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Actamed Temporal Scanner      

Byotrol bug battle

LUCAS FETTES INSURANCE - Locum Insurance

 
GENERAL INTEREST

Professor Could of Maybe University - a rolling collection of scare stories

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9/11 medical sequelae
21st century youth

ACAS party advice or "Or it's all your fault, boss"
ACAS sex rights
Adrenosexuals
A good night's sleep
Alcohol deaths double
Anti-bacterial pen
Artificial DNA cretaed?
Audit Commission bans...
Avian flu survey

Baby protection systems
Basic neglect
Beauty foods
Beware: Fraud in GP-land
Beware home
Biggest epidemic ever
Binge drinking
Bio-medical optics 
Bird flu and anti-virals
BMA ignores rally
BMJ condemned by Lilley over article - 1 Jan 2005
Bogus sick notes
Brand v. generic
Breast damage
Breast Feeding
Breast implant warning - 18/10/04
Britons treated abroad
Brown's Britain
Brown's mistakes?
Busy to die

Cancer site for patients
Cardiff School of medicine
Care Homes, palliative care
Carers and GPs
Catwalk crisis
Chemistry & Industry magazine - October 2004
Child location service
Chocolate may be good for the heart
Christmas excess
Chronic pain disease
Collaborative procurement
Common Sense
Computational biology tools
Contraceptive survey
Cot death syndrome
Counterfeits, Pfizer et al
Counterfeit strategy 2007
Countermeasures against counterfeit medicines

Daft York Uni economics
Dangerous nurse prescribing
DEFRA cheats farmers - 2006
Desumo Clinic
Diabetes education for patients
Diabetes:  NHS cash crisis
Degludec and victoza, diabetic therapy 
Divorce - a warning!
Dr Foster intelligence
Doctor popular
Doctors performance quiz
Don't cancel the Xmas party
Drug development costs
Drug indices introduced
DTI slams DOH over innovations

Eating by Dr J A J MacLeod
e-Prescribing
Education for Health
Electronic patient records - a matter of trust
Employment guide 2006
Erectile dysfuntion web-site
European health fraud
European pharmacy future
EU "absurd"
Europe scuppers training
Exam stress - Samaritans
Exotic souvenir rules

FACE and food
Failed pain management
Fatties at Christmas
Fealth.com, health search engine
Fear of COPD
Female arousal - verbatim press release
Female fertility
Fertility risk of size zero
Finnish wireless healthcare projects
Flu gloves
Fly fishing's good!
Fly-tipping - getting tough
Food allergy week 2010
Food safety
"Free" NPfIT
Fuel Price Stabiliser
Funding healthcare
Fuzzy logic helps
Fuzzy logic research

Gene-disease source
Genetically Engineered Organisms
Generic madness
Generics killing pharma?
Gene-Watch attacks Oxford University over anti-smoking remedy
Global band-waggon
Gloves in a bottle
Government contempt
Government fails small business
GP chambers, an alternative to the NHS
GP in Alberta - 2007
GP organ donor
GP/patient contact
GPs "talk" to the deaf - IT program
Grass not greener in NZ? - "Dr Charles Cook "
Great Wall Challenge 2009

H1N1 vaccine - the other side
H2N3 or H1N1 flu?
Hand-drying to safety
Hay fever & exams
Headlice and bullying
Hep-C pen
Hepatitis C resource
Hewitt's booking chaos
Hewitt's dental foolishness
Hidden costs of breast cancer
Hip simulator - for prostheses
Holiday sex survey
Honoured GP
Hospital food horrible
Hospital hopping ASBO
How to get post-code drugs

Incinerator deaths and morbidity - Dr Dick van Steenis
Incinerators are WMDs? - Dr Dick van Steenis
Ingenuity technology research
Intel & healthcare
IT and counterfeits

Kidney transplant, 50th anniversary - 2004
Killer pen
Killer snores
Killing and maiming in Cambridgeshire - and the regulators

LISA checks professionals' qualifications
Live-in nursing for elderly

London bomb effects - July 2005
London's STD map
Long-term care costs increase
Loo of the year awards 2006
Lymphoedema website

