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Teenager dies after suffering allergic reaction to acne tablets- The Guardian 30th October 2008
A 14-year-old boy has died after suffering an allergic reaction to the acne medication he was given by his doctor, his father said yesterday.
An inquest into the death of Shaun Jones, from Rhydyfelin in Pontypridd, south Wales, has been opened and adjourned while further inquiries are made. Jones was said to be a fit and healthy rugby player, but appeared to suffer a severe reaction on October 21 after taking the first dose of antibiotic tablets.
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Musician in hospital with anthrax after handling drum skins- The Guardian 30th October 2008
A man was being treated for anthrax last night in intensive care at an east London hospital after he contracted the disease by inhaling spores from animal skins.
The man was admitted to Homerton hospital last week and remains in a critical condition according to health authorities.
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Croissant and latte breakfast may not be healthier than fry-up- The Guardian 30th October 2008
A croissant and latte on the way to work may not always be a healthier option than stopping at a “greasy spoon” cafe, according to a campaign group that aims to reduce salt in diets.
Many foods eaten for breakfast contain high levels of salt. While many consumers recognise there are high salt levels in traditional English fry-ups including bacon, beans and sausages, far fewer realise that sweet pastries on offer at high street coffee chains could also contribute significantly to busting the 6g of salt daily target set for adults by the government’s Food Standards Agency (FSA).
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Screening plan to tackle male menopause – The Guardian 30th October 2008
Doctors have drawn up plans to screen older men for the male menopause, amid concerns that as many as one in five of the over-65s may be affected.
The existence of a male equivalent to the menopause is still controversial, but most experts agree some men experience a crash in testosterone that can leave them tired, depressed and lacking in libido.
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Charities lobby Nice over cancer drug – The Guardian 29th October 2008
Revlimid has been found to lengthen the lives of patients with multiple myeloma, a deadly bone cancer, by up to three years
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Warburtons warned over salty loaf – The Independent 30th October 2008
Britain’s biggest baker, Warburtons, is selling bread with up to 20 per cent more salt than rivals, putting its customers at greater risk of heart disease, an investigation by The Independent has found.
Some loaves made by Warburtons – the UK’s biggest food brand after Coca-Cola – have half a gram of salt per slice, meaning that a five-year-old child would reach their safe limit from eating three sandwiches.
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A patient has become the first in Britain to have a life-saving transplant using a technique that doctors hope will increase by 25 per cent the number of lungs available for transplant.
Kenneth Collins, 55, who was diagnosed with emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease earlier this year, had been on a transplant list since June. A third of patients die while waiting for suitable lungs to become available from donors.
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Primarolo tells makers to reduce size of snacks – The Independent 30th October 2008
Food manufacturers have been urged to tackle obesity by reducing the size of snacks and soft drinks.
Health minister Dawn Primarolo said the fact that 30 per cent of primary-school children were overweight meant that firms should start undersizing products.
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Danger lurking in your bottle of red – The Times 30th October 2008
Wines from 13 different countries contain potentially hazardous levels of metals, according to a chemical analysis by British scientists.\n\nThe findings suggest that the health benefits of drinking red wine may often be counter-balanced by risks posed by excessive levels of metals such as copper, manganese and vanadium, researchers at Kingston University said.
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Thunder of battle in Afghanistan creates hidden army of casualties – The Times 30th October 2008
British regiments serving in the mixed desert and fertile terrain of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan have fired millions of rounds of ammunition during hundreds of clashes with the Taleban in the past two years.
Close combat machine gun exchanges, roadside bombs, landmines and the dropping of precision-guided 500lb bombs from RAF Harriers and American F16s have created a cacophony and stretched military and medical resources.
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The soldier’s dilemma – save your ears or save your life – The Times 30th October 2008
War is a harsh terrain for the human ear. In Afghanistan and Iraq the prolonged use of high velocity machine guns and antitank weapons is shattering eardrums. But it was the same in the Great War.
Few returned without loss of hearing that then grew worse. In the Second World War medics recognised that artillerymen and soldiers needed greater protection for their ears. But often it was not possible to protect them, particularly from incoming fire. Frequently the right ear suffered as the infantrymen fired .303 rifles.
