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Survey highlights bad advice by pharmacies – The Guardian 25th September 2008
Poorly trained staff in some pharmacies are giving customers unsuitable and potentially dangerous medical advice, according to an undercover investigation by Which?\n\nThe consumer watchdog says its officers were badly advised in a third of 101 pharmacies they visited across the UK. Independent chemists rated particularly poorly, giving unsatisfactory advice on about half of the visits.
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Pupils to be offered free school meals in effort to boost health – The Guardian 25th September 2008
Pupils are to be offered free school meals in a pilot scheme that could be expanded nationwide if it is proved to make a marked difference to their health and concentration, ministers said yesterday.
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Pregnant women may be offered flu vaccinations – The Guardian 25th September 2008
Pregnant women could be offered the flu jab to protect themselves and their unborn babies from next year.
Government advisers have called for all pregnant women in England to be vaccinated after research showed that influenza rates fell by more than half after expectant mothers were given the vaccine.
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Independent chemists ‘worst for reliable advice’ – The Independent 25th September 2008
If you want the best medical advice, avoid small independent chemists, an undercover investigation suggests today.
Some 48 per cent of non-chain pharmacies gave misleading, inaccurate or potentially dangerous “help” to shoppers, according to the consumer group Which?. National and regional chemists’ chains – including Lloyds – dispensed poor advice on 38 per cent of visits, while supermarkets got it wrong in almost a third of cases.
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Every primary school pupil in England could receive free school meals under a scheme set to form a central plank of Labour’s election manifesto.
If introduced across the country, the £1bn programme would include almost four million children and save families more than £300 per child per year. In a speech to the Labour Party conference, Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, announced a £40m two-year pilot programme, which will test whether the scheme should be introduced at all schools.
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Psychiatric wards hit by surge of rape claims – The Independent 25th September 2008
The vulnerability of female patients on England’s NHS psychiatric wards was revealed yesterday by figures showing that 435 patients reported being sexually assaulted last year, including 15 who said they had been raped.
The Tories, who obtained the figures, said the scale of assaults was increasing, raising new fears about the safety of patients. Labour had “broken their promises” on standards in mental health care, they said.
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Measles cases rise as MMR vaccination rate stalls – The Times 25th September 2008
The number of measles cases is set to exceed 1,000 for the first time in decades as vaccination rates for the MMR jab have stalled.
One in four children in England is still not receiving the suggested two doses of MMR – which guards against measles, mumps and rubella – meaning that coverage is significantly lower than that needed to prevent a measles epidemic, the latest figures show.
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A pregnant woman about to have a Caesarean after a difficult three-day labour was sworn at by a hospital worker who demanded to know why she couldn’t give birth naturally, a hearing was told today.
Samantha Shepherd was told that her baby’s life would be in danger if she didn’t have a Caesarean. But the conversation with her doctor was interrupted when Nigel Baglin, a surgery assistant, stormed into the room and shouted “F****** hell, why can’t women in this hospital give birth naturally?”
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NICE is right to worry about the use of Ritalin – The Telegraph 25th September 2008
Diderot, 18th-century French encyclopaedist and philosopher, summed up the occasional feelings of every parent: “All children are essentially criminal.” This was not a discovery of the Enlightenment. Socrates had much the same opinion: “Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.”
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Catholic school bans girls from having cervical cancer jabs – The Telegraph 24th September 2008
A Roman Catholic school has barred 12 and 13-year-old pupils from being immunized against cervical cancer on its premises.
Governors of St Monica’s RC High School in Prestwich, Bury, Greater Manchester, reached the decision even though the vaccination programme has been approved by the Catholic hierarchy in Britain.
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One in three pharmacies is giving out inadequate and potentially dangerous advice to customers, says a survey.
In some cases, unqualified staff are handing over powerful drugs without making checks with the pharmacist.
And some online pharmacies are apparently breaking the law by selling more painkillers than the limit per customer.
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A doctor swore at a woman who had been in labour for three days after he was told she would need a caesarean to save the life of her child.\n\nAssistant anaesthetist Nigel Baglin interrupted a discussion between Samantha Shepherd and her doctor by shouting at her: ‘******* hell, why can’t women in this hospital give birth naturally?’
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A young woman who was ‘hating herself’ after a near-fatal reaction to hair dye took a fatal overdose, an inquest heard.
Emma Rowlatt, 20, had been treated in intensive care and lost all her hair in the catastrophic reaction to the dye she bought from a local shop.
