Fertility clinics urged to cut number of multiple pregnancies | Society | The Guardian
Fertility clinics were issued with fresh guidelines yesterday to help reduce the number of women who have multiple pregnancies after IVF treatment.
Britain has one of the highest rates of multiple pregnancy in Europe, with doctors warning that they put women and their babies at far greater risk of medical complications. Under the guidelines, clinics will be encouraged to transfer only single embryos to the womb whenever the procedure is likely to be successful.Schools warned of pupils dependent on energy drinks - The Guardian 3rd September 2008
Children are becoming dependent on energy drinks that have dramatic effects on their concentration and behaviour in schools, drug experts have warned.
Schools are being advised to observe children for signs of agitation which could be a result of excessive caffeine consumption. It follows reports of pupils drinking large quantities of energy drinks or taking caffeine-based pills.Food safety: Scientists warn of health risks in salad packs - The Guardian 3rd September 2008
The growing popularity of pre-packed salads is likely to lead to an increase in food poisoning cases, scientists warned yesterday at a conference on food safety in Aberdeen.
Professor Gadi Frankel, from Imperial College London, said there had been recent outbreaks that could specifically be related to pre-packed salads, including a salmonella outbreak in the UK last year traced to imported basil, and an E coli outbreak in the US in 2006 traced to pre-packed baby spinach.Andrew Roberts recalls his involvement in the foundation of the Mental Patients Union
The government is hailing its welfare reform package as a radical strategy to move people from incapacity benefits into work. But Annie Kelly hears from those rebuilding their lives who fear they will be targeted
Social care staff at bottom of pay pile - The Guardian 3rd September 2008
It's unusual for employers to highlight how little they pay their workers, but voluntary organisations running social care services for local government say today that their care assistants earn at least £100 a week less than road sweepers.
Schools ready to start vaccinating girls - The Independent 3rd September 2008
The Government will officially roll out its campaign today to vaccinate young girls against a virus that causes cervical cancer.
Social networking sites have already been targeted in a bid to encourage girls to have the jab which helps protect against human Papillomavirus (HPV).Millions 'unaware' of their heart disease risk - The Independent 3rd September 2008
Checks are urgently needed to find almost four million people who may be unaware that they are at high risk of heart disease, specialists have warned.
One in three adults who are most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) over the next 10 years have not been diagnosed, a survey has found.Diazepam abuse on rise amid heroin shortage - The Independent 3rd September 2008
The tranquilliser once known as "mother's little helper" is growing in popularity among drug addicts as an alternative to heroin, it was claimed today.
Drug information charity DrugScope said larger numbers of people are abusing diazepam, which is better known under its defunct brand name Valium.Schoolchildren show addiction to caffeine - The Times 3rd September 2008
Schoolchildren have been showing signs of caffeine addiction after consuming energy drinks such as Red Bull, health campaigners have cautioned.
Bob Tait of Drugs Education UK told a conference of school nurses that caffeine intake — from energy drinks and tablets — is an increasing problem in schools.Staff planning their office Christmas party may have to think again before ordering all the trimmings and mince pies. The boss could be expecting them to step on the scales the morning after.
Weight Watchers plans to get nine-to-fivers fit by selling its dietary services to companies the length and breadth of the nation. It is offering to run classes during the lunch hour or immediately after work, when its staff will give out advice on what food and drink to do without in order to bring the belt down a notch.Office weigh-ins and public humiliation? Fat chance - The Times 3rd September 2008
On the surface of it, Weight Watchers’ cunning plan to slim down all us porky office workers seems, well, like a cunning plan. We spend most of our waking lives at work; ergo, it makes sense to tackle obesity in the workplace. Genius.
Lack of IVF funding 'putting mothers at risk from dangerous multiple births' - Telegraph
The Health Service is placing mothers-to-be and their children at risk of dangerous multiple births by funding too few cycles of IVF, experts have warned.
NHS pays almost £900 a day on temporary chief executive - The Telegraph 3rd August 2008
A NHS trust is paying a consultancy firm almost £900-a-day to hire a temporary deputy chief executive.
