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‘Free drinks for women’ offers may be banned – The Guardian 13th October 2008
Bars could be banned from offering free alcohol to women and restaurants may be obliged to serve wine in glasses with marked measures under new proposals being considered by the government, it emerged yesterday.
The moves are intended to cut public drunkenness – and its attendant health and social problems – by encouraging people to drink sensibly.
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Jeremy Kuper: Don’t ignore Alzheimer’s patients – The Observer 12th October 2008
But we could start by treating sufferers with the sympathy and respect they deserve
I want to talk about dementia – an incurable and terminal condition. The author Terry Pratchett, who is himself suffering from Alzheimer’s, a form of dementia, is doing just that. He is heading up a campaign by the Alzheimer’s Society to tackle the stigma associated with the illness.
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GPs win care fight for asylum seekers – The Observer 12th October 2008
Clampdown on ‘health tourism’ to be scrapped
The government is ready to scrap controversial plans to clamp down on so-called ‘health tourism’ among asylum seekers, following a revolt by doctors.
Ministers had threatened to withdraw the right to free GP treatment from asylum seekers whose claims were rejected, forcing them to pay for care privately or go without in all cases except emergencies. However, doctors have argued the move would be unethical and potentially illegal, with some saying they would treat patients regardless of any new rules.
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Your letters – The Observer 12th October 2008
Catherine Bennett suggests that objections to legalising assisted suicide are based on religious grounds (’Let this woman die as she chooses, not in a death plant’, Comment, last week). Yet 94 per cent of specialist palliative care physicians oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide.
We wish to protect and conserve the dignity of all dying patients, who may feel depressed, a burden to others or fear future pain. Research shows that if patients approaching death are treated as if they no longer matter, they will act and believe that life is not worth living.
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Questions, questions – The Guardian 11th October 2008
Most patients are satisfied with the service they get from the tax-funded health service. And people with recent experience of treatment tend to be a lot more impressed with the standard of care than those who rely for their information on badmouthing of the NHS in the press.
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I am 57 and concerned about my loss/reduction of sense of taste, particularly on the tip of my tongue. Is this an inevitable consequence of ageing? I recall reading somewhere that this is an early sign of Parkinson’s, which my father suffered from.
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Dentists face curbs on abuse of salary system – The Independent 13th October 2008
The Department of Health is planning a crackdown on dentists who have been “exploiting” the system to maximise their incomes, denying thousands of patients access to treatment, The Independent has learnt. Dentists recall healthy patients for checks too frequently and divide courses of treatment to trigger extra payments, it is alleged.
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Ethics expert calls for drugs to ‘enhance’ death – The Independent 13th October 2008
It might be termed the hallucinogenic way of death. Psychoactive drugs such as “magic mushrooms” could be used to enhance the experience of dying, according to an expert in medical ethics.
Robin Mackenzie, director of medical law and ethics at the University of Kent, is to call today for people to be given more choice over how they die at a workshop in London organised by Exit International, an Australian organisation advocating voluntary euthanasia.
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National Institute for Clinical Excellence promises to take prompt action
What price a life? The controversial National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) is about to decide. Under bitter attack for denying life-extending drugs for conditions such as cancer and dementia, the body is to revolutionise how it chooses which vital life- saving drugs are funded by the NHS.
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Bournemouth bans ‘Dr Death’ – The Independent 11th October 2008
Council and hotel prevent euthanasia doctor from lecturing in seaside town
The euthanasia debate wasrevived yesterday when an Australian doctor was banned from holding a workshop on how people could end their lives and a man was spared jail for killing his bed-ridden wife. Dr Philip Nitschke, who has been nicknamed Dr Death, had planned to hold a session on euthanasia in Bournemouth next week but the owners of his first and second venue choices, the local council and Hermitage Hotel, cancelled his bookings.
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Girl, 13, was given cancer vaccine ‘without consent’ – The Sunday Times 12th October 2008
A new row has broken out over the government’s programme of mass vaccination of schoolgirls against cervical cancer after a mother claimed her daughter received the jab without either of them consenting to it.
Debbie Jones has filed an official complaint against health professionals who she claims took the 13-year-old aside at school and administered the injection.
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Ministers to ban free drinks for women – The Sunday Times 12th October 2008
Bars are to be banned from offering free alcohol to women and free wine and beer tastings will be curbed under a new system of government restrictions to cut public drunkenness.
There will also be rules to limit “happy hour” offers that encourage speed drinking and soft drinks will have to be sold at the same discount during promotions. Wine in restaurants will have to be served in glasses with marked measures.
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Harefield transplant deaths review – The Times 11th October 2008
Heart transplants at Harefield Hospital are being reviewed after four people died within a month of surgery, its NHS trust said. They died after four consecutive operations, conducted by three different surgeons, between July and September. Fifteen transplants have been performed this year at the northwest London hospital. Four people died within 30 days, two inside 90 days and one after 90 days. Last year there were 24 transplants, with no deaths under 30 days. An independent surgeon and cardiologist will carry out the review.
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Britain may back EU plan to relax rules on ‘mad cow’ cattle testing – The Times 11th October 2008
Tough controls on beef that protect consumers from the human form of “mad cow” disease may be relaxed in Britain and across the Continent.
At present the brains of all cattle aged over 30 months are tested for BSE before the beef is allowed into the food chain. The European Commission has now put forward a plan to raise the testing age to 48 months from next January.
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Obesity leads to rise in cosmetic surgery to reduce flabby skin – The Telegraph 13th October 2008
Rising obesity levels have prompted a surge in cosmetic surgery of up to 31 per cent over the past five years, according to plastic surgeons.
