World News 08-04-2005 who: Human Reproduction expert Professor Didi Braat what: Says smoking has "devastating" impact on women`s fertility where: Netherlands when: This week snippet: "Smoking has a devastating impact. It is comparable to adding a decade to the reproductive age of a 20-year-old," says Prof Braat, quoted in The Scotsman. "It makes her the equivalent of a 30-year-old non-smoker in reproductive terms." In other health news, The Guardian says US doctors "have reported an alarming number of MRSA patients being attacked by a life-threatening flesh-eating infection" and the same paper`s health correspondent, James Meikle, reports on research from the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia which found that breastfeeding mothers who drink alcohol - no matter how little - do not produce as much milk. Elsewhere, The Independent`s **** reports that the National Institute of Healthcare and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is proposing that hospitals should be allowed to withdraw care from patients who persistently refuse to change their unhealthy lifestyles. [... more]

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