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Top-up payments: British cancer patients are paying the price - The Telegraph 20th October 2008
Colin Ross is much better now he’s completed his first course of the drug Revlimid. As Dr Kevin Boyd, his specialist at the Royal Marsden hospital predicted, the drug is having a dramatic effect on Ross’s cancer, multiple myeloma. His paraprotein levels – which indicate the rate of spread of the disease – have come down from 67 to five, which his partner, Wendy Forbes-Newbigin, calls “little short of a miracle”.
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Rewards for pregnant women who quit smoking - The Times 17th October 2008
Mothers-to-be are to be offered gift vouchers and beauty treatments to encourage them to give up smoking, the Telford and Wrekin NHS trust in Shropshire announced.
The trust has been cautioned that the move could be seen by some as rewarding bad behaviour.
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Fat nation: Three out of four UK adults are overweight - Daily Mail 6th October 2008
Three out of four UK adults are overweight or obese - more than previously thought, an expert said today.
At least 75 per cent are carrying too much fat even though official estimates put the figure at 66 per cent, he said.
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Catholic school bans girls from having cervical cancer jabs - The Telegraph 24th September 2008
A Roman Catholic school has barred 12 and 13-year-old pupils from being immunized against cervical cancer on its premises.
Governors of St Monica's RC High School in Prestwich, Bury, Greater Manchester, reached the decision even though the vaccination programme has been approved by the Catholic hierarchy in Britain.
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Brown promises to scrap NHS prescription charges for cancer patients and those with long-term conditions - Daily Mail 23rd September 2008
Patients with cancer and other long-term conditions are to get free NHS prescriptions in England.
Gordon Brown bowed to pressure from health charities and announced that charges for cancer sufferers would be scrapped first, from April 2009.
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How a tiny mole plunged one teenager into a nightmare of pain - and almost cost her life - Daily Mail 19th August 2008
A year ago, Jessica Lindsay's life revolved around little other than the concerns of most 18-year-olds: boys, clothes and plans to go to college to study dance and beauty therapy. Looking back now, Jessica says this carefree existence could almost have belonged to someone else.\n\nLast May, a small mole on Jessica's left temple was found to be malignant melanoma, and while its removal was a fairly routine process, in February this year, Jessica discovered a lump on her neck. Subsequent tests revealed the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes.
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Do you suffer from gym rage? - Daily Mail 14th August 2008
What could be more annoying than someone else’s mobile ringing during your yoga class? Finding the exercise bike covered with their sweat? Listening to your neighbour grunt with every bicep curl?
These are just a few of the common irritants that plague r
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