Patients become NHS bug busters
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.
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UK researchers claim to have  found a way to make the hospital 'superbug' vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
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A strain of a common bug with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest it may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of disease in parts of the United
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Rates of infection with the deadly Clostridium difficile  bug rise in English hospitals, while MRSA rates  fall only slowly.
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Doctors  and weather forecasters work together to cut hospital admissions for chest patients.
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Scientists say they have found how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections.
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Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
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Help is at hand for foreign doctors working in Yorkshire whose patients complain of sore "lugholes" or say they're feeling "jiggered" and can't stop "gipping".
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Life & style: Many pamphlets for patients at GP surgeries have no NHS authorisation. Rather, they are put out by companies promoting products
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People struck down by a stomach bug sweeping the country are urged by doctors not to go back to work for 48 hours.
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Pupils at a primary school are offered  bird flu medicine as a child from the school is believed to have the virus.
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NHS patients are to be offered a fitness and diet plan to improve national health, according to a newspaper.
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HALIFAX -- The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced yesterday it had
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NHS patients in Scotland are being treated quicker than ever, the latest snapshot of figures shows.
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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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More than a dozen wards in hospitals are shut by illness, in some cases caused by a winter vomiting bug.