Excessive alcohol consumption disrupts the 'REM' (Rapid Eye Movement) stage of deep sleep to ruin a night's rest, according to the UK Department of Health.

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The review into the effectiveness of the breast screening programme was commissioned by Cancer Research UK and the Department of Health and is due to report back on Tuesday.

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Age UK looked at Department of Health figures - which only cover England - for the number of elderly people using day care provided or arranged by their local council over the past three financial years.

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The devolved administrations across the rest of the UK are monitoring what the Department of Health is doing with Wales and Scotland already carrying out their own reviews.

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Clare Stevinson, a Cancer Research UK researcher at the department of exercise and health sciences at the University of Bristol, said the findings of the endometrial cancer research were "encouraging".

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The Department of Health says that no UK company has yet applied for a marketing license.

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Cancer Research UK, which commissioned the review alongside the Department of Health, said that "on balance" it thought that women should go ahead with screening.

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Those who supply this information include Cancer Research UK (the most important research organisation), the Department of Health, Wellcome Trust and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

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The latest figures from the Department of Health show that up to 31 December last year a total of 52 people in the UK had died from new variant CJD.

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The island's health department is continuing negotiations with UK authorities about obtaining stocks of a swine flu vaccine once it has been developed.

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Or there is the comparison of nurses per head of population, where a figure for UK population was divided by a figure for the number of nurses - obtained from the Department of Health in London.

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Its slogan board said it had been sponsored by Kenya's health ministry, USAid and UKAid - an apparent reference to the UK government's department of international development, our correspondent says.

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