Hospital parking charges scrapped in Scotland - The Telegraph 2nd Spetember 2008
Hospital carparking charges are to be scrapped across most of Scotland, leaving patients and relatives in England as the only ones left paying a fee.
Four million unaware of heart attack risk, study shows - The Telegraph 2nd September 2008
Almost four million people in Britain could be at a high risk of heart disease without knowing it, a new study shows.
Schoolchildren addicted to caffeine because of energy drinks - The Telegraph 2nd September 2008
Schoolchildren are becoming increasingly addicted to caffeine because of the growth of high energy drinks, according to experts.
Inflatable dental surgery to tour Britain - The Telegraph 2nd September 2008
An inflatable dental surgery manned by a group of dentists from overseas is to tour the country offering treatments to those struggling to find health care.
Young children suffering from fever get better faster when given ibuprofen rather than paracetamol, say researchers.
Those needing treatment over 24 hours can safely take both painkillers, which could reduce the period of illness by more than four hours.New advice on IVF treatment could deny women the chance of having a baby, experts claim.
Guidelines issued to fertility doctors today recommend that would-be mothers are implanted with only one embryo at a time wherever possible, to cut the odds of risky twin and triplet births.A tranquiliser once known as ‘mother’s little helper’ is experiencing a new surge in use, according to a drug information charity.
DrugScope said diazepam, which is better known under its defunct brand name Valium, was previously known for ‘ anaesthetising a generation of British housewives’ in the 1960s and 70s.Parking charges were scrapped at Scottish hospitals yesterday – prompting angry claims that English patients are once again the victims of NHS ‘apartheid’.
The Scottish Executive followed the Welsh Assembly by axing the deeply unpopular fees – branded a ‘stealth tax on the sick’.The first inflatable dentist surgery is set to tour Britain undercutting the hefty prices charged by private dentists.
Hungarian practitioners using the latest equipment will offer treatments for half the price of their UK counterparts.The popularity of pre-packed salads could lead to an increase in food poisoning cases, scientists have warned.
And while scientists have a role to play in developing technology to protect food from contamination, consumers should be aware of the risks when buying ready-washed greens, they said.Revealed: The serious health concerns about the cervical cancer jab - Daily Mail 2nd September 2008
The pink leaflets are ready, the posters are poised to go up and the advertising slots have been booked both on kids and primetime TV and radio.
Tomorrow marks the start of a new academic year. It is also the launch date of a campaign which heralds the introduction of the biggest mass vaccination programme for more than a decade.Charities 'subsidise social care' - BBC Health News 3rd September 2008
Charities are warning that they are having to dip into donations to provide services for councils.
Groups such as Mencap and Sense are paid to provide a range of social care services for English local authorities.'Ibuprofen best' for child fevers - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
Ibuprofen is better at alleviating childhood fever than paracetamol and should be the drug of first choice, say UK researchers.
The Bristol-based trial involving 156 children aged between six months and six years showed ibuprofen reduced temperature faster than paracetamol.Single embryo guidance to clinics - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
Fertility clinics are to receive guidance aimed at cutting the rate of multiple pregnancies.
The British Fertility Society and Association of Clinical Embryologists recommends transferring only one embryo per IVF cycle wherever possible.Drug users 'turning to diazepam' - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
An increasing number of drug users are turning to the tranquilliser diazepam, a drugs information charity claims.
DrugScope says the popularity of diazepam - formerly known as Valium - is rising among drug users in 15 out of 20 UK towns and cities it surveyed.Pupils warned over energy drinks - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
The use of Red Bull and other energy drinks by schoolchildren is becoming a growing problem, a drug expert says.
Bob Tait, of Drug Education UK, which delivers drug awareness classes in schools, warned the drinks could make pupils disruptive and hyperactive.Concern over health visitor plans - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
The British Medical Association (BMA) has criticised plans to move health visitors out of GP attachments and into social work teams.
The Scottish General Practitioners Committee said the move by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) would break up teams which had served patients well.NHS car parking charges abolished - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
Car parking charges are to be abolished at NHS hospitals across Scotland, the health secretary has announced.
