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MPs give up battle to restrict abortions – The Observer 19th October 2008
Anti-abortion MPs last night abandoned their parliamentary fight for new restrictions, calling for the bitterly contested issue to be resolved by a high powered inquiry instead.
Nadine Dorries, the Tory MP and former nurse who has led attempts to cut the time limit for abortions, said the issue was too important to become a ‘political football’ and deserved more lengthy reflection.
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‘Last chance’ to legalise abortions in Northern Ireland – The Observer 19th October 2008
Pro-choice campaigners warned last night that a parliamentary bill aimed at extending the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland offers the last chance of giving women the right to terminate pregnancies in the province.
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Editorial: Legalise abortion in Northern Ireland – The Observer 19th October 2008
Northern Ireland’s powerful anti-abortion lobby held a rally at Stormont yesterday as part of its campaign to pile pressure on both the Assembly and Downing Street to ensure that the Province is treated differently from the rest of the UK. They want to maintain an unjust and absurd status quo: that Northern Ireland continues to be the only part of the UK where the 1967 abortion act does not apply.
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Mary Warnock: Legalise assisted suicide, for pity’s sake – The Observer 19th October 2008
The death of Daniel James, the 23-year-old rugby player who visited a Swiss euthanasia clinic last month, is the most appalling burden his parents will ever have to bear, whether or not they are prosecuted, and whether or not they are sent to prison for what they did on his behalf.
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Call for euthanasia to be legal in UK – The Observer 19th October 2008
Philosopher insists we have ‘a moral obligation’
One of Britain’s leading moral philosophers has called for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide in Britain following the death of paralysed rugby player Daniel James. Baroness Warnock, writing in today’s Observer, calls for liberalisation of euthanasia laws on the grounds that ‘we have a moral obligation to other people to take their seriously reached decisions with regard to their own lives equally seriously’.
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Atlas reveals how you are likely to die – The Observer 19th October 2008
New maps of mortality chart how geographical differences influence the main causes of death
The geographical pattern of mortality in Great Britain over the past quarter century has been mapped for the first time, revealing how each of us is most likely to die depending on where we live. The Grim Reaper’s Road Map: An Atlas of Mortality in Britain shows exactly how people’s deaths are affected by where they live, how much money they have, the type of work they do and their lifestyle.
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‘Nervous breakdown’ discharges up by 30pc among UK armed forces – The Observer 19th October 2008
The number of British military personnel discharged from the armed forces following a ‘nervous breakdown’ has risen by 30 per cent since the start of the Afghan war.
More than 1,300 have been medically discharged since 2001 when operations first began against the Taliban, new figures reveal. Of these, 770 belong to the army, which has borne the brunt of overseas operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Private cleaners barred in war on hospital bugs – The Observer 19th October 2008
Minister orders an end to privatisation to reduce the spread of infections
Scotland’s hospitals are to be banned from contracting out cleaning and catering services to private firms as part of a new drive towards cutting the spread of deadly superbugs in the NHS.
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Lethal build-up of ozone poses threat to UK – The Observer 19th October 2008
Scientists call for global measures amid warnings that the gas damages health and the environment
Britain is ignoring the dangers posed by one of the world’s worst air pollutants: ozone. Researchers say that levels of the gas – a powerful contributor to global warming and the cause of hundreds of deaths a year from respiratory illnesses – are rising at an alarming rate.
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Heart attack victims to get instant surgery – The Sunday Times 19th October 2008
People who suffer a heart attack will be given an operation to unblock their arteries within two hours in a move that will save hundreds of lives every year, Alan Johnson, the health secretary, has announced.
The conventional immediate treatment for heart attack sufferers has been the injection of clot-busting drugs.
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Get well on a personal budget – The Sunday Times 19th October 2008
We need a new approach to health funding and the answer lies in reforms already made in the field of social care. To tackle many of the painful and apparently insoluble problems of the National Health Service we should give every individual patient control over tax-based funds.
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Why didn’t the NHS save my Mady? – The Sunday Times 19th October 2008
After losing his young wife, Andrew Benson had to battle with doctors and managers for six years to get the truth about her death
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Alan Johnson in U-turn on patients’ top-up care – The Sunday Times 19th October 2008
After at least four deaths and a year of protests about top-up payments, Alan Johnson, the health secretary, is expected to declare that National Health Service rules allowed them all along.
