Park Lake Speakers - Ella Guru
Very sweet sound... will more follow though?
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
No Gouging, Biting, or Kissing
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The Humping Hewitt Love Doll
In a desperate attempt to turn around the financial fortunes of the NHS the Department of Health have released the 'Humping Hewitt Love Doll'. It has all the usual attractions of such devices with the huge advantage of a lack of voice over the original flesh like model. Even better if you get bored with it there is always the option of using it in voodoo mode where you can over inflate it to the extent that it'll explode. The Depatment don't know if this will happen in reality, but hey you can always live in hope.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
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GPs who can't manage themselves should be brought back into the NHS - The Guardian 19th January 2007
What is a GP worth? There is no answer in this gold-rush decade when the government shies away from even thinking about worth. The public sector is nailed to 1.5% pay increases, boardrooms soar by 30% and the Pay Commission is rowing about whether to defy the Confederation of British Industry and raise the minimum wage a measly 25p. No wonder this year's GP negotiations have run into the mud, suspended in anger. In a value void, how should we think about GPs earning an average £106,000, and many a lot more? Are they worth it? That's roughly the same as a director of social services running a whole county's complex children's services, including all schools, children in care and children's health. But that director is a hated "bureaucrat": just see the bloggers' bile when I described their jobs this week.
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GP pay 'should have been capped' - BBC Health News 19th January 2007
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Gambling entices our young and vulnerable. They need our help - The Guardian 19th January 2007
Your article on the gambling addiction report I authored for the British Medical Association stated that "problem gambling is associated with a number of health problems" (Compulsive gamblers should be treated on NHS, say doctors, January 16). Your report, though, did not have room to detail why these health problems occur. Problem gamblers ultimately find themselves in a desperate situation both financially and psychologically. This intense stress can often lead to adverse health consequences including anxiety disorders, depression, insomnia, intestinal disorders and migraines - genuine medical problems that need treating.
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Maternity care row over hospital closures in Blair's back yard - The Guardian 19th January 2007
Two big NHS hospitals serving Tony Blair's constituents in south Durham are to be closed after a fierce row over which of them should provide maternity services, it emerged last night. Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, has approved proposals to close the hospitals in Stockton and Hartlepool and build a new state-of-the-art facility for nearly 500,000 people living north of the Tees. The hospitals have a combined turnover of about £186m this year.
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Sanitation rated the greatest medical advance in 150 years - The Guardian 19th January 2007
Sanitation is the greatest medical milestone of the last century and a half, acccording to a poll carried out by the British Medical Journal. Sanitation was the clear winner among 15 milestones shortlisted by readers of the journal, including the development of vaccines, which has safeguarded many children's lives, and the invention of the contraceptive pill, which was a contributory factor to significant social change.
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A sewer is the best medicine, poll declares - The Times 19th January 2007
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Sanitation 'best medical advance' - BBC Health News 18th January 2007
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Transfusion led to vCJD - The Independent 19th January 2007
A patient has been diagnosed with variant-Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease nine years after receiving an infected blood transfusion. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said it was the fourth case of vCJD to be diagnosed in Britain in connection with a blood transfusion. The patient has not been identified.
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Infected patient in vCJD scare - The Times 19th January 2007
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Tories plan strict quotas for makers of fatty foods - The Times 19th January 2007
Food and drink manufacturers could be given strict quotas for producing fatty and sugary foods and alcohol under plans to tackle obesity and excessive drinking being considered by the Conservative Party. Under the plan drawn up by the Working Group on Responsible Business, set up by David Cameron last July, producers would be allocated production limits allowing them to produce a certain quantity of fatty food or alcoholic drink.
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IVF trial by TV - The Times 19th January 2007
On January 15 the BBC broadcast an edition of Panorama focusing on the IVF clinics operated by Mohammed Taranissi. In the programme it was revealed that his clinics were under investigation by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which obtained a warrant to search his premises with police assistance. This programme raises important issues relevant to the regulation of independent professional practice.
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Radiation dose 60 per cent too high - The Telegraph 19th January 2007
Lisa Norris is just one of the many patients who have died after being given the wrong treatment. The teenager had 19 radiotherapy sessions at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow to treat a brain tumour.
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Ban on home HIV tests 'outdated' - BBC Health News 19th January 2007
Banning home HIV testing kits is unwarranted and a breach of patient autonomy, a UK health expert argues. The tests were made illegal in 1992 amid the concern, among others, that a person could discover they had HIV without ready access to counselling.
