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Alistair Darling yesterday pledged to keep on raising public spending on Labour's priority areas of health, education and overseas aid, to be paid for by a big increase in borrowing. Presenting his first pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review to parliament, the new chancellor made clear that the rapid spending growth of recent years was giving way to much more restrained rises as the economy enters more uncertain times.
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Medical funding increased in drive to find new treatments - The Times 10th October 2007
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Growth in health spending slows - BBC Health News 9th October 2007
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It's curtains for the 'anything for a quiet life' approach - The Guardian 10th October 2007
How should we treat older people in residential care? When was the last time you were locked up, or had your drink spiked? Even in the most cheerfully disordered life, these are rare events, generally peculiar to youth - when you've got the urge for trouble and, hopefully, the resilience to deal with it. But both were in the news recently as regular occurrences for older people in residential care.
The legendary founder of the time bank movement tells Annie Kelly why our communities' long-term health depends on the strengths of their social networks, family structures and economic self-sufficiency
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Do we really want to know whether Tigger suffers from ADHD? - The Guardian 10th October 2007
The 'minds' of some of the nation's favourite fairy tale characters have been examined in a new book published to coincide with World Mental Health Day. David Batty explains why he thinks it will fail to captivate its audience
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Lord Darzi's interim report, Our NHS, Our Future, published last week, has some hard specifics behind its uncontentious aims of wanting fair, personalised, safe, effective and accountable care. For example: 100 new GP practices targeted in the areas of poorest provision; 150 new GP-led health centres providing easy access to care with extended opening hours; at least half of GP practices to open at weekends or one or more evenings per week; a new Health Innovation Council; and routine screening for MRSA for all people due to have non-urgent surgery.
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NHS reform needs radicalism and courage - The Times 10th October 2007
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Ex-soldier wins award for speaking frankly and forcefully on the mental distress of war veterans. Here him talk about combat stress in this audio clip.
People with mental health problems mentoring NHS staff put their advice on paper to aid training An idea dreamed up in a Chinese restaurant could give health workers a greater insight into the problems of people with mental illness, by paying people with mental health problems - who are, after all, experts - to act as mentors.
Proposals aimed at making it harder for international medical graduates to get a training post in the NHS (British medical graduates may be given priority on jobs, October 9) are not only short-sighted; they are extremely unfair to those graduates who gained a medical degree at a UK university.
Run, don't walk, if you want to maximise your chances of living a long and healthy life – and don't be misled by what the Government tells you, researchers say today. In a direct challenge to the official advice that moderate exercise such as brisk walking is best for health, sports experts say guidelines are sending out the wrong message and must be changed.
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Moderate exercise ‘is not enough’ - The Times 10th October 2007
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Don't kid yourself: exercise with vigour - The Telegraph 10th October 2007
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Public 'misled' on exercise needs - BBC Health News 9th October 2007
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Tens of thousands more Civil Service posts will be cut over the next three years as part of the Government’s drive to make £30 billion in efficiency savings by 2011. This is a third more than the savings made since 2004, which have led to more than 70,000 civil posts being lost across Whitehall. Public sector unions, which have already taken industrial action this year over pay, were furious at the extent of the cutbacks and gave warning of further strikes this year.
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The number of people dying from cancer contracted in the workplace is being under-estimated by the Government, it was reported. Deaths from occupational cancers could be about 24,000 a year – four times greater than the official estimate by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of 6,000.
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Eighty per cent of breast cancers occur in women aged over 50, and the greatest risk factor for the disease is age. So, of course, it makes perfect sense for a high street store to sign up a petulant teenager, who has inherited her mother's desire to shock but none of her originality, to promote awareness of it.
Millions of women are suffering the effects of the menopause unnecessarily because of unfounded health scares, experts have said. One million women in the UK abandoned hormone replacement therapy (HRT) when two studies in 2002 and 2003 found it increased the risk of heart attacks, stroke and breast cancer.
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British taxpayers bear the cost of training doctors. Patients should therefore expect to benefit from a doctor's medical expertise, regardless of whether a condition is alcohol-related or sexually transmitted.
Never mind Bupa health screening - alternative therapists are getting in on the act. But is it all just dangerous hogwash? The therapist secures wires to my ankles and wrists. Around my head there is an odd-looking contraption (think Bjorn Borg headband, in leather).
Six million people live with the pain of chronic-sinusitis. Treatment can involve making incisisions in the face but a minimally invasive operation avoids this. Here Claire Bolton, 38, who lives with her husband Andrew, 39, and two children in Tarporley, Cheshire, tells ANGELA EPSTEIN about her condition and her surgeon explains the technique
Every Tuesday, Britain's leading nutritionist explains how to eat your way to health. Here she tackles stress, shingles and when to introduce your child to peanuts: I'm 55 and eat healthily but often feel stressed and physically drained. I've also had two bouts of shingles in a year. A reflexologist suggested my adrenals 'need support' and I could be lacking in magnesium. Would supplements or a particular diet help?
Stroke victims are being nursed back to health by playing on the smash-hit games console Nintendo Wii. Doctors have discovered the game helps to rewire the brain after it has been damaged by a blood clot. Unlike most computer games, the Nintendo Wii involves acting out all the physical movements involved in normal sports, such as tennis, golf or boxing.
