Health care costs outstrip pay, inflation

Health care costs outstrip pay, inflation
By Gregory Lopes THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Washington Times Daily
27 Sep 2006

The rising cost of health care slowed for the nation’s employers and workers this year but still managed to outpace the growth rate of wages and inflation, a nationwide survey found yesterday. Premiums for employer-sponsored health plans rose 7.7... read more...

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Turning lives around for ever

Turning lives around for ever

Society
26 Sep 2006

SITTINGin herflat in a run-down area of Glasgow, Audrey Platt could see no future for herself or herchildren. Having just returned from hospital after the birth of hersecond daughter, she was abandoned by the partner she’d lived with for 11 years. With... read more...

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Ovarian Cancer Canada wants women to know risks

Ovarian Cancer Canada wants women to know risks
BY GERRY BELLETT
Vancouver Sun
27 Sep 2006

VANCOUVER Few women are aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer and unlike breast cancer there is no screening test to reveal it. Ovarian Cancer Canada wants to wake women up to the risks of ovarian cancer, which kills 66 per cent of the women... read more...

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Finland’s culture makes for great medical trials

Finland’s culture makes for great medical trials
By Adam Cohen
The Wall Street Journal Europe
27 Sep 2006

HELSINKI—When a major medical study requires years of intensive patient participation, suchas daily injections or weekly hospital visits, researchers head to Finland. This chilly country of 5.3 million people isakey place for research, doctors and... read more...

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Don’t fret about spinach— obesity is the real threat (Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep 2006, Page 17)

Don’t fret about spinach— obesity is the real threat
John McCarron
Chicago Tribune
25 Sep 2006

Diet and exercise. Forget about the bad spinach. Never mind the mosquitoes that might carry West Nile virus. Don’t lose precious sleep over the danger posed by bird flu. The disease most apt to kill us, the epidemic that most threatens to ravage our... read more...

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This brutal surgery is a godsend for those who wish to kill off the NHS

This brutal surgery is a godsend for those who wish to kill off the NHS
Polly Toynbee
The Guardian
22 Sep 2006

The NHS risks becoming Labour’s Iraq on the home front. Today’s token strike over the sale of NHS Logistics to DHL is only a minor harbinger of worse internal storms to come. The public looking on is unforgiving, now telling pollsters, for the first... read more...

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Sweden snuffs out some smoking, but how safe is the alternative?

Sweden snuffs out some smoking, but how safe is the alternative?
By Kevin Helliker
The Wall Street Journal Europe
19 Sep 2006

FOR FOUR DECADES, Pam Harlan sought to quit smoking. She tried cessation therapy and nicotine-replacement products such as the patch. She coughed in the morning, felt chest pain, watched her mother die of lung cancer—and continued lighting up. Then... read more...

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Animal tests show link between acne treatment and depression

Animal tests show link between acne treatment and depression
Sarah Boseley Health editor
The Guardian
19 Sep 2006

The first scientific evidence of a link between a drug for severe acne and depression was unveiled yesterday, following years of denials by the manufacturer that the prescription medicine could be in any way responsible for suicides. Roaccutane has... read more...

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Women with health issues can still have healthy babies

Women with health issues can still have healthy babies
By LYNDA SHRAGER ALBANY TIMES UNION
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
18 Sep 2006

At the age of 15 my daughter had a section of her colon removed due to complications of Crohn’s disease. When it comes time for her to think about getting pregnant (hopefully far into the future), she will be armed with the operation notes from the... read more...

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Cancer council urges curbs on fast food

Cancer council urges curbs on fast food
Michelle Wiese Bockmann
Australian
19 Sep 2006

FAST foods need tobacco-style regulation to cut the rate of cancer among Australians. Obesity was the next highest risk factor after tobacco, the Cancer Council South Australia told a state parliamentary inquiry into fast foods and obesity. ‘‘... read more...

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Two cancers soar in young adults

Two cancers soar in young adults
BY MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
Globe and Mail
12 Sep 2006

Canadian researchers conducting the most comprehensive study in the world on the changes in cancer rates among young adults have found a dramatic surge in the incidence of thyroid cancer in Canadian women and a sharp increase in testicular cancer among... read more...

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For first time, doctors communicate with patient in persistent vegetative state

For first time, doctors communicate with patient in persistent vegetative state
Ian Sample Science correspondent
The Guardian
08 Sep 2006

A 23-year-old woman who has been in a vegetative state since suffering devastating brain damage in a traffic accident has stunned doctors by performing mental tasks for them. Brain scans revealed that the woman, who has shown no outward signs of... read more...

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Reducing poverty is the key to better health

Reducingpoverty is thekey to better health

The Herald
07 Sep 2006

YOUR editorial on September 6 lists what can be done to reduce health inequalities to improve the health of the poor and you included a need to “encourage better lifestyles”. Because someone is poor does not mean that they are less knowledgeable about... read more...

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Protein gives ‘ full’ feeling, study says

Protein gives ‘ full’ feeling, study says
BY SHARON KIRKEY
Vancouver Sun
06 Sep 2006

British scientists have found that eating a high- protein diet boosts levels of a hormone that suppresses hunger, which may help some people lose weight. It was already known eating protein makes people feel fuller, faster but why that’s so remained a... read more...

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Obesity threatens global health

Obesity threatens global health
BY ROHAN SULLIVAN
Richmond Times-Dispatch
04 Sep 2006

An obesity pandemic threatens to overwhelm health systems around the globe with illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, experts at an international conference warned yesterday. “This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the... read more...

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Gene therapy cures dying cancer men for first time

Gene therapy cures dying cancer men for first time
By Roger Highfield Science Editor
The Daily Telegraph
01 Sep 2006

GENE therapy has eradicated cancer from two dying men using genetically modified versions of their own cells. Both were suffering from advanced melanoma but the technique could be customised to attack other common cancers. Although scientists remain... read more...

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