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Brits buying more fruit and veg - BBC Health News 18th January 2007
Brits are buying record amounts of fruit and veg - the biggest increase for 20 years - a survey finds. Household expenditure rose by 12.9% for fruit and 6.3% for veg and fell for confectionary, soft drinks and alcohol.
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Vegetative state drug review call - BBC Health News 18th January 2007
The husband of a woman in a persistent vegetative state who was given an experimental treatment has said she would not have wanted the drug. A court ruled the 53-year old woman should be given sleeping pill zolpidem - against her family's wishes.
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Folic acid boosts minds of over-50s, study finds - The Guardian 19th January 2007
Absent-mindedness in the over-50s is significantly improved when people take folic acid supplements, according to a large study reported in today's Lancet. Short-term memory, mental agility and verbal fluency tests were all better among people who took high doses of the supplement for three years, compared with a group given a placebo. The Food Standards Agency said it would consider the new evidence as part of its ongoing consultation on the widespread addition of folic acid in flour. Only women planning to conceive are currently advised to take folic acid, to decrease the chances of their baby being born with a neural tube defect, such as spina bifida.
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Folic acid sets back effects of ageing on the brain by five years, says study - The Independent 19th January 2007
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Folic acid pills 'can slow mental decline' - The Times 19th January 2007
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Bacteria tests reveal how MRSA strain can kill in 24 hours - The Guardian 19th January 2007
Scientists have unravelled the workings of a deadly superbug that attacks healthy young people and can kill within 24 hours. PVL-producing MRSA, a highly-virulent strain of the drug-resistant superbug, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, has spread around the world and caused deaths in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. PVL or panton-valentine leukocidin toxin destroys white blood cells and usually causes boils and other skin complaints. But if it infects open wounds it can cause necrotising pneumonia, a disease that rapidly destroys lung tissue and is lethal in 75% of cases.
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MRSA could kill healthy youngsters - The Telegraph 19th January 2007
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Huge cut in measles deaths hailed as triumph - The Guardian 19th January 2007
Measles deaths have been slashed by more than half by a concerted campaign that was hailed yesterday as a triumph for global public health and could pave the way for eradication of one of the world's most infectious diseases. Between 1999 and 2005, there was a 60% reduction in annual measles deaths worldwide, from 873,000 to 345,000, according to United Nations figures reported in the medical journal the Lancet. Africa, where children are most prone to die when they catch measles because of poor nutrition and other infections including HIV, has led the way, with a 75% drop in deaths. In 1999, 506,000 African children died - 90% aged under five. By 2005, the figure had fallen to 126,000.
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Anti-measles campaign saves seven million lives - The Independent 19th January 2007
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Vaccine drive cuts measles deaths - BBC Health News 19th January 2007
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City centre children are living below the breadline - Daily Post 18th January 2007
HALF of all children living in and around Liverpool city centre are living in poverty, a study revealed yesterday. Youngsters in Liverpool’s Riverside ward are the second most underprivileged in the country with 49.7% living under the poverty level – double the national average.
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Poor health blamed on poverty - Runcorn Weekly News 18th January 2007
THE high level of strokes and heart attacks in Halton has been blamed on deprivation and widespread poverty throughout the borough. Residents in Runcorn and Widnes are some of the unhealthiest in England and Wales, with people living in the poorest parts of the borough lucky to live to be 74 -- five years less than the combined national average for men and women.
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Pensioner with broken leg was 'slung' into bath - Runcorn Weekly News 18th January 2007
A NURSE dumped a frail, elderly woman in a bath when she could see the patient was in agony from a suspected fractured leg, a disciplinary hearing has been told. Valerie Humphreys, 58, told two care assistants: 'You might as well give her a bath now you're here' before putting her in the tub herself.
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Finger on the pulse of healthy eating - Midweek Advertiser 17th January 2007
FINGERPRINT scanners are being used to monitor children’s eating habits at a West Lancashire school. St Teresa’s RC, in College Road, Up Holland, is one of the first primaries in Lancashire to install scanners in its canteen.
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Student midwives show vision in award success - Midweek Advertiser 17th January 2007
STUDENT midwives from Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, won a prestigious award presented by the Princess Royal. The Student Vision Award was presented to Michelle Cash and Liza Munro at the Royal College of Midwives annual awards event.
