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Drop a dress size with £1 a day pill
A £1-a-day pill that can help a woman rapidly drop a dress size could be sold over the counter.
The Daily Mail
The Telegraph

Should practices open Sundays?
The GP Patient Experience Survey is asking patients if they would like practices to open on Sundays.
Healthcare Republic

Draft guidance on absence management from NICE
NICE has produced first draft of public health guidance on long-term sickness absence management.
Health Service Journal

New patient survey 'misleading'
The BMA has hit out at the government’s new GP patient survey.
Pulse

Bowel cancer screening will save thousands
The national bowel cancer screening programme will save 2,500 lives every year by 2025.
Pulse

Healthspace NHS website of the year
Healthspace has be named NHS Website of the Year.
Pulse

SARS virus hope
Study sheds light on virus that causes SARS in a step that could help fight the disease one day.
Reuters News

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NHS
 
Ministers have announced that hospitals should allow the use of mobile phones by patients.
 
NICE has said it is to change its approval process for drugs for terminally ill patients.
 
Most NHS hospitals in Scotland will no longer charge fees for using car parks.
 
Winter illness pressures have seen GPs inundated with patients over the festive period.
 
Patients will be allowed to comment on GP standards on the NHS Choices website.
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Calls every two seconds for NHS 24
NHS hip op delays for older patients
Asda offers blood tests
Pressure over hospital parking charges
Hospital broke hygiene rules
UK
 
Golfers are warned by doctors that they could be risking their hearing for their sport.
 
Scientists warn claims about detoxing are 'meaningless'.
 
Scientists have said a drug-resistant form of flu, the H1N1 virus, is circulating in Britain.
 
The government has launched a new drive to target obesity rates in England.
 
Figures show that hospital admissions among young people due to alcohol abuse are rising.
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Females less active
Man's epic jog to raise hospital funds
Soap characters 'unhealthy'
Youth mental health warning
Quicker arthritis diagnosis for children
WORLD
 
Humans could be protected from dengue fever by infecting the mosquitoes carrying it with a parasite.
 
Cold perfusion shows a better rate of successful transplant than cold storage.
 
A study has linked a necrotic jaw condition to a drug used for osteoporosis in the jaw.
 
A study has found a drug used for cancer treatment has been found to reverse transplant rejection.
 
An Australian doctor claims to have created the world’s healthiest wine.
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Cholera spreads in Zimbabwe
Colonoscopies 'miss cancers'
High-fibre diet helps breast cancer
H5N1 outbreak in Hong Kong
A third of US adults get flu jab

 
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