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The chairman of the NHS hospital trust where 90 patients died from Clostridium difficile infection accused the government last night of singling it out for vilification when ministers knew scores of other trusts had worse infection rates.
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Hospital trust boss resigns after superbug outbreak - The Independent 16th October 2007
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Hospitals death scandal claims new victim as trust chief quits - The Times 16th October 2007
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The true scale of affluent, middle-class drinking is revealed today with the publication of figures showing that more than a quarter of adults living in some of the wealthiest towns, such as Harrogate and Guildford, are drinking enough alcohol every week to damage their health.
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Richer areas have worst drink rates - The Independent 16th October 2007
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Hazardous drinking, the middle-class vice - The Times 16th October 2007
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Should we be worried about middle-class wine drinking? - The Telegraph 16th October 2007
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Middle-class drinkers damaging health with 'hazardous' levels of alcohol - Daily Mail 16th October 2007
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Binge-drinking epidemic increases as alcohol related A&E admissions soar - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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Wealthy areas head alcohol table - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
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Middle-class drinkers damaging health with 'hazardous' levels of alcohol - Daily Mail 16th October 2007
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Binge-drinking epidemic increases as alcohol related A&E admissions soar - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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Wealthy areas head alcohol table - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
Although Grace Bowman had beaten anorexia, she was haunted by fears of it returning. But since becoming pregnant, she's learned to relish having a body that feels happily beyond her control
What I needed was a kind of functional exercise, where a quick blast of activity came wrapped in an activity with a purpose beyond getting fit - stealth exercise, if you will. What better than a bike? Here the exercise benefits are a by-product of the actual aim: transport. I was sold. So was a beautiful new cruiser, delivered in its full retro-glory to my door, complete with basket, bell, helmet and unbreakable lock.
Ambitious new plans to increase the take-up of school meals by a further one million lunches every day will be unveiled today by the children's secretary, Ed Balls, and the chair of the School Food Trust, Prue Leith, with the backing of all the major teaching unions and a range of healthcare bodies.
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It is highly appropriate that the Commons science and technology committee is asking for declarations of links to other organisations from the witnesses in its abortion inquiry (Abortion inquiry asks scientists to disclose links to faith groups, October 15). Without wishing to get into the detail of the issues to be discussed by the inquiry, an extract from a recent article by one of the witnesses named in your article is revealing.
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MPs launch abortion law inquiry - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
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Why are we asking this now? People unable to find an NHS dentist have become so desperate that some are resorting to pulling their own teeth, according to a survey published yesterday by the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health. Of 5,000 people questioned, three quarters said they had been forced to go private because they wanted to stay with their NHS dentist who was switching or they could not find an NHS dentist.
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Patients resort to DIY dentistry in desperation - The Times 16th October 2007
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Don't ask us to heal the dental crisis, doctors warn the Labour party - Daily Mail 16th October 2007
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Don't ask us to heal the dental crisis, doctors warn the Labour party - Daily Mail 16th October 2007
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A road deaths investigation unit should be created to restore Britain’s recently lost reputation for having the safest roads in Europe, according to a study published today.
Sounds like a load of financial mumbo jumbo. What does it actually mean? The Government’s 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (called CSR to save ink) sets spending plans for the main government departments for the years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.
LOVE knows no boundaries. Or so the saying goes, and it’s why nurses may be allowed to have relationships with former patients. “It’s a delicate area and I’m keen we’re not seen to be attempting to regulate love,” says Harry Cayton, chief executive of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, in Nursing Times (Oct 9). Draft guidance banning the practice could be made more flexible, Cayton says.
THERE is a crisis in the Administrative Court, the part of the High Court that hears judicial review applications. These are the cases, some high-profile, thousands not, where the court rules on the lawfulness of decisions and policies made by local authorities, the NHS, central government and countless government bodies and agencies.
TAKE TWO portions of alphabet soup and call me next week. That could be the advice GPs give in future if Dr Mayur Lakhani gets his way. The chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners says GPs should be able to prescribe language lessons to patients who struggle with English, reports Health Service Journal (Oct 11).
