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Ministers were yesterday battling to defuse a growing crisis over whether dissenting Labour MPs should be entitled to vote against parts of the human embryology and fertilisation bill. The health secretary, Alan Johnson, who is responsible for piloting the bill through the Commons, said no MPs would be forced to vote against their conscience, but stopped short of a commitment that MPs would be entitled to vote against parts of the bill.
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Labour seek embryo bill compromise - The Guardian 24th March 2008
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Brown softens stance on cloning to head off MPs' revolt - The Independent 24th March 2008
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Leading article: A vote based on conscience is a principle to be upheld - The Independent 24th March 2008
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Embryology Bill: Bishop's ‘Frankenstein’ attack smacks of ignorance, say scientists - The Times 24th March 2008
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: whatever happened to the ‘yuk’ factor? - The Times 24th March 2008
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Embryo Bill: For and against - The Telegraph 24th March 2008
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If this monstrous Bill is not a matter for MPs, then what is? - Daily Mail 23rd March 2008
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MPs urged to support embryo bill - BBC Health News 23rd March 2008
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If this monstrous Bill is not a matter for MPs, then what is? - Daily Mail 23rd March 2008
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MPs urged to support embryo bill - BBC Health News 23rd March 2008
Shopkeepers could be banned from displaying cigarettes under plans being considered by the Government, according to reports. In a bid to cut the number of smokers and prevent children from taking up the habit, ministers have drawn up proposals including a bar on displaying tobacco products and the removal of vending machines from pubs, The Times said. Measures that make it easier to sell nicotine replacement gums and patches are also on the table.
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Cigarettes to be sold under shop counters - The Times 24th March 2008
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Cigarette display ban considered - BBC Health News 24th March 2008
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Cigarettes to be sold under shop counters - The Times 24th March 2008
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Cigarette display ban considered - BBC Health News 24th March 2008
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Alarmist condemnation of all alternative therapies ignores the crucial role some could play in the human healing process Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All; Snake Oil Science; and next month sees another, Trick or Treatment: what these new books have in common is varying degrees of frustration at the seemingly inexorable rise of complementary medicine. It seems the aim of some of these authors is to finish off a burgeoning health industry that they believe is based on charlatans and quacks preying on the gullible and desperate.
New StoryHard drug use and heavy drinking have been highlighted as key problems for Britain in a study by the Government’s Strategy Unit. The report also gives warning of changing trends in gun crime, including the use of firearms to “win respect”, particularly in urban areas. The study suggests that the criminal justice system would be unable to cope with law and order problems unless it undergoes sweeping reforms. It says that changes over the past ten years have not led to higher public satisfaction with the overall system.
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The idea of choice as used by the Government is a cop-out, says Max Pemberton You need a hip replacement. You have a choice of hospitals at which to have this done. Do you choose a) the hospital with a dreadful reputation and incompetent doctors where you are practically guaranteed to contract some hideous ward?acquired infection?
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Women born with cardiac problems endanger their lives when they undergo childbirth. Victoria Lambert meets some of the risk-takers The moment 33-year-old Catherine Baker realised that her pregnancy had put her life in danger occurred not while she was pregnant but, incredibly, 18 months after her son Joshua was born. For only when she decided to have a second child did she learn that her aorta - the principal artery that carries blood to the heart - had stretched so much due to her first pregnancy that it had weakened considerably. Were she to become pregnant again, she was told, there was every chance it would burst, killing her before the nine months were up.
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Two superbugs are causing the deaths of more than 10,000 hospital patients every year, an expert has disclosed. The number of deaths from MRSA and clostridium difficile is being underestimated by about 20 per cent, one of the country's leading authorities on superbugs has said. Official figures put the number of deaths from the two infections at about 8,000 a year.
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As a last resort, insomniac Maria Fitzpatrick tried reflexology - with surprising results 'Have you had problems with your spine, madam?" There it is, I think to myself: the question that confirms that I was right to doubt reflexology. I would have been impressed, even hopeful, if the therapist, who knows next to nothing about me (except that I'm seeking a solution for chronic insomnia), had put his finger on my history of kidney problems while kneading my feet, or even found something disrupting the "energy pathway" to my tired brain.
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For five years they lived under the shadow of a rare condition that threatened to kill their four sons before they left their teens. But David and Allison Hartley can at last put the nightmare behind them after the final bone marrow transplant which means each boy can now enjoy a normal life. The youngest, eight-year-old Luke, had his operation in November at Great Ormond Street children's hospital and is now home and healthy.
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A woman who discarded male IVF embryos in an attempt to prevent a life-threatening disorder being passed on to her child is suing after giving birth to a boy. The 30-year-old Australian woman and her husband used IVF with the aim of producing a baby girl because they feared a boy would be born with the inherited blood disorder haemophilia.
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Best-selling children's author JK Rowling has revealed that she considered committing suicide when she was a single mother struggling to survive and succeed as a writer. The Harry Potter writer has admitted she thought of taking her own life when she was in her mid-20s after separating from her first husband Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist.
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Internet addiction is a serious public health problem and should be officially recognised as a clinical disorder, a psychiatrist claims. Dr Jerald Block says there are four main telltale symptoms which include: Losing all track of time or neglecting basics such as eating or sleeping; cravings and feelings of withdrawal, including anger, tension or depression, when a computer cannot be accessed; an increased need for better computer equipment and software; and negative effects such as arguments, lying, fatigue, social isolation and poor achievement.
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Hyperactive young girls are more likely to have "serious" problems in adulthood, research suggests. A study of more than 800 girls up to the age of 21 found hyperactivity was linked to poor job prospects, abusive relationships and teenage pregnancy. Previous research on the lasting impact of childhood hyperactivity has focused on boys, who are more likely to be diagnosed and treated.
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Every time Richard Tate visited the Royal Marsden Hospital the news got worse. "I went to see the specialist and he told me there was a shadow on the X-ray, on the lung. "I definitely had lung cancer and it had metastasised and spread to the liver. I also had prostate cancer."
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Scientists have shown that stem cells produced by therapeutic cloning are effective for treating Parkinson's disease, in the first convincing demonstration that stem cells derived from the subject can be used to treat a serious disease. The technique has only been tried in mice, but scientists have hailed it as proof that a similar approach could be successful in humans.
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Parkinson's: the breakthrough - The Independent 24th March 2008
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Cloned cells bring hope of therapy for Parkinson’s disease - The Times 24th March 2008
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Clone treatment may help find Parkinson's cure - The Telegraph 24th March 2008
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Cloning treats mouse Parkinson's - BBC Health News 24th March 2008
Last week's death of Chantal Sébire has provoked an emotional reaction in France likely to result in a change in the law, to allow doctors a limited right to assist a patient's suicide. The way the French decide the issue could be a lesson to Britain, suffering similar legal defects and uncertainties. Sébire, a 52-year-old former teacher with three children, developed a rare, incurable form of cancer, which gradually destroyed her senses of smell, taste and sight and disfigured her face grotesquely, so that, she explained on television, children ran away at the sight of her.
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Thousands of heart surgery patients may be at risk from transfusions of blood that has been stored for two weeks or more. A study of more than 9,000 patients in the US has shown that those given blood more than 14 days old are 65 per cent more likely to die before discharge, and 50 per cent more likely to die within a year.
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A serious form of meningitis and pneumonia that is resistant to drugs has emerged in children. Twelve cases have been identified over six years and five children died. Most had been treated with antibiotics for a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis and it is thought this led to the emergence of the resistant form of pneumoccocal disease, which includes meningitis, pneumonia and septicaemia.
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