British Medical Journal articles from October 2001

British Medical Journal archives from October 2001

Learning from failures. (Editor's choice).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 27, 2001... Just how difficult managing a chronic disease can be comes across in Colin Guthrie's opening letter (p 997): "Within a year almost half my personal workload became this health promoting clinical input. In the end almost all of these patients...

Meeting the needs of chronically ill people: socioeconomic factors, disabilities, and comorbid conditions are obstacles. (Editorials).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 27, 2001... This special issue of the BMJ and this month's issue of the Western Journal of Medicine once again focus on the needs of patients with chronic illness, on the advances in clinical and behavioural management, and on the challenges of assuring...

The management of diabetes: moving beyond registration, recall, and regular review. (Editorials).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 27, 2001... Over the past 30 years care of diabetes has been in the vanguard of the change in the management of chronic diseases from specialties based in hospital outpatient clinics to a more primary care led service. The specialist versus generalist...

The challenge of chronic conditions: WHO responds: the sooner governments act, the better. (Editorials).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 27, 2001... Chronic conditions are expected to become the main cause of death and disability in the world by 2020, (1) contributing around two thirds of the global burden of disease with enormous healthcare costs for societies and governments. (2-4) These...

Improving outcomes in depression: the whole process of care needs to be enhanced. (Editorials).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 27, 2001... Around 450 million people worldwide have mental or psychosocial problems, but most of those who turn to health services for help will not be correctly diagnosed or will not get the right treatment. (1) Even those whose problems are recognised...

Disparities in outcomes from chronic disease: impaired patient-physician partnerships may be an important cause in minorities. (Editorials).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 27, 2001... Recent developments in basic biomedical research offer the great promise that we will increasingly understand factors that underlie risk and expression of disease and, with further advances in genetic engineering, translate this knowledge into...

Anthrax blamed as two postal workers die in United States. (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Two US postal workers who handled mail at an office where a letter contaminated with anthrax was sorted are suspected to have died from the disease. As the BMJ went to press this week, tests were being carried out on the men who died in what...

Caesarean section rate in England and Wales hits 21%. (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... More than 1 in 5 births in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are now delivered by caesarean section. A national audit of the caesarean section rate, based on a snapshot of, births in maternity units during a three month period, has shown...

West African states on verge of eliminating polio.(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... West African states on verge of eliminating polio: Sixteen countries are renewing their commitment to eliminate poliomyelitis by launching a massive coordinated campaign aimed at reaching 80 million children with oral polio vaccine. Coordinated...

Scotland explores idea of virtual medical school.(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Scotland explores idea of virtual medical school: Scotland's five medical schools are carrying out a 90 000 [pounds sterling] ($135 000) feasibility study into the idea of creating an international virtual medical school. It would seek to...

California makes emergency contraception available through pharmacies.(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... California makes emergency contraception available through pharmacies: The state of California has authorised pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives without a doctor's prescription. The new law becomes effective on 1 January 2002....

Sixty one die in malaria outbreak.(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Sixty one die in malaria outbreak: Sixty one people have died in a malaria outbreak in the Indian state of Gujarat. Officials attribute the spread to heavy monsoons after successive droughts. A month long drive against malaria is to be...

Canadian chair in "peace through health studies" set up.(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Canadian chair in "peace through health studies" set up: McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, announced the first chair in peace through health studies during the first international conference on peace through health held at the...

GMC accuses surgeon of operating without consent. (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... A consultant surgeon seriously failed his patients before, during, and after surgery over a nine year period, the General Medical Council heard this week. Christopher Ingoldby, aged 54, failed to carry out preoperative investigations,...

Doctors press for humane treatment of asylum seekers. (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... The BMA and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture are calling on the government to adopt a "more humane" policy on asylum seekers. The home secretary, David Blunkett, has promised to announce results of the government's...

Patients wait longer in emergency units than five years ago. (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Patients attending accident and emergency departments in England and Wales are waiting longer than they did five years ago, both to be admitted to hospital and to see a doctor once they get there. This is despite an annual 1% increase in the...

High Court throws out "suicide aid" case. (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... A terminally ill woman with motor neurone disease lost her battle in the High Court in London last week for the right to "die with dignity" at a time of her own choosing and with her husband's help. Diane Pretty, who may have only weeks to...

Law is effective in protecting whistleblowers, report says. (bmj.com. news roundup).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... The UK government has acted to dispel fears that NHS staff who report safety concerns may not be protected from reprisals under whistleblowing laws. The worry arose from a statement by Professor Ian Kennedy and his team in the report of...

