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Inside Health 29/10/13 – exercise and depression , vitamin D in children

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019dl1b   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004366.pub6/abstract http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/62/5/633.long http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2758 http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8529.html Click to access cg90niceguideline.pdf vitamin D and children http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.b5664 Click to access 33571_2901304_CMO_All.pdf Click to access controversies-in-vitamin-d-recommendations-and-its-possible-roles-in%20nonskeletal-health-issues-2155-9600.1000213.pdf http://www.jabfm.org/content/22/6/698.full http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677029/ http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/06June/Pages/health-claims-about-vitamin-D-examined.aspx http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news/rcpch-launches-vitamin-d-campaign http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/2813.pd http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22913973 Click to access 9789241501767_eng.pdf http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/details/editorial/983181/Vitamin-A-supplementation-for-preventing-death-and-illness-in-children-6-months-.html http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5094 http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7254 vitamins http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22962047 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132277 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16174640 Click to access vitdpositionstatement%20FINAL%2020121210.pdf http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022179 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022179

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Sunday Telegraph – Bribing patients is bad medicine

  Link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10389401/Bribing-patients-is-bad-medicine.html http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/3/169.full http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/11754/46461/46461.pdf http://www.gmc-uk.org/the_meaning_of_fitness_to_practise.pdf_25416562.pdf http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/400-to-quit-smoking-during-pregnancy.16827605 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/400-to-quit-smoking-during-pregnancy.16827605 http://www.controlled-trials.com/isrctn/ http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5847?tab=responses http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/03/28/pubmed.fdr030.abstract

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compulsory MMR – Inside Health

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8078500.stm   http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/09/23/mmr-jab-or-else-cruddas-alarms-labour-with-benefit-claimant   http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/11/25/new-immunisation-incentives-are-good-policy-but-merit-sensible-debate/   http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/06/24/jaana-ahlblad-and-paivi-hietanen-finnish-baby-boxes-could-this-joy-be-reproduced/   http://www.hpa.org.uk/webc/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1317135476062

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Inside Health 8/10/13 – Shingles and caffeinated alcohol

Shingles https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239892/2013181_Shingles_QA_for_healthcare_professionals_final.pdf   http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Shingles/Pages/causes.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/shingles-vaccine-questions-and-answers.aspx https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-welcomes-changes-to-the-uk-vaccination-programme   http://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/25927 http://www.immunisationscotland.org.uk/vaccines-and-diseases/shingles.aspx https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shingles-vaccination-training-slideset-for-healthcare-professionals http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD008858.pub2/abstract;jsessionid=3EF93E51CA456D8329387F2C82B3ED40.d01t01   Caffeinated alcohol http://cot.food.gov.uk/pdfs/cotlaystatementcaffalco201204.pdf http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm350570.htm http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm234900.htm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038341/ http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5345

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Inside Health 1st October

Calcium supplements http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1568523 http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1655858 http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3691.long http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/5/Supplement_1/S3.abstract

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Inside Health 23/9/13

Sunscreens http://dtb.bmj.com/content/49/6/69.abstract http://dtb.bmj.com/content/49/6/61.extract http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/29/3/257.long http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673698121682   http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/15/12/2546.long   Breast cancer screening http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/breastscreen/publications/ia-02.html   http://www.cochrane.dk/screening/mammography-leaflet.pdf

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References for Daily Mail – the health tests that make you sick with worry 24/9/13

cervical screening http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/cervical/about-cervical-screening.html http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7395/901 http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b2968 bowel screening http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/bowel/bowel-scope-screening.html http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2011/11/22/gutjnl-201 http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/bowel/publications/the-facts.html1-300843.full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001216.pub2/full dementia Click to access ess-dementia.pdf http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8588?ijkey=d9TRTbB8ZT4ym82&keytype=ref http://www.gponline.com/News/article/1175972/GPs-check-millions-dementia-DES-plans-show/ health checks http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3607818/ Click to access ta094guidance.pdf http://www.thennt.com/nnt/statins-for-heart-disease-prevention-without-prior-heart-disease/ AAA screening http://aaa.screening.nhs.uk/aaascreening http://www.bmj.com/content/338/bmj.b2307 Breast Click to access breast-screening-review-exec.pdf

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