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Hospital car pass cost will stay at £5 a week - Midweek Advertiser 17th January 2007
THE weekly car park pass at Ormskirk Hospital will not now increase to £7.50 but will remain at £5, the hospital has confirmed. Together with a £5 refundable deposit, it means anyone visiting the hospital more than once in the same week will save money by using the pass once car-park charges rise to £3 per visit from January 8.
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Doctor is banned for investigation - Warrington Guardian 18th January 2007
A WARRINGTON doctor has been banned from practice by the General Medical Council (GMC), pending the outcome of an investigation into matters relating to him. The decision means that Paul Frederick Hardcastle, who worked in otolaryngology (head and neck disorders), will remain suspended until June 7, 2008.
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Community treatment survey - Midweek Advertiser 17th January 2007
A PUBLIC consultation on moving health services from hospitals to community clinics is underway until the end of March. Lancashire County Council want to ensure people have their say on major changes being planned to NHS services as part of an Government shake up called Clinical, Assessment, Treatment and Support Services (CATS).
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‘Patients will be top priority’ - Carlisle News & Star 18th January 2007
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Death case psychiatrist was cover for staff - Carlisle News & Star 18th January 2007
AN unregistered psychiatrist accused of manslaughter provided overnight cover at a Cumbrian hospital while there were staff shortages there. Peter Fisher was put on the on-call rota at the West Cumberland Hospital even though he could not prescribe drugs for patients.
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Patient told nurse of 'sexual assault' - Lancashire Telegraph 18th January 2007
A NURSE burst into tears as she described how a teenage patient told her she had been touched intimately by a doctor. Naveen Shivan, who is an ENT doctor in the former Blackburn Royal Infirmary, is on trial at Preston Crown Court after denying sexual assault.
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'Hundreds of jobs at risk' in latest NHS shake-up - Manchester Evening News 18th January 2007
REGIONAL health bosses are putting hundreds of jobs at risk by transferring routine testing out of the NHS to a private company, according to hospital chiefs. NHS North West, which is in charge of health care in the region, is in talks with two companies to set up six new centres across Greater Manchester.
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Have your say on future of hospital - The Bolton News 18th January 2007
TIME is running out for the people of Bolton to have their say on the future of the Royal Bolton Hospital. Residents are being asked for their opinions on its possible transformation into a Foundation Trust.
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Disabled cobbler fights hospital shoe decision - The Bolton News 18th January 2007
A SPECIALIST shoe-maker has criticised the Royal Bolton Hospital for not giving disabled people a choice of footwear supplier. Phil Taylor, who wears the kind of surgical shoes he also makes, supplied shoes to the hospital until recently.
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Winter warning for the elderly - Bury Times 18th January 2007
AGE Concern Bury has issued a winter checklist as the borough braces itself for gale force winds and snow in the coming weeks. The organisation is encouraging older home owners to minimise the risks of burst pipes and other cold weather-related problems.
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Roy gets MBE as reward for services to NHS - Bury Times 18th January 2007
A BURY Primary Care Trust employee has spoken of his delight at being awarded an MBE for his services to the NHS. Roy Dudley-Southern is the collaborative commissioning team leader and strategic planning manager for Greater Manchester in a career that has spanned almost four decades.
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Baby unit fight goes to the top - Bury Times 18th January 2007
HEALTH Secretary Patricia Hewitt is to be asked to review the controversial decision to axe Fairfield Hospital's maternity department and special care baby unit. Bury councillors are referring the matter to the Secretary of State because they disagree with the Making it Better decision to to close the services at Fairfield as part of a massive shake-up of maternity services across Greater Manchester.
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Health trust wants your opinion - Bury Times 18th January 2007
THE health trust providing mental care services at Fairfield Hospital is inviting Bury residents to attend a meeting discussing the future of healthcare. Pennine Care NHS Trust is planning on becoming a Foundation Trust which will allow people to become "members" of the trust and be consulted on plans for future developments.
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Surgery team wins award for excellence - Bury Times 18th January 2007
THE Woodbank Surgery has won a GP Award of Excellence for effectively involving patients in changes to the surgery over the last 18 months. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt presented the award to Dr Vijay Kumar, GP partner, and Maria Stacy, the practice manager at the NHS Alliance conference in Bournemouth.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Footsteps
The river was rough, the wind was roaring and the roads all led away from Reggie today. Some quick FoI work, a section 21 and chasing up somebody else and the usual MP type request. tPCT have a bunch of orange crates delivered, they're on the move out of Reggie.
