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Google News U.K. - Health ITV.com | Care urged on detox claims Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk County Council trading standards officers are warning people to be “sceptical” of so-called detox products after forcing several retailers to take the items off the market. Debunking The Detox Myth Report: Detox Products Are Don't Work |
 BBC News | Prince's Trust: One in ten young people feel life is meaningless Communitycare.co.uk - One in ten young people in Britain think life is not worth living, a report published today has claimed. Of 2000 16- to 25-year-olds young men and women surveyed for the Prince' Trust, 12% said their life was “meaningless”, whilst 14% thought “life ... Study highlights youths’ anxieties Survey reveals depressed youths |
 Daily Mail | Crisis for NHS as bugs hit millions Metro - The NHS is facing its 'worst crisis in a decade' as millions are hit by the flu and norovirus winter vomiting bugs. Health services are feeling the strain after an estimated 2.4million people called in sick on Monday. Winter vomiting bug and flu put NHS under pressure Flu and cold cases figures drop |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Outrage over organs ‘sold to foreigners’ Times Online - THE organs of 50 British National Health Service donors have been given to foreign patients who have paid about £75000 each for private transplant operations in the past two years, freedom of information documents show. Surgeon attacks foreign use of British organs 50 foreigners given organ donations |
 Sky News | Families urged to join healthy eating push Bath Chronicle - Families in Bath are being urged to sign up to a new healthy eating programme. Mums and dads are being encouraged to start the new year with a pledge to improve their family's health habits. DoH launches extensive anti-obesity campaign M&C Saatchi unveils anti-obesity ad |
 ITV.com | Hospitals pay up to £200 an hour for agency staff Yorkshire Post - By Mike Waites NHS hospitals are forking out up to £200 an hour for agency staff to cover shifts, the Tories claim today. Some senior staff are paid hourly rates equivalent to salaries worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, according to figures ... Concern over NHS agency payments NHS 'paying £200 an hour' |
 Herald de Paris | Rule change for cancer drug brings fresh hope South Wales Evening Post - A CANCER sufferer has been handed fresh hope that his battle for a life-prolonging drug could soon be over. The family of Paul Popham, of Morriston, are hoping he is a step closer to being prescribed kidney cancer drug Sutent following a rule change by ... NHS drugs victory ‘will help thousands’ Cancer patients benefit from faster access to the latest medication |
 Daily Mail | Deaths from NHS blunders soar 60% as staff chase government targets Daily Mail - By Daniel Martin The number of patients killed by hospital blunders has soared by 60 per cent in just two years, the Daily Mail can reveal. BMA brands new patient experience survey misleading and flawed 2009 to be “tough year” for NHS, warns BMA Scotland leader |
 Daily Mail | Teasing is 'good' for kids The Sun - NICKNAMES like “Four-eyes”, “Carrot-top” and “Stinky” are GOOD for kids and should not be banned by schools, a psychologist said yesterday. Playground nicknames like 'four-eyes' and 'pizza-face' good for ... Playground teasing is 'essential' |
 BBC News | Cancer cells 'cheat suicide call' BBC News - Cancer cells cheat death by reversing a process which causes normal cells to commit suicide at the end of their natural life, scientists have shown. Cancer cells 'can outwit chemotherapy' Cancer that 'comes back from the dead' |
