2015年4月1日 星期三

2015-04-02 U.K. Health


Daily Mail
   
Drug company 'bullied doctors to block cheap treatment for sight-loss'   
Daily Mail
A drug company has been accused of trying to block trials aimed at promoting a 'cheap, safe and effective' treatment for sight loss on the NHS. It has 'bullied' experts who have tried to prove that a cancer drug can be used to treat one of the most common ...

Drug firm Novartis tried to 'scupper' trials of a cheaper version of eye medicine   The Independent
Drug companies accused of blocking access to cheap drugs   Telegraph.co.uk
Drug company accused of 'blocking' cheap eye treatment   BBC News
Belfast Telegraph   
The Times (subscription)   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
One GP in five is from overseas   
Telegraph.co.uk
The number of GPs from abroad has jumped by almost a fifth in just ten years as the NHS tries to combat a shortage of staff. Foreign born doctors now fill one in five GP posts while in some areas the proportion is nearer two in three. Senior medics claim that ...

NHS doctor shortage causes 20% rise in foreign GPs   Daily Mail
David Cameron's NHS pledges criticised by Nottingham doctors and politicians   Nottingham Post
Open letter from North East medics urges politicians to bin the rhetoric   ChronicleLive

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CBC.ca
   
Acetaminophen for back pain brings no benefit, review concludes   
CBC.ca
​​The commonly-prescribed drug acetaminophen or paracetamol does nothing to help low back pain, and may affect the liver when used regularly, a large new international study has confirmed. Reporting in today's issue of the British Medical Journal ...

Paracetamol 'does not help back pain or arthritis'   Telegraph.co.uk
Drug 'ineffective for back pain'   Daily Mail
Paracetamol useless for lower back pain: Study   Times of India
Nursing Times   
mirror.co.uk   
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CBC.ca
   
More TV time may raise Type 2 diabetes risk   
CBC.ca
Each hour spent watching TV each day increases the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes among overweight adults, a U.S. study suggests. The study in Wednesday's issue of the journal Diabetologia was based on data from 3,234 overweight American adults ...

Watching TV 'link to diabetes risk'   Daily Echo

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Boy left disabled during birth could receive record £15m compensation   
Telegraph.co.uk
A 12-year-old boy, left catastrophically disabled by being starved of oxygen during his birth, is expected to receive almost £15 million in damages from the NHS. A High Court judge said it was agreed by all sides that James Robshaw's birth at Lincoln County ...

Lincoln boy's hospital compensation to top £10m   BBC News
Mother wins record payout after botched delivery left son needing lifetime of care   Daily Mail
Lincoln mother up for £14m birthing negligence payout   The Lincolnite
Lincolnshire Echo   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Thousands at risk of £4.3bn cash void in care overhaul   
Morning Star Online
BRITAIN'S biggest social care overhaul since 1948 could put thousands of disabled and elderly people at risk, charities warned yesterday. The Care Act 2014 came into force yesterday, introducing new, less variable criteria determining when local authorities ...

Big Issue: Care Act brings more support for carers   Stoke Sentinel
Coalition's care reforms heading for 'disaster', say councils, charities and ...   Telegraph.co.uk
The new Care Act means we can all apply for support as we get old   The Guardian
Belfast Telegraph   
Communitycare.co.uk   
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Nature.com
   
Australian research could help stop spread of prostate cancer   
Xinhua
MELBOURNE, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Tracking and stopping the spread of prostate cancer is a step closer, an Australian-led team researching the world's second most common cancer announced on Thursday. Behind melanoma, prostate cancer is the most ...

Prostate cancer breakthrough British scientists discover WHY the disease spreads   Daily Mail
Cancer: The complex seeds of metastasis   Nature.com
'Common ancestor cell' identified   Yahoo News UK
GenomeWeb   
Drug Discovery & Development   
Herald Sun   
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Daily Mail
   
Lib Dem candidate caught HIV on purpose after years of drug abuse and ...   
Daily Mail
A Liberal Democrat candidate has done a bold interview about his struggle to be accepted as gay, which led him to contemplate suicide and to intentionally set out to catch HIV as he embarked on a path of self 'annihilation.' Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, a ...

Lib Dem candidate tells how he 'deliberately caught HIV' as he openly speaks ...   mirror.co.uk
Liberal Democrat candidate reveals he 'deliberately' contracted HIV following ...   The Independent
Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett: Lib Dem candidate admits he got HIV on purpose ...   Metro
BuzzFeed News   
Evening Standard   
NEWS.com.au   
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Times of India
   
British researchers call for control over e-cigarettes   
Times of India
A large-scale survey of e-cigarette use among high school students in England has revealed one in five have accessed them, according to findings published on Tuesday in the journal BMC Public Health. More alarmingly, say academics, a large number of ...

Four in 10 teenage e-cigarette users would not have smoked, warn health experts   Telegraph.co.uk
E-cigarettes: Many teenagers trying them, survey concludes   BBC News
Teenagers in danger of risking their health with e-cigarettes as 20% admit to ...   mirror.co.uk
Belfast Telegraph   
The Independent   
Daily Mail   
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BBC News
   
GP practices in Northern Ireland get £15m boost   
BBC News
Stormont Health Minister Jim Wells has announced £15m in funding for GP services in Northern Ireland. The money includes £10m in loans for GP practices to upgrade and expand their premises, and £300,000 to meet the ongoing costs of these new ...

GPs welcome new £15m funding package   Belfast Newsletter
£15m investment into Northern Ireland GP services   GP online
Smoke-free zone at Lagan Valley by 2016   Ulster Star
U.TV   
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