uk-hotdailynews: 2015-02-25 U.K. Health

'Give HIV drugs to healthy gay men'
BBC News
Healthy gay men should be offered daily HIV drugs to prevent infections, say UK Medical Research Council and Public Health England scientists. Their study, on 545 high-risk men, found one case of HIV could be stopped for every 13 men treated for a year.
Study That Paid Patients to Take HIV Drugs Fails   New York Times
HIV drug taken before and after sex cuts risk by 86pc   Telegraph.co.uk
Healthy gay men should be given HIV treatment to PREVENT infection   Daily Mail
Wall Street Journal
Belfast Telegraph
Reuters
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Mind-controlled bionics help 3 men take control
Times of India
LONDON: Three Austrian men have become the first in the world to undergo a new technique called "bionic reconstruction" enabling them to use a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by their mind. The British Medical Journal Lancet will announce the ...

Watch: Star Wars-style 'bionic hand' fitted to first patients   Telegraph.co.uk
Three men given 'bionic' hands   Belfast Telegraph
3 Austrians Get Bionic Hands After Amputation   ABC News
Wall Street Journal
Yahoo News UK
New Scientist
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OAPs who break their hip are more likely to die if they are discharged from ...
Mirror.co.uk
Pensioners who break a hip are more likely to die if discharged from hospital within nine days of being admitted. New research highlights the danger posed by the pressure to get patients off wards to free up beds. Scientists found that if over-50s with hip ...

Hip fracture link to earlier death   Belfast Telegraph
Short hospital stay linked to increased risk of death following hip fracture   Rochdale Online
Hip fracture patients more likely to die if released within five days   Telegraph.co.uk
Nursing Times
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UK approves three-person babies
BBC News
The UK has now become the first country to approve laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. The modified version of IVF has passed its final legislative obstacle after being approved by the House of Lords. The fertility regulator will now decide ...

Three-parent babies: Britain becomes first country to allow technique after ...   The Independent
UK 1st Country to Allow Creation of Embryos From 3 People   ABC News
Peers vote for triple-DNA babies   Richmond and Twickenham Times

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UK Ebola medics under investigation
BBC News
Five UK Ebola nurses and doctors are under investigation by regulators, Public Health England says. They are looking into the screening of medics who flew back to England on 28 December after treating patients in Sierra Leone. On this flight was Scottish ...

Mark Leftly: We owe it to Sierra Leone, and ourselves, to re-establish links   The Independent
Ending the Ebola Outbreak   New York Times
Sierra Leone hopes for economic bounce post-Ebola   Reuters
Daily Mail
Mirror.co.uk
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Smoking 'epidemic' likely to kill two out of three Australian smokers: mortality study
ABC Online
Two out of three smokers, or about 1.8 million Australians, will die because of their habit, the first large-scale Australian study on the link between smoking and mortality shows. The study, published in the international journal BMC Medicine, found the smoking ...

'A wake-up call': Smoking to kill 1.8 million Australians, or two-thirds of smokers ...   Brisbane Times
Get help to stub it out with Crewkerne Pharmacy on No Smoking Day   Yeovil Express
More adults smoking in Luton than national average as heart charity urges ...   Luton On Sunday
Stourbridge News
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Fluoride safe, but final review pending
NEWS.com.au
AUSTRALIANS have been reassured that fluoride in drinking water is effective and safe, despite international studies linked it to lower IQs and thyroid problems. THE National Health and Medical Research Council expects to maintain its support for ...

Troubled waters   Irish Independent
'Don't fear fluoride' leading dentist says   3AW
New York's Fluoridation Fuss, 50 Years Later   New York Times
OnMedica
Bristol Post
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Doctors call on NHS to offer treatment for common eye condition
Telegraph.co.uk
Doctors are calling on the NHS to offer a drug to treat a common eye condition. One of the largest trials carried out in the field of eye disease in the UK showed similar effectiveness in treating wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) when using either ...

Pharma fears as UK docs push off-label Avastin in wet AMD   PharmaTimes
Cheap drug can't be used for eye disease   The Times (subscription)
UK doctors urge use of Roche's Avastin as cheap eye drug   Reuters
PMLiVE
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