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Genetic screening: the new tests - Daily Telegraph 2nd November 2009
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Newborns 'could be screened for more rare genetic conditions' - Daily Telegraph 2nd November 2009
"Newborn babies could be tested for greater numbers of rare genetic conditions under plans being considered by the national screening committee. "
Adults 'should be legally required to decide on organ donation' - Daily Telegraph 2nd November 2009
"Every adult in Britain should be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, according to the Royal College of Physicians. "
Organ transplants: Adults should be compelled to choose if they want to be donors - Daily Mail 3rd November 2009
"All adults in the UK should be legally required to decide whether to donate their organs after death, according to the Royal College of Physicians.
The ethics committee at the RCP want to examine the possibility of 'mandated choice' to boost the number of organ donors in Britain."
Teens can demand morning after pill by text - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"A health trust is to expand a controversial scheme to allow girls as young as 11 to demand the morning-after pill by text.
Girls at six secondary schools in Oxfordshire have been able to text requests for emergency contraception if they have had unprotected sex, or if they fear condoms have failed."
US and Canadian opponents of right to die laws swamp UK internet polls - The Observer 1st November 2009
"Euthanasia Prevention Coalition accused of 'desperate measures' to bolster its case"
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. "
Jeremy Laurance: Let's face our mortality and allow others to live - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"I have carried the same organ donor card for the past 25 years. It is always with me in my wallet and although I may be getting on a bit and my organs past their best, I am still a prime candidate, being a London cyclist.
Yet should someone one day scrape me off the road and find my card among my things, it would be useless. It contains the telephone number of a house I left 15 years ago and the name of my then next of kin, from whom I have been divorced for more than a decade."
Leading article: Closing the gap on organs - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"The shortage of organs in this country is critical. Of the 8,000 people who were waiting last year for transplant operations, the lack of available organs meant less than half that number underwent transplant in 2008-9.
The shortage means that each year a large number of people die unnecessarily; are condemned to death in one of the cruellest of ways, in fact, because they know an extension to their lives is not beyond hope and is being denied them solely because no donated organ is available."
Father of Baby RB fights hospital’s decision to turn off life support - The Times 2nd October 2009
"A father whose son was born with a rare neuromuscular condition will go to the High Court today to try to stop a hospital withdrawing support that keeps the child alive.
Doctors treating the one-year-old boy say that his quality of life is so poor that it would not be in his best interests to keep him alive. They say that they are supported in their action by the baby’s mother. The couple are separated. "
Fertility clinic used donor sperm with genetic flaw - Daily Mail 2nd November 2009
"One of Britain's top fertility clinics was at the centre of a health scare last night after it used unscreened and unsafe donor sperm to create test tube babies.
The sperm, which was used to conceive dozens of embryos at the Harley Street London Women's Clinic, was found to carry a genetic abnormality. "
Campaigner marks 10 years since Alder Hey organ scandal - Liverpool Echo 30th October 2009
"THE founder of an Alder Hey organ scandal support group has marked its 10th anniversary.
Joan Wheeler, 59, of Wallasey, who began the Pity II group, had a commemorative bench installed next to her sons grave in Landican cemetery, Arrowe Park."
University of Liverpool researcher and Warrington Hospital worker John Gough struck off by HPC - Liverpool Echo 30th October 2009
"A HOSPITAL worker who claimed he kept body parts in his freezer has been struck off after lying about his qualifications.
John Gough, who worked at Warrington Hospital and carried out orthopedic research at the University of Liverpool, claimed he had a PhD."
Blunder at top clinic sparks fresh IVF fears- The Independent on Sunday 1st November 2009
"A serious blunder at one of Britain's top fertility clinics dramatically increased the risk its patients would suffer a miscarriage or give birth to a child with serious health problems, sparking fresh fears about how IVF centres are run in the wake of a series of scandals."
Father fights bid to switch off baby's life-support - The Independent on Sunday 1st November 2009
"A father is fighting a hospital's attempt to withdraw the support keeping his baby son alive, it emerged today.
Doctors want to take the one-year-old, who was born with a rare neuromuscular condition, off a ventilator which allows him to breathe. "
Families call for hospital inquiry - The Independent on Sunday 1st November 2009
"The Government will this week come under further pressure to hold a public inquiry into deaths of elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in the 1990s, as relatives and lawyers meet Norman Lamb MP, the Lib Dem health spokesman.\n\nFailures by the policeand health regulators can be exposed only if there is an open and transparent inquiry, Mr Lamb said."
Breakthroughs in genetics leave families facing agonising choices - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"Prospective parents with a family history of killer genetic diseases could be allowed to undergo embryo screening to protect their children - without finding out whether they are themselves doomed to an early death. "
Father and mother at war over their baby's life support - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"A father is fighting moves by a hospital to withdraw the support keeping his baby son alive. "
Paramedic suspended after letting trainee try to save patient who was already dead - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"A senior paramedic was suspended for allowing a trainee to try and save a heart attack patient he knew had already died. "
Sick pensioner left abandoned in ambulance for over five hours after driver forgot about him - Daily Mail 31st October 2009
"A sick pensioner was abandoned in an ambulance for more than five hours after the driver forgot about him and went home.
The 65-year-old man, who was abandoned at Sharston ambulance station in Wythenshawe, Manchester, last Tuesday evening was found unharmed in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a major police alert."
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