Update my marketing data and begin preparing for the next set of it. By and large the plan is to hit the AHPs first and then move through the segments. Morning medline sesh with Helen and Nicola, hope it was OK for them. PM VLE stuff, not particularly focussed and my mind is elsewhere - stoopid bugger. Oh dear I'm falling towards family history....need to watch that one. Still could be worse.....
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Michael Cross: Joined-up government is not inevitable or desirable - The Guardian 18th January 2007
Sometimes you have to feel sorry for the government. As one set of civil servants, the Home Office, is fed into the mincer for failing to join up its databases, another, the Cabinet Office, gets a roasting for proposing too much synchronicity. However, for all the furore generated by tinfoil-hatted state-haters, Technology Guardian readers will find little new in the prime minister's announcement of plans to join up government IT systems. After all, the current plan for "transformational government" was published in November 2005. In August we revealed that ministers had agreed in principle to remove one big barrier to a single government database, the presumption that data given to one public agency would not be given to another.
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Electrosmog in the clear with scientists - The Guardian 18th January 2007
Studies show that it's not mobile phones and electric fields making people ill - so what is the cause of 'electrosensitivity'?
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Fighting cancer with a cold - The Guardian 19th January 2007
British scientists are preparing to launch trials of a radical way to fight cancer, which kills tumours by infecting them with viruses like the common cold. If successful, virus therapy could eventually form a third pillar alongside radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the standard arsenal against cancer, while avoiding some of the debilitating side-effects.
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Desperate for a baby - The Guardian 19th January 2007
Mohammed Taranissi is Britain's most controversial doctor. He is the object, in equal measure, of much gratitude and much suspicion. He is also, according to the Sunday Times Rich List, the UK's richest doctor, with a personal fortune of $75m. Forget cancer or heart disease or other big killers, medical fame and fortune in the 21st century comes from making babies. And Taranissi's Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre has secured thousands of these little bundles of joy for desperate parents.
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A&E targets missed because of bed shortages - The Independent 18th January 2007
Doctors are struggling to meet government accident and emergency waiting time targets because of a shortage of beds, doctors' leaders warned. In a survey for the British Medical Association (BMA), 87 per cent of doctors questioned said the lack of in-patient beds was the main reason for not meeting targets. The Government target is that 98 per cent of patients should wait no more than four hours from arrival at A&E to admission, transfer or discharge.
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A&E success 'not sustainable' - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
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Winner may lose leg after falling ill in the Caribbean - The Independent 18th January 2007
The film director Michael Winner was seriously ill in hospital yesterday with a mysterious complaint that may require his infected left leg to be amputated. Doctors said Winner, 71, who fell ill while on holiday in Barbados, was making "good progress" after he was admitted to intensive care in the private London Clinic on Harley Street.
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I bet I know why the BMA is banging on about that - The Times 18th January 2007
When it comes to self-advancement, there is no interest group that comes close to the British Medical Association. When trade union officials speak, we know what they are up to. They are trying to increase their influence and power. And we judge the sense of what they say accordingly. The BMA is, except in one crucial respect, no different. It is like any other trade union, with the same overriding motivation: to increase its influence and power. The crucial difference, however, is that when the prefix “Doctor” is attached to a name, we lose our critical faculties. We assume that anything emanating from the BMA is disinterested and motivated only by the desire to increase the sum of human good.
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Patients given botched surgery at NHS-funded private clinics - The Times 18th January 2007
Patients underwent an unknown number of botched, cancelled or mismanaged operations by private clinics that are paid to carry out surgery for the NHS, according to a leaked report commissioned by the Government. The report, by the Healthcare Commission, says that patient safety may have been compromised and throws into doubt the quality of treatment at independent sector treatment centres, which are privately run but funded with public money.
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British woman orders 'off-the-shelf' designer baby - Daily Mail 17th January 2007
A woman is to be impregnated with Britain’s first off-the-shelf designer baby within weeks, it has been revealed. The Londoner and her partner are preparing to fly to a clinic in America to begin the controversial fertility treatment.
