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Binge-drinkers 'should pay for hospital stays' - The Independent 31st December 2009
"New Year revellers who are admitted to hospital to sleep off their alcoholic excesses should be charged a fee of more than £500 for the privilege, a leading think-tank has proposed.
Policy Exchange, which has the ear of David Cameron, said that binge drinking this New Year's Eve was set to cost taxpayers £23m. "
Ginkgo biloba does not slow cognitive decline: study - The Independent 31st December 2009
"The herbal supplement ginkgo biloba does not slow cognitive decline, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said."
Antibody finds, wipes out prostate cancer: study - The Independent 30th December 2009
"US researchers have found an antibody that hunts down prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage, a study showed Monday."
Finland wants assumed donation of organs - The Independent 30th December 2009
"A bill making organ donation automatic unless a deceased person has previously expressed opposition is to be put before parliament next year, the government's social and health care ministry said in a statement."
Taiwan to protect mothers' right to breastfeed in public - The Independent 30th December 2009
"Taiwan is to protect the right of nursing mothers to breastfeed in public with hefty fines for those who try to stop them, as part of a campaign to promote the practice, officials said Wednesday."
Software will help GPs predict cancer risk - The Independent 30th December 2009
"GPs could be given computer software within the next five years that will help them identify which of their patients are most likely to be in the early stages of developing cancer.
The initiative, announced by Professor Mike Richards, the Government's cancer tsar, is designed to provide earlier diagnosis of lung and bowel cancer and could save thousands of lives a year which are now lost because symptoms are spotted too late. "
Wanted: volunteers for free week-long holidays in Mexico - The Independent 29th December 2009
"Fancy a free holiday in Mexico, all expenses paid? Or perhaps Guatemala appeals? Flights and hotel accommodation up to the value of €1,600 (£1,400) are on offer for 900 volunteers who are prepared to test a remedy for one of the most common holiday afflictions – travellers' diarrhoea."
Jeremy Laurance: The offer of a holiday is a considerable lure - The Independent 29th December 2009
"When I mentioned the Mexican drug trial run by Intercell to my son, his response was ecstatic. "Yessss!" he exclaimed. "I've always wanted to go to Mexico." Within seconds, he was on his laptop."
£50m wasted on attempts to improve hospital food - The Independent 29th December 2009
"Heston Blumenthal revealed in June that he had taken on a secret mission to devise a menu for NHS patients.
With the decade coming to an end, perhaps ministers believed that only the head chef of Britain's most garlanded restaurant, The Fat Duck, was capable of clearing hospital trays of plastic bread and gloopy stews."
Terry Kirby: Ward's grey goo was of little help to my recovery - The Independent 29th December 2009
"A gooey, lumpy, grey mess on a cold plate, it was surrounded by watery carrots and what could have been mashed potato or perhaps cauliflower.
In my befuddled post-operative state, I could not remember which box I ticked when the order slips had come around hours earlier, and I'd had a bit of a snooze since."
Bipolar sufferers 'lose touch with reality' - The Independent 29th December 2009
"Bipolar disorder used to be more commonly known as manic depression.
Sufferers experience severe mood swings from deep depression to extreme happiness - mania - which can last for weeks or even months. "
Jeremy Laurance: How to remain optimistic in the face of the worrying facts - The Independent 29th December 2009
"Optimism is a valuable commodity in medicine and the NHS Breast screening Service is no different from other organisations in putting the best possible spin on its considerable achievements. "Nearly 2 million women screened in 2007-8," the press release for its annual report announced last week after an extra 100,000 were invited compared with the previous year. "
Can you be fit and obese? - The Independent 29th December 2009
"Kick boxing twice a week, walking the dog two miles every day – Clint Witchalls thought he was healthy. Then a visit to the doctor revealed he was dangerously overweight..."
Letters: Precarious world of NHS premier league - The Guardian 28th December 2009
"I was interested to read Martin O'Neill's comments on Mark Hughes's recent dismissal after just 18 months as manager of Manchester City: "In any other industry, you would be given the time to do the job, you really would. But football is not like any other industry" (O'Neill says City's dismissal of Hughes was crazy, Sport, 23 December)."
Disinfectants make stronger superbugs - The Independent 28th October 2009
"Disinfectants designed to keep bacteria out of homes and hospitals could be fuelling the growth of superbugs. Scientists found that exposing infectious bacteria to increasing amounts of disinfectant turned the bugs into hardy survivors. The bacteria also developed resistance to the antibiotic, ciprofloxacin – despite not having previously encountered the drug."
What does your GP really think of his patients? - The Independent 3rd November 2009
"There is, says Phil Hammond, something missing from medicine. It is pleasure. Pleasure gets just two mentions in the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, and none whatever on the website of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). Doctors rarely tell patients to pleasure themselves, for fear of getting struck off, but something a little less directive might actually improve all our lives.
"Our media are negative, our politics is"
19 out of 20 young women 'would change bodies' - The Independent 3rd November 2009
"Girls as young as seven would like to change something about their appearance and half of 16 to 21-year-olds would consider surgery to achieve their perfect body, a study has revealed. "
Child obesity 'has peaked' - The Independent 3rd November 2009
"The 30-year rise in child obesity may have peaked, researchers report. The increase in overweight and obesity among children which has continued without pause since the mid-1970s is now on a downward trajectory, according to latest figures.\n\nThe forecast number of overweight girls aged 2 to 11 in 2020 has dropped from 34 per cent to 17 per cent, and the proportion of obese girls from 14 per cent to 10 per cent."
Mother dies after catching swine flu - The Independent 3rd November 2009
"A woman who contracted swine flu died less than three weeks after giving birth to her first child, a health authority has confirmed.
Susan Ford, 31, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, fell ill with the virus when she was 31 weeks pregnant. Her daughter, Poppy, was delivered by Caesarean section. Ms Ford's condition failed to improve and she died at the weekend, 18 days after giving birth."
Change law on organ donation, doctors say - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"Every adult in the UK would be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, under a radical solution to the critical shortage of organs for transplant put forward by the country's oldest royal medical college. The ethics committee of the 500-year-old Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has called for an examination of "mandated choice" as a means of boosting the supply of organs, the shortage of which is leading to more than 1,000 avoidable deaths a year. "
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