Scientists mistakenly study bovine instead of sheep tissue. (bmj.com. news roundup).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... A five year project to detect the presence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in sheep could have been mined by a labelling error in the laboratory, which meant researchers mistakenly experimented with cow brain tissue instead. The...

English NHS consultants now earn average of 75 000 [pounds sterling] a year. (bmj.com. news roundup).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Latest statistics from the Department of Health show that consultants are earning on average almost 40 000 [pounds sterling] ($60 000) more a year than junior doctors--74 700 [pounds sterling] compared with 36 400 [pounds sterling]. Total...

"Paltry" evidence that public-private partnerships can increase funding. (bmj.com. news roundup).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Doctors have been advised to err on the side of caution when considering partnerships with the private sector in the funding of premises or provision of services and to ensure that any new arrangements benefit patients. A paper produced...

Less than a third of Scottish hospitals meet targets on giving thrombolysis. (bmj.com. news roundup).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... The first performance report on Scottish hospitals has found high levels of compliance with standards on treating heart attacks but has uncovered failings in the administration of thrombolysis. The report from the Clinical Standards Board...

Unsuitable hepatitis C testing kit is being used in India. (bmj.com. news roundup).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Hepatitis C virus is emerging as a major public health challenge in India, specialists said at a conference in New Delhi last week. "Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus in the Indian population is around 1.5-2%," said Dr Subrata Kumar Panda...

Obesity drug approved as problem grows across the world. (bmj.com. news roundup).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the government's medicines watchdog, has advised the NHS in England and Wales that the antiobesity drug sibutramine (Reductil) should be available on prescription. It has recommended that...

Doctor struck off after patient dies from detoxification treatment. (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... An anaesthetist in England was struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council last week after a heroin addict died while under his care undergoing a controversial treatment in which the doctor had an undisclosed financial...

Correction. (News).(To: "Meeting calls for a national body to respond to research misconduct" in October 20, 2001 issue, p 889)(To: "Linking guideline to regular feedback to increase appropriate requests for clinical tests: blood gas analysis in intensive care" in September 15, 2001 issue, pp 620-624)(To: "Using cardiovascular risk profiles to individualise hypertensive treatment" in May 12, 2001 issue, pp 1164-1166)(To: "Complexity and clinical care" in September 22, 2001 issue, pp 685-688)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... Meeting calls for a national body to respond to research misconduct In this news article by Richard Smith (20 October, p 889) we gave Ian Kennedy's title as professor of medical law and ethics at King's College, London. It should have said...

Row over breast cancer screening shows that scientists bring "some subjectivity into their work". (News).(News)(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... The difficulty of getting scientists to reach a consensus on their interpretations of trial data was illustrated last week when two reviewers for the Cochrane Breast Cancer Group published their own review of mammography screening trials after...

Randomised trials of secondary prevention programmes in coronary heart disease: systematic review. (Papers).
October 27, 2001... Abstract Objective To determine whether multidisciplinary disease management programmes for patients with coronary heart disease improve processes of care and reduce morbidity and mortality. Data sources Randomised clinical trials of...

Influences on hospital admission for asthma in south Asian and white adults: qualitative interview study. (Papers).
October 27, 2001... Abstract Objective To explore reasons for increased risk of hospital admission among south Asian patients with asthma. Design Qualitative interview study using modified critical incident technique and framework analysis. Setting...

Deprivation, disease, and death in Scotland: graphical display of survival of a cohort. (Papers).
October 27, 2001... Death rates are widely used as a convenient way of summarising important aspects of health in a population. However, they are not always easy to interpret, and even when techniques such as standardisation are used the impact of premature death...

Mobility impairments and use of preventive services in women with multiple sclerosis: observational study. (Papers).
October 27, 2001... Use of preventive health services is affected by factors such as patient demographics, clinical characteristics, type of provider, and type of healthcare system. (1) Although people with multiple sclerosis may have impaired mobility, their...

Randomised controlled trial of structured personal care of type 2 diabetes mellitus. (Primary care).
October 27, 2001... Abstract Objective To assess the effect of a multifaceted intervention directed at general practitioners on six year mortality, morbidity, and risk factors of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Design Pragmatic, open,...

Chronic asthma: extracts from "Clinical Evidence". (Clinical review)(Cover Story).
October 27, 2001... Background Definition Asthma is characterised by dyspnoea, cough, chest tightness, wheezing, variable airflow obstruction, and airway hyper-responsiveness. The diurnal variation of peak expiratory flow rate is increased in people with...