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Cervical cancer jab given ‘without consent’ – The Sunday Telegraph 12th October 2008
A mother claims her daughter was injected with the cervical cancer vaccine without her consent.
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Dating website launched for STI sufferers – The Sunday Telegraph 12th October 2008
Dating when you have an incurable sexually transmitted infection is a fraught business, with sufferers facing ignorance, humiliation and rejection. Three women talk to Louise Millar about their experiences – and an initiative that offers new hope
Dating can be complicated enough at the best of times. Add to that the worry of having to tell a new partner that you have an incurable sexually transmitted infection and it can become almost inconceivable. When should you tell your date – and how? How do you know they won’t tell anyone? And what judgement will they make about you?
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Mediterranean diet ‘halves’ risk of skin cancer – The Sunday Telegraph 12th October 2008
Eating a Mediterranean diet can halve the risk of the most dangerous form of skin cancer, research suggests.
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Bars could be banned from offering free drinks to women and cigarette-style health warnings could be put on alcoholic drinks under new rules to curb binge-drinking.
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Children banned from sunbeds to combat skin cancer risk – The Sunday Telegraph 12th October 2008
Children are to be banned from using tanning salons to reduce the risk of developing skin cancer.
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Insurers are routinely refusing to pay out on health policies because customers fail to declare full medical histories.
And they are doing so even when any previous condition is irrelevant to the current claim.
One mother was refused a payment over breast cancer because she had not divulged on her application that she had suffered post-natal depression, according to ITV’s Tonight.
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Pubs could be banned from promotions such as offering free drinks to women as part of a raft of proposals to tackle binge drinking.
A draft code of conduct was circulated to the drinks and hospitality industries last month after ministers judged that a voluntary agreement to crack down on alcohol consumption had failed.
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The cost of retirement could top £1million for those living to the age of 100 – and many will have to sell their homes just to cover nursing costs.\n\nA report has warned that today’s generation aged between 48 and 65 face having to raid their savings and to cash in property to cover escalating care home costs and other essential bills.
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Now bald men can blame their dads… as well as their mums – Daily Mail 13th October 2008
Bald men could inherit the condition from their fathers, according to research which suggests a new genetic link to hair loss.
Previously, the only known genetic association with male pattern baldness was passed down the mother’s side of the family.
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A mother whose newborn daughter refused to feed from her right breast dismissed it as a baby’s whim.
But when she had the same problem with her second child, a boy, Lauren Dixon feared it might not be a coincidence.
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Tomato ketchup has been banned from school canteens as part of a move towards healthier eating.
Primary schools in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, have removed the sauce because it contains ‘too much salt and sugar’. The move has been branded ‘daft’ by some parents.
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Michelle Desilets wasn’t surprised she was exhausted. The founder of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK had just returned from a hard, three-month business trip to Indonesia, Australia and America in 2006.
Once back at home in Ambrosden, Oxfordshire, Michelle noticed her feet were itching all the time. The itching soon spread to her entire body and was so bad that within three months she found herself red raw all over.
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A British cancer patient has become the first in Europe to have her breast removed using revolutionary keyhole surgery.
The operation leaves minimal scarring, improves recovery time and is so advanced that some patients can have an implant at the same time and avoid disfigurement.
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They say you do crazy things when you’re pregnant. Mine was signing up to do the world’s largest half marathon – the Great North Run.
Back in January, when I was eight months pregnant and could hardly walk, October felt a long way off. It seemed a good idea at the time.
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Busy pregnant executives bring midwives to the office – Daily Mail 9th October 2008
Midwives are providing high-flying City women with pregnancy care at their desks, it was revealed today.
The 24-hour working culture means many female executives find it impossible to juggle hospital check-ups with meetings.
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Gene scan to predict hair loss – BBC Health News 11th October 2008
Genes that may increase by seven-fold the risk of early baldness amongst men have been uncovered by a team of international researchers.
Analysis of the DNA from 5,000 volunteers with and without male-pattern baldness found two stretches of the genome linked with the condition.
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‘Nanotech search’ for antibiotics – BBC Health News 12th October 2008
UK researchers are using microscopic “nanoprobes” to find new drugs to tackle antibiotic resistance.
The tiny ultra-sensitive probes can measure how well a drug binds to bacteria and its ability to weaken and destroy the bug.
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Welsh operators help US mum-to-be – BBC Health News 11th October 2008
Welsh emergency operators came to the rescue of a pregnant woman helping to deliver her twins in Nevada, USA.
Staff at The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust’s headquarters in Pontypool were called in to help by the American mother-to-be’s UK-based boyfriend.
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Common fibre a ‘true superfood’ – BBC Health News 11th October 2008
A fibre found in most fruit and vegetables may help ward off cancer, experts believe.
An ongoing study by the Institute of Food Research suggested pectin, a fibre found in everything from potato to plums, helped to fight the disease.
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Union may strike over health jobs – BBC Health News 10th October 2008
A public sector union has threatened to call a strike if jobs cuts in the Health Service are forced through.
More than 700 nursing posts are under threat in Northern Ireland as part of wider plans to cut almost 2,500 health service jobs over the next three years
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Call to ban junk food from NHS – BBC Health News 10th October 2008
Hospitals and GP surgeries should follow the lead of schools and ban sugary drinks and snacks, say experts.\n\nThe British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) called on the NHS to fill its vending machines with water, fruit juices and healthy snacks.
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Deaths lead to transplants review – BBC Health News 10th October 2008
Heart transplants at a London hospital are being reviewed after four people died within a month of their operations.
They died after four consecutive transplants between July and September at Harefield Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust said.
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