Health
Two women contract flesh-eating disease after op
Two Northern Ireland women are recovering from the rare so-called flesh-eating
disease ‘necrotizing fasciitis’ after going into hospital for routine
operations.
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Inside Health
Eco-friendly light bulbs health alert
Friday, 10 October 2008
Energy saving light bulbs can emit levels of ultraviolet radiation sufficient
to damage the skin, the Government's public health safety watchdog warned.
Comments: 5
Nurses face the axe as NHS aims to make a saving of £344m
Friday, 10 October 2008
Almost 2,500 jobs will be axed from the Northern Ireland health service within
three years under radical new proposals to save millions of pounds, it was
announced last night.
Comments: 13
The deal’s off if Omagh hospital plan is resisted, warns McGimpsey
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Northern Ireland’s Health Minister last night threatened to pull the plug on
plans for a £190m hospital in Omagh if the local council does not support
him.
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Concern grows in Donegal after three babies contract MRSA superbug
Thursday, 9 October 2008
A group representing victims and relatives who caught the hospital infection
MRSA, has called for an investigation into how three babies contracted the
infection at a Donegal hospital.
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UK death rates plunge
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Britain's financial health may be on the slide but our physical health is
improving sharply.
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Forgetful? Your brain may be shrinking
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Occasional memory lapses such as forgetting the name of a friend may be
symptoms of a shrinking brain, researchers have found.
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McGimpsey refuses cash plea for little Katie
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
The father of a seriously ill Magherafelt baby has slammed health chiefs after
they refused to cover the cost of her care in a US hospital.
Comments: 3
Cancer gene: Four sisters from Irish family undergo double mastectomies
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Four sisters from one Irish family have undergone double mastectomies after
they discovered they had an 80pc chance of developing breast cancer.
Comment: 1
Cure for blindness a step closer
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
A treatment to prevent the West's commonest cause of blindness moved a step
closer yesterday with the discovery of a mutant gene that sharply increases
the risk of sight loss.
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Wendy to marry Belfast partner before she dies
Monday, 6 October 2008
The Belfast-born partner of Ex-Eastenders star Wendy Richard has spoken of the
emotional turmoil her cancer has brought to their life together.
Comment: 1
MRSA deaths may see health bosses prosecuted
Monday, 6 October 2008
Directors of hospitals where patients have died from superbug infections
because of failures by senior management will be prosecuted under new
manslaughter laws, ministers have told NHS chiefs.
Comment: 1
Doctors warn women over dangers of high heels
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Doctors are increasingly worried about the damage women are doing to their
feet in the name of fashion.
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Dyslexia gene is carried by 15% of population
Thursday, 2 October 2008
Reading ability in the general population may be influenced by a gene linked
to dyslexia, a new study shows.
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Woman waited 45 minutes for help
Thursday, 2 October 2008
Ambulance chiefs in the North West are investigating why a woman hurt in a car
crash was left on a roadside for 45 minutes waiting for an ambulance.
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Scorpion venom tested as brain cancer cure
Thursday, 2 October 2008
Radioactive scorpion venom is being tested as a treatment for brain cancer, it
was reported today.
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Drugs in tap water probe
Monday, 29 September 2008
Drinking water supplies are to be tested for the presence of prescription
drugs amid fears that rivers are being contaminated by the growing quantity
of pharmaceuticals flushed unwittingly down the drain.
Comment: 1
All prescription charges are axed
Monday, 29 September 2008
Prescription charges are to be completely scrapped for everyone in Northern
Ireland within 18 months, it was announced today.
Comments: 21
Breastfeeding mums ‘reduce cancer risk’
Monday, 29 September 2008
Mothers who breastfeed for a year over the course of their lifetime are almost
5% less likely to develop breast cancer, an expert said today.
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Dodds raises hopes of free prescriptions for cancer sufferers
Saturday, 27 September 2008
The minister in charge of Northern Ireland’s purse strings yesterday told the
Belfast Telegraph he can see “no obstacles” to the scrapping of prescription
charges for cancer sufferers in the province.
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Cancer patients access drug
Saturday, 27 September 2008
Doctors in Northern Ireland are treating cancer with drugs that have been
deemed too expensive for the National Health Service and are bucking the
UK’s healthcare lottery.
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• Hamish McRae: So will anything shift the economic gloom?
It is a classic financial crash. Another week of mayhem in the markets, another week of despair among bankers, another week of rising concern for the rest of us. The world's monetary powers sought to reassert their authority last week by cutting interest rates, while individual governments, in particular our own one, continued to unwrap national rescue packages. Their aim was to restore confidence – and they failed.
• Robert Fisk: 'Collateral damage' or targeted killing, the effect is much the same
All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's the mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass.
• Laurence White: Will we have any cash left after world market crash?
The financial turmoil currently gripping the world is of such a magnitude that it is over-shadowing what until a couple of months ago was the biggest story in town — the race for the White House. Now Barack Obama and John McCain find themselves a side-show.
• David Healy: I want a Northern Ireland win
Every Northern Ireland game is big, but tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier in Slovenia is really BIG.
• Eamonn MCann: Was it fair to jail Shahra Marsh but let greedy bankers go free?
Nobody is immune from this banking crisis. Not Shahra Marsh. Not Mother Teresa.
• Frances Burscough: How being a mum can take me from good times to verse
If you didn’t already know it, you will now: today is National Poetry Day and we are marking the event by waxing lyrical and celebrating our heritage as a nation of lyricists, balladeers and poets.
• Lindy McDowell: Might Mandy prove handy for Labour after all?
Peter Mandelson — they don’t call him the Prince of Darkness for nothing. Politically it’s been harder to put a stake through his heart than to decommission Dracula with garlic. He’s had more comebacks than Tina Turner.
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Next US president?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
| John McCain |
 45% |
| Barack Obama |
 41% |
| It won't make a difference |
11% |
| I'm still holding out for Ron Paul |
3% |