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Vitality Diet: Your questions answered - Daily Mail 17th January 2007
I'm a student and so on a tight budget. How can I adapt the vitality diet as fish is quite expensive! Alie, Leeds Jane says: On the cost front, frozen fish can be just as healthy as fresh and is much cheaper – so check this out.
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Picture that saved baby Jasmin's sight - Daily Mail 17th January 2007
When Jasmin Nethercoat had her photograph taken on her first birthday, little did her parents realise the picture would save her sight. Her mother Vicki had the photograph developed - only to notice a strange spot reflected in her daughter's left eye.
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Edwardians were the first obese Britons - Daily Mail 17th January 2007
We are a generation of over-fed gluttons, gorging on our abundance like never before. Or that, at least, is what the experts will have us believe. But a new TV documentary sets out to smash the myth that the current obesity epidemic is a modern disease - and questions advice that we should look to the past for a healthier diet.
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Bingeing youth of educated women - BBC Health News 18th January 2007
Educated women are far more likely to binge-drink in their 20s than those with few qualifications, a study shows. The Institute of Child Health examined the drinking habits of thousands of British women born in 1958.
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Downsizing survivors 'depressed' - BBC Health News 18th January 2007
Workers who keep their jobs following cuts are almost as likely to need treatment for stress as colleagues made redundant, say researchers. University College London researchers, writing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, said more help should be offered to "survivors".
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Crystal meth made class A drug - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
The "euphoric" sex and dance culture drug crystal meth will become a class A drug to avert widespread use in the UK. People who use methamphetamine - its proper name - now face up to seven years in jail and an unlimited fine, while dealers could be jailed for life.
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Man jailed for giving woman HIV - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
A 35-year-old man has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for infecting his girlfriend with HIV. The pair met at a Bournemouth nightclub and had unprotected sex during their relationship even though the victim had been concerned the man had the virus.
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Colgate warned over '80%' boast - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
The maker of Colgate toothpaste has been warned not to repeat its famous advertising claim that "more than 80% of dentists recommend Colgate". The Advertising Standards Authority concluded the claim on Colgate posters was "misleading" after investigating the phone survey behind the boast.
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Drug death doctor not registered - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
A psychiatrist accused of the manslaughter of a suicidal patient was not registered, a court has heard. Peter Fisher, 46, is accused of killing Peter Weighman, 39, who died from a drugs overdose at West Cumberland Infirmary in September 2002.
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Why are French women so fertile? - The Guardian 18th January 2007
Bonne question. Perhaps because, unlike their European counterparts, they can have it all and reach the almost perfect balance between work, life and sex. The National Institute of Demographic Studies announced yesterday that French women top the European league of fecundity with an average of two children each, compared with a European average of 1.5. The French now have more babies than the Irish and, for the first time since 1974, the renewal of the generations in France is about to be guaranteed.
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Scientists reveal how world's worst flu killed victims - The Guardian 18th January 2007
The victims of the deadliest flu pandemic in history were killed when their bodies unleashed an uncontrolled immune reaction as a protective mechanism, say scientists. Patients' lungs rapidly became inflamed and filled with blood and other fluids which eventually drowned them.
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Lethal secrets of 1918 flu virus - BBC Health News 18th January 2007
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Parasites 'may help MS patients' - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
Having millions of parasites living in your gut may actually be a benefit if you also have multiple sclerosis, a study has found. The methods used by the creatures to stop our immune systems wiping them out could be keeping the illness at bay.
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US doctors plan womb transplant - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
A team of doctors in New York say they are planning to perform the first womb transplant in the US. The procedure would potentially allow women who have had their wombs damaged or removed to develop a pregnancy and give birth.
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Bid to ban booze from all of Wirral's streets -Liverpool Daily Post 17th January 2007
ALL of Wirral’s streets and open areas could be declared an alcohol- free zone under plans being considered by the local authority. As the number of areas being “designated” gathers pace Wirral’s councillors have been asked to look at options to enlarge the plans to cover the entire borough.
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Court bans off-licence from selling alcohol for one month - Liverpool Daily Post 17th January 2007
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'Binge drink' row as shop can open to 4am - Liverpool Echo 17th January 2007
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New Ashworth plans set for approval - Liverpool Echo 17th January 2007
PLANS for the first of two new prisons proposed for Ashworth Hospital are set to be approved today – despite concerns it will lead to increased crime. Sefton Council’s planning committee is being asked to back the plans for the Category B establishment.
