2014年10月1日 星期三

2014-10-02 U.K. Health

  BBC News   
Ebola crisis: How did the virus get into the US?  BBC News
A Liberian man is the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on US soil. So how did he arrive undetected and what are the risks to Americans? The outbreak gripping West Africa is the world's worst, killing 3,338 people so far. There have ...

Ebola case in Dallas signals health system lapse   Los Angeles Times
US Monitors Contacts of Ebola Patient in Texas   Wall Street Journal
Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital   Reuters
National Post   
The Guardian   
Sky News Australia   
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  BBC News   
Over 500 GP practices 'risk closure over ageing workforce'  BBC News
Hundreds of GP practices are at risk of closure because of the ageing workforce, doctors' leaders say. An analysis by the Royal College of GPs has identified 543 GP practices out of the 8,000 in England it believes could be forced to shut in the next year.
GP retirement rush 'could shut 500 surgeries': Warning patients will have to ...   Daily Mail
GP recruitment crisis 'could leave thousands without a doctor'   ITV News
GPs for all and salaries to be published under new English contract   New Zealand Doctor Online
The Independent   
Mirror.co.uk   
The Guardian   
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  Counsel & Heal   
Jealousy Doubles Dementia Risk, Study  Counsel & Heal
The 40-year-old study revealed that women who are anxious, jealous or moody in middle age are more likely to develop the neurodegenerative disorder later in life. "Most Alzheimer's research has been devoted to factors such as education, heart and blood ...

Don't worry: Neuroticism linked to Alzheimer's risk in women   Reuters
Excessive worry in middle-aged women linked to higher Alzheimer's risk   Washington Post
Neuroticism linked to Alzheimer's   Newmarket Journal

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  Daily Mail   
How stem cells found on the front surface of the eye could lead to treatment for ...  Daily Mail
Scientists have found a possible treatment for the most common form of blindness using special stem cells found on the front surface of the eye. Research at the University of Southampton, published in the journal PLOS ONE, showed that stem cells can be ...

Hope for blind as scientists find stem cell reservoir in human eye   Telegraph.co.uk
UK scientists discover special stem cells that could cure blindness   Express.co.uk
Scientists develop 'cure' for blindness   Laboratory Talk

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  University Herald   
Decreased Ability to Identify Odors May Predict Death  University Herald
Nose (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) The inability of older adults to identify scents may be a strong predictor of death within five years. The inability of older adults to identify scents is a strong predictor of death within five years, according to a recent study.
Failing sense of smell signals death is near, study finds   The Australian
A poor sense of smell could mean the end is nigh   Telegraph.co.uk
Could Fading Sense of Smell Mean Earlier Death?   WebMD
SeniorJournal.com   
Science World Report   
Tech Times   
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  Yahoo Lifestyle UK   
'Being a woman is exhausting' - Transexual unhappy with sex change  TVNZ
A transexual woman says she wants a reverse sex change because "being a woman is exhausting". Chelsea Attonley, who was born a boy called Matthew, was encouraged to have a $20,000 sex change by British glamour model Katie Price. The Mirror ...

Transgender woman wants to become man again   9news.com.au
Transsexual wants a sex-change U-turn on the NHS because he feels he's 'living ...   Metro
'It's exhausting being a woman'   NEWS.com.au
Mirror.co.uk   
Daily Mail   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Troubled NHS trust in bottom 10 for cancer patient experience  East London and West Essex Guardian Series
The Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) has scored in the bottom 10 of Macmillan Cancer charity's 2014 patient experience league table, published today. The trust, in special measures, runs King George Hospital in ...

Cancer charity chiefs hit out after figures show most of Scotland's health boards ...   Scottish Daily Record
Prostate patients 'get second-rate NHS care' says report   Daily Mail
Cancer patients well looked after in Northumbria   Northumberland Gazette
Newham Recorder   
Shields Gazette   
Nursing Standard   
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  The Independent   
How fruit drinks are causing tooth decay in toddlers  The Independent
More than one in ten children under the age of three have tooth decay according to statistics published by Public Health England. The figures show that an average of three teeth in these children were decayed, missing or filled. This is shocking, although not ...

One in five nursery children in Brent suffer from tooth decay   Brent and Kilburn Times
Under threes need water and milk, not sugar-loaded drinks   The Conversation UK
Fruit drinks fuelling tooth decay among under 3s   Telegraph.co.uk
Grimsby Telegraph   
Bristol Post   
Shields Gazette   
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  NHS Choices   
Minimum alcohol pricing would 'save 100s of lives'  NHS Choices
“'Hundreds of lives lost' over failure to bring in minimum alcohol pricing,” The Independent reports. The news is based on research that modelled the effect of a minimum alcohol price per unit of around 40-50p. It suggested that this would be 50 times more ...

Minimum alcohol unit price in England would save lives   OnMedica
'Hundreds of lives lost' over failure to bring in minimum alcohol pricing, says study   The Independent
New Sheffield study says minimum pricing is 50 times more effective than below ...   Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade Review
BBC News   
Delhi Daily News   
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  BBC News   
GP boost must counter chronic disease says Wales' medical chief  BBC News
GP services across Wales must be boosted as more people suffer chronic disease, the chief medical officer warns in her annual report. Around half of adults are being treated for a long-term conditions such as high blood pressure, mental illness, arthritis or ...

Action needed to tackle Wales' expanding waistlines   News Wales
We must take more responsibility for our own health, says Wales' top doctor   South Wales Argus
A quarter of deaths in Wales could be avoided if people adopted healthier ...   WalesOnline
WebMD.Boots.com   
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