In an announcement which is due to be made to parliament at the beginning of November, Johnson is expected to “clarify” government policy, claiming that patients are already permitted to pay for private drugs while continuing to receive NHS care. He will state that the problem arose because of a misinterpretation by some NHS hospitals.
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Human tissue could be taken from the mentally infirm without their consent and used to create embryos for experimentation, under Government proposals added to a controversial bill.
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The techniques that save lives – The Telegraph 18th October 2008
Coronary angioplasty is a technique in which a balloon and stent are used to improve blood supply to the heart.
People who suffer from angina, which means their arteries have become narrowed by a build-up of fatty material, are sometimes given the treatment in a planned operation.
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Family doctors are being paid thousands of pounds not to send their patients to hospital for specialist treatment, sparking fears over standards of care.
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Coffee and chocolate are the key to long life – The Telegraph 18th October 2008
Chocolate, coffee and tea are among the key foods and drinks needed to live a long and healthy life, according to a leading nutritional scientist.
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How sick! GPs paid bonus to NOT send you to hospital – Daily Mail 19th October 2008
GPs are to be paid cash bonuses in return for not sending patients to hospital, raising concerns that financial gain will be put before patients’ needs.
Doctors’ practices stand to earn thousands of pounds extra under the initiative, already said to have been adopted by health authorities across the country.
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Thousands of heart-attack patients will be forced to travel further for emergency treatment because of a change in the techniques used to save their lives.
The Department of Health will announce tomorrow that balloon angioplasty – administered to treat heart attacks caused by blocked arteries – will be made available to nearly every eligible patient.
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£3m for meningitis tot sent home by out-of-hours GP – Daily Mail 18th October 2008
\nA nine-year-old girl has won £3.3million in damages after an out-of-hours doctor failed to spot the early symptoms of meningitis.\n\nCaitlin Lang, then three months old, was sent home by the Vale of Glamorgan GP service after a doctor said she had gastric flu.\n\nTwo days later her mother found her unconscious in her bed.
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My mother still doesn’t know why she woke up so suddenly that night but perhaps it was gut instinct.
It was 1994, I was 15 years old and on a family sailing holiday in the Greek islands. We were moored and the four of us – including my dad and older brother Sam – were tucked up on board the yacht.
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Breast cancer is part of our everyday life – Daily Mail 18th October 2008
Fiona Gifford, 35, is a lawyer. She is single, lives in London, and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. A passionate photographer, she has established the annual Renaissance photography competition to raise funds for the Lavender Trust, which supports young women with breast cancer.
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Never too old to exercise – Daily Mail 18th October 2008
If you haven’t exercised since school or have never set foot in a gym, been jogging or joined an aerobics class – when is it too late? Here’s how five former couch potatoes in different decades of their lives have turned into exercise addicts.
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We are constantly battling against dehydration. The human body is made up of 70 per cent water, and in a typical day, without doing anything, we lose about 2.5 litres of this precious resource – essential for almost every bodily function, from regulating body temperature to removing waste products.
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Why the humble mushroom is being hailed as a superfood – Daily Mail 18th October 2008
Mushrooms are easy to overlook in the so-called rainbow colours we are advised to eat to get a full range of nutritional benefits from fruit and veg.
But research increasingly reveals why they are now qualified to join the ranks of so-called superfoods such as broccoli and blueberries.
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Heart attack plan ‘to save lives’ – BBC Health News 18th October 2008
Hundreds of lives will be saved every year with the introduction of a “gold standard” treatment for heart attacks across England, say ministers.
A balloon and tube are used to unblock arteries and permit blood flow. A death rate cut from 7% to 5% is predicted, saving about 240 lives a year.
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What does medicine owe to Africa? – BBC Health News 17th October 2008
The contribution of European culture to medicine has long been recognised.
The Greeks are thought by many to be forerunners of modern medicine – they studied the progression of disease, they knew something of the inner workings of the body, and their language gave medicine many of its terms.
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