uk-hotdailynews: 2015-01-31 U.K. Health

Hull patients face worst A&E waits in England
Yorkshire Post
WAITS FOR treatment in a Yorkshire A&E unit were the worst in England last week, new figures have revealed. Only 71.2 per cent of patients were seen within the four-hour target at Hull Royal Infirmary in the seven days to last Sunday. The hospital has been ...

Family of depressed woman found hanged in hospital A&E following four-hour ...   Mirror.co.uk
A&E crisis: more 12 hour trolley waits in January than whole of 2013/2014   Telegraph.co.uk
A&e figures show fresh improvement   Daily Mail
Belfast Telegraph
The Bolton News
Worcester News
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Scientists' 'hugely exciting' DNA research may lead to extending life
Express.co.uk
SCIENTISTS have identified changes in our body clock that predict how long we will live. Published: 00:01, Sat, January 31, 2015. By Paula Murray. DNA double helix GETTY. The team have found clues in DNA that can show how long we will live. The finding ...

DNA clues could predict when people will die   The Independent
How long will I live? 'Biological clock' breakthrough means age-old question ...   Mirror.co.uk

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Telegraph health advice: Prostate cancer
Telegraph.co.uk
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, with over 40,000 new cases diagnosed every year. Prostate cancer usually develops slowly, so there may be no signs you have it for many years. Symptoms often only become apparent when your ...

Men United spread health message in pubs   ITV News
MP backs men's cancer campaign   Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Baroness Royall pledges her support to Prostate Cancer UK's Men United ...   Gloucester Citizen
F.C. Business
Medscape
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Debate Heightens Over Measuring Health-Care Quality
Wall Street Journal
The Obama administration's goal of tying more Medicare payments to the quality—not the quantity—of health care by 2018 has intensified the debate over how “quality” is defined and measured. Many doctors, hospitals, insurers and cost experts want to move ...

Friday Feedback: Medicare's New Way to Pay   MedPage Today
Hospitals respond to Medicare worries with a shopping spree   The Deal Pipeline
US government releases draft plan for electronic health data   Reuters
Forbes
HealthITSecurity.com
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Child obesity rates 'levelling off' among under-10s
BBC News
The rise in childhood obesity, which has left one in three UK children overweight, may be beginning to level off in the under-10s, a study suggests. There was a steady rise in the proportion of overweight children between 1994 and 2003, but in the past ...

Obesity rates 'levelling off', but are kids losing weight?   Channel 4 News
Child Obesity 'Levelling Off' But Fears Remain   City Talk 105.9
Third of children overweight   Bradford Telegraph and Argus
ITV News
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Teenager 'put in isolation' by school for three days after shaving head for cancer ...
Irish Independent
A teenager who shaved his head to raise money for a cancer charity has been put in isolation for three days for 'breaking school rules'. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. Stan Lock, 14, cut off his hair after seeing the ...

Teenager isolated over cancer charity haircut   BBC News
Stan Lock barred from lessons after shaving his head for Macmillan Cancer Care ...   Daily Mail
Cancer waiting times show you can't trust the Tories with the NHS, but Labour ...   Mirror.co.uk
Metro
The Independent
Western Daily Press
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Cuts in doctor training 'could harm patients'
BBC News
The British Medical Association (BMA) has criticised plans drawn up by an independent review to shorten the length of medical training for doctors across the UK. The BMA says patients' lives could be put at risk by the proposed changes. The Department of ...

GPs oppose Government plans to rush doctors through medical training amid ...   Mirror.co.uk
Patient safety 'on the line' if ministers push through plans to cut the time it takes ...   Daily Mail
Cutting medical training by years could harm patient safety, doctors warn   Telegraph.co.uk
The Guardian
Southend Standard
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Churches oppose three-person baby plan
BBC News
Senior church figures have called on the UK government to block the creation of babies from three people. The Church of England and the Catholic Church in England and Wales said it was not clear the technique - adding a donor woman's mitochondria to ...

Catholic leaders attack law allowing three-parent babies as the procedure ...   Daily Mail
Church warns against law change on use of triple DNA   Irish Examiner
i Editor's Letter: Science versus religion in the three-parent baby debate   The Independent
Telegraph.co.uk
The Guardian
Belfast Telegraph
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FGM prevalence exposed by 500 cases in a month
Morning Star Online
Female genital mutilation may be much more prevalent in Britain than previously believed, with over 500 new cases identified in December alone, new figures showed yesterday. The Health and Social Care Information Centre said that 558 new patients at ...

FGM cases of at least at 500 a month 'just tip of an iceberg'   The Times (subscription)
Fears as more FGM cases identified   Belfast Telegraph
Thousands of FGM Cases Identified in UK Are Just the 'Tip of the Iceberg'   VICE News
The Guardian
Ilford Recorder 24
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Tragic boy (8) was victim of scurvy
Belfast Telegraph
Pembrokeshire Coroner's Court heard Dylan Mungo Seabridge, from west Wales, died from the disease shortly after being taken to hospital more than three years ago. His parents Glynn (47) and Julie (46) were initially arrested on suspicion of neglect.
Eight-year-old Dylan Mungo Seabridge died from scurvy, an inquest rules - but ...   WalesOnline

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