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“Doctors at University Hospital of North Staffordshire said the next 48 hours would be crucial.”
“Thomas fell 15ft (4.5m) through a skylight.”
“They are looking for 60 overweight men, aged 40 to 70 with type 2 diabetes, to take part in the three-week study.”
“He discharged himself at about 0050 BST on Friday 18 September 2009.”
“A major incident has been declared at West Cumberland Hospital, in Whitehaven, where the NHS said all routine operations had been cancelled.”
“It seems likely that the level of risk is very low, in which case we should open it up completely.”
“The reports examined cancer care and outcomes for patients diagnosed with either prostate, breast or colorectal cancer between 1996 and 2006.”
“These together account for over 3,000 cancers in Northern Ireland each year.”
“This will be further enhanced by the development of a satellite radiotherapy unit, which is planned for Altnagelvin to meet radiotherapy demands from 2015 onwards.”
“Anti-freeze is very toxic to cats and sadly once ingested they suffer from kidney failure within a few days.”
“Effective treatment is only available if caught within the first 24 hours but this is not normally possible as the cat shows no sign of being unwell within this time.”
“By the time the cats show signs of illness there is nothing that can be done to save them.”
“Researchers examined medical records of 2,217 Danes”
“Of these 173, or 8%, could be classed as nocturnal eaters”
“over a period of six years”
“would wake up in the middle of the night at least twice a week for a little moonlight snack”
“Two seriously injured activists were to stay behind in Israel”
“18-year-old Daniel Thomas Evans, from the Connah's Quay area, was pronounced dead at the scene and three others were taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital.”
“A total of £9.6m is to be spent on improving surgery and outpatient facilities by an NHS trust on the Surrey/London border.”
“Projects include a £400,000 refurbishment of operating theatres at St Helier Hospital in south London.”
“There will also be £100,000 spent on outpatient areas at Epsom Hospital.”
“We'll be ploughing almost £10m into our buildings, land and hospital equipment.”
“The building is under construction, and one option is to put the maternity unit on the top three floors by 2013.”
“A new women's and children's hospital was promised over 10 years ago when the Jubilee Maternity hospital closed and merged with the Royal maternity.”
“The Belfast Health Trust will now take forward the review which is due to be completed in the autumn.”
“The report said that in 1990, 202 Ethiopian children per 1,000 died before the age of five. In 2010, the rate had halved to 101 deaths per 1,000.”
“Singapore, where there are just two deaths per 1,000 children under the age of five.”
“Its report suggested the approach by the previous government had "failed". Author Max Chambers said it had become the "easy option for prisoners' habits to simply be maintained by the state". He added that "little effort" was being made to…”
“The research report, called Coming Clean, suggested the setting up of the Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS) in 2007 had led to an increase in the frequency and length of prescriptions for methadone and a decline in shorter detoxifica…”
“The system is being brought in across prisons in England and Wales to provide "evidence-based treatment tailored to the needs of the offender". "It is currently the subject of a rigorous and extensive four-year prison research programme,"…”
“"Clinical guidance recommends that prisoners jailed for more than six months should not be maintained on methadone unless there are exceptional circumstances."”
“Director of the Prison Reform Trust Juliet Lyon said about three-quarters of people entering prison tested positive for class A drugs.”
“In 2006 I was getting 150 cvs to fill one job, all of them were overseas doctors.”
“Now I get about three or four (applications) and on interview day either none of them turns up or one of them turns up.”
“In total, they plan to take more than 100 junior doctors over to the NHS.”
“The European Working Time Directive, which was fully introduced into the NHS last August, limits doctors to working no more than 48 hours per week.”
“The Welsh Deanery is one of four medical training schools across the UK which has been recruiting in India over this year.”
“BAPIO agreed to help the government - as long as the Indian medics were allowed to stay and get training for between three and four years, rather than the two year limit currently in place.”
“In May, the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy had to close its accident and emergency department overnight for a week due to a shortage of junior doctors.”
“one of four medical training schools across the UK which has been recruiting in India over this year.”
“So even though in 2006 I was getting 150 cvs to fill one job, all of them were overseas doctors.”
“The European Working Time Directive, which was fully introduced into the NHS last August, limits doctors to working no more than 48 hours per week and has left gaps on rotas.”
“Action for Blind People, based in Bedminster, had to find £60,000 to continue running its counselling service.”
“The grant will fund one counsellor and four volunteers per year.”
“Seventy per cent of people who've been assessed [in Bristol] have showed risks of suicide.”
“At the end of this whole process that they've got from the emotional support team, we've reduced it down to about four per cent.”
“The funding is being provided by Bristol City Council, South Gloucestershire Council and South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust.”
“The 42-year-old is in a stable condition at Prince Charles Hospital after the incident at Garden City in Penydarren at 1220 BST on Saturday.”
“It has provided 200 devices to staff since the start of the year.”
“However, Bradford Teaching Hospitals has a responsibility to protect its workforce against the small number of incidents of violence, threatening behaviour and verbal abuse which occur each year.”
“We carry out a lot of visits on our own and very often we don't know what we are going to be greeted with when we walk through someone's front door.”
“NHS chief executive David Nicholson, who is paid up to £259,999”
“The rights group representing them, the Legal Assistance Centre, says it has documented 15 cases of alleged HIV sterilisation in hospitals since 2008.”