Pathophysiology of duodenal and gastric ulcer and gastric cancer: ABC of the upper gastrointestinal tract. (Clinical review).
October 27, 2001... Duodenal and gastric ulcers and gastric cancer are common and serious diseases but occur in only a minority of people infected with Helicobacter pylori. Mass eradication of H pylori is impractical because of the cost and the danger of...

Adoption of disease management model for diabetes in region of Maastricht. (Education and debate).
October 27, 2001... Summary points The concepts of integrated care and shared care can be regarded, in the Netherlands at least, as the precursor of disease management Implementation of a shared care model for diabetes in the region of Maastricht ensured...

Recommendations for patients undertaking self management of oral anticoagulation. (Education and debate).
October 27, 2001... Summary points Data on clinical utility and cost effectiveness to support routine adoption of self management of oral anticoagulation by patients are limited Patients undertaking self management must be trained by a competent...

Chronic disease management: a Singapore perspective. (Education and debate).
October 27, 2001... Summary points Asian countries have generally not yet tackled the issue of chronic disease management despite their recent epidemiological and demographic changes Chronic disease management provides an approach that would enable...

Management of diabetes: are doctors framing the benefits from the wrong perspective? (Education and debate).
October 27, 2001... Summary points Because diabetes is a self managed condition, successful models of care must focus on strategies that promote and maintain improved selfcare behaviour New treatment frameworks are needed to enhance the effectiveness of...

Nature will help: Endpiece. (Education and debate).(Brief Article)
October 27, 2001... If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. Montaigne, Essays (book III, chapter 12)

Prevention of type 2 diabetes. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... Health promotion helps no one EDITOR--Narayan et al suggest that we use clinical and community based strategies to prevent type 2 diabetes. (1) Over three years our small practice in Glasgow worked very hard to encourage healthy eating and...

Reanalysis of twin studies suggests that diabetes is mainly genetic. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... EDITOR--Two twin studies of type 1 diabetes have reached opposite conclusions. In one, a population based cohort of Danish twins in which one or both cotwins had type 1 diabetes was studied for the presence of islet autoantibodies. (1) High...

National screening programme for diabetic retinopathy. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... Screening by optometrists is better than screening by fundus photography EDITOR--We have concerns about the National Screening Committee's recommendations for a risk reduction programme for diabetic retinopathy, in which digital...

Single definition of overweight and obesity should be used. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... EDITOR--In May 2000 the BMJ published details of a new reference standard for childhood obesity developed by the International Obesity Task Force. (1) The task force's standards take a logical and pragmatic approach to the problem of defining...

Predicting risk of death from cardiovascular disease. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... Which measurements are the most appropriate? EDITOR--I would like to predict the risk score for all patients in my practice aged 35 years or older as so dearly described in the article by Pocock et al. (1) My enthusiasm invariably turns to...

Dietary fats and prevention of cardiovascular disease. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... Conclusion may have been underplayed EDITOR--The paper by Hooper et al may fulfil the Cochrane review criteria for a meta-analysis of clinical trials, but it does not provide a systematic review of the issues relating to dietary fat intake...

Lifestyle, progesterone, and risk of breast cancer. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... Causal association between progesterone concentrations and breast cancer has not been shown EDITOR--Increasing progesterone concentrations are not associated with increasing incidence of breast cancer, despite the neat correlation diagram...

Study shows that smoking costs 13 times more than it saves. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... EDITOR--Kmietowicz's news article discussed the report published by the tobacco company Philip Morris which many media reports have claimed shows that smoking saves the economy more than it costs. (1) A closer look shows the exact opposite: the...

Glucosamine for osteoarthritis. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... Patients welfare should be primary concern EDITOR--Chard and Dieppe discussed the ruse of glucosamine in treating osteoarthritis. (1) Osteoarthritis is traditionally treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics, just...

Radiotherapy units should be seen as shared resource in EU. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... EDITOR--In his news item on the ruling of the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg Watson cites the cases of a Belgian and two Dutch citizens in which refusal to sanction treatment in another member state of the European Union (EU) was judged...

Open letter: health professions on the aftermath of terrorism. (Letters).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... EDITOR--We unreservedly condemn the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, on 11 September. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the relatives, friends, and colleagues of the victims. We are concerned that all responses should take account...

Obituaries.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... William G Cahan Antismoking advocate and thoracic surgeon New York (b 1914; q Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons 1939), died from prostate cancer on 7 October 2001. Bill Cahan is one reason why no one can smoke in most of New...

Phantoms. (Art).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)(Review)
October 27, 2001... Phantoms Eric Fong The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, 9a St Thomas's Street, London SE1 9RY, 19 October until 2 December 2001 www.thegarret.org.uk This exhibition consists of a few piece's of work by Eric Fong, a Canadian...

