A number of athletes have managed to combine sporting excellence with a cigarette habit. Is it possible, asks Peta Bee, that being super-fit lessens the risks of smoking?
Supermarket's dentist offers check-ups before check-out - The Guardian 16th September 2008
The treatment rooms are lined to ensure that no one queuing at the checkouts can hear the dentist's drill. But the convenience of dropping in for a filling while doing the groceries was a winning combination for shoppers at Sainsbury's in Sale, Manchester, yesterday.
Dentist opens supermarket surgery - The Guardian 15th September 2008
A dentist is to make shoppers a special offer with the opening of the first surgery in a supermarket today.
Shoppers will have the chance to fill their trolleys and have a check-up at a Sainsbury's store in Sale, Manchester.Kate Hilpern: Just how unreliable are our powers of recall? - The Guardian 15th September 2008
From rose-tinted views of childhood to clear recollections of events that never happened, research shows that memories are both suggestible and inherently idealised. Kate Hilpern finds out just how unreliable our powers of recall are
Well, who knew that not drinking could actually be quite simple? I was worried that I'd find sobriety a trial, that I'd be sniffing at bottles of mouthwash come day seven, swigging down mouthfuls of perfume come day 11, and eyeing up that old bucket of meths that we keep in the outside cupboard, adulterated with stray strands of paint, come day 13. But no. I've been booze-free for three weeks and it's fine. I am relieved.
Letter: A human right to palliative care - The Guardian 16th September 2008
Guy Brown's article on our ageing society and its implications (The long game, September 10) raises a number of important issues. As well as considering how we manage these, however, we must also face the fact that the final test of our health and social care systems must be how we are cared for as we approach the end of life. According to the Department of Health's first End of Life Care Strategy (July 2008): "How we care for the dying is an indicator of how we care for all sick and vulnerable people. It is a measure of society as a whole." Yet last year the Healthcare Commission reported that a majority (54%) of the complaints regarding English acute hospitals concerned end-of-life care.
Offer patients tax breaks to stay healthy, say Lib Dems - The Guardian 15th September 2008
Patients should be offered tax breaks as an incentive to encourage them to take steps to stay healthy, the Liberal Democrats said today.
Norman Lamb, the health spokesman, said health boards should be given the power to reward people who sign up for gyms, quit smoking or attend medical check-ups.NHS: Personal details of 18,000 staff 'lost in the post' - The Telegraph 16th September 2008
The personal details of nearly 18,000 NHS staff have gone missing in the post, it has emerged.
Four computer discs containing the details of 17,990 current and former staff were lost in July when they were sent between Whittington Hospital NHS Trust in north London and McKesson, a firm providing IT payroll services.A young mother has been given just months to live after blundering medics failed to spot a mole on her back was skin cancer.
Tara Jones, 26, had the mark removed three years ago and, after a biopsy, was told that the growth was harmless.
But over the next few months her health deteriorated, she lost two stone and started passing out.Teach gay sex to children as young as five, say researchers - Daily Mail 16th September 2008
Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project.
Heads of the project have set themselves a goal of 'creating primary classrooms where queer sexualities are affirmed and celebrated'.Camomile tea 'can help keep diabetes under control' - Daily Mail 16th September 2008
It has long been used to soothe frayed nerves and guarantee a good night's sleep.
But drinking camomile tea could also help keep diabetes under control, scientists claim.
Research suggests the drink lowers blood sugar levels and can help prevent complications arising from the condition, including blindness, kidney disease, and nerve and circulatory damage.We beat our doctors death sentences - and we're not happy about it! - Daily Mail 16th September 2008
When pensioner Andy Lees was told he had just six weeks to live, he gave away his life savings. In fact, he'd been misdiagnosed and, as was reported last week, is now suing his local health authority.
Here, we talk to three people who were told they only had months - but who have survived for years, even decades longer than expected. What effect did their bleak prognosis have on them - and their families - and how do they feel about what has happened?How beer, wine, coffee and nuts can ALL 'lower a man's fertility' - Daily Mail 16th September 2008
Beer, wine, coffee and nuts all contain high levels of chemicals linked to male infertility, a study has found.
The bar-room drinks and snacks are loaded with phytoestrogens - naturally-occurring plant compounds implicated in falling sperm counts.Surgeons made me a new nipple from my earlobe - Daily Mail 16th September 2008
Most of the 14,000 women each year who have breast reconstruction have new nipples fashioned for them. Tracy Savage, 43, a clerical assistant from Hellesdon, Norfolk, underwent a new procedure using tissue taken from her ear.
She tells ANGELA BROOKS about her experience while her surgeon explains the technique.Jane Clarke: Don't feel guilty about eating meat - Daily Mail 16th September 2008
Every Tuesday, Britain's leading nutritionist explains how to eat your way to health. This week Jane explains why, if you're considering giving up meat for health reasons, it's not as simple as 'meat is bad'...
A newly launched over-the-counter device could help thousands of people with mild to moderate hearing loss.
The jelly-bean-sized gadget is designed to help boost the sound of speech only - it is being targeted at people who struggle to hear what's being said in crowded places (such as in meetings or at parties) or on the TV.More than 15 years have passed since World Cup legend Bobby Moore died of bowel cancer. But the feelings of shock and horror are still vivid for his England teammate George Cohen.
For George has battled the very same cancer. First diagnosed at just 36, he recovered, only for the disease to return twice. He was finally given the all-clear in 1990, but was then in the excruciatingly painful situation of watching Bobby die of the same disease three years later, aged 51.After being diagnosed with leukaemia three years ago, Lita Jempson underwent five courses of chemotherapy. It was harsh, but the disease went into remission. Then last year the cancer returned.
Doctors had hoped a bone marrow donor could be found for the 39-year-old housewife from Kent, but no match was available. It seemed the only hope was more chemotherapy.They're bursting with health benefits, require no prescription and cost nothing. Research shows that Britain's hedgerow plants are full of vitamins and antioxidants. Furthermore, scientists are investigating their uses as medicines for a host of conditions, including cancer and high blood pressure.
One-a-day pill could end eczema misery for 100,000 sufferers - Daily Mail 15th September 2008
Patients with severe eczema of the hands could benefit from a once-a-day pill.
The condition, which causes inflamed cracks in the skin, affects 250,000 Britons. For many sufferers conventional steroid creams have no effect.A dentist has filled a cavity in the market by opening a surgery in a Sainsbury's store.
And with some treatment prices undercutting the NHS, the new practice, which offers everything from a check-up and polish to a root canal filling, has been swamped with patients eager to register.Ask the doctor: What's the best way to treat my acne? - Daily Mail 15th September 2008
My daughter has acne and has taken the contraceptive Pill Marvelon since she was 15 to combat it. Now aged 24 and fearing for her fertility, she has come off it - only for her acne to return with a vengeance.
What alternatives does she have when over-the-counter treatments have no effect?Fears voiced over new superbugs - BBC Health News 16th September 2008
A leading microbiologist says he fears a major outbreak of new strains of community superbugs unless public monitoring is given more resources.\n\nProfessor Hugh Pennington told the BBC the Health Protection Agency lacked the staff for the greater surveillance of such virulent and mutating bacteria
Body exhumed in fight against flu - BBC Health News 16th September 2008
The body of an aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago has been exhumed in the hope that it will help scientists combat a future flu pandemic.
Yorkshire landowner Sir Mark Sykes died in France in 1919 from Spanish flu.Stroke patients to test sensors - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
Motion sensors similar to those developed for video games like Nintendo Wii may help stroke patients relearn simple tasks, researchers say.
A UK team is assessing such technology to see if it can be used to monitor improvements in upper body movements in patients undergoing physiotherapy.'Our children have been let down' - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
Julie and Steven Bangham feel they have been seriously let down by the services meant to provide care for their two sick children.
Both their children, Steven and Danielle, have congenital muscular dystrophy - a genetic muscle wasting condition present from birth.Fresh start for cancer student - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
His bags were packed and he was looking forward to living away from home for the first time in his life, but two days before he was due to leave for Cardiff University Nick Richards's doctor began to suspect he had bone cancer.
After recovering he is now due to begin his university course. Here the 20-year-old from Pembroke tells the story of his past 12 months.Poor health 'due to wet climate' - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
Scotland's poor health record could be directly linked to a lack of sunshine, a scientist has said.
Dr Oliver Gillie linked the "extreme" weather to vitamin D deficiency, which is caused by low exposure to sunlight.Trust loses 18,000 staff records - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
Discs containing personal information on almost 18,000 NHS staff have gone missing from a north London hospital.
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust admitted the discs were lost when they were put in the post by mistake in late July.Chamomile tea 'may ease diabetes' - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
Drinking chamomile tea daily may help prevent the complications of type 2 diabetes, such as loss of vision and nerve and kidney damage, a study says.
UK and Japanese researchers fed a chamomile extract to diabetic rats.Celery eating paramedic suspended - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
A paramedic who ate celery while his colleague jokingly put a prawn on a dying man's chin as he was given shock treatment was suspended for six months.
Clive Greedy ate the vegetable in the kitchen of the heart attack patient, on the Isle of Wight in 2006.Gene tests 'create undue stress' - BBC Health News 15th September 2008
Gene tests to predict a person's future risk of life-threatening disease may be damaging to health by causing unnecessary stress, an expert claims.
Professor Nilesh Samani, British Heart Foundation chair of cardiology, says the tests are too inaccurate to help the individual.
UK Health News 09/16/2008
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
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