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Updated on 2009-03-09
Created on 2009-02-14
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Paralysis, epilepsy and blurred vision: 1,300 girls have reaction to cervical cancer vaccine - Daily Mail 8th March 2009
More than 1,300 schoolgirls have experienced adverse reactions to the controversial cervical cancer jab.
Doctors have reported that girls aged just 12 and 13 have suffered paralysis, suffered convulsions and sight problems after being given the vaccine. -
Miracle of girl who finally started eating food... at the age of TEN - Daily Mail 8th March 2009
A ten-year-old girl has delighted her family by eating food for the first time in her life.
Tia-Mae has spent a decade being fed through a tube because she refused to consume anything in the usual way.
Despite being seen by a host of experts and flown to a specialist clinic in Switzerland the youngster refused to eat. -
How 40 winks in the afternoon can raise your risk of diabetes - Daily Mail 8th March 2009
Taking a regular afternoon nap is raising your risk of getting diabetes, say scientists.
The danger of developing the illness, which can lead to strokes, blindness and kidney failure, increases by around a quarter among those who nap at least once a week.
Experts said the raised risk could be simply down to the fact that those who took forty winks were less likely to be physically active. -
Father died after doctors failed three times to diagnose stroke - Daily Mail 8th March 2009
A father died after doctors and paramedics misdiagnosed his stroke three times.
Jeffery Wingrove, 48, collapsed on a Saturday with severe vomiting and crippling headaches.
His wife Isabelle, 52, rang an out-of-hours GP service but doctors twice refused to make a home visit. -
Teenage pupils 'need a lie in': Headteacher says lessons should start at 11am - Daily Mail 8th March 2009
A headteacher who pioneered 20-minute lessons for schoolchildren today said teenage pupils deserved a two-hour lie in.
Dr Paul Kelley, head of Monkseaton Community High School in North Tyneside, has called on all secondary schools to follow his lead and begin lessons at 11am. -
Ulrika reveals her most embarrassing health secret: the TV presenter breaks the secret taboo about the incontinence that affects millions of women - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
Frankly, I'd never heard of it until recently, let alone talked about it. You won't see it mentioned in any manuals; mothers like me have been left to think that it was just one of those things we are supposed to put up with.
But the fact is that nearly five million women under the age of 40 suffer from this embarrassing condition. It's a staggering number - but it's little wonder that women keep quiet. Which is, as far as I'm concerned, shameful.
But enough of that. I'm happy to declare that, yes, I have suffered from LAI. -
Why did my fabulous laser eyes go lazy again? - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
Choosing my latest pair of spectacle frames recently was depressing. After all, I was one of the first Britons to have laser eye surgery on the High Street.
In January 2000, I had walked into a London branch of Boots having suffered myopia (when the eyeball is too long or the cornea too steep) since I was seven. -
Breathe easy - and take control over your asthma - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
Asthma can occur at any age and, if left untreated, can cause attacks of coughing, wheezing, tightness in the chest and breathlessness. Symptoms are often worse at night and with exercise but their severity and duration are highly unpredictable.
However, many asthmatics go on to successful careers in sport. Olympian Rebecca Adlington is asthmatic, as are runners Paula Radcliffe and Sebastian Coe and cyclist Bradley Wiggins. -
My parents' real medical drama - and the stars who gave them dignity, by Green Wing's Stephen Mangan - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
Stephen Mangan made his name as the insensitive, arrogant anaesthetist Guy Secretan in Channel 4's compulsive comedy hospital series Green Wing and has since become one of the UK's most popular comic actors. Absolute proof, if it were needed, that the 38-year-old Cambridge graduate was right to ditch the law in favour of acting.
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Doctors face the axe for saving 'living will' patients - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
Doctors have been warned they will be struck off if they ignore the wishes of patients who have made 'living wills' which say treatment should be stopped.
The ethical rules of the medical profession will in future demand that doctors obey the living wills, in which patients can ask to be killed if they become too ill to speak, eat or drink -
1million a year are victims of NHS blunders or accidents - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
Almost one million patients a year are put at risk by blunders and near misses in NHS hospitals and other trusts, according to official figures.
Most leave no lasting effect on patients but one in 100 causes severe harm or death, said the National Patient Safety Agency. -
Study that proves the folly of NHS Alzheimer's drug ban - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
New medical research dramatically reinforces the case for treating Alzheimer's patients early in the onset of the condition.
It reveals that patients 'may have an excellent response to treatment' after just five months.
A third of those on medication regained normal levels of brain activity in areas that had functioned less well on scans, the researchers found. -
How a chance meeting in a chippy saved this man's sight - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
A chance encounter in the queue at a fish and chip shop saved a man’s sight.
John Burns, 66, had been ignoring a tiny lump near his left eye for months. But when a stranger, who was also ordering a takeaway, told him to have it checked out he finally decided to act. -
A bar a day keeps the spots away: The chocolate 'cure' for acne - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
It has long been seen as the enemy of clear skin, but eating chocolate could prove more effective than beauty products at banishing spots, it is claimed.
Acne Care chocolate bars, which are about to hit UK shelves, are said to deliver antioxidants and micro-nutrients that help clear the skin. -
Love handles may leave you fighting for breath, say experts - Daily Mail 7th March 2009
Love handles are not as innocent as their rather reassuring name suggests, a study reveals.
It found that carrying excess fat around your middle makes breathing more difficult and impairs lung function. -
Britain's biggest coffee chains promise to cut salt and fat in snacks and drinks - Daily Mail 6th March 2009
Seven coffee shop and food chains have today promised to cut the level of salt and fat in their produce as part of a healthy eating campaign.
Starbucks, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Caffe Nero, Eat, Greggs and BB's will display nutritional information alongside cakes and sandwiches.
The moves could help to improve the health of millions of customers who are unintentionally consuming high-calorie foods. -
Police say they'll ignore deaths of millionaire couple who committed suicide at a Swiss euthanasia clinic - Daily Mail 6th March 2009
The deaths of a millionaire and his wife at a suicide clinic in Switzerland will not be investigated by British police, it was confirmed last night.
Peter and Penny Duff were both suffering from terminal cancer when they ended their lives last week.
The couple told friends they were moving out of their £2million Georgian house in Bath to a second home in the country. -
How a simple injection could halt diabetes in children - Daily Mail 6th March 2009
A jab to prevent children developing diabetes came a step closer last night following a British breakthrough.
Studies show a common tummy bug is strongly linked to childhood diabetes, which can shorten life and lead to blindness, heart disease, kidney failure and amputation.
The findings could lead to a vaccine that would protect against the bug and 'drastically reduce' the prevalence of childhood, or type 1, diabetes. -
A decade of delinquency: Teen robberies, violence and drug crime soar to record levels - Daily Mail 6th March 2009
A crimewave blamed on Labour's 'decade of juvenile delinquency' has seen a huge increase in youth robbery and violence.
The number of offences committed by youngsters aged ten to 17 in the last year was 277,986 - more than one every two minutes.
A report from the Youth Justice Board yesterday charted robberies surging by 29 per cent between 2005 and last year to 6,669, including more than 30 carried out by children aged only ten. -
Millionaire and his wife are first British couple to use Swiss suicide clinic - Daily Mail 6th March 2009
A millionaire and his wife have become the first British couple to commit suicide at a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
Peter Duff, 80, and his 70-year-old wife Penelope were both suffering from an 'advanced stage' of terminal cancer when they travelled to the controversial Dignitas centre to die.
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