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine. (Books).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)(Review)
October 27, 2001... An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine Theodore Dalrymple Duckworth, 12.95 [pounds sterling], DP 138 ISBN 0 7516 2973 5 Rating: *** Nietzsche famously diagnosed the death of God more than 100 years ago. Nowadays, even church leaders...

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. (Books).(Encyclopedia of Death and Dying)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)(Review)
October 27, 2001... Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Eds Glennys Howarth, Oliver Leaman Routledge, 85 [pounds sterling], pp 560 ISBN 0 415 18825 3 Rating: *** Although there have been textbooks and encyclopaedias on palliative care for decades now, the...

The Great Blue Yonder. (Books).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)(Review)
October 27, 2001... The Great Blue Yonder Alex Shearer Macmillan, 9.99 [pounds sterling], pp 182 ISBN 0 333 96006 8 Rating: *** We all have an underlying curiosity of what it is like to be dead. What happens on the "other side" may not be the topic of...

Living with Cancer. (TV).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)(Review)
October 27, 2001... Living with Cancer BBC 1, 15 October until 19 November, 10.35 pm Rating: **** Oncologists never seem to get as many presents from their patients as surgeons do. Since I doubt that, as specialists, oncologists are somehow not as nice as...

Why am I crying? (Personal Views).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... I was a competent and respected junior doctor on a popular specialist registrar rotation. I had hoped that my working conditions would improve with seniority but, as a registrar, I was still having a rough time. I was doing one in three rotas...

Website of the week. (Websites).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... Managing chronic diseases: kids' stuff When children are considered in the context of chronic diseases, it is often with a view to preventing the problems of adult onset cancer and heart disease. In Britain, the Department of Health has...

An insider's guide to depression. (Personal Views).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... I wonder if you are as inept and uncomfortable at handling depressed patients as I am. Or as I formerly was, before I found myself the unwilling occupant of a psychiatrist's couch, a couch it seems to me I've barely left in the past five years,...

An afternoon of alternative medicine. (Soundings).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... The doctor started in a slightly apologetic tone. He was lecturing to a group of colleagues about his use of alternative medicines. The lunch had been good, the afternoon was warm, and his audience was sleepily indulgent. It was, after all,...

Minerva. (reviews).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
October 27, 2001... When patients are advised to visit the local genitourinary medicine clinic, it often doesn't go down well. A qualitative study of young women in Glasgow found that attending a genitourinary medicine clinic was a stressful event, but not as bad...

Doctors and patients: flying apart? (Editor's choice).
October 20, 2001... "Patient centred care" sounds like irritating jargon to many doctors. Hasn't their care always been patient centred? A group from Southampton has analysed almost a thousand meetings between doctors and patients to find out what patient...

Appropriate responses to bioterrorist threats: the health services will play a vital role in protection against covert releases.(Editorial)
October 20, 2001... Although the threat of bioterrorism in the United Kingdom is still considered to be low, concern has heightened in the wake of the terrorist outrages in the United States on 11 September and subsequent covert releases of anthrax. (1 2)...

Psychological implications of chemical and biological weapons: long term social and psychological effects may be worse than acute ones.(Editorial)
October 20, 2001... The ostensible purpose of chemical and biological weapons is to endanger lives. Biological agents, however, are particularly ineffective as military weapons, while chemical weapons have only limited uses. This may be why armies have generally...

Neurodegenerative disorders: this major cause of chronic suffering is reason enough for a theme issue.(Editorial)
October 20, 2001... "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life," was how Ronald Reagan I described his remaining life. (1) That was seven years ago when he told the world that he had Alzheimer's disease. The sunset has been a prolonged...

Aromatase inhibitors and inactivators in breast cancer: these potent inhibitors of oestrogen synthesis may be superior to tamoxifen.(Editorial)
October 20, 2001... Breast cancer is the commonest malignant disease among Western women, and, although overall survival has improved with earlier diagnosis by mammography and with adjuvant therapy, it still represents a leading cause of cancer related death....

Treatment of sepsis with activated protein C: encouraging news for well selected patients.(Editorial)
October 20, 2001... When uncomplicated sepsis progresses to uncontrolled systemic inflammation with evidence of organ dysfunction and impaired tissue perfusion (severe sepsis) or hypotension unresponsive to expansion of the circulating volume (septic shock),...