An interim cap of £3 per day has been in place since January.Muslim quits over bare arm policy - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
A Muslim radiographer has resigned from a Berkshire hospital over the NHS's "bare below the elbows" hygiene policy.\n\nThe unnamed agency worker claimed she was being discriminated against over her religious beliefs by the policies at Reading's Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Asbestos damages plans 'flawed' - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
Scottish Government plans to help compensate people suffering from past exposure to asbestos have been heavily criticised at Holyrood.
New laws would overturn a House of Lords ruling which said damages could not be claimed for pleural plaques, a benign scarring of the lungs.'Miracle' boy's first school day - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
A boy who doctors feared would not survive after he was born four months premature has started school.
Alexander Grief, four, of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, weighed little more than a pound and was given a 12% chance of survival by doctors.Funding worry for child hospices - BBC Health News 2nd September 2008
Wales' two hospices for children say they are finding it hard to fund their work, despite a government pledge to increase support.
Ty Hafan near Barry and Ty Gobaith in Conwy both depend on charitable donations for most of their income.Community health councils held the NHS to account - their abolition has left a huge void, says Jacky Davis
Letters: Sharing the blame for MMR scare - The Guardian 2nd September 2008
Undoubtedly the media must take a large share of the blame for the MMR debacle (MMR was the biggest science story in years - and a hoax, August 30), but the biggest culprit must surely be the government. Confronted with the sudden publicity for Andrew Wakefield's research, the response of any sensible authority would be to acknowledge that it raised issues of concern to all parents, to announce that further research would be put in hand as a matter of urgency and to promise that, in spite of having the utmost confidence in the triple vaccination, it would offer the option of single jabs if parents wished. This would almost certainly have meant that the story would have been forgotten within a few weeks.
Supermarkets have dramatically increased cut-price promotions of cheap sugary and fatty food as the credit crunch bites, a consumer watchdog says today.
Incentives including "buy one get one free" offers could directly influence people's eating habits, according to a report by the government-funded National Consumer Council (NCC).Ben Goldacre on the medicalisation of everyday life - The Guardian 1st September 2008
As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By 'discovering' new illnesses to fit existing products. But, says Ben Goldacre, for most problems the cure will never be found in a pill
Some of London's largest hospital trusts are drawing up claims for compensation relating to the disastrous performance of computer systems installed by BT under the government's controversial £12.7bn overhaul of NHS IT systems in England.
Catering: Reprieve for hospital and school dinners - The Guardian 1st September 2008
Compass, the world's largest catering group, is planning to use new pressure cooking microwave technology to prepare 6.6m hospital meals and 2m school dinners next year in a move it claims will cut waste, energy bills and labour costs.
Eat more cheese and avoid tap water, food industry tells pupils - The Observer 31st August 2008
Big business has been accused of misleading children by distributing educational materials to schools about pupils' diets which experts say are wrong and likely to encourage poor eating habits.\n\nQuestionable claims include advice to children to eat three portions of dairy products each day, to avoid refilling their water bottle from the tap, and not to eat less food if they want to lose weight.
Even as they preach against the evils of obesity, some Conservatives are not exactly setting a good example
Is it too late to save Eric Pickles from himself? By rights, the popular architect of the Tory victory in Crewe and Nantwich should not have much longer to wait before he becomes chairman of his party, replacing Caroline Spelman (victim of unfortunate mix-up involving public money and her children's nanny). When they were invited to pick a fantasy chairman to preside over the party conference, visitors to the Conservative Home website recently offered Pickles their overwhelming support, with 52 per cent of the vote.Did asbestos at school kill this woman? - The Observer 31st August 2008
Teachers' leaders warn of a 'ticking time-bomb' after primary classroom link to premature death
The Iron Lady's wealth means she can get the care she requires. But without free treatment on the NHS, other sufferers are missing out
Dermot Finch: Fix worklessness and life expectancy will rise - The Guardian 30th August 2008
Poor health and high unemployment go hand in hand in Britain's urban areas. Fix worklessness, and life expectancy will rise\n\nBack in 2000, Gordon Brown promised that "within 10-20 years no one should be seriously disadvantaged by where they live". Since then, the government's neighbourhood renewal fund has tried to improve employment, health, housing and schools in our most deprived areas. Progress has been made, but not enough.
UK Health News 09/03/2008
Wednesday 3 September 2008
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