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Promising rugby player Shaun Jones dies after taking tablets for acne – The Times 30th October 2008
A 14-year-old boy has died after taking a medical treatment for acne prescribed by his doctor.
Shaun Jones, of Rhydyfelin, Pontypridd, died after suffering a suspected allergic reaction to the tablets. The promising rugby player developed breathing difficulties and collapsed when he took the pills for the first time.
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Tories accused of £8bn shortfall in NHS policy – The Times 30th October 2008
The Conservatives are facing accusations of an £8 billion black hole in their NHS policy after government health officials calculated a massive shortfall in their pledge to double the number of single rooms in hospitals, The Times has learnt.
The Department of Health said yesterday that it estimates that the cost of building a further 45,000 single rooms – using standard NHS costing techniques – will be £9.51 billion, rather than the £1.57 billion estimated by the Tories.
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MS sufferer Debbie Purdy loses battle on assisted suicide – The Times 30th October 2008
A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis appealed to Parliament yesterday after losing her landmark attempt to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy, 45, vowed to fight on to the Court of Appeal after failing to win a High Court ruling that the Director of Public Prosecutions must make clear the Crown Prosecution Authority’s policy on assisted suicide.
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Lord Joffe to resurrect Bill in effort to clarify law – The Times 30th October 2008
Lord Joffe is to resurrect his Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, two years after it was blocked by the House of Lords.
The peer told The Times that he decided to take action so that family and friends who wished to help to end their loved ones’ suffering knew whether or not they were committing an offence.
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Doctors remove 7lb tumour from toddler – The Times 30th October 2008
A toddler from East Timor has had a tumour which weighed one third of his body weight removed by doctors in New Zealand.
The miracle surgery, performed in Wellington on the weekend, saved the life of 14-month-old Alex Gonzaga, who would have died in weeks had the 3.3kg (7.2lb) growth not been removed.
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Drugs rationing body must release calculations – The Telegraph 29th October 2008
The NHS drugs rationing body must release details of how it reached a decision to restrict the use of new Alzheimer’s medicines, the House of Lords has ruled.
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British couples ‘choosing baby gender’ at clinics abroad – The Telegraph 29th October 2008
British couples are choosing the sex of their babies at clinics abroad which offer the procedure illegally, according to an investigation.
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One in five men over 65 is suffering from the ‘ male menopause’, it was claimed yesterday.
Experts believe that almost a million men are experiencing tiredness, moodiness and loss of libido caused by a deficiency of the hormone testosterone.
They think that many of these men would benefit from hormone replacement therapy.
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Relatives who help terminally-ill loved ones to commit suicide could still face jail after a landmark legal bid failed at the High Court yesterday.
Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy hoped to secure a guarantee that her husband would not be prosecuted if he accompanied her to the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
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A teenager collapsed and died of a suspected allergic reaction to drugs he had been prescribed for acne.
Shaun Jones, 14, developed breathing problems and collapsed after taking his first dose at home.
He was taken to hospital but could not be saved.
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Having just one glass of wine a day could expose the drinker to potentially dangerous levels of metals linked to cancer, heart attacks and Parkinson’s disease, scientists warn.
A study claims that some wines contain dangerously high levels of naturally occurring metals such as copper, zinc and nickel.
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NICE must throw open the files on Alzheimer drug ruling – Daily Mail 30th October 2008
Campaigners are hailing a landmark victory in the fight to overturn a ban on £2.50-a-day Alzheimer’s drugs for thousands of NHS patients.
The Government’s rationing body has been refused the right to appeal against a court order forcing it to reveal how it came to restrict the drugs.
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Smokers to be banned from becoming foster parents – Daily Mail 30th October 2008
Smokers could be completely banned from fostering children under controversial proposals branded health ‘fascism’ by opponents.
Redbridge in East London is believed to the first council in the country to consider a total ban on foster carers who smoke, no matter how old the child they want to look after.
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Grapes helped lower blood pressure and improve heart function in lab rats fed an otherwise salty diet, U.S. researchers have said.
The findings, published in the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, may help people with high blood pressure, they said.
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Allergies are the body’s defense against cancer, claim researchers – Daily Mail 29th October 2008
Most people with allergies consider them a nuisance at best while more serious cases can be life threatening.
