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Large numbers of people are going without dental treatment and some even report extracting their own teeth because they cannot find an NHS dentist in their area, a survey reveals today. The Dentistry Watch survey of more than 5,000 people, from the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health, found widespread unhappiness among both patients and dentists despite government reforms to increase the availability of NHS dentistry. More than three-quarters of those who have a private dentist consider they were forced into it because their own dentist went private or they could not find an NHS dentist.
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Patients feel the pain in NHS dental crisis - The Times 15th October 2007
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Sufferers pull out teeth due to lack of dentists - The Telegraph 15th October 2007
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Patients turn to DIY dentistry as the crisis in NHS care deepens - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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Many 'cannot get NHS dental care' - BBC Health News 14th October 2007
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Patients turn to DIY dentistry as the crisis in NHS care deepens - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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Many 'cannot get NHS dental care' - BBC Health News 14th October 2007
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An influential inquiry into the future of Britain's abortion laws will begin today amid controversy over an apparent attempt by faith-based organisations to skew the balance of evidence presented to the committee of MPs. At least eight submissions of written evidence have come from medical professionals who have not disclosed their membership of Christian groups opposed to abortion on faith grounds. Six of the doctors are members or activists with the Christian Medical Fellowship, an organisation that has given its own evidence to the inquiry.
Last Friday, the local government and public involvement in health bill quietly completed its stages in the Lords. Quietly too, some of the darker corners of our health and social care system may be removed from public gaze. Existing independent local patient and public involvement forums will be abolished by the bill - and so will their rights to information and access to places where care is provided to people in often vulnerable situations.
Controlled bursts of stress at work might actually boost your performance and your health. Catherine Quinn takes a deep breath and lets it all out
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Fitness fix: Fencing - The Guardian 15th October 2007
Why do you fence? I'd wanted to do it ever since watching swashbuckling films as a kid, then got a chance at university. I'm now secretary of the Edinburgh Fencing Club.
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As age creeps up on us, so does vulnerability and physical fragility. The scandal of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, where 90 people died as a result of a superbug, is shocking not because the toxic bacteria were found - they now plague most hospitals - but because staff at every level allowed patients to lie in squalor.
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Health service targets and the spread of hospital infections - The Guardian 15th October 2007
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The problem hospitals - The Telegraph 15th October 2007
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Dirty wards, feminism and the tragic end of Florence Nightingale's ethos of patient care - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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Dirty wards, feminism and the tragic end of Florence Nightingale's ethos of patient care - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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'I can't look after her - but she's still my Marjorie' - The Observer 14th October 2007
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NHS superbug board should have been sacked, say Tories - The Guardian 13th October 2007
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NHS superbug board should have been sacked, say Tories - The Guardian 13th October 2007
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Third hospital bug for soldier wounded in Basra - The Sunday Times 14th October 2007
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Labour failed to heed NHS superbugs warning - The Sunday Telegraph 14th October 2007
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Labour failed to heed NHS superbugs warning - The Sunday Telegraph 14th October 2007
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The worst hospitals for C.Diff - The Sunday Telegraph 14th October 2007
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Superbug row chairman pressured to resign - The Telegraph 13th October 2007
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Letters to the Telegraph - The Telegraph 13th October 2007
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MP questions bug hospital safety - BBC Health News 12th October 2007
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Superbug row chairman pressured to resign - The Telegraph 13th October 2007
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Letters to the Telegraph - The Telegraph 13th October 2007
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MP questions bug hospital safety - BBC Health News 12th October 2007
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Scientists' new report warns that around half of Britons will be seriously overweight by 2050 Obesity will cost £45 billion a year by 2050 if the epidemic is not brought under control through dramatic changes across British society, a landmark government inquiry into the problem will warn this week.
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Matt Keating: I'll take the healthy option, but only if the boss is paying - The Guardian 15th October 2007
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Obesity crisis ‘on the same scale as global warming’ - The Times 15th October 2007
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Trans fats to be banned to halt rise in obesity - The Telegraph 15th October 2007
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Obesity crisis ‘on the same scale as global warming’ - The Times 15th October 2007
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Trans fats to be banned to halt rise in obesity - The Telegraph 15th October 2007
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Obesity is as serious a threat as climate change, says minister - The Independent on Sunday 14th October 2007
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Food firms must combat obesity - The Sunday Times 14th October 2007
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Hospitals on 'supersize' alert - The Sunday Telegraph 14th October 2007
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Obesity likened to climate change - BBC Health News 14th October 2007
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Obesity likened to climate change - BBC Health News 14th October 2007
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The shocking extent of England's binge-drinking culture is laid bare today with new official figures showing an alarming increase in emergency hospital admissions owing to alcohol abuse. Previously unpublished NHS data obtained by The Observer reveals that the number of people who had to be taken to hospital over the past five years has risen sharply in every region of the country.
