2015年2月25日 星期三

2015-02-26 U.K. Health


The Guardian
   
Call for ban on selling 'addictive' energy drinks to children   
The Guardian
The worst offender in the research was Sainsbury's Orange Energy Drink, which has 15.9g per 100ml of sugar - the equivalent of 20 teaspoons of sugar per 500ml. Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. Rebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondent.
The energy drinks with TWENTY teaspoons of sugar as campaigners call for ban ...   Daily Mail
Call to ban sale of energy drinks to children   ITV News
"Demonisation" of sugar having real impact on consumer   The Grocer
BBC News   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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Daily Mail
   
Sierra Leone reports sharp spike in Ebola cases   
Daily Mail
Sierra Leone said on Wednesday it was seeing a spike in Ebola infections, blaming unsafe burials that threaten to undermine the recovery from the deadly epidemic. The west African nation, which has registered some 3,400 deaths in the nine months since ...

Sierra Leone hopes for economic bounce post-Ebola   Reuters
Ebola and the battle against complacency   The Province
99 Ebola cases in past week, nearly two-thirds in Sierra Leone - WHO   Reuters Africa
Sierra Leone Telegraph   
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The Independent
   
People who sleep more than eight hours are more likely to have a stroke ...   
The Independent
People who sleep for more than eight hours a day are more likely to have a stroke, research has shown – but experts do not know the reason why. A study of nearly 10,000 people carried out at the University of Cambridge found that those who took eight ...

Shock study reveals too much sleep 'could cause a stroke'   Mirror.co.uk
TOO MUCH SLEEP LINKED TO STROKES   Herald Scotland
Too much sleep 'could increase risk of stroke' by up to 50%, study suggests   ITV News
I Know Today   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Business Insider Australia   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Medical mystery: Men who take frequent saunas live longer, study shows   
Los Angeles Times
Here's a bit of good news for folks who enjoy sitting in a super-heated room and sweating profusely: Finnish researchers say regular sauna bathing may help men to live longer. The study, which was published Monday in JAMA, is the latest in a series of ...

Sauna bathing reduces heart related mortality: Finnish research   Xinhua
Want to cut the risk of a heart attack? Jump in the sauna   Telegraph.co.uk
How regular SAUNAS could save your life   Daily Mail
Reuters   
Times of India   
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Times LIVE
   
Week-on, weekend-off treatment controls viral load in young people   
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We are reporting from the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), taking place in Seattle, USA, 23rd-26th February 2015. HIV Basics · HIV & AIDS. What is HIV? And what is AIDS? Find answers to some common questions in this ...

HIV pill Truvada that cuts risk of infection among gay men by 86% 'needs to be ...   Belfast Telegraph
'Game changer' HIV pill could cut infection risk by 86%   New Zealand Herald
HIV prevention saves over $250G in a lifetime   Fox News
Reuters   
The Guardian Nigeria   
Times of India   
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OnMedica
   
Nearly one third of NHS staff would not feel safe whistleblowing over unsafe care   
OnMedica
Just two in three NHS staff members (68%) would feel secure in raising concerns about unsafe practice, the NHS Staff Survey has found. And only just over half (57%) would feel confident that their organisation would address their concern if they did.
UPDATED - Stress and low morale among staff at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust   Pontefract and Castleford Express
Bullying in the NHS is getting worse, annual survey shows   Telegraph.co.uk
The NHS Staff Survey shows resolve in the face of pressure on services   Onrec
Nursing Times   
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
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 ...

The Eyes Have It? UK Docs Urge Off-Label Avastin Use as Pharma Protests   Wall Street Journal (blog)
NHS 'must step in' over Avastin row   BBC News
UK doctors call on NHS to use Avastin for wet AMD   PMLiVE
PharmaTimes   
Reuters   
Optician Online   
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The Times (subscription)
   
1200 beds blocked by 'healthy' patients   
The Times (subscription)
SNP ministers came under pressure over the state of the health service yesterday when it emerged that 1,200 hospital beds were blocked every day over the new year. Over a four-week period, 1,216 beds on average were unavailable to take new patients ...

Iain Macwhirter: Why the Scottish Government repeatedly breaks its waiting ...   Herald Scotland
Children and adolescents with mental health problems are being “failed”   Aberdeen Press and Journal
Thousands of hospital beds blocked by 'healthy' patients   BBC News
Scottish Daily Record   
Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra   
Express.co.uk   
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Horncastle News
   
BREAKING NEWS: Three wards closed at Boston's Pilgrim Hospital due to ...   
Horncastle News
Boston's Pilgrim Hospital has had to close three wards and restrict admissions to two wards, because a number of patients and staff have symptoms of the winter vomiting bug, norovirus, mangers have tonight (Wednesday) confirmed. They say the virus is not ...

Norovirus outbreak closes three wards at Boston Pilgrim Hospital   Boston Target
Norovirus back at Bromyard Community Hospital   Hereford Times
The RUH closes wards to prevent further spread of Norovirus   Wells Journal
Grimsby Telegraph   
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BBC News
   
Bath and Swindon hospitals put on black alert   
BBC News
Two hospitals in Somerset and one in Wiltshire are operating under 'black alert' status due to increased levels of demand on their services. A spokesman said Yeovil District Hospital, which declared the status on Monday, was still under pressure and ...

Now THREE full hospitals at Bath, Yeovil and Swindon are under 'black alert'   Western Daily Press
'Black alert' Derriford Hospital has cancelled 1500 operations since January   Plymouth Herald
'NHS facing most serious crisis in years' says Exeter MP   ITV News
North Devon Gazette   
Pirate FM   
West Briton   
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