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Husband of MRSA victim slams care - The Crewe Chronicle 17th January 2007
A DISTRAUGHT husband has hit out at conditions at Crewe's Leighton Hospital after the death of his wife who was suffering from the 'superbug' MRSA and from CJD. Spina bifida sufferer Elizabeth Roberts, 46, died on January 7. Her condition deteriorated after a fall in Leighton which had followed injections to increase her stability.
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Clinical waste site scheme sparks health fears - The Crewe Chronicle 17th January 2007
FURIOUS residents are fighting plans to site a depot dealing with clinical waste, including human tissue and blood, near their homes. Crewe and Nantwich mayor Howard Curran has spoken of his'deepconcern' overthebidto create a major transfer station backing on to homes in Crewe.
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'Left to die by doctor' - Carlisle News & Star 17th January 2007
A MENTAL health patient died because the doctor treating him at a Cumbrian hospital didn’t know what he was doing, a court heard. Peter Weighman, 39, died on September 23, 2002, after taking an overdose of 50 co-praxamol tablets on the Yewdale ward at Whitehaven’s West Cumberland Hospital.
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Tragedy doctor 'not on register' - Liverpool Echo 17th January 2007
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Drug death doctor not registered - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
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Action to tackle teen pregnancy hotspot - Lancashire Telegraph 17th Janury 2007
HYNDBURN is still a hot spot' for teenage pregnancy, despite a drop in the number of young girls becoming mothers before they reach 18. Figures reveal the number of girls who fall pregnant while under 18 has fallen by 16.8 per cent over seven years.
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Meningitis blunder doc escapes punishment - Manchester Evening News 17th January 2007
A GP found guilty of misconduct for failing to carry out basic checks on a toddler who later died of meningitis will not face any punishment. Dr Ramesh Gulati, of Shiv Lodge Medical Centre, in Longsight, made "a number of failings of sufficient gravity" to affect his registration in his care of two-year-old Wesley Hayward, a medical watchdog decided.
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Doctor who missed meningitis found guilty - Manchester Evening News 16th January 2007
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Woman died after breast operation - The Bolton News 17th Janury 2007
THE son of a woman who died of septicaemia after a mastectomy operation said he was shocked when she became so ill so quickly, an inquest heard. Theresa Dickinson, aged 78, of Brownfield Crescent, Little Hulton, died at the Royal Bolton Hospital on July 24, 2006, just days after she had her left breast removed after cancer was discovered.
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Army workout - The Bolton News 17th Janury 2007
I KNOW a thing or two about army fitness training. After all, I recently bought - and watched - the whole of the Second World War drama series, Band of Brothers.
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Royal Bolton appoints new training boss - The Bolton News 17th Janury 2007
THE Royal Bolton Hospital has appointed a new director of medical education. Dr Malcolm Brown completed his medical training in 1981, and in 1985 began as a registrar in the Unsworth Group Practice in Westhoughton, where he is now a partner.
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School’s strange fruit - The Bolton News 17th Janury 2007
ART is being used as the latest weapon against childhood obesity. Pupils at Harper Green High School have been creating their own fruit and vegetables in a bid to encourage other youngsters to eat their five a day.
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Hospital is great place to work, say our nurses - The Bolton News 17th Janury 2007
THE Royal Bolton Hospital has been voted one of the best health organisations to work for in the whole country. The Nursing Times has ranked the hospital in its top 100 following a survey of nurses.
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New health boss for town - The Bolton News 17th Janury 2007
Roger Pegum has been appointed as a non-executive director for Bury Primary Care Trust. Mr Pegum is the principal lecturer in accounting and finance at Liverpool John Moores University and served as a non-executive director of the Heywood and Middleton PCT before its merger with Rochdale PCT.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Positively Elizabeth Street
Training today was good, left the paperwork in the car but memory reminds me that the:
are among the goodies out there. Very impressed with the training style of Michelle and Deborah, good sesh, be warned little Faders it'll come your way. I finally have some level of understanding of blobbograms! Serious use of this should be in support of our commissioners. Home, nip to Morrisons, feed the family, watch shite TV and play 'Simon Says' with Cal. Need sleep. Reminder to self, ring David.....There He Goes.....
Knackered, fetch homework for todays Critical Appraisal stuff from Reggie, print directions to Chorley, send the news and listen to 'The Children of Nuggets'..... sound!
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