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Royal College calls for a law change as Channel 4 prepares to televise footage from terminations Britain's nurses are calling for the law on abortion to be changed so that they can perform terminations on women in the early stages of pregnancy. Their request comes as Channel 4 prepares to broadcast footage taken during the abortion of a 16-week-old foetus for the first time on British TV. The scenes in Wednesday's Dispatches documentary will fuel the growing debate on abortion, which Parliament is preparing to review for the first time since 1990.
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Brutal truth of DIY abortion - The Sunday Times 14th October 2007
The government's commitment finally to provide enough counsellors is a landmark moment in mental health care
Her teenage son starts university next year, and she's worried that a vegan diet will expose him to colds and infections. Three experts try to boost his diet - and her confidence
The government has ordered a wide-ranging investigation into wireless computer networks amid concerns over the potential health risks they pose for millions of schoolchildren and office workers. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) will spend two years conducting lab tests and monitoring exposure levels to the wireless signals in classrooms, homes and offices, before compiling a health risk report on the technology.
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Tumour victim says wi-fi is safe - The Sunday Times 14th October 2007
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Inquiry into health risks of wi-fi in classrooms - The Telegraph 13th October 2007
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Wi-fi networks to be examined for potential risks to children - Daily Mail 12th October 2007
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Wi-fi health study gets go ahead - BBC Health News 12th October 2007
How do I best talk about a long spell of depression on my CV? I have just finished a postgraduate diploma in information library studies and plan to gain voluntary experience in the sector while looking for work. I'm currently on disability benefit as I've suffered from depression for many years. I've mentioned this in my CV, pointing out that my battle with depression has taught me a great deal about determination and self-discipline. But have I played it down too much, as my CV shows gaps for the time I was incapacitated by this illness?
A therapy last used on a mass scale in China's cultural revolution is to be unleashed on the NHS It looks like good news. In an era where psychological problems are increasingly explained in terms of biological deficits, the government has announced that it will spend £170m by 2010 on talking therapies for depression and anxiety. The scheme should pay for itself as better mental health will mean fewer sick days and benefits - £170m isn't much compared with an annual £12bn cost to the economy. But will it really help?
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Feeling hunger is as simple as PYY - The Independent 15th October 2007
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time how a hormone may hold the key to explaining why people carry on eating, even if they have already eaten enough to fill them up. The discovery of the role of the hormone PYY could lead to new treatments to reduce obesity, which affects almost one in four adults in Britain.
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Appetite 'control centres' found - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
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Unlocking the secrets of cot death - The Independent on Sunday 14th October 2007
Exclusive: A major new report seen by the IoS has revealed that smoking holds the key to a mystery that has baffled doctors and brought heartache to thousands. Nine out of 10 mothers whose babies suffered cot death smoked during pregnancy, according to a scientific study to be published this week. The study, thought to be one of the most authoritative to date on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), says women who smoke during pregnancy are four times more likely than non-smokers to see their child fall victim to cot death.
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Pauline Goodwin's daughter was taken into care before she'd even left hospital. She says she'll fight to get her baby back When Pauline Goodwin went into hospital to give birth to a baby daughter in June 2005, two people came to see her in the delivery room: they were social workers asking her to sign the papers that would entitle them to put the baby into care. Goodwin refused.
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Potentially lethal holds designed to inflict pain on children could be banned as a result of an investigation of restraint procedures in juvenile custody. An independent review of the use of painful restraint methods in "juvenile secure settings" has been told to advise on the suitability of present methods of containing youngsters during tantrums and potentially violent outbursts.
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A government-funded project that promised ground-breaking research into the early detection and treatment of anorexia has been frozen because of the NHS funding crisis. Ministers awarded the £2 million grant, the first large-scale clinical study on eating disorders, last spring, saying that research was crucial to address a dearth of knowledge about eating disorders.
