taken into account the food mothers ate during pregnancy."
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Fish and 'fruity' veg cuts asthma in children - Daily Mail 11th September 2007
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Fish and 'fruity' veg cuts asthma in children - Daily Mail 11th September 2007
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According to Michael Moore's latest film Sicko, Cuba's medical care puts America's to shame. Rory Carroll investigates
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Twice as many girls as boys are being born in some Arctic villages because of high levels of man-made chemicals in the blood of pregnant women, according to scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (Amap).
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An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least five people says the World Health Organisation. Blood samples from the southern province of Kasai were sent to laboratories specialising in haemorrhagic fever.
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S Africa 'on track in Aids fight' - BBC Health News 11th September 2007
South Africa is on course to meet its target of halving new Aids infections by 2011, the deputy president has said. Some 1,000 people are currently being infected each day. The other target is to treat 80% of those in need.
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THE Royal Liverpool hospital can have an “international reputation second to none” within the next 10 years, according to its new chief executive. Tony Bell, who has served the NHS for more than 30 years, will take up the position at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (RLBUHT) before the end of the year, it was announced yesterday.
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WHISTON hospital’s giant new building will include triangular wards to help nurses oversee more patients. The wards will be arranged in circles in the hospital, which will be the biggest in Merseyside when it is finished in 2010.
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HUNDREDS of disabled workers fighting the closure of their Merseyside factories will be offered a salary top-up to persuade them to take new jobs. The chief executive of Remploy has promised its staff will receive the wage in their present post until they retire, even if their new job normally carries a lower salary.
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Christy Millar: I'll battle on to win an inquiry - Liverpool Daily Post 10th September 2007
A YOUNG woman left in a coma after a doctor failed to diagnose her appendicitis is to protest outside Liverpool's Primary Care Trust's headquarters at their refusal to hold an inquiry into her case.
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CHEFS have spent eight weeks at a Penrith weight-loss camp educating kids’ about healthy food. Wellspring UK hired chefs from AWOL, who were challenged to make nutritious foods appealing to children more used to the glitzy packaging and sweet taste of high calorie convenience foods.
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A MEDICAL group has warned that children should never become so fat that they are taken away from their parents. The National Obesity Forum spoke out after it was revealed that a case where an eight-year-old west Cumbrian girl was removed from her home was one of three nationwide.
HOSPITAL chiefs have reassured patients' families about a new rehabilitation ward after concerns were raised over staffing levels. Medics insist the standards of care given by staff in the new facility at Pendle Community Hospital is adequate for the number of patients based there.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chairman Dennis Benson is to step down from the post at the end of the year. Mr Benson, who has lived in Chorley for more than 40 years, was appointed chairman in March 2005, when the foundation trust which runs both Chorley and Royal Preston Hospitals, was launched.
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Ambulance attacked by vandals - Chorley Citizen 11th September 2007
An ambulance could not respond to an emergency call in Chorley after vandals hurled a heavy cobblestone through its windscreen. Ambulance bosses have slammed the culprits, warning they could have put lives at risk.
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HEALTH bosses are pumping almost £1.5 million into extending the opening hours of Bolton's GP surgeries. Over the next three years, local practices will be able to apply for extra cash, in return for opening at weekends or in the evenings.
THE Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) is holding an information day in Bolton to help people understand and manage the hidden health condition of tinnitus. Tinnitus affects seven million people across the country, with sufferers hearing noises inside their ears or head.
TRAFFORD'S diabetes team is in the running for a prestigious medical award. The team, led by consultant physician Dr Bill Stephens, is down to the last three in the Diabetes Team of the Year' category of the national Hospital Doctor awards.
A NEW Government campaign that aims to challenge views on disabled people in the work place has been launched in Manchester. Employ ability', which was introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions on September 5, acknowledges when it comes to getting and retaining a job people with a health condition or disability should be treated like anyone else and judged on their ability, skills and attitude.
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The deodorant safety guide: How picking the right brand could save your life - Daily Mail 11th September 2007
Most women have used deodorant for years without a second thought, yet following research published last week many might now be thinking twice before applying it. A potential link between aluminium - commonly found in the form of aluminium salts in anti-perspirants - and breast cancer was found in the study by Chris Exley, at Keele University.
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