But scientists now claim that they have an upside.
Hay fever and eczema could be your body’s defense against cancer.
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Britain has toughest smoking controls in Europe, finds new report – Daily Mail 29th October 2008
Britain is the toughest country in Europe on smokers, a major survey revealed today.
The survey, which ranked 27 European countries according to tobacco control measures, was carried out by the EU’s ‘Help – For a Life Without Tobacco’ campaign.
Britain was ranked second, behind Ireland, in 2005, but has scored higher in subsequent years. The high rating has been put down to the elevated cost of tobacco in the UK, and better treatment programmes.
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British couples are going abroad to fertility clinics where they can choose the sex of their babies, it is claimed.
But parents are being warned that the practice – which is illegal in the UK – is often banned overseas
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A blundering chemist gave a mother the deadly heroin substitute, morphine, for her six month old baby – instead of medication he was supposed to be taking for vomiting.
Selina Brown, 24, was handed the super-strength, highly addictive painkiller – normally prescribed to class A drug addicts – which was marked as her son’s medication.
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The baby looked like he was heavily pregnant – such was the size of the tumour that was growing in his stomach.
Although benign, the tumour – which at 3.3kg was a third of his body weight – would have continued to swell to the point that it would have smothered 14-month-old Alex Gonzaga from the inside.
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Boy aged six is among seven obese children taken into care – Daily Mail 29th October 2008
At least seven morbidly obese children were taken into care last year by social services.
A boy of six who was seriously overweight, a girl of seven with a Body Mass Index three times higher than normal, and an eight-year-old girl who weighed nine stone, were among those taken from their parents.
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Elderly ’suffer’ over dental care – BBC Health News 30th October 2008
Elderly people are suffering because of poor access to dentistry services, experts say.
Improvements in dental care following the creation of the NHS mean that many pensioners have kept their own teeth.
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Hot flushes good for cancer drugs – BBC Health News 30th October 2008
Hot flushes, night sweats and painful joints may be a sign of success for breast cancer therapy, research shows.\n\nWomen taking tamoxifen or anastrozole are 10% less likely to have a recurrence of the disease if they have the side-effects, a study found.
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Parents warned about baby virus – BBC Health News 30th October 2008
Parents are being warned to be on the look out for a potentially-fatal winter baby infection.
The British Lung Foundation said October heralds the start of what is known as the RSV season.
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Woman loses assisted suicide case – BBC Health News 29th October 2008
A woman with multiple sclerosis has lost her High Court case to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, is considering going to a Swiss clinic to end her life, but fears her husband may be charged on his return to the UK.
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Old blood ‘boosts infection risk’ – BBC Health News 29th October 2008
Storing donated blood too long increases the chance of an infection, US researchers claim.
The risk of blood poisoning or pneumonia doubled once the 29-day mark passed, Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey found.
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Teenager on acne treatment dies – BBC Health News 29th October 2008
A 14-year-old boy has died after taking for the first time a medical treatment for acne prescribed by his doctor.
Shaun Jones, of Rhydyfelin, Pontypridd, died after suffering a suspected allergic reaction to the tablets.
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Fears rise over measles outbreak – BBC Health News 29th October 2008
The North West of England could be on the verge of a measles epidemic, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) says.
Twenty-two children have been diagnosed with the illness following an outbreak in parts of Cheshire, the third in the region in 2008.
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Children’s trusts ‘not effective’ – BBC Health News 29th October 2008
The children’s trusts created by the government after the death of Victoria Climbie have made little difference to children’s services, a report says.
The trusts, in England, were one of the recommendations made by an inquiry into the eight-year-old’s death in 2003.
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Parents queue to select baby gender – BBC Health News 29th October 2008
A growing number of British couples are undergoing procedures at clinics overseas to determine the gender of their babies. However, as the BBC’s Colette McBeth reports, this service is often offered illegally.
Like many a story, it started out with a simple conversation with a friend.
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PCT wants to set own rules on medicines – Carlisle News & Star 28th October 2008
CUMBRIA health bosses want to be allowed to set their own rules on which GP practices can dispense medicines.
Currently, patients who live more than a mile away from a chemist are entitled to medication direct from their GP.
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