One diabetic woman in three who is under 30 skips vital injections just to lose weight. Emma Cope tells our correspondent why she took the risk Just after Emma Cope finished her A levels she went on holiday to Newquay with a group of girlfriends. She drank a lot of vodka, ate very little and didn’t once check her blood-sugar level or inject herself with insulin, even though she had recently learnt that she had type 1 diabetes. By the end of the week she reckons she had lost 1½st (9.5kg). The next day she was admitted to hospital.
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Our son, 5, is in his second year in primary school and is not happy. He quickly became reluctant to attend school last year, and this has not improved. From the start he would sob, scream and kick to avoid getting in the car and going in the school gate. I think I failed him as I misread this as a strong desire to be at home, so I reassured him that he would be fine once he got there.
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Cycling for health? It’s good for you so long as you don’t get killed - The Times 15th October 2007
Cyclists and motorbikers are at far greater risk of being killed on the roads than previously admitted by the Government, according to figures released to The Times. Published statistics from the Department for Transport suggested that motorcycling was just three times as dangerous as riding a bike which, in turn, seemed safer even than walking.
The wet summer has prompted a severe outbreak of ticks and fleas in the countryside, putting people and animals at risk of potentially fatal blood diseases. Hampshire is the worst afflicted area, with 220 cases of Lyme disease, a blood condition carried by ticks, which in human beings can cause paralysis, blindness and even death. Overall, the number of cases of infection has trebled in the past five years, because of damp conditions and mild winters.
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Wet summer causes ticks and flea outbreak - The Telegraph 15th October 2007
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Britain's soggy summer leaves legacy of ticks and fleas - Daily Mail 14th October 2007
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Taste for a cool pinta is a British tradition - The Times 15th October 2007
It is a form of milk that has been treated to a temperature of at least 135C (275F) to kill off harmful bacteria. It is then packaged in sterile containers and can be sold in whole, skimmed or semi-skimmed varieties. The process from farm to store, where it is sold in ambient temperatures not chilled, takes two weeks. It can last five months but must be refrigerated when opened.
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THOUSANDS of elderly and disabled people could benefit from reforms to the way long-term care is funded. Alistair Darling announced that an additional £2.6 billion would be given to local authority funding by 2010-11. He also said the governemnt would produce a green paper which will address the growing problem of how social care is paid for.
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Premature babies die as doctors ‘won’t even try’ to save them - The Sunday Times 14th October 2007
HUNDREDS of premature babies born in Britain are dying unnecessarily because doctors believe resuscitating them is pointless, a leading paediatrician has warned. Professor John Wyatt, consultant neonatologist at University College London hospital, says a laissez-faire culture in British hospitals is denying babies born at 23 weeks the chance of survival.
WOMEN are to be prevented from having twins through IVF because such children have higher rates of disabilities than single offspring. A government regulator is expected to rule next month that most women will be allowed only one embryo implant during infertility treatment to cut the chance of two babies.
I sprained my ankle six months ago playing tennis and saw a physiotherapist, but it is still uncomfortable. Recently, I have twice rolled over on my ankles and I feel rather unsteady in shoes. Can you suggest any further treatment?
Medical tourism can save you thousands of pounds, but do your research first, says Mark Bridge Medical tourism is taking off. According to Treatmentabroad.net, a specialist website, 50,000 Britons headed overseas last year to have private medical or dental work at knockdown prices. The savings can be huge – more than 60 per cent off the cost of common procedures, with travel and a beach break included.
How much exercise should we take? The answer is: more young woman skipping “PUBLIC misled on exercise needs” was the headline that caught my eye this week. What it didn’t convey was the confusion that has prevailed for a while now about how much we should exercise.
If Gordon Brown thought that having a distinguished clinician as a minister would mend fences with the medical profession, this will be a sharp awakening. The poll by doctors shows that the report by Lord Darzi has failed to impress. Charged with a review that involved talking to staff and hearing their concerns, his report shows little evidence that he listened.
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Doctors reject Gordon Brown’s reforms to improve patient access, poll finds - The Times 13th October 2007
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It has been a defining confrontation between science and the Government, pitting white coats against grey suits over the future of fertility clinics and research into incurable diseases. Yet when ministers admitted defeat on Monday over planned reforms to Britain’s 17-year-old embryology laws, the decision generated only a few paragraphs in the next morning’s papers.
