Dead Set
‘WARNING: READING THE DAILY MAIL MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH.
A selection of things that will kill you and yours from the paper that (s)cares…
MONDAY
How expanding waistlines are putting children at risk Children are fatter then ever
The cannabis savage. Heiress left for dead by friend crazed on soft drug Lisa Voice, 52, was beaten by a boy shed known for more than a year
Cordless phones could raise risk of brain tumours So say researchers in Sweden
Pesticides buffer zone for farms is abandoned Despite a Royal Commission concluding last year that spraying fields was a potential health risk and could be responsible for diseases including cancer, Parkinsons and ME, the five-yard buffer zones around farms are to be done away with
TUESDAY
DONLT CONDEMN ME TO DEATH – Says the Mails big front-page headline. Breast-cancer victim Marie Rogers pleaded with the High Court to let her continue taking wonder drug Herceptin
We STILL dont know if MMR is safe (And even one of our top vaccine experts admits it)
Half of hospitals fail to hit MRSA targets
A facial twitch was ruining my life. The only answer was to drill a hole in my head Simon Scott takes us through his hemifacial spasm operation
Make no mistake. The NHS can kill Forceps left in the patient. A transplant with the wrong set of lungs. As a new report catalogues hospital blunders
WEDNESDAY
The car home failures More than a million staff will need training for registration scheme as Government admits many are not up to the job
Baby who cried for 7 weeks (because doctors missed his dislocated shoulder)
THURSDAY
BABIES TO GET 25 VACCINES not in one go, but still the Mail says there are fears of immunisation overload
They told Lisa she was cured. Now she may die, poisoned by radiation Cancer patient Lisa Norris, 15, was given overdoses of radiation at each of her 17 radiotherapy sessions
The medical blunders that ruin dozens of lives Featuring the home circumcision carried out on the wrong child at the wrong address
FRIDAY
Why the women of Britain die before their time Women in the UK live to an average of 80.9 years; their European counterparts on average live to 81.1
Care home nightmare. Pensioner whose weight dropped to 6st because of neglect wins payout Lily Leatham can book that cruise’
Posted: 12th, February 2006 | In: Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink