2014年8月17日 星期日

2014-08-18 U.K. Health

  The Guardian   
Death rates for four most common cancers in Britain fell 30% in 20 years  The Guardian
A scientist prepares protein samples for cancer research. Mortality rates for the UK's four biggest cancers have fallen. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters. Death rates for four cancers which account for half of all cancer deaths in the UK have fallen by almost ...

Deaths From 'Big Four' Cancers Fall By 30%   Key 103 Manchester
Deaths from four biggest cancer killers fall by a third   Yorkshire Post
'Join cancer fight' call as death rates fall   BBC News
Daily Mail   
The Times (subscription)   
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  Daily Mail   
Let the elderly in care keep their own furniture to make it feel like home, says ...  Daily Mail
Care homes should be fitted with the curtains, bedspreads and furniture of their occupants to try to make them a 'civilised' home from home, according to the Care Minister. Norman Lamb warned last night that many residents, especially those with dementia, ...

Care homes should be 'civilised' by filling them with personal posessions and ...   Telegraph.co.uk

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  The Independent   
Surgeon 'fired after mistakenly carrying out a vasectomy'  The Independent
A surgeon has been fired after mistakenly carrying out a vasectomy on a patient, according to a report. The incident was one of two “never events” – mistakes that are not supposed to happen – that occurred at Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool, according to ...

Surgeon sacked after giving man a VASECTOMY by mistake during minor ...   Mirror.co.uk
Surgeon sacked after giving man vasectomy by mistake   Liverpool Echo

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  CTV News   
New Drug Helps Some Bald Patients Regrow Hair  New York Times
The first thing Brian H. noticed was that he could grow a real beard. It had been years since that had been possible, years he spent bedeviled by hair loss on his head, face, arms and legs. Brian, 34, who asked that his last name be withheld to protect his ...

Pill to reverse hair loss offers hope of alopecia cure   New Zealand Herald
Alopecia 'cure' fully restores hair in five months   Telegraph.co.uk
Alopecia pill that restores hair 'could change lives'   The Times (subscription)
The Guardian   
Headlines & Global News   
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  Reuters   
'Plantibodies' drugs advance as big pharma stands aside  Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Biotech drug production techniques based on plants, which may prove to be faster, higher yielding and cheaper than current methods using mammalian cells, haven't caught on with the biggest pharmaceutical companies.

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  Mirror.co.uk   
Legal highs will kill more people than heroin by 2016, experts warn  Mirror.co.uk
The number of people killed by legal highs could take over heroin deaths in the next two years, say addiction experts. A report, due to be released this week, is calling for more to be done to combat drugs such as 'Clockwork Orange', 'Bliss', 'Mary Jane' to ...

Legal highs 'deadlier than heroin'   Telegraph.co.uk

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  STV Glasgow   
More tests over girl's 'drug' death  BBC News
Further tests will be required to establish the cause of death of a 16-year-old girl who died a few hours after falling ill at a house party. It is thought the teenager, who has not been named by police, took an "ecstasy-type drug" at the party in Rutherglen, South ...

Ecstasy link suspected in Scottish teenager death   Scotsman
Illegal drugs warning after death of Jodie, 16   Express.co.uk
Party appeal after teenager's death   Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra
Scottish Daily Record   
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The Ebola doctor who survived the killer virus  Telegraph.co.uk
Like every other medic trying to fight the spread of west Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak, Dr Melvin Korkor knows the importance of reassuring a panicking public. Despite its high fatality rate, and the belief that it is the work of witchcraft, his message is that ...

Rubber gloves stand between death and life for Ebola doctors   MarketWatch

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  Daily Mail   
Dentists ditch patients for missing ONE appointment: Investigation finds some ...  Daily Mail
Dental patients are being forced to travel long distances because practices nearby are refusing to take on new patients. Stock image used. Patients are being struck off by NHS dentists for failing to attend just one check-up, an investigation has found.
NHS dental care 'too hard to find'   ITV News
NHS dental care info 'inaccurate'   Sleaford Today
Watchdog airs complaints over patients registering with NHS dentists as ...   Huddersfield Examiner

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  Daily Mail   
Legal action over salmonella restaurant  Daily Echo
LEGAL action is being taken against a Hampshire restaurant after dozens of diners were struck down by the potentially lethal sickness bug salmonella. The Real China in Eastleigh's Swan Centre complex closed voluntarily on July 24 after more than 30 ...

Salmonella outbreak: Three patients die in hospital   Irish Independent
Salmonella in Hampshire part of national outbreak, say health chiefs   Hampshire Chronicle
UK restaurant faces legal action over Salmonella contamination   Delhi Daily News
DigitalJournal.com   
Express.co.uk   
Daily Mail   
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