2015年5月15日 星期五

2015-05-16 U.K. Health


The Nation
   
30 minutes of exercise key to health in old age   
The Nation
Elderly men who do 30 minutes of physical activity six days a week are likely to have a 40-percent lower risk of death compared to couch-potato counterparts, researchers said Friday. For men in this age group, just a small amount of regular exercise ...

Elderly people who exercise 'live five years longer'   BBC News

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Daily Mail
   
More than 2000 operations put off at the last minute over past 12 months   
Daily Mail
More than 20,000 operations were cancelled at the last minute by NHS hospitals in England during the first three months of the year – the worst performance in a decade. The number of operations cancelled at the last minute for non-clinical reasons has ...

Cancelled operations at 10-year high   The Times (subscription)
'Unprecedented' winter surge sees most amount of NHS operations cancelled in ...   Express.co.uk

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New York Times
   
Nurse Reflects on Tour Treating Ebola Patients in Sierra Leone   
New York Times
Returning from the Ebola zone, Lindsey Hallen worried that she would be swallowed by the petty concerns of her life as a nurse in New York City. “I didn't want to forget,” Ms. Hallen said last week. But she discovered that while away, she had lost any sense ...

Nurses with tablets and bikers with smartphones join Ebola fight   Daily Times
Guinea Ebola cases climb due to transmissions at funerals   Reuters
Ebola in Sierra Leone started with 1 Case - We must not forget   Awareness Times

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Give Our Dad a Bone campaign triggers rise in stem cell donors   
Telegraph.co.uk
Three sisters who turned to social media in a bid to find a stem cell match for their father have caused a huge rise in new donors. Georgie, Emma and Sophie Ireland decided to launch the appeal after discovering no one matched the tissue type of their father ...

Daughters of cancer victim receive overwhelming response after they pleaded ...   Evening Standard
12-year-old undergoes successful first 'half matched bone marrow transplant'   TheHealthSite

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Too much sleep could increase chance of a stroke   
Telegraph.co.uk
Getting too much sleep could almost triple the risk of a stroke among people with high blood pressure, a study has found. Those who manage less than five hours also have an increased risk of the deadly brain haemorrhage, the research suggests. About two ...

How much you sleep could raise your risk of stroke   CBS News
ASH: 'Short' and 'Long' Sleepers Seem to Have Higher Stroke Risk   Doctors Lounge

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Daily Mail
   
Scientists develop new method to determine whether cocaine has been ingested   
Daily Mail
A British-led team has created a new method which can determine whether the drug has been ingested, rather than just touched. They used different types of an analytical chemistry technique known as mass spectrometry to analyse the fingerprints of patients ...

Fingerprint test reveals cocaine use   The Times (subscription)
Fingerprints can reveal past cocaine abuse: study   i24news
Your Fingerprint Can Reveal Drug Use   Newser

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Meningitis cases triple in two weeks in Niger, more than 400 dead -WHO   
Daily Mail
GENEVA, May 15 (Reuters) - An outbreak of meningitis with "unprecedented features" is spreading rapidly in Niger, with a tripling of cases in the past two weeks, hundreds of deaths so far this year and vaccines in short supply, the World Health Organization ...


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Irish Independent
   
Some sun creams don't deliver on protection, warns watchdog   
Irish Independent
Two leading sun creams on sale in Ireland fail to deliver the sun protection claimed, according to tests carried out by consumer watchdog Which? Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. Boots Soltan Protect & Moisturise ...

Top suncreams 'fail to provide adequate protection'   Irish Examiner
Two leading sun creams fail test   BT.com
The suncare products we trust   Telegraph.co.uk
BBC News   
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Irish Examiner
   
Belfast shipyard struck by bacterial outbreak   
Irish Examiner
A bacterial infection that can cause potentially deadly illnesses has broken out at Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast. The Public Health Agency (PHA) said the pneumococcal disease had been detected in a number of employees. The bacteria can cause a ...


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Irish Examiner
   
Public 'ignorant' of how obesity can cut life expectancy   
Irish Examiner
Obesity can reduce life expectancy as much as smoking, but most people do not realise this. A study has found widespread and worrying misconceptions of obesity that are costing lives in Ireland and Europe. A pan-European study involving 14,000 people ...

Most of us don't realise severe obesity is as dangerous as smoking   Yahoo News UK
Europeans unaware about dangers of obesity   Techie News
Obesity could cost society $1 trillion   BenefitsPro

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