Male body obsession
Male cancers - check 'em
Male hair loss
Manual handling Injuries - HSE    
  
Map of medicine
Marijuana use
Medical tourism tips
Medicines distribution
Mesothelioma overview
Missed appointments solution
MMR safe? - Dr Dick van Steenis
Mobile phone bullying
Motor maintenance
MP to sue health minister?
MRSA decontamination
MRSA increase

Nanny, I'm fat!
Nasty NICE again! Renal cancer
National Condom week 2006
National Memorial Arboretum
Neglected kidney disease
New cataract service
New medical admissions test
Newcastle disease outbreak - July 2005
New independent healthcare forum
New pension rules - 2010
New Zealand opportunity
NHS accidents at work course
NHS data system - Zircom
NHS fails with new technology
NHS ignores innovation
NICE and myeloma - good news!
NICE? Blind and nasty.
NICE business - and colon Ca therapy
NICE fails dementia
NICE new topics
NICE try!
NICE u-turn
Non-latex condoms 

Obesity kills - Cancer Research Campaign
Obesity regulation?
OFT and drug prices
Opencasting coal and health
Oregon country doctors
Organ donation and transplants 2004
OTC advice site/line

Parallel drug trade
Patient choice a burden?
Patient information
Patient referral chaos
Patients voice, June 2006
Patient forums & NHS deb
Patients against government
Paying too much tax?
Peeballs for Christmas
Pharma backgrounder - what you wanted to know about drug marketing

Pharma, parliament and public
Pharma set to move out
Pharmacy application for GPs - 2007
Pharmacy's future - does it have one?
Pharmacy statistics & remuneration, 2002-2004
 
Pharma's woes
Plastic surgery cautions
Plastic surgery guidelines for patients
Point-of-care testing
Polio and Rotary
Polytunnels attacked
PRS Music Licence
Pregnancy and flying
Pregnancy Health Week 2006
Pregancy, lambing and toxoplasmosis
Prepare for winter
Prevention of Heart disease
Pricing v. cost-effectiveness
Private GP practice
Private GPs to prosper
Private health advances - Sept 2006
Private health database
Prostate?  What's that?
Putting patients first - Arthritis Care

Quackery

R & D forced abroad
Red squirrel
References to Dr van Steenis work on pollution
Remote diagnostic device
RSPB and healthy living

Safe summer sex
Sahara trek - 2005
Sainsbury's in the dock
Samaritans at Christmas
Save a life
Save your teeth
School meals and strokes
Sex & relationships programme
Sexuality and the young
Sexual statistics
Smart cards for healthcare
Smart commuting
Snorers alert
Space and medicine
Speed cameras banned
Statistics, damned statistics - 2005 - national figures
Stress busting
Summer proof your body, ladies

Sun, bees and red tape - FPB
Sun-screens and skin types
"Superbugs"
Superbugs and therapy
Surgery recycling

Tamiflu supplies and pandemics
Tax anger at FPB
Telemedicine
Thinking about sex day - 2008
Tick Conference 2009
Tick-borne encephalitis
Trafficked women's health
Travel and Hep B - and treatment for chronic Hep B
Travel Conference, April 2004
     
Treatment denied
Tsunami warning system
TV opportunity

Vaccination success
Vaccines, winners & losers
Valentine's Day 2007
Vasectomy? Check it.

War trauma increasing
Web design for GPs
What graduates do - 2005
Women not checking their breasts
Women's health
World Cup attitudes
World Heart Federation

Your own Pharmacy  - book review      

CLINICAL

Advanced colo-rectal cancer
Alzheimer's, psychiatrists and NICE
Analgesic patch - Butrans
Anti-bacterial development threatened
Anti-viral measures

Arthritis care
Arthritis Kama Sutra
Artificial pancreas and hypoglycaemia
Assisted conception lack
"Avian flu inevitable"

Barry's balls
Bowel cancer screen delayed
Bowel cancer screening - men braver!
Breasts underestimated

