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EU ban limiting junior doctors to 48-hour working week lifted over public health concerns hospital EU Working Time Directive Trusts - Daily Mail 15th October 2009
"European rules insisting junior doctors work only a 48-hour week have been lifted for at least 50 hospitals.
Britain has been granted a temporary reprieve after health chiefs claimed the EU Working Time Directive might put patient safety at risk. "
Patients are dying 'because of restrictions on doctors' working hours' - Daily Telegraph 12th October 2009
"Patients are dying as a result of EU rules which cut the working hours of doctors, evidence from the Royal College of Surgeons has suggested. "
Doctor hours law 'harms patients' - BBC Health News 10th October 2009
"Patients' lives are being jeopardised by European rules that cut the working hours of doctors, experts say.
The Royal College of Surgeons says the 48-hour limit on the working week has left hospitals overstretched. "
There will be more fatal GP errors - The Guardian 7th October 2009
"Because of European employment law, politicians are powerless to prevent more tragedies like the death of David Gray"
Probiotic yogurt drink claims can not be proved, say EU scientists - Daily Mail 2nd October 2009
"Claims that probiotic yogurt drinks packed with so-called 'good bacteria' improve your health can not be proven, the EU's food agency has ruled.
The UK's £220 million-a-year probiotics industry claims that the small sweetened yogurt drinks help kill harmful organisms in the gut or boost the immune system. "
Probiotic health claims dismissed - BBC Health News 2nd October 2009
"General health claims for "probiotic" drinks and yogurts have been dismissed by a team of experts from the European Union.
Their opinions will now be voted on by an EU Committee which is drawing up a list of permitted health claims. "
Health claim of probiotics not accepted - The Independent 2nd October 2009
"Drink this yogurt for a healthier stomach. Thirty million shoppers have swallowed the claims for probiotics as enthusiastically as the sweet fermented milk in the belief that "good bacteria" will defeat "bad bacteria" in epic microscopic battles inside our bodies."
Warning on muscle and joint pain - BBC Health News 30th September 2009
"Muscle and joint pain - musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) - account for almost half of all sick leave, both in the UK and across Europe, a study has found.
No less than 49% of all sickness absence is caused by MSDs, said the Fit for Work Europe report by the Work Foundation business consultancy group. "
EU rules on health foods could fool consumers - Daily Telegraph 30th September 2009
"Consumers will be fooled into thinking food and supplements contianing Omega 3 are healthier than they really are under new European rules, a group of leading scientists warn."
Government plans crackdown on 'health tourism' - The Guardian 20th July 2009
Non-EU visitors could be forced to take out health insurance to reduce levels of NHS cheating
Revealed: The truth about the 'health' products and the claims they make - Daily Mail 20th July 2009
It is often the health claims made for food products that really convince us to buy them.
But it seems the promises made for dozens of supermarket items really are too good to be true.
EU inquiry pours doubt on benefit of health foods - The Sunday Times 19th July 2009
More than 50 food products and supplements have been exposed by a Europe-wide investigation for making unproven claims about their health benefits.
Ocean Spray cranberry juice, Lipton black tea and some probiotic supplements are among the items whose claimed health benefits are scientifically unproven, according to an investigation by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Plan to vaccinate UK population against swine flu - The Independent on Sunday 12th July 2009
Health chiefs are preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu, it emerged today.
In what would be the biggest vaccination programme of the last 50 years, experts are already drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent.
Swine flu vaccine rushed through safety checks - The Times 13th July 2009
A swine flu vaccine will be fast-tracked for use in Britain within five days once it is developed, and 130 million doses are on order.
The Department of Health expects to have enough vaccine this year to give it to half the population. Further supplies will be available if needed. Each person will need two doses of the vaccine, unless one single jab is found to provide high rates of immunity.
Swine flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial - The Sunday Times 12th July 2009
The path of a popular medicine from the laboratory to the chemist or doctor’s surgery can involve years of clinical trials on a select group of patients.
When the new vaccine for swine flu arrives in Britain, regulators said this weekend, it could be approved for use in just five days.
Is the EU in the sway of Big Tobacco? - The Guardian 2nd July 2009
The EU's timid anti-smoking legislation shows it is incapable of standing up to the lobbying might of the tobacco industry
Cuts in controls on travelling pets 'could bring new diseases to Britain' - The Guardian 29th June 2009
Health agency warns of threat to humans and wildlife from tapeworm if EU relaxes requirements
Medical trials red tape 'costing lives' - The Telegraph 12th March 2009
Patients lives have been lost because European red tape is delaying major medical trials, experts have warned.
EU ruling will delay operations on NHS - The Telegraph 12th March 2009
Patients face a significant increase in waiting times for operations because "insane" European rules mean doctors’ hours will be cut so much they will not be able to cope, surgeons said.
Britons 'could be given greater priority to donor organs' - The Telegraph 11th March 2009
Britons could be given greater priority in receiving donor organs following controversy over the number of transplants being performed on foreign patients.
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