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“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.”
“Five of the incidents took place at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and one was at Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital.”
“Since January 2008, fewer than five patients left hospital with swabs inside them after surgery.”
“NHS Tayside said eight objects, including the tip of a guide wire and the tip of a needle, were left inside patients during surgery.”
“The patients were at Ninewells Hospital and Perth Royal Infirmary but none became ill, were injured or died as a result of the mistakes.”
“All swabs despite arriving in packs of whatever number, should be counted and not assumed to be the usual number of the pack. These checks, to my knowledge, are routine.”
“Currently, 19% of pregnant women are smokers, compared to 29% in 1995.”
“the fact one in five mothers-to-be still smoked”
“It also increases by one-third the risk of stillbirth or death within the first week of a baby's life.”
“Children born to parents who smoke are also twice as likely to suffer from serious respiratory infections.”
“Around one in five women smoke during pregnancy”
“Smoking is still the biggest killer of Scots, with a quarter of all deaths due to tobacco”
“there are still more girls than boys taking up smoking younger”
“In the late 1970s fewer than 400 (1.5 per 100,000) men died from melanoma but that figure has now risen to over 1,100 (3.1 per 100,000).”
“In men aged over 65 deaths have risen from 4.5 per 100,000 to 15.2 per 100,000 over the past 30 years.”
“The death rates for women have also risen, from 1.5 to 2.2 per 100,000.”
“In the late 1970s fewer than 400 (1.5 per 100,000) men died from melanoma”
“but that figure has now risen to over 1,100 (3.1 per 100,000).”
“Paul Burstow said that the figures were worrying”
“If you are worried about a mole, go to a GP. Either he can refer you, or if you are still worried you can ask to see a dermatologist.”
“They found that in mice with normal functioning levels of adenosine, acupuncture reduced soreness by two-thirds, as assessed by nerve sensitivity measurements.”
“And during and immediately after an acupuncture treatment, the level of adenosine in the tissues near the needles was 24 times greater than before the treatment, the researchers said.”
“Then using a drug which extends the effects of adenosine, they found that the benefits of acupuncture lasted three times as long.”
“In mice specially engineered to lack the receptor for adenosine, acupuncture had no effect.”
“Four pupils remain in different hospitals. All are said to be comfortable and stable.”
“The Leo Pharma company says it is suspending sales of two popular drugs because the price reductions will cause job losses across Europe.”
“Another Danish pharmaceutical company is withdrawing products from Greece in protest at the government's decision to cut the prices of medicines by 25%.”
“Earlier this week another Danish company, Novo Nordisk, withdrew sales of its state-of-the-art insulin product from Greece for the same reason.”
“Stefanos Combinos, the director general of the economy ministry, told the BBC that Greece was one of the three most expensive countries in Europe for medicines.”
“Nine people were taken to hospital but no-one is believed to have been seriously hurt.”
“The party said it welcomed the fact that NHS boards had already identified £250m of possible cuts.”
“But they said cuts of £45m, including saving £20m from prescriptions, could have been made in previous years.”
“The Scottish government said all health boards have been asked to make 2% efficiency savings.”
“Our analysis shows that these savings are a quarter of a billion pounds, of which £45m could have been made in previous years.”
“Mr Fraser said six of Scotland's 14 health boards had identified savings to their prescribing budgets, totalling more than £20m.”
“These savings will mainly be found by moving to generic drugs from brand-name drugs, he said.”
“A consultation on these proposals will be held over the summer.”
“The Scottish government said all health boards have been asked to make 2% 'efficiency savings' which will be reinvested in frontline services.”
“These savings will mainly be found by moving to generic drugs from brand-name drugs,”
“Calls to the College and University Support Network rose by a quarter to 10,162 in the year to May 2010.”
“Dennis Hopper died this morning at 8:15 am from complications of metastasised prostate cancer. He died at home in Venice surrounded by family and friends”
“It was during the court hearings that it was revealed Hopper was terminally ill with prostate cancer, following his diagnosis last year”
“There was a woman who wrote in saying 'thank you, thank you, if it hadn't been for me listening to The Archers, I would never have found out I had a lump in my breast'”
“We have invested over £1.5m in this new MRI scanner and I am delighted that our patients will benefit from the most up to date technology available in this field.”
“The Titan MRI Scanner is the first of its type to be put in a UK hospital, officials at Warwick Hospital said.”
“Currently the MRI scanner is based on old technology and is located outside the hospital,”
“the Toshiba team were waiting to start the installation of the scanner, which has been brought to the hospital from Japan.”
“the scanner, which has been brought to the hospital from Japan.”
“More than 50,000 Greeks with diabetes use Novo Nordisk's product.”
“More than 100 patients had to be evacuated from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after a fire broke out in one of the wards.”
“The fire started in ward 34, on the second floor of the main building of the hospital, at about 0200 BST.”
“Fifty firefighters tackled the blaze which also affected nearby wards.”
“An ARI spokeswoman said 109 patients were moved to other parts of the hospital.”
“Six fire appliances were called out from across Aberdeen.”
“Grampian Fire and Rescue Service have launched an investigation into the blaze.”
“three-quarters of those asked thought it important to compare their incomes with others.”
“covering 19,000 participants in 24 countries.”
“comparisons with friends appeared to be twice as painful as comparisons with colleagues.”
“John Watkinson was suspended from the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) in 2008 after concerns about his management.”
“The health secretary has called for an investigation and report into the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) after Mr Watkinson was sacked.”
“Minister Andrew Lansley said he took the case 'very seriously'.”
“Vanilla Blush was set up by 33-year-old Nicola Dames after she had major surgery in 2006.”
“Ms Coyle, 21, said she decided to speak out after her friend, hairstylist Connor Grant, had an operation in January which left him needing a colostomy bag.”
“I am pleased to say that we have already received a £2,000 donation. With Nadine's help we should be going Stateside.”
“Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, died in March”
“The deaths of Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, in March 2010 sparked concern about the synthetic stimulant, which was then legal.”
“Mephedrone has been implicated in the deaths of 34 people in the UK - 26 in England and eight in Scotland.”
“But so far, the drug has been established as a cause of death in only one case in England, that of John Stirling Smith.”
“10th suicide”
“Three more employees have attempted suicide”
“Their immersion in the water caused hypothermia and cardiac arrest in both men, who were pronounced dead in Leicester Royal Infirmary later that afternoon.”
“for just seven months”
“The Vinefields can provide respite care for eight adults at a time”
“and provide regular respite support to 70 families.”
“Carers of adults with learning disabilities often provide a lifetime of care and support of over 50 hours a week.”