Cancer research - latest March 2005
Cancer tissue banks
Cancer vaccines
Cannabis and mental illness
Cardiac arrhythmia NSF
Cardiac life saving
Ca uterus survival rates improve
Child victims of unwise vaccination policies - Dick van Steenis
Chlamydia test kit
Chronic wound treatment
COPD biggest killer
COPD exacerbations and Symbicort
Cot deaths - latest (August 2004)
Cox-2's and Datamonitor - January 2005

Deafness guidance for GPs - RNID and RCGP
Diabetes in children
Diabetes News - July 2006
Diabetes UK 2004
Diabetic pregnancy risks

Directory for people with cancer
Ductal carcinoma of the breast is rising
Dyslipidaemia, the future

Eating disorders
Embarrassed men and their prostates

Flu and Tamiflu - 2007
Flu pandemic preparations - March 2005

GP anti-cholesterol success
GP transplants

Haemophilia
Hand rejuvenation - plastic surgery

Heart stress list
Heart/stroke warning device
Hepatitis and European travel
Herceptin, breast cancer and NICE
HRT revival

Infection control in the community
Insight into drug research
Insomnia news

Liver disease in Newborn
Lung cancer needs funding

Malaria warning
Malnutrition neglected
Melanoma and tamozolomide
Melanoma - beware increasing male death rate
Men and their cancers
Metabolic syndrome
Metformin/sitagliptin and NICE
Migraine and tryptans
MRSA trial - September 2004, Whipps Cross
MRSA - preventative product

New Pill
New surgical device
NICE but nasty - over gastro-intestinal tumours
NICE fails yet again
NICE wrong over dyspepsia

Obesity - new non-surgical therapy
Oncology latest, June 20
Osteoarthritis aspects
Parkinson's gene therapy - latest , September 2004
Parkinson's higher profile
Patients and the web
Pesticide poisoning
Plastic surgery psychology
Pollution and childhood deaths - Dr van Steenis
Poor stroke care
POPs & COCs
Pre-diabetes on-line fight
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer - vitality index
Prostate cancer - a patient's view
PSA sense

Race and cancer
Renal cancer research
Rheumatoid survey 2005
Rheumatoid arthritis survey - 2006

Salt reduction kits  (October 2004)
Schizophrenia - fact and fiction
Smallpox: the weapon
Statins: another view
Settle winter blues
Skin cancer
Skinny pics - diagnostic standard dermatology web-site photographs
Spinal cord stimulator
STI clinic delays blasted
Stroke facts - 2004
Stroke severity underestimated
Sudden Infant Death
Swine flu April 2009

Tamiflu
Tamiflu and pandemics
Taxotere rejected for prostate Ca in Scotland
Targeting viruses
Testicular cancer and fertility
The experience of pain
The war against TB
Threat to childrens'  hearts
Tic-alert
Tic Prevention week
Transplants for diabetics
Type 2 diabetes - April 2005
Type II targets unmet

Ultrasound cancer therapy
Undiagnosed lung disease
Unsafe stealth vaccines
Urinary incontinence matters

Vaccines prevent cancer

Youthful skin cancer

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

0844 numbers are OK
0870 calls are cheaper for patients
0870s banned.  Company responds

An opportunity created

Beware of fake Health and Safety agencies

Change your life
Counterfeit drugs
Cyber crime

Deaf aid for use in your practice

GMS2 help

GP income variations - 2004
GP phone service
GPwSI web site launched

LIFT matters

New recruitment system (Press release)
NHS anti-social behaviour order

Panic ID badges
Pensions and doctors

Simple INR testing for primary care

Web design for GPs

Your own in-house pharmacy - opportunity knocks

RECREATION

Christine Fagg....

What happened to the traditional Family Christmas?
Historic Cyprus for sun, sea and snow
Christmas with all the trimmings

Holiday in Champagne
Italy's deep South
Mediterranean cruising
Oysters in Brittany
Portsmouth's glorious age of sail
Spectacular Snowdonia
The Magic of Montreux
Winchester for the kids
Over the sea - to Skyros
Orkney's ancient stone societies
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Dr John A J MacLeod...

Islay memorial trip
Sea eagles
The mackerel tale
Deep sea in "Scotia" - John MacLeod

LIGHT BITES - June 2003
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Volvo V70 Test drive