As record numbers of medics desert Britain and the NHS, a new TV series catches up with a group of doctors who began work in 1985 to see what those doctors do, and think, now
NOT ONLY are they too posh to wash, but today’s nurses are too posh for nosh. “I don’t do food,” says one nurse in Nursing Standard (Oct 10). Hospital caterers claim that there has been a shift in attitudes since nurse education moved into universities. Nurses now believe that serving meals and helping patients to eat is beneath them.
THE Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) is funded by the Local Government Association. It seeks to encourage councils to share good practice through its national Beacons Scheme and regional local government networks. The IDeA also promotes the development of local government’s management and workforce. As part of the Healthy Communities Programme, IDeA has undertaken a series of interviews to capture the driving force of those local authorities and PCTs which have a successful partnership, and are recognised as being leaders in this work nationally.
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A biotechnology firm has sparked an ethics row by encouraging couples to use embryos left over from IVF treatment as a personalised family "repair kit". The company is offering those who have had infertility treatment the chance to extract stem cells from spare embryos, in the hope that they could be used to treat Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, heart disease and other conditions.
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IVF 'cell bank' plan criticised - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
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IVF 'cell bank' plan criticised - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
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Tackling Britain’s obesity epidemic could bankrupt the NHS, a leading expert has warned. It is anticipated that obesity could cost as much as £45 billion a year by 2050, to pay for growing incidents of diabetes, strokes and heart disease as well as the loss of earnings by those too heavy to work, a conference was warned.
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'Supersized' patients banned from hospital waiting room because floor can't take their weight - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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'Supersized' patients banned from hospital waiting room because floor can't take their weight - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
A pioneering technique to strengthen the crumbling joints of patients who need a second hip replacement could help thousands of people every year, scientists claim. As many as 10,000 people a year need to have worn-out hip implants replaced, as life expectancy increases.
Last week's letter from a woman in despair prompted a flood of replies from readers who have fought their way back to a fulfilled, happy life,
A baby who was born clinically dead has amazed doctors with his recovery. Oscar Rose's heart stopped beating and his organs began to shut down, so his mother was given an emergency caesarean section. It took eight minutes for doctors to resuscitate Oscar, who then spent nine days in intensive care, with his family convinced that he would be brain damaged.
Channel 4's controversial programme Bringing Up Baby are facing more criticism as a group of childcare professionals condemn the show as "an exploitative parenting series" which gives out "dangerous" advice. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, seven experts call on production companies to "stop making programmes that give irresponsible advice and turn the suffering of tiny babies into adult entertainment".
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Curbing aggression in children in their pre-school years is the key to ensuring they do not grow into violent adults, parents are being warned. Toddlers do not learn aggression from other children, TV, video games or adults, says a leading child psychiatrist.
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My father died of Alzheimer's four years ago this November. His sister is now in a care home in Buckinghamshire, suffering from dementia caused by a series of small strokes, which have slowly - but oh, so thoroughly - reduced my once vivacious and engaging aunt to the sad, silent soul she is today.
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Nine out of ten cot death victims had mothers who smoked during pregnancy, a major study has revealed. The scientists who carried out the research warn that motherstobe who smoke are four times more likely to see their child die from cot death than non-smokers.
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'Clear smoking link' to cot death - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
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Deadly skunk 'accounts for 75 per cent of all cannabis seizures' - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
Dramatic new evidence of the dangers of cannabis has emerged as government scientists warned that the most harmful "skunk" variety is flooding our streets.
A Birmingham hospital trust has defended its treatment of a 19-year-old Iraq veteran who is suspected of contracting clostridium difficile. Pte Jamie Cooper, who is being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, had previously contracted MRSA twice while at the city's Selly Oak Hospital.
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Teachers need to do more to get the hardcore of non-exercising pupils in England back in the school gym, Schools Secretary Ed Balls has said. Alternative activities such as Frisbee and yoga could be offered alongside traditional sports, he said.
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As a former PE teacher, sport was Cherry Protheroe's life. If she was not teaching it, she was taking part, training every spare minute and very fit and active. But a bout of psoriasis as a teenager led her to develop psoriatic arthropathy at the age of 28 - this causes pain and swelling in joints and tissue, accompanied by associated stiffness, particularly in the morning.
Inquiry into N-test veterans case - BBC Health News 15th October 2007A parliamentary inquiry has begun into British nuclear tests in the South Pacific in the 1950s, which veterans say led to genetic defects. Veterans claim they were not given proper protection during the Christmas Island testing programme and their families have become ill as a result.
