P485ORACLE 485 Mon27 Jan C4 1711:15  1/4       BABY FEEDS - ALUMINIUM RISKS... Paediatricians in Manchester and Salford are urging the DHSS to lay down restrictive recommendations for baby feed manufacturers and for the aluminium concentratign premitted in water used for baby feeds. According to the doctors babies born prematurely and infants with defective kidneys are likely to be poisoned by aluminium in special feeds prepared for them in and out of hospital. * Potentially toxic and even lethal doses of the metal are being found in > pre-term infant blood plasma. more WORK OUT IN STYLE AT LONSDALE * 492
P485ORACLE 485 Mon27 Jan C4 1701:54  2/4       SMOKING - TOUGHER WARNINGS URGED In the build up to National No-Smoking Day, March 12th, demands are being made on the government to print tougher warnings on cigarette packets. Already, the Irish government has decided to take a harder line, and will be replacing existing cigarette packet warnings such as "Smoking seriously damages your health" with the starker "Smoking kills". And in Geneva, the World Health Organisation is campaigning for more non-smoking areas in public places. Home File Index 480 Babycare 486 GET FIT & STAY FIT AT LONSDALE 492
P485ORACLE 485 Mon27 Jan C4 1714:07  3/4       BRING BACK THE BEDSIDE MANNER.... In these days of high technology medicine, doctors have forgotten how to communicate with their patients, say a team of consultants at Sunderland Royal Infirmary. Doctors no longer listen to their patients or seem to know how to talk to them, says Dr.Tony Martin from the Sunderland team. So, to help doctors regain their old "bedside manner skills" Dr. Martin and colleagues have produced a "bedside manners guide". more follows > ome File Index 480 Babycare 486 WORK OUT IN STYLE AT LONSDALE * 492
P485ORACLE 485 Mon27 Jan C4 1712:12  4/4       REPORTING ACCIDENTS AT WORK.... New regulations are to come before Parliament requiring employers to report work-related diseases among staff to the H.E.C. As of the 1.4.86 employers must report dangerous accidents, death or injuries involving their staff to the Health and Safety Executive. But the British Medical Asociation has voiced concern over the matter saying that an incorrect diagnosis might mislead employers, the executive and cause delays in identifying the occupational causes. more follows > LONSDALE GYM & FITNESS CENTRE * 492