US fear of bioterrorism spreads as anthrax cases increase.(News)
October 20, 2001... Anxiety about anthrax was spreading in the United States this week after exposures to the bacterium in Florida, Nevada, Washington DC, and New York were confirmed. On Monday a letter sent to US Senate majority leader Tom Daschle was found...

UK doctors given guidance on dealing with anthrax.(News)
October 20, 2001... The UK Public Health Laboratory Service has rushed out provisional guidelines, backed up by a letter from the Department of Health, on how to deal with a deliberate release of anthrax in the United Kingdom, following the outbreaks in the United...

UK announces pilot schemes for sending NHS patients abroad.(National Health Service)(News)
October 20, 2001... UK announces pilot schemes for sending NHS patients abroad: Health authorities and primary care trusts in Portsmouth, East Kent, and West Sussex/East Surrey are to send groups of patients to other European Union countries for treatment to test...

Suicide is leading cause of death in young Chinese women.(News)
October 20, 2001... Suicide is leading cause of death in young Chinese women: Suicide is the leading cause of death among Chinese women aged 20-34, the World Health Organization said recently. Rural women are more likely than urban Chinese women to commit suicide,...

NHS plans the "world's biggest university".(UK National Health Service)
October 20, 2001... NHS plans the "world's biggest university": The prospectus for the NHS University, which will provide courses for the one million staff in the NHS, was published this week. The NHS University, launched by the prime minister Tony Blair, is...

Netherlands votes in favour of therapeutic cloning.(News)
October 20, 2001... Netherlands votes in favour of therapeutic cloning: Dutch MPs have voted to amend the Netherlands embryo bill to allow the possibility of creating embryos specifically for the purposes of scientific research. Scientists will be allowed to...

Numbers waiting for a kidney transplant in the United States reach record levels.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
October 20, 2001... Numbers waiting for a kidney transplant in the United States reach record levels: More than 50 000 people in the United States are now waiting for a kidney transplant-the highest ever recorded-the United Network for Organ Sharing reported last...

Doctors divided in their attitude to military strikes on Afghganistan.(News)
October 20, 2001... Only two national medical associations have so far come out unequivocally in support of the military action being taken by the United States and its allies to try to root out terrorism. Israeli doctors "of course support the US and British...

Leading UK paediatrician reinstated.(David Southall)(News)
October 20, 2001... North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust has reinstated consultant paediatrician Professor David Southall after a two year investigation into his work at the hospital in Stoke on Trent. The investigation, which cost 750 000 [pounds sterling]...

Correction.(to 'New house officers lack clinical skills,' in October 6, 2001 issue)(Correction Notice)
October 20, 2001... New house officers lack clinical Skills In this news article by Andrew Moscrop (6 October, p 770) we gave the name of one of the authors of a survey of Sheffield medical students published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine as...

Hospital at centre of claims of racism is "turning the corner," report says.(Derriford Hospital, run by Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust)(News)
October 20, 2001... A crisis-hit NHS hospital trust that has weathered a waiting list scandal and a series of claims by surgeons of bullying and racism is "in the process of turning the corner," a report from the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) concluded...

Progress is slow in narrowing the health research divide.(News)
October 20, 2001... Progress has been slow in addressing the research needs of the developing world, speakers and delegates at last week's fifth global forum for health research in Geneva conceded. The aim of the conference was to assess progress in addressing...

Quarter of GPs want to quit, BMA survey shows.(general practitioners, British Medical Association)(News)
October 20, 2001... General practice is no longer the stable, lifelong career it once was, according to a survey showing that the level of disillusionment among GPs is so widespread that a quarter want to leave the profession and many more plan to retire sooner...

MEPs protest at patent for breast cancer gene.(News)
October 20, 2001... The European parliament has added its support to critics of the move to grant two patents in Europe to Myriad Genetics of Salt Lake City, Utah, for a test to screen for predisposition to breast cancer. The decision to grant the patents...

UK physicians work 21 hours a week more than contracted.(News)
October 20, 2001... Consultant physicians in the NHS are working an average of 21 hours each week more than they are contracted to, a survey published last week has shown. Consultants taking part in the survey reported that they worked an average of an...

Suicide rate in young men in Scotland is twice that in England and Wales.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
October 20, 2001... Action is to be taken in Scotland in an attempt to halt an alarming rise in suicides among men, which have increased by more than 70% in the past 30 years. The biggest increase has taken place among men under the age of 34, and suicide is...

Admissions of private patients to public hospitals in Ireland increase.(News)
October 20, 2001... Although 20% of beds in public hospitals in Ireland are allocated to private patients, insured patients are taking up as much as 30% of the space, it was revealed last week. Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute says that as a...