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		<title>Some Sense at Last</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2010/06/30/some-sense-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeopathic treatments should be banned from the NHS and taken off pharmacy shelves designated for medicines, doctors said today. Members of the British Medical Association said homeopathic remedies should be relegated to shelves &#8220;labelled placebos&#8221; and that NHS money should not be spent on treatments that are scientifically implausible. Sarah Boseley, The Guardian. Perhaps we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Con-Dem’s Want us to Die for Deficit Reduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government is to take the controversial and potentially unpopular step of scrapping four-hour waiting time targets in accident and emergency departments and instead focus on delivering the &#8220;best possible results for patients&#8221;, it said. Alexandra Topping and Dennis Campbell, The Guardian. Best possible results for patients! Is it really too much to ask that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesco Backs Alcohol Price Minimum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 09:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supermarket chain Tesco says it wants to see curbs on the sale of cheap alcohol during this Parliament. Tesco has welcomed a promise by the coalition government to ban below-cost sales of alcohol in England and Wales. The UK&#8217;s biggest retailer goes further, saying it would back the more radical step of introducing a minimum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep Survey</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2010/05/05/sleep-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleeping consistently for less than six hours a night can cause an early death, but too much sleep could also mean problems, according to a study that claims to have found unequivocal evidence of the potential harm from abnormal sleep patterns. The research, by academics in the UK and Italy, analysed data from 16 separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Ireland’s Anti-Abortion Laws</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2010/04/21/northern-ireland%e2%80%99s-anti-abortion-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penny Red makes an urgent appeal on behalf of the Abortion Support Network a volunteer-run organisation that provides accommodation and grants to women living in Ireland travelling to London for an abortion. Now the Republic of Ireland is a separate country but why women form Northern Ireland should have to travel to London is beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfounded Claim That Acupuncture Cures Period Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2010/02/17/unfounded-claim-that-acupuncture-cures-period-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acupuncture could help period pain, researchers say reads the BBC. Acupuncture may be an effective way of easing severe period pain, a South Korean review of 27 studies suggests. Researchers said there was &#8220;promising evidence&#8221; for acupuncture in treating cramps, but that more work was needed. In the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota’s Have Faulty Accelerator</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2010/02/03/toyota%e2%80%99s-have-faulty-accelerator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota was under pressure today over the accelerator fault that is forcing it to recall 2m cars across Europe as the RAC described the problem as &#8220;incredibly dangerous&#8221; and urged concerned owners to have their vehicles checked immediately. Amid calls for the Japanese company to explain why it had waited for a year before issuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Hanged Herself</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2010/01/27/10-year-old-girl-accidentally-hanged-herself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 10-year-old girl accidentally hanged herself with a dressing gown cord as she danced around her bedroom, a coroner has ruled at her inquest. Megan Williams was taken to hospital after being found by her brother at their home in Harpurhey, north Manchester, in May 2009. She died despite resuscitation efforts by her mother and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Cigarettes</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2010/01/20/e-cigarettes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a worrying lack of safety data on electronic cigarettes, despite their growing popularity with the public, two leading Greek researchers have warned. In the British Medical Journal, they say that without more evidence it is impossible to know if such products actually do more harm than good. Source: The BBC. Unusually I side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents Fuel Binge Drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.outofrange.net/2009/12/17/parents-fuel-binge-drinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents who allow their children alcohol at home may be increasing the chances of future drinking problems, says England&#8217;s chief medical officer. Sir Liam Donaldson accused some parents of a &#8220;laissez-faire&#8221; approach and said &#8220;. Letting children taste alcohol to ready them for adulthood was &#8220;misguided Evidence showed that this could lead to binge drinking [...]]]></description>
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