2014年10月10日 星期五

2014-10-11 U.K. Health

  BBC News   
Ebola: National exercise to test UK's plans for virus  BBC News
A national exercise will be held later to test how the UK would deal with a potential outbreak of the Ebola virus. The eight-hour exercise will see actors in various parts of the UK simulate symptoms of the virus to test the responses of emergency services, ...

Ebola outbreak worst ever as deaths hit 4000   Herald Scotland
Cameron hits back in Ebola 'shambles' row   Yorkshire Post
Test to see if Britain is ready for Ebola to happen today   ITV News
Sky News   
Daily Mail   
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  FOX31 Denver   
Research team makes potentially major breakthrough in treating Diabetes  FOX31 Denver
DENVER — A Harvard research team claims to have come up with a new way to help combat Type I diabetes with the use of stem cells. The researchers say the stem cells can create hundreds of millions of beta cells, which produce insulin. When the cells are ...

Diabetes cure? Stem cell breakthrough could spell end to daily insulin injections   Belfast Telegraph
Profile: Professor Melton   The Times (subscription)
Stem Cell Success Raises Hopes of Type 1 Diabetes Cure   Philly.com
India Today   
Tech Times   
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  WPTZ The Champlain Valley   
Ebola threat ruled out after plane quarantined in Las Vegas  Las Vegas Review-Journal
Passengers wait for their baggage at United Airlines terminal, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal). Ebola threat ruled out after plane quarantined in Las Vegas.
Passenger posts on Twitter commentary to Ebola false alarm on Vegas plane   Daily Mail
Las Vegas sounds false alarm as global Ebola fears spread   Chicago Tribune

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  The Guardian   
Are foreign patients really to blame for NHS squeeze?  The Guardian
The NHS is certainly a service under serious pressure – on its finances and on its ability to meet waiting time targets as it grapples with the growing burden of illness caused by an ageing and growing population increasingly displaying lifestyle-related illness.
Immigrants, HIV and the true cost to the NHS: Should the International Health ...   Daily Mail
Ebola 'may already have reached Britain', UKIP wants to bar people with HIV ...   Pulse

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  The Guardian   
Madrid hospital staff quit over Ebola fears  The Guardian
A medical practitioner wearing protective clothing treats an isolated patient on the sixth floor of the the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain. Photograph: AP. Ashifa Kassam in Madrid. Friday 10 October 2014 18.13 EDT ...

Spanish authorities under fire after nurse contracts Ebola   Irish Times
Ebola toll passes 4000 as fears grow worldwide   Channel News Asia
Ebola updates: Deaths keep rising; world reacts   New Zealand Herald
Bangkok Post   
Daily Mail   
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  Evening Standard   
British man dies 'with Ebola symptoms' in Macedonia  Evening Standard
Foreign Office officials are looking in to the reports, which if confirmed would be the first death of a UK national from the virus. British nurse Will Pooley was cured of the Ebola last month. The news came as Downing Street said enhanced screening for Ebola ...


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  Scotsman   
'Smart' prescribing to halt antibiotic resistance  Scotsman
ANTIBIOTIC use must become cleverer and the number of prescriptions slashed to reverse a recent increase in drug-resistant infections, health officials have said. The number of reported resistant infections of e-coli in England rose by 12 per cent between ...

Antibiotic resistance continues to rise   NHS Choices
Hospitals and out of hours GPs are driving rise in antibiotics: report   Telegraph.co.uk
Antibiotic resistance rise continues   BBC News
Daily Mail   
The Guardian   
OnMedica   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Plan for age ban on e-cigarettes  Herald Scotland
THEY are marketed as a safer alternative to smoking and have taken the place of tobacco in many former cigarette addicts' lives. THEY are marketed as a safer alternative to smoking and have taken the place of tobacco in many former cigarette addicts' lives.
Drivers face smoking ban in their own cars   Scotsman
Scots to have their say on fresh anti-smoking laws   The Times (subscription)
Citizens share views on tobacco proposal   KBIA
Telegraph.co.uk   
stv.tv   
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  BBC News   
Mental health police project shared in West Midlands  BBC News
A pilot project enabling mental health experts to team up with West Midlands Police to assess people to try to keep them out of custody is to be expanded. Since January, psychiatric nurses and paramedics have joined police in Birmingham and Solihull in ...

Police to expand mental illness assessments at incidents   Birmingham Mail
Big drop in custody numbers for mentally ill patients   On The Wight
Police progress in dealing with mental illness   Isle of Wight County Press
Daily Echo   
Portsmouth News   
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  The Independent   
NHS in crisis: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt answers your questions  The Independent
To conclude our series on the financial crisis facing the National Health Service, the Health Secretary answers readers' questions on waiting times, pressures in general practice and the impact of cuts in public services. Q: A friend of mine's wife had to have ...

Only three in four mental health patients seen within 18-week referral target   Pulse
Eco strategy helps Sheffield trust towards its targets   Sheffield Telegraph
NHS improvements in past decade start to reverse   OnMedica
The Guardian   
Prolific North   
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