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Pregnant women may be offered the flu jab to protect their babies – Daily Mail 25th September 2008
Pregnant women look likely to be offered the flu jab from next year to help protect their unborn babies.
Advisers say expectant mothers are at increased risk of illness and death from seasonal flu, especially in the later stages of pregnancy.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation originally recommended that mothers-to-be be given the jab two years ago.
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The family of a Sea Cadet who died of a heroin overdose has blamed drug-abusing celebrities for setting a bad example.
Christopher Preece, 18, overdosed when he injected himself in what was possibly his first experience with the Class A drug, an inquest heard.
His grandfather Keith Preece said: ‘Young people see the likes of Amy Winehouse taking drugs and think they’ll do it too and it’ll be okay, but that’s far from the case.’
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A Catholic school is refusing to give its pupils the cervical cancer vaccine.
Governors at the mixed secondary believe the jab would encourage promiscuity.
Their decision comes despite support for the jab from both the local diocese and the Roman Catholic Church nationally.
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A new blood test for pregnant women that detects genetic disorders in their unborn children has raised fresh fears over ‘designer babies’.
The simple test could be available in five years and can diagnose conditions such as Down’ s syndrome and cystic fibrosis.
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When Gavin Elliott felt a twinge in his side, he assumed he had pulled a muscle.
Even when the pain became excruciating, he refused to see a doctor as he thought he would be wasting their time.
In the end it was his wife, Sarah, who persuaded him to go to his local A&E – a move which saved his life.
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Measles timebomb… just 49% of children have MMR – Daily Mail 24th September 2008
Less than half of London’s five-year-olds have been vaccinated against measles amid warnings of an epidemic in the capital, it emerged today.\n\nThe revelation raises fears of further outbreaks in the city as children start the school year with no protection against the disease.
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Pharmacy advice ‘frequently poor’ – BBC Health News 25th September 2008
Staff at pharmacies are frequently giving inappropriate and occasionally dangerous advice to patients, a survey has suggested.
Staff at Which? magazine visited 101 pharmacies in the UK, and claimed they received “unsatisfactory” advice on a third of occasions.
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First NHS baby at Labour meeting – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
Aneira Thomas, the first baby born under the NHS 60 years ago, has addressed the Labour Party conference.
Mrs Thomas told delegates nurses asked her mother if she could be named Aneira, after NHS founder Nye Bevan.
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MMR vaccine uptake rise ’stalls’ – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
The rise in the uptake of the MMR jab has stalled at a level where a measles epidemic is still possible, NHS figures for England show.
NHS Information Centre data revealed 85% of children in England had had the triple jab by aged two in 2007-8 – the same as the year before.
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GPs ‘pressured over cheap drugs’ – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
GPs feel under too much pressure to use cheaper drugs as part of a cost-cutting drive by NHS bosses, a poll shows.
Nearly all NHS trusts in England have set up schemes to get GPs to use generic versions of drugs which are cheaper than branded alternatives.
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Breast cancer ‘kills more poor’ – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
Breast cancer is more likely to kill poor women than their more affluent counterparts, research shows.
A study of breast cancer patients in England and Wales diagnosed between 1986 and 1999 found overall long-term survival rates are improving.
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School refuses ‘cancer vaccine’ – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
A Roman Catholic school in Greater Manchester has banned its female pupils from receiving the new cervical cancer vaccine on its premises.
Governors at St Monica’s High School, in Prestwich, believe the school is “not the right place” for the jabs.
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American v British teeth – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
Ricky Gervais is the first to admit that his teeth are neither white nor straight – and Americans mistakenly think he wears bad false teeth for comedic purposes. Why the dental divide?
British teeth are not like American teeth.
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The Price of Life – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
In 2007, 49-year-old Andy Crabb, a father of three and grandfather of nine, was diagnosed with kidney cancer. His illness was so severe that he was told he had only months to live.
Andy’s consultant suggested that he started an experimental drug trial, but the side effects were so severe that Andy had to stop it.
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Deal to offer extra GP services – BBC Health News 24th September 2008
GPs’ surgeries in Wales will be able to open in the evening and at weekends in return for extra funding, under a £16m agreement with the assembly government.
But practices will not be forced to open later, and could offer other additional services instead.
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Paediatrician ban revoke welcomed – BBC Health News 23rd September 2008
A colleague of a doctor banned from child protection work has welcomed the lifting of his working restrictions.
Dr David Southall was stopped from such duties in 2004 after accusing the solicitor Sally Clark’s husband of murdering their two children.
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