Amy Winston-Hart spent many months preparing for the worst as her three-year-old daughter Eva fought a particularly vicious form of leukaemia. The disease was apparently curable only with an infusion of healthy blood stem cells from a bone marrow donor.
There is no escaping the ageing process - whatever your plastic surgeon promises. But while most of us experience a steady decline, there are times when we will be particularly vulnerable to bodily changes and, as a result, ill health.
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The Government today announced a study into the effects on children of video games and the internet as it acknowledged concern amongst parents about such activities. Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls said the subject of video games and the internet had been raised "time and time" again by parents.
Women whose mothers have wide hips could be seven times more likely to develop breast cancer, researchers have warned. A study of thousands of women has revealed a clear link between the two
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Occupational cancer is a quiet almost invisible epidemic picking off its victims years after they were first exposed to the risk. It is one of the areas of workplace safety that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is responsible for.
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Digital X-rays to be rolled out - BBC Health News 9th October 2007
New digital technology is to replace traditional X-rays following a pilot scheme in Scottish hospitals. Under the existing system X-rays are captured on a piece of film, which is then held up to the light.
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Pop stars know it, movie stars, too – and so do saffron-robed monks. While stress may be the great scourge of the modern age, man has long known the secret of how to beat it. Confirmation came this week in the pages of the august journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – a scholarly tome a cosmic lifecycle away from the internet twitterings of the New Age.
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American officials are pressing the Afghan government for an escalation of the war on drugs, including the use of controversial chemical spraying, following the failure of British-led efforts. They are so keen to adopt an aggressive policy after another record drug harvest in Afghanistan, that the US ambassador to Kabul has offered to have himself sprayed with herbicide.
An injection that stimulates the body to grow new blood vessels could be a new treatment for peripheral artery disease (PAD). The condition, caused by a build-up of fat in the arteries, prevents oxygenated blood reaching the kidneys, stomach, arms, legs and feet.
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Scientists have developed a radical new drug that could reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis within weeks. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have developed a human antibody administered in a single dose that can repair myelin, the insulating covering of nerves that when damaged can lead to multiple sclerosis.
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Two mothers handed the wrong babies in a catastrophic post-natal mix-up ten months ago have agreed to swap the children each thought was their own. Little Nikola Broza and Veronika Cermakova have been nurtured, nursed, loved and cared for by parents who were not their biological mother and father. The mistake may never have come to light in Czech Republic had Nikola's parents Libor Broza, 29, and his partner Jaroslava Trojanova, 25, not undergone DNA testing.
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People who go back to a stressful job after a heart attack are more prone to a second attack than those whose work is not stressful - a study says. Canadian researchers followed some 1,000 patients returning to work.
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Uganda opens first HIV drug plant - BBC Health News 8th October 2007
A factory that will produce treatments for HIV/Aids is opening in Uganda, the first of its kind in the country. It aims to reduce the cost of the vital medication by cutting import costs. Locally produced anti-retroviral HIV drugs and anti-malaria drugs should be available by January, Uganda's health minister told the BBC's Network Africa.
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AT LEAST 70 people across the region have been denied treatment which doctors believed would save, prolong or greatly enhance their lives, in the past 18 months. A Daily Post investigation has discovered Primary Care Trusts in Merseyside and Cheshire have denied patients a variety of treatments, despite recommendations from family GPs.
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Drugs and treatments turned down by Merseyside and Cheshire PCTs - Liverpool Daily Post 9th October 2007
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KNITTED breasts that help women learn to feed their babies have won a Liverpool midwife a major award. Kate McFadden from Liverpool Women’s hospital has picked up an innovator of the year award for her woolly invention.
A LIVERPOOL woman has approached Alder Hey children’s hospital to see if they will perform an operation to stop her disabled nine-year old daughter going through puberty. Kim Walker’s request on behalf of her daughter Olivia, who is mentally and physically disabled, echoes that of a similar case in Essex which is currently being legally assessed.
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I was a grumpy mum from hell until the surgeon cleared my blocked sinuses - Daily Mail 9th October 2007
Six million people live with the pain of chronic-sinusitis. Treatment can involve making incisisions in the face but a minimally invasive operation avoids this. Here Claire Bolton, 38, who lives with her husband Andrew, 39, and two children in Tarporley, Cheshire, tells ANGELA EPSTEIN about her condition and her surgeon explains the technique
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HEALTH chiefs have launched an information campaign ahead of a controversial shake-up of hospital services in East Lancashire. The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has placed adverts in newspapers and on local radio as well as on the side of buses.
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Blackpool worst for drug-related deaths - Blackpool Citizen 9th October 2007
The rate of drug-related deaths in Blackpool is the highest in the country, according to newly released figures for last year. The resort recorded a rate of 19.4 per 100,000 of population for 2006, a rise of 52 per cent on previous the year.
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TB patient under guard - Manchester Evening News 9th October 2007
A HOSPITAL patient is being held under guard to prevent him going home and spreading TB. Council bosses took the unusual step of going to court to get an order forcing the man to stay in a specialist infectious disease unit.
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