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Thousands of women misled into breast cancer surgery - The Times 1st November 2009
"The Government has been forced to rewrite its advice on breast cancer screening after research showed that thousands of women have been misled into having unnecessary surgery.
Women invited for screening by the National Health Service will be told that some of the cancers detected will be dormant and may never spread to other tissue. "
Andrew Lloyd Webber being treated for prostate cancer - The Sunday Times 25th October 2009
"Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer, is receiving treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, a spokesman disclosed today.
Lord Lloyd-Webber, who is best known for musicals such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera, is understood to have received the diagnosis within the last few weeks following a biopsy. "
The obese want to have their equality cake and eat it too - The Sunday Times 25th October 2009
"What a time it's been for fatties. First came the glad tidings last week that the world's fattest man lives in Ipswich. Paul Mason, 48, who weighs 70 stone, needs NHS surgery if he is to survive (also in Ipswich, a woman of 27 stone had to be rescued by firefighters after she fell in a ditch and got stuck). Then some fat people demonstrated outside the office of Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, calling for discrimination against fat people to be made a hate crime, like racism.
Test screens all 24 types of human chromosome - but it's only a start - The Sunday Times 18th October 2009
"It is heartbreaking for infertile couples and frustrating for doctors when IVF treatment fails or ends in miscarriage, not least because the reason for many such failures is well understood.
In between half and three quarters of cases, the cause is an embryo with abnormal chromosomes, flaws that cannot be spotted under the microscope. Instead, we need to take cells from developing embryos and analyse their chromosomes — the structures that hold our genes. "
3,000 NHS staff get private care - The Sunday Times 18th October 2009
"THE National Health Service has spent £1.5m paying for hundreds of its staff to have private health treatment so they can leapfrog their own waiting lists.
More than 3,000 staff, including doctors and nurses, have gone private at the taxpayers’ expense in the past three years because the queues at the clinics and hospitals where they work are too long."
Web can help elderly surfers slow dementia - The Sunday Times 18th October 2009
"GOOGLING is good for grandparents. Internet use can boost the brain activity of the elderly, potentially slowing or even reversing the age-related declines that can end in dementia, researchers have found.
Using brain scans, they found the internet stimulated the mind more strongly than reading, and the effects continued long after an internet session had ended. "
Manchester to ban cheap drink - The Sunday Times 18th October 2009
"THE region of Greater Manchester is planning to become the first in England to impose a minimum price for the alcohol sold in its supermarkets, pubs and off-licences in an attempt to tackle binge drinking.
Council and National Health Service leaders across the 10 boroughs say they need to raise the price of drinks because the region has higher than average rates of deaths and hospital admissions from alcohol consumption."
Breast enlargement patients stay awake to guide ops - The Sunday Times 18th October 2009
"WOULD madam care for something a little larger? Breast enlargement patients are being given the chance to oversee their own operations and decide just how big they really want to be.
The move follows surgical advances that allow the operation to be done under local anaesthetic — so the patient stays awake. "
We must vote to put tobacco out of sight -The Sunday Times 11th October 2009
"Today the Health Bill goes before the Commons. The Bill contains proposals to put tobacco out of sight in shops and restrict access to cigarette vending machines. These measures are designed to protect children from the devastating influence of tobacco marketing. "
Doctors say EU working week is killing patients - The Sunday Times 11th October 2009
"SENIOR doctors say NHS patients are dying as a result of new European Union rules that impose a 48-hour week on hospital staff.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons said, in a hard-hitting report, that lives were being lost because patients had to be switched between up to four doctors every 24 hours, instead of being cared for by the same team round the clock. "
Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve - The Sunday Times 11th October 2009
"AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.
Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients. "
Gordon Brown admits eye damage - The Sunday Times 11th October 2009
"Fresh questions were raised last night about Gordon Brown’s health as it emerged that he had suffered new damage to his remaining good eye.
A recent medical examination discovered that the retina of the prime minister’s right eye had two “minor tears”, No 10 confirmed yesterday. "
Did you know? Dehydrated water, Barbie and Elsie Inglis - The Sunday Times 11th October 2009
"Urban Myths: Is ‘dehydrated water’ the perfect health product?"
Girl ‘infected by E coli at farm’ six months before alert - The Sunday Times 4th September 2009
"A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl who suffered kidney failure in March is thought to have been made ill by E coli contracted at the farm which six months later was at the centre of national alert.
Holly Nethercoat was kept in an isolation unit at Great Ormond Street hospital, London for two weeks after a visit to Godstone farm in Surrey. The farm was forced to close three weeks ago after 12 children were hospitalised after the outbreak of the virus and another 75 were taken ill."
Easier transplant rules for alcoholics - The Sunday Times 4th September 2009
"Alcoholics who do not show they can stay sober outside hospital are expected to be offered liver transplants for the first time next month.
A group of experts in liver disease will propose the change despite a shortage of organs. Under current guidelines, candidates for new livers have to show they can abstain from drink, usually for six months, before doctors approve a transplant. "
D'oh! Homer Simpson to teach us healthy living - The Sunday Times 4th September 2009
"HOMER SIMPSON is known for munching doughnuts and swigging beer, but the Department of Health has decided that his family's lifestyle is healthy enough to enlist them in an anti-obesity campaign. The government is to sponsor episodes of the cartoon serial about the dysfunctional family for three months in an attempt to improve the nation's diet and increase exercise levels."
Cash-strapped sell their kidneys to pay off debts - The Sunday Times 27th September 2009
British victims of the credit crunch are offering to sell their kidneys for £25,000 or more to help pay debts, an investigation by The Sunday Times has revealed.
At least a dozen adverts have appeared on the internet offering kidneys for sale from British “donors”. Five of the sellers corresponded with undercover journalists, who posed as friends and relatives of sick patients to negotiate sales.
Jack Straw calls for heroin on NHS - The Sunday Times 20th September 2009
JACK STRAW, the justice secretary, has called for the NHS to give out heroin on prescription to addicts for whom other forms of treatment have failed.
He claims “imaginative” solutions to hard-drug abuse are needed and believes there could be “huge benefits” to issuing the drug to chronic addicts.
Parents warned of high E coli risk on farms - The Sunday Times 20th September 2009
PARENTS who visit petting farms were this weekend warned that 40% of cattle herds carry the potentially dangerous strain of bacterium at the centre of an outbreak in Surrey.
The number of children who have fallen ill after visiting Godstone farm has reached 57, with 10 still in hospital. None is seriously ill. Three other farm attractions have shut down in recent days.
David Hockney 'loathes' Labour over smoking ban - The Sunday Telegraph 20th September 2009
David Hockney said he loathes the Labour Government for interfering in his life by introducing the smoking ban.
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