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More than one million children have been created as a result of IVF since Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born in 1978. Around 6,000 babies are born every year in Britain as a result of fertility treatment. But there are increasing concerns over the long term impact of IVF and in particular, new techniques developed in recent years.One study has shown that ICSI babies have a 9.5% risk of abnormality - more than twice the rate of naturally conceived children.
HealthThe Independent On Sunday – 24 October 2004
 
Smokers under the age of forty are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers, with women at an even higher risk, research has shown.
HealthThe Times – 24 August 2004
 
Record numbers of NHS doctors are being investigated for poor performance, raising doubts about the safety of medical care. In the first five months of this year, 317 GPs and hospital specialists were referred to the National Clinical Assessment Authority (NCAA) because of concerns they could be putting patients at risk. Cases include surgeons who have botched operations and doctors accused of bullying colleagues. The referrals, disclosed at a board meeting of the NCAA, bring to 1,400 the total number of doctors investigated since the authority was set up in April 2001 - more than 1% of the medical workforce. This year the authority is predicting 750 doctors will be referred for investigation, nearly a 50% increase on the 526 referrals in 2003-04.
HealthThe Independent – 5 October 2004
 
There are now 1.8 million people in the UK with diabetes - an increase of 400,000 in just eight years, a report revealed today. Experts fear the number will surge further in coming years as the population becomes older and fatter. By the end of the decade, it is estimated that three million people in the UK could be suffering from the condition, according to charity Diabetes UK.
HealthThe Sentinel – 7 October 2004
 
Trace amounts of industrial chemicals have been found in the blood of children in a study carried out by the environmental pressure group WWF (World Wildlife Fund). Some of the children in the study had higher levels of certain chemicals in their blood than adults, prompting WWF to warn of the potential hazards to future generations.
HealthThe Independent – 8 October 2004
 
Around 40,000 women across the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and ten women in the West Midlands are diagnosed with the disease every day.
HealthThe Sentinel – 8 October 2004
 
Air fresheners and aerosols used in the home can cause diarrhea and earache in youngsters and depression in their mothers, research suggests today. A study following 14,000 children since birth found that frequent use of fresheners and aerosols, during pregnancy and early childhood, was linked to higher levels of illness.
HealthThe Sentinel – 19 October 2004
 
Growing numbers of British women are trying to reconcile the conflicting demands of motherhood and professional life by turning to the controversial technology of egg freezing, allowing them to start a family long after their biological clock has stopped ticking. Clinics around the country report that up to a third of their patients are now citing lifestyle, rather than medical reasons, for wanting to undergo the procedure, which involves extracting eggs from their ovaries and freezing them in liquid nitrogen until the woman is ready to conceive. The latest figures from Birmingham-based Midland Fertility Services, one of the latest IVF units in the UK, reveal that 8 out of 26 egg freezings carried out between January 2002 and December 2003 were for lifestyle reasons.
HealthThe Independent – 17 October 2004
 
Children in North Staffordshire are still the most protected against three potential killer diseases compared to infants in other parts of Britain. The proportion of parents volunteering their children to have the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is considerably higher than the national average. Just over 90% of children received the triple vaccine in the 15 months up to June this year, compared to a figure of 80% nationally.
HealthThe Sentinel Sunday – 17 October 2004
 
A vaccine against malaria, which kills up to3 million people a year, could be a reality by the end of the decade, scientists involved in one of the biggest clinical trials in Africa said yesterday. Results from the second phase of the trial, involving more than 2,000 children showed that the vaccine protected 30% of them against the disease for at least 6 months.
HealthThe Independent – 15 October 2004
 
A new study conducted in Sweden suggests people who use a mobile phone for 10 years or more might increase the risk of developing a rare benign tumour along a nerve on the side of the head where they hold a phone.
HealthThe Independent – 15 October 2004
 
Tall, thin teenage girls who put on a growth spurt a puberty are at highest risk of breast cancer - and milk may be the culprit, researchers suggest today. Their shorter, chubbier sisters are at lower risk and remain so throughout their adult lives until they reach the menopause. These findings from a large Danish study of more than 117,000 women confirm that height is a risk factor in breast cancer and show that it is growth in childhood that has the greatest influence. An increase in milk drinking has been suggested as a factor behind the large increase in average heights in Japan . As the Japanese adopted a more Western diet in the two decades after the Second World War, 12-year old girls gained 15cm in height on average. That gain has been paralleled 30 years later by an increase in breast cancer in the same generation of women; the incidence has doubled from 40 to 80 cases per 100,000 of the population.
HealthThe Independent – 14 October 2004
 
More than ½ of NHS trusts do not have enough A&E staff to provide a proper round-the-clock service, a report suggested today. The NAO's survey of 126 trusts in England found shortages in A&E clinical staff were common, they found 84% of trusts reported a shortage of nurses compared with funded post, 43% said there was a shortage of permanent consultants and 55% reported a lack of other medical staff.
HealthThe Sentinel – 13 October 2004
 
Only 48% of adults in the back seat wear a seatbelt. Forty front-seat passengers a year die as a result of loosely belted rear passengers. Rear seatbelts save hundreds of lives a year. You are three times more likely to be killed in the back if you are not wearing a belt.
HealthThe War Cry – 23rd October 2004
 
The charity ChildLine is reporting huge rises in calls from young people suffering from bullying. 31,000 troubled teens and children contacted their counsellors on the subject during the 2003/05 school year - up from 21,000 the previous year. This translates to a rise of just under 50% year on year, and the highest in ChildLines history. As well as bullying nearly 4,300 self harm calls were received in 2003/04, an increase of around 30%. The majority of these were made by teenage girls. Cutting is the most common form of self harm disclosed by young people (62%). There is often a trigger in the young person's life which leads them to self harm, these include, physical or sexual abuse, bullying, bereavement, family breakdown and exam stress.
HealthYouthwork – November 2004
 
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