“As a foundation trust, there is a need for greater financial rigour. We have moved rapidly to ensure this issue is properly managed.”Frank Dobson, a former Labour health secretary and persistent critic of foundation hospitals, said the episode demonstrated serious flaws in the strategy. Bradford NHS trust turned in a £4.4m surplus last year after hitting nine key targets including “strong financial management” and the Audit Commission rated it among the best performing trusts in Britain.But in the first quarter of this year, a predicted surplus turned into a £4m-plus deficit on the Trust’s £180m annual budget. A spokesman for Monitor said it was the “significant variation from where they planned to be”, rather than the deficit itself which triggered its intervention.Foundation trusts cannot call on their strategic health authority to help them balance their books, unlike ordinary NHS trusts, he said. Women and those aged over 60 or with other conditions such as diabetes had the greatest increase in risk.Publishing their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors estimate that 8 per cent of the heart attacks they studied were attributable to traffic. The triggers for a heart attack, which is a sudden event, are little understood, but, if the findings are confirmed, traffic will have to be added to the known list of triggers, which include outbursts of anger, strenuous exercise and use of cocaine.They say it is “unlikely that the effect is entirely attributable to the stress linked with driving a car” because people who travelled by public transport, including buses or trolley cars were equally affected.Pollution is likely to be the key factor. Bradford Teaching Hospitals was among 10 NHS trusts granted foundation status after the Government fought a bruising battle with its own backbenchers to get the legislation through.The MPs who opposed the move said the new trusts, which have extra freedom to borrow against their assets and to keep any surplus, would face unprecedented financial risks and introduce a two-tier market in health care.

He warned this could lead to a further cut in income.Just six months ago, the first wave of foundation hospitals, the flagships of the NHS, was launched. The researchers found that one hour before the attack happened, exposure to traffic was twice as frequent as at any other time.Most patients had been travelling by car but some had been on bicycles and others on buses and trolley cars. Particulates in the air expelled by vehicle exhausts have been shown to increase the stickiness of the blood when breathed in, which can lead to blood clots forming, as well as altering the function of the heart and blood vessels.”These changes have been observed in healthy officers of the highway patrol in association with the concentration of particulate matter in their vehicles and might be consistent with an increased risk of myocardial infarction [heart attack] after a transient elevation in the concentration of ambient particles in vulnerable subjects,” the authors write.Studies have shown that passengers in cars and buses are exposed to a higher level of particulates from exhaust fumes than is measured 100 metres or more from traffic on the road. Travelling in traffic, either in a car or on public transport, almost trebles the risk of a heart attack for at least an hour afterwards, a study has found. Air pollution is known to be a factor in heart disease, which develops slowly over decades, and research has shown that people living close to a main road have twice the risk of dying from the condition.The findings are based on 691 heart attack survivors in the city of Augsburg in southern Germany who were interviewed by the national research centre for environment and health at Neuherberg about their activities in the four days before the attack. The researchers say they had been poisoned with andromedotoxins found in the leaves and flowers of plants and extracted by bees.”Mad” honey is used in the Black sea region as a sexual stimulant and as a treatment for stomach and bowel problems. Fifteen of the patients had been diagnosed with duodenal ulcers which, according to local tradition, can be healed by continuous eating of honey.The authors say it is unclear how much is necessary for a toxic dose but it may be as little as a teaspoon..

Researchers warn the problem is likely to spread to other countries because of the demand for natural or unprocessed imported honey. An outbreak of “mad” honey poisoning from the Black Sea area of Turkey is reportedin the Emergency Medicine Journal. He added: “These results deserve to be rigorously tested using placebo acupuncture to ensure the effect is real.”. Live birth rates in the acupuncture women were 23 per cent higher for each IVF cycle.Professor Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary med-icine at Exeter University said: “We are beginning to suspect acupuncture can have hormonal effects and it [could] influence fertility.” He also said extra “tender, loving care” during treatment might have influenced results.

Just 8 per cent of the acupuncture patients suffered a miscarriage, compared to 20 per cent of the other patients.The therapy also reduced the risk of ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo develops in the fallopian tube rather than the womb. Acupuncture is based on ancient Chinese theories about pressure points and how they affect health and well-being.Only 36 per cent of the women on conventional treatment became pregnant, compared with 51 per cent of those who had acupuncture. Patients on needle therapy during IVF had higher rates of pregnancy and lower rates of miscarriage, the conference of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Philadelphia was told yesterday. Acupuncture can improve a woman’s chances of successful fertility treatment, research shows. Acupunct-ure and hypnosis are now available on the NHS.Researchers from the Reproductive Medicine and Fertility Centre in Colorado Springs studied 114 women undergoing IVF. The transfer process can be uncomfortable and stressful, hampering the chances for a successful pregnancy.Half of the women had acupuncture during the transfer, with needles in their ears and other areas; the other half had normal treatment without needles. We are able, like everybody, to do good things with good training By our work we promote a company.

That is what models do as models.” Hugo Boss must think that they, not Henman, top the seedings.. For that we would use male models.”Mercedes Munoz, co-ordinator of the 25 models, said: “The idea of the model being dumb is declining. I don’t see it as any different from what is done in other sports, like Formula One and basketball.”Gerard Tsobanian, the commercial organiser of the tournament, said: “We wanted something new It’s decoration, like putting nice flowers on the court This is not machista We want to have a women’s a tournament here also. But they only work for one televised match a day and they are not taking the place of the other ball-boys and ball-girls. I think it’s important for our sport to understand its product clearly, and I’m not quite convinced it’s part of our product.”Santana said the tournament had not had any complaints from the ATP, which runs the men’s tour, or the players. “These models are working for a commercial company,” Santana said. “The models had to qualify to do the job, and they can do the job.