2015年2月20日 星期五

2015-02-21 U.K. Health


BBC News
   
One million trained as 'dementia friends'   
BBC News
One million people have now signed up to be "dementia friends" in England, the Alzheimer's Society has announced. People in all walks of life have been trained to spot the signs of the disease so they can help sufferers. There are an estimated 720,000 ...

Cameron promises millions to find treatments for dementia   Yorkshire Post
David Cameron announces dementia training for all NHS staff   The Guardian
'Spot dementia in six weeks, not six months', David Cameron PM tells GPs   Daily Mail
Your Local Guardian   
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Reuters
   
Exclusive: US health officials push for stricter 'superbug' defense   
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government is close to finalizing instructions to prevent medical devices responsible for transmitting "superbugs" from spreading the potentially fatal pathogens between patients, the scientist leading the effort said. The new ...


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Telegraph.co.uk
   
New figures reveal suicides rose in 2013   
Deadline News
Suicides in the UK rose by 4% in 2013, according to newly released figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The increase was against the average trend which has emerged over the last decade with suicides in Scotland falling by 19%. The Scottish ...

Suicides soar among men in the South East   Get Bucks
New figures demonstrate recent rise in male suicides   Zenopa
Desperate need for investment in community mental health nursing   Nursing in Practice
WebMD.Boots.com   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Mirror.co.uk   
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The Independent
   
Esthechoc: Scientists invent 'anti-ageing' chocolate   
The Independent
In good news for gluttons, scientists have developed a chocolate bar which slows the signs of ageing. By using the antioxidant which keeps flamingos pink, a Cambridge University affiliated lab behind 'Esthechoc' claims the chocolate improves the skin's ...

New Chocolate Can Make You Look 30 Years Younger   Design & Trend
Scientists invent anti-ageing chocolate   Eagle Reporters
Introducing Esthechoc, The World's First Anti-Ageing Chocolate That Claims To ...   Huffington Post UK
Telegraph.co.uk   
Yahoo News UK   
RT   
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Daily Times
   
Diseases affecting the poorest can be eliminated, scientists say - TRFN   
Daily Mail
LONDON, Feb 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is a little known disease but it could make medical history if scientists' predictions are correct: yaws could completely disappear by 2020, given the right resources. The only disease ever to have been ...

WHO urges developing countries to fund tropical diseases fight   Reuters
Nations urged to fight neglected tropical diseases   New Vision
Diseases affecting the poorest can be eliminated, scientists say   Daily Times
Newsweek   
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Daily Mail
   
Woman died of allergic reaction to her L'Oreal hair dye   
Daily Mail
A coroner attacked the cosmetics industry yesterday for 'grossly underestimating' problems caused by a hair dye chemical. Geoff Fell called for action after an inquest heard how Julie McCabe, 39, collapsed and died from an extreme allergic reaction to the ...

Cosmetics giant L'Oreal "should do more research into customers' allergies" after ...   Mirror.co.uk
Julie McCabe death: Coroner's warning to cosmetics industry after fatal reaction ...   The Independent
Coroner warns that allergic reactions to hair dye are 'grossly underestimated' as ...   Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Telegraph.co.uk   
Sky News   
Yorkshire Post   
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East Anglian Daily Times
   
Mental health trust is first in country to be put into special measures   
East Anglian Daily Times
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has become the first mental health trust in the country to be put into special measures, the health sector regulator has said. Comments; Email; Print. To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in.
Health trust in special measures   Richmond and Twickenham Times

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Nursing Times
   
Chief nurse and chief exec resign at country's largest trust   
Nursing Times
Both the chief nurse and chief executive of Barts Health NHS Trust in east London have announced their resignation today. Professor Kay Riley has announced that she will leave the trust this month and retire at the end of October, after a 30 year nursing ...

Troubled Barts Health NHS Trust loses senior staff   OnMedica
Hospital trust boss to step down   East London and West Essex Guardian Series

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Mirror.co.uk
   
Breast-feeding mum told to 'leave her son at home with a bottle' so she could sit ...   
Mirror.co.uk
A breast-feeding mum said she was shocked after court officials told her to "use a bottle" so she could sit on a jury. Aileen Robertson, 39, received a letter citing her for jury duty when her first-born son, Isaac, was only a few weeks old. She filled in an ...

New mother 'told to leave baby at home during jury duty because breastfeeding ...   Daily Mail
Breastfeeding Scots mum called up for jury service told to leave her baby at ...   Scottish Daily Record
Breastfeeding juror told to 'leave baby at home with bottle' by court official   Aberdeen Press and Journal
The Courier   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
Parents of two-year-old with rare brain tumour accuse NHS of handing her a ...   
Mirror.co.uk
The parents of a sick two-year-old have accused the NHS of handing her “a death sentence” for refusing to fund the tot's treatment. Freya Bevan was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year and has since had two operations to get rid of it and undergone four ...

Family of two-year-old with brain tumour say they've been made to BEG to save her   Daily Mail
Parents accuse NHS of handing their daughter 'a death sentence' for refusing to ...   WalesOnline
Pageant final win would be "dream", says Neath girl Tara Finnegan, who is ...   South Wales Evening Post

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