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Young Arsenal star Theo Walcott is back after a long injury. He talks to Simon Crompton about fitness, family and fame – and why tackling a breast-feeding campaign is his new game plan
A cancer patient who filmed his own bone marrow transplant and posted a video and text diary throughout his treatment has won an award for his online blog (Will Pavia writes). Adrian Sudbury, 26, had acute myeloid leukaemia diagnosed shortly before Christmas last year. He was later found to be suffering from a second chronic strain of leukaemia.
Reservists’ mental suffering is acute and, too often, neglected “The best time of my life was being in the Army and fighting for my country,” Private Dave Forshaw wrote in his heart-rending suicide note. It was life outside the Army, back in the country for which he had been fighting as a reservist, that he could not face. As Martin Fletcher reports today, Private Forshaw may or may not have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but he was surely a casualty of the Iraq war in which he fought for two six-month tours. And there will be more like him.
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Lonely death of Private Dave Forshaw: the Territorial soldier in turmoil - The Times 13th October 2007
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Something unusual happened yesterday. A patient asked for my name after our consultation, even though it’s clearly marked on the door, but not because she wanted to complain. Later I saw a receptionist toying nervously with a thank-you card and a bottle of Chilean merlot. The thing was, she didn’t know what to do with them. The NHS has a hierarchy in place to deal with complaints, but anything complimentary leaves everybody scratching their heads.
A man wonders if masturbating facedown when younger caused erectile dysfunction and if he should tell his son about it
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Binge drinking is pushing up the number of emergency admissions to hospital, new figures reveal. Since the licensing laws were relaxed two years ago to allow 24-hour drinking, the number of patients with alcohol-related injuries or illness has risen in many accident and emergency departments.
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Helena Bonham Carter: 'I would have tried anything, even IVF' - The Telegraph 15th October 2007
Helena Bonham Carter, alternative therapy devotee, tells Andrea Manzi-Davies how she resorted to fertility drugs in her quest to conceive a second child at 41 Pregnancy at 41 certainly agrees with Helena Bonham Carter. Seven months into carrying her second child, vibrant and beaming, she is licking big globules of Marmite – her latest craving – off her fingers.
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A doctor cannot let his moral judgment get in the way of patient welfare, says Max Pemberton Mr Freeman had been watching television when the pain in his stomach began. Initially, it was a grumbling, uncomfortable pain in the centre, and he ignored it, but over the next few hours it became more intense and moved to the lower right-hand corner of his abdomen. So he went to hospital.
James Le Fanu on living wills, itchy feet, troublesome ankles and having lots of puff The fate worse than death is to find oneself towards the end afflicted by some grievous illness, but with no immediate prospect of moving on. Hence the sensible precaution of making a living will or advanced directive with instructions that doctors need not "struggle officiously" to keep one alive.
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Letters to the Telegraph - The Telegraph 15th October 2007
In 1997 Tony Blair claimed that he would increase spending on NHS services by reducing management overheads. This idea made sense, since a great deal of management time was involved in coping with inadequate resources, including shortages of doctors, consultants and nurses.
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Britain's children, we are told, are deeply stressed, badly fed and uncontrollably delinquent. Their parents are overworked and out of their depth. Who should be sitting on the naughty step, asks Jenny McCartney It appears to be a compulsory condition of modern parenthood that we are permanently in despair about the well-being of our children. A survey emerged last week, however, that illustrates that British adults are not alone in their chronic worrying: an independent inquiry called Primary Review found that very young schoolchildren are also "stressed" and "deeply anxious" about everything from constant testing in schools to global warming and the terrorist threat.
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Parents who allow and even encourage their children to smoke cannabis are guilty of ignorance and complacency, the Association of Chief Police Officers has warned. It said many parents did not understand the serious health risks of newer, more potent strains of the drug
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All 12-year-old girls should be routinely vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical cancer, government advisers will recommend next week. Girls up to the age of 15 will also be able to request the vaccination, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is expected to say.
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Case study: 'Silly not to have cancer jab' - The Telegraph 13th October 2007
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Let older girls have cervical cancer jab, say experts - Daily Mail 12th October 2007
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The final weeks of Esme Collins's life are a tragic lesson for anyone who has not made provision for their care needs in old age. Niki Chesworth reports Sometimes it takes the case of one individual to make the rest of us sit up and take note. The tragic final days of Esme Collins, 103, may be just such a case.