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Health warning: giving up smoking can kill. The danger of cigarettes is mostly not in smoking them, argues a study by three doctors at the KS Hegde Medical Academy in Mangalore, India. Or, put another way: the danger comes from not smoking. Figuratively blowing smoke in the face of conventional wisdom, the study asks: "Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?"
People with disabilities are 50 per cent more likely to smoke, says a study in Preventing Chronic Disease (Oct) by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers say they are unsure why the smoking rate is so high, but add that people with disabilities are generally less likely to receive preventive healthcare and advice.
Men with fertility problems could increase the chances of their partners becoming pregnant by ignoring official advice and having sex every day, a specialist said yesterday. Couples trying for a baby are advised in guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the Government's health watchdog, that "intercourse every two to three days optimises the chance of pregnancy".
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Craig Venter explains how, by artificially producing DNA, his team could design 'green' microbes that digest toxic waste My car pulled up in front of the Oval Room restaurant on Connecticut Avenue, a few blocks from the White House.
Eleven years ago, doctors told Kailash Bhagat that he was infected with the HIV virus. He was working as a cook in Bangkok. When he returned to his native village of Sitamarhi in India's eastern Bihar state and told his family and friends about his condition, they immediately shunned and abandoned him.
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LIVERPOOL is today given the unwanted label of the drinking capital of England as new figures reveal the shocking effect of alcohol abuse in the region. Men and women in the city are more likely to be admitted to hospital due to alcohol-related illness than in any other area of the country.
After several decades of declining numbers of children cycling to school, bike sheds are making a comeback – thanks to the need to go green. And students at Liverpool’s Calderstones School in Harthill Road, Allerton, are being tempted back to the bike shed, with the lure of mouth-watering breakfasts.
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Superbug tsar hired to rid Mersey hospitals of infection - Liverpool Daily Post 16th October 2007
A SUPERBUG tsar has been hired to stamp out infections like MRSA and C difficile at two Liverpool hospitals. Dr Godfrey Smith, consultant microbiologist at the Royal Liver-pool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, has been appointed as the lead doctor for the prevention of infections.
A TOP Liverpool boxer today talked of his heartbreak after his newborn son died beside him in bed. Former amateur champion Tony Mulholland and partner Lisa Daley paid tribute to their “little fighter” who died at 11 days old.
THE new 24-hour licensing laws are making life easier for staff at Merseyside’s busiest hospitals. Figures show booze-fuelled assaults are down and A&E admissions for alcohol-related assaults falling sharply.
A LIVERPOOL mother today revealed how her baby was rushed into hospital with pneumonia after being told by two GPs he only had a head cold. Debbie Judic’s 16-month-old son actually had pneumonia on both lungs.
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MPs demand shake-up in GP emergency services - Liverpool Daily Post 15th October 2007
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BORROWDALE Parish Council says traffic congestion on the outskirts of Keswick could stop emergency vehicles reaching an incident in time in the valley. Now the parish council is hoping to enlist the support of local authorities and other traffic agencies in a bid to get traffic flow reversed in Borrowdale Road during the busy afternoon period.
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Jim’s all-clear - Carlisle News & Star 15th October 2007
MIRACLE man Jim Martin is ready to fly high again as chief pilot for the Pride of Cumbria air ambulance. The 49-year-old, originally from Carlisle, has been grounded since a horrific climbing accident in January 2006.
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HEALTH bosses have moved swiftly to reassure hospital patients that their care won't be compromised should they, their carers or family, lodge a complaint. Pennine Acute Trust, which runs Fairfield Hospital and North Manchester General, has now added this pledge to their existing complaints system following concern expressed by the Healthcare Commission.
A CHILDREN'S casualty unit opened for its very first patients today. Gone is the cold clinical feel of an accident emergency department to be replaced by warm, colourful "space age" environment. And the £1.28 million unit received the thumbs up from parents who said they felt safer in a dedicated children's emergency room.
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Mental health and substance abuse roadshows - Altrincham Messenger 15th October 2007
TRAFFORD residents are being invited to have their say on their mental health and substance misuse services at a series of special roadshows. The events come ahead of Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust becoming an NHS foundation trust in 2008.
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