“The World Cancer Research Fund criticised the governing body for partnering with the likes of Coca Cola, McDonald's and Budweiser.”
“It said the tournament should be an opportunity to promote active lifestyles.”
“There is no doubt that when it comes to the fight against childhood obesity, football can be a force for good because it is a type of physical activity that is accessible to almost everyone.”
“She said that the charity was raising its concerns to make parents aware of the effect of this type of marketing and urged them to stock up on healthy foods, such as fruit and vegetables.”
“When the Government's research suggests that, at most, advertising has a marginal impact on a child's overall diet, these comments risk everyone taking their eye off the ball.”
“FIFA said it ran projects using the popularity of football to highlight and tackle urgent global health issues.”
“Rule 52: buy smaller plates - it'll cut your food consumption by 22%”
“Thomas Buckett was discovered in the grounds of Clayton Hall Business and Language College, Newcastle-under-Lyme, at 1920 BST on Sunday, police said. Ambulance staff said Thomas fell 15ft (4.5m) through a skylight.”
“The pupil, who is sitting his GCSEs, suffered serious head injuries.”
“Emergency calls were received to reports of a boy that had fallen through a skylight at a college and was seriously injured.”
“The paper says the figures show the state pays for one in six of the prison population to get a heroin substitute.”
“About 71,000 people in Scotland have dementia”
“and the number is expected to double over the next 25 years”
“Dr Sihn says that demand has risen by about 50% over the past year alone.”
“He has performed around 1,400 such operations in recent years.”
“I'm currently doing about 50 operations a week, but that number will go up sharply in the summer, when students are on holiday,”
“For a typical nose job, involving internal intervention to straighten cartilage and external beautification (septoplasty and rhinoplasty) the charge is around $700.”
“She had been thinking about straightening her nose for the past two years, and finally decided to take the plunge”
“A general anaesthetic and about 20 minutes' surgery later, it was all over.”
“I'm currently doing about 50 operations a week, but that number will go up sharply in the summer, when students are on holiday, he said.”
“More than 30,000 riders visit the Kent town over the Bank Holiday weekend.”
“Sussex Police said on Friday that four motorcyclists were seriously injured on the roads in East Sussex last weekend.”
“Motorcyclists represent less than 1% of road users, but in terms of those killed or seriously injured, they account for 19% of the total number of casualties Felicity Drewett, Highways Agency co-ordinator for Kent and Sussex.”
“The two surviving men remain in hospital. One aged 27 is said to be in a critical condtion the other 26-year-old is said to be serious but stable.”
“Gold Street Medical Centre in Wellingborough has been closed since the fire on 15 May.”
“Hemmingwell Lodge is being given an emergency refurbishment, NHS Northamptonshire said. It will house Abbey Medical Practice, Dr Datta and Partners and Dr Patel and Partners for about 18 months.”
“Hemmingwell Lodge is being given an emergency refurbishment, NHS Northamptonshire said. It will house Abbey Medical Practice, Dr Datta and Partners and Dr Patel and Partners for about 18 months. The practices will then move to previously p…”
“It has cost her family about £35,000 at £800 a week.”
“A Cornwall grandmother has won her nine-month battle for the NHS to treat her liver cancer.”
“An appeals panel has ruled the NHS should pick up the bill for Sue Dunn's use of Cetuximab.”
“Marine McBean took part in a surf therapy course for armed services amputees at Polzeath in Cornwall.”
“He was joined by another Marine, Nicholas Gibbons, 19, from Sheffield, who lost his right lower leg in Afghanistan in 2008. He said: "You think your life is at an end. But I've done more stuff than I've ever done before. I'd never done sur…”
“The company has been designing and making medical pressure measurement equipment since 1971.”
“In 2003, the Human Genome Project succeeded in sequencing the human genome to 99.9% accuracy, allowing scientists to "read" human DNA.”
“According to the Sanger Institute, one in three people in the western world develop cancer and one in five die of the disease.”
“At the Institute of Cancer Research, £90m a year - much of which is from charitable sources - is spent predominantly on studying the genetic causes of cancer and using that knowledge to inhibit the disease.”
“A typical gene may contain around 1,500.”
“Until relatively recently we could look at genes one at a time, then 10 at a time but what's happened over the last year or so is that new technologies have come around that will now allow us for the first time to look at 20,000 genes.”
“And with just 1% of the human genome currently reached by drug therapies, the potential of this therapy could be astonishing.”
“Many of the drugs that we develop may work on - say - 10% of patients with lung cancer and 20% of patients with breast cancer that have the same [genetic mutation].”
“The separate Folding@Home project, which is studying the ways that proteins fold inside cells, can call on about eight petaflops of computer power.”
“NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said six patients left hospital with swabs inside their body since January 2008.”
“Greater Glasgow and Clyde said up to three people, from a total of 12 with objects left inside their bodies, became unwell as a result.”
“NHS Borders said forceps were left inside a patient at Borders General Hospital in June last year.”
“In May last year the bladder dome of an adult patient at the same hospital was accidentally torn during a total abdominal hysterectomy.”
“NHS Grampian said eight incidents occurred between January 2008 and February 2010 in which objects were left inside or assumed to have been left inside patients.”
“In six recorded cases in NHS Grampian, the uterus was punctured on five occasions and a patient's testicles were punctured in one case.”