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Nina Grunfeld's new series on being yourself. Week 1: Who am I? Do you ever get the feeling that maybe you're different things to different people and that you're not really sure who you are? Maybe you dislike it when two of your groups of friends meet (somehow you don't know which persona to adopt). Perhaps you don't like making phone calls to one colleague in front of another (does the second colleague know the self you're showing this other person?).
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A cab driver has been fined £50 for smoking in his car. Iftikhar Ahmed, 50, is thought to be the first vehicle driver to be caught since it became illegal to smoke in any place of work on July 1.
A pioneering British study could produce a simple test for predicting crippling arthritis in later life within years, experts say. The investigation is the largest ever undertaken to identify the genetic causes of a common disease.
A woman celebrating 20 years since she became Britain's youngest successful heart transplant baby today thanked her donor 'from the bottom of my heart'. Kaylee Davidson, from Washington in Newcastle, made medical history when she had the transplant aged just four months at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.
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Thousands of young people with potentially fatal heart conditions are not being given screening tests which could save many lives. Every day in Britain, one person aged under 35 dies from the range of conditions known as sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS).
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Primary school children and their parents are suffering from "deep anxiety" about modern life, according to a study of education in England. The Cambridge-based Primary Review's report said the pressure of Sats tests dominated the last two primary years.
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Male fertility at risk from chlamydia - The Guardian 15th October 2007
The most common sexually transmitted disease in Britain may harm men's fertility by causing genetic damage to their sperm, research has shown. Chlamydia is widely known to damage women's fertility by causing scarring and blockages in the fallopian tubes, but the latest study is the first strong evidence to suggest it reduces male fertility too.
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Chlamydia’s Young Toll - The Times 15th September 2007
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Male infertility alert over hidden bacteria - The Times 15th September 2007
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No one thought that integrity of sperm DNA was important - The Times 15th October 2007
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The Dutch government will ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, the justice ministry said yesterday, rolling back part of the country's permissive drug policy after a number of incidents, including the death of a teenager who had eaten them.
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Netherlands bans magic mushrooms - BBC Health News 12th October 2007
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Early blood test for Alzheimer's found - The Independent 15th October 2007
A simple blood test is being developed that could detect Alzheimer's disease years before the classic symptoms of memory loss and dementia appear. Preliminary results show that the test is more than 90 per cent accurate and can detect Alzheimer's up to six years before symptoms emerge. However, further work is needed before the test could be used to diagnose real patients.
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The blood test that predicts if you will develop Alzheimer's - Daily Mail 15th October 2007
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Test 'can spot Alzheimer's risk' - BBC Health News 15th October 2007
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Asthma blamed on cleaning sprays and air fresheners - The Independent 13th October 2007
Household cleaning sprays and air fresheners could be to blame for the high rates of asthma across Europe. Use of the sprays on a regular basis increased the risk of developing the disease by between 30 to 50 per cent, a study of 3,500 people in 10 European countries including the UK has found. Even occasional use as little as once a week increased the risk. Air fresheners, furniture sprays and glass cleaners were found to have the strongest effect. Liquid cleaners and polishes had no effect.
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Using spray cleaners during housework 'raises the risk of asthma' - Daily Mail 12th October 2007
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Doing housework can cause asthma - BBC Health News 12th October 2007
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Doing housework can cause asthma - BBC Health News 12th October 2007
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Caribbean on dengue fever alert - The Sunday Times 14th October 2007
Latin America and the Caribbean are facing one of the worst outbreaks of dengue fever in decades but some UK tour operators seem unaware of the increased danger their clients are facing. The Pan American Health Organisation has warned that cases of the mosquito-borne illness, nicknamed “breakbone fever” for its agonising symptoms, could reach epidemic proportions this winter. The US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention have issued a dengue-outbreak notice for destinations including Mexico, Brazil, Guadeloupe and Martinique.
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Look of fear sparks fast reaction - BBC Health News 14th October 2007
A look of horror will grab the attention of those around you faster than a smile, US research shows. Individuals react more quickly to a fearful expression than to faces showing other emotions such as joy, a study in the journal Emotion found.
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A vaccine for ovarian cancer has produced "encouraging" results in preliminary trials, US scientists say. The vaccine is designed to enhance the body's own immune response to the cancer, said the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, based in Buffalo, New York.
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A series of reports in the Lancet medical journal highlights the global problem of avoidable deaths among pregnant women. The problem is starkly illustrated in Nicaragua, where a new law has put a blanket ban on abortion - even in cases of rape or where the mother's life might be in danger.
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Disease affecting affluent Kenyans - BBC Health News 11th October 2007
It is called the "silent killer". In Kenya the official rate for people suffering from the disease, diabetes is 3.5%, but even the experts at the Ministry of Health in Nairobi know this is a ludicrous underestimate.
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Parents are naive and complacent about the widespread use of cannabis among teenagers, senior police officers said today. The Association of Chief Police Officers said adults did not understand that new, more potent forms of the drug were available, and harming young people.
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Hospitals to battle deadly bug with £400,000 funding - Liverpool Daily Post 12th October 2007
THE Royal Liverpool Hospital is stepping up its fight against deadly hospital bug C difficile by using £400,000 of fresh government funding to buy equipment and train staff. The news comes in the wake of a Healthcare Commission report condemning a Kent NHS trust for a “litany” of errors, which resulted in 90 deaths from the bacterial infection, which mainly affects the elderly.
RESIDENTS in Wirral will take part in the biggest health survey of its kind to help health authorities understand local needs. Wirral PCT is launching the survey, being undertaken by the North West Public Health Observatory and the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University.
An inquest this week heard that 19-year-old Tristan Mayers died after being treated for mental illness from the age of 15. His mother Christine tells Rebecca Edwards that – despite his illness – she remembers him as a caring teenager. Tristan Mayers suffered from depression from the age of ten. By his mid-teens he was receiving treatment for paranoid hallucinations that made him think he had committed the September 11 atrocities.
THE outrage of 4,000 known petitioners opposed to the proposed closure of a city residential care home has sparked formal resistance at Chester Town Hall. Cheshire County Council wants to close three residential care homes across Cheshire, including Lightfoot Lodge.
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Osteopaths aim to get patients back to health - Chester Chronicle 12th October 2007
DON’T let back pain rule your life, say city osteopaths in National Back Care Week. The Osteopathic Health Centre in Cheyney Road, Chester has been supporting Back Care Week this week.
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WHEN it comes to the health service, foundation trusts are the new black. Every NHS manager in the country is raving about the new status, which ultimately gives them the freedom to ditch national targets and focus on their own locally-set goals.
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Blueprint unveiled for mental health super hospitals - Lancashire Telegraph 12th October 2007
HEALTH chiefs are urging people to have their say on the location of a new super hospital. Starting this month, a series of public meetings will be held to gauge which of the six East Lancashire sites will be the base for the new mental health hospital.
A MOTHER has caught MRSA from her baby after an outbreak of the superbug in the Royal Blackburn Hospital. And first-time mum Jenna Hodgkiss, 20, said she was 'appalled' that she had to wait before telling that her son Kian had become infected with the PVL-strain of MRSA.
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Teenager gets cancer all-clear - Lancashire Telegraph 12th October 2007
A TEENAGER who was diagnosed with testicular cancer 15 months ago has been given the all-clear. David McLoughlin, 18, is now preparing to celebrate with his family, whose support he says have helped his speedy recovery.
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AN INMATE from Styal prison is being investigated for suspected tuberculosis. The woman has been taken to an outside hospital to allow doctors to carry out a series of tests to confirm whether she is suffering from the disease, which usually affects the lungs.
SIX new community children's nurses will be employed in Bolton. Primary Care Trust bosses have been given £112,000 in Government cash to recruit the new members of staff, who will add to the nine already working in the borough. In future years the PCT will foot the £205,000 annual bill to keep the additional nurses.
PEDAL power is being used to help get people in Bolton fit. Health bosses have launched a new scheme offering twice weekly free cycle rides to adults across the borough.
VOLUNTEERS who give up their free time to help to entertain patients at Trafford General Hospital are about to celebrate a double anniversary. The hospital's Radio Wishing Well first went on the air in 1982, and as well as marking its 25th birthday members will also chalk up 10 years in their current accommodation when they throw a party on October 18.
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Health fairs - Altrincham Messenger 12th October 2007
THE first in a series of community health fairs will be held by Trafford Primary Care Trust on October 18.
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