2015年10月1日 星期四

2015-10-02 U.K. Health


BBC News
   
Study supports cancer link with height   
BBC News
A Swedish study of five million people appears to support the theory that height and cancer risk are linked. The study found that taller people had a higher risk of breast cancer and skin cancer, among other cancers. Its results suggested that for ...
Taller people more likely to get cancer, say researchers   The Guardian
Tall People At Higher Risk Of Cancer - Study   Sky News
Taller people at greater risk of cancer   Telegraph.co.uk
The Independent   
Belfast Telegraph   
Daily Mail   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
How your GP is paid to stop you going to hospital   
Telegraph.co.uk
Family doctors are being offered bonuses of thousands of pounds to reduce the number of cancer patients sent to hospital, an investigation has found. GPs are being paid up to £11,000 to stay within targets for outpatient referrals and follow-ups, which ...
Patients could pay the price as GPs are offered £6k to refer LESS people to ...   Daily Mail
Plans to reward GPs for cutting hospital admissions attacked as 'preposterous ...   The Independent
GP practices 'offered rewards' for not referring patients to hospitals   The Guardian
Mirror.co.uk   
Pulse   
BT.com   
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Daily Mail
   
Mad cow disease affected the dead cow on a Welsh farm officials reveal   
Daily Mail
A dead cow on a British farm was infected with mad cow disease, officials have revealed. Experts are urgently working to investigate the circumstances of the case, which is the first in Wales since 2013. It was discovered as a result of control ...
BSE found in cow on Welsh farm   The Guardian
Mad Cow Disease returns to the UK after dead cow tests positive for BSE   Mirror.co.uk
'Mad cow disease', or BSE, found in dead cow in Wales   Telegraph.co.uk
WalesOnline   
City A.M.   
Scottish Daily Record   
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Reuters UK
   
For seniors, hearing trouble linked to greater risk of death   
Reuters UK
(Reuters Health) - Older adults with hearing impairment may have a higher risk of dying than people with normal hearing, a recent study suggests. The reasons for the connection are not clear, researchers say, but the results point to hearing impairment ...

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Gazette
   
Breech baby's parents tell inquest of delivery room 'panic'   
Gazette
The parents of a baby who died just moments after her breech birth have described the "utter panic" in the delivery room during labour. Bonnie Strachan died at Ipswich Hospital on January 24 after being deprived of oxygen when she was delivered in an ...


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Daily Mail
   
Operating theatres are an 'old boys' club' as female surgeon blasts sexist ...   
Daily Mail
Hospital operating theatres are like 'an old boys' club' where sexist male surgeons treat women like outsiders, a leading female surgeon claims. Jyoti Shah, a consultant urological surgeon at Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has called for a ...
Senior female surgeon dismisses claims that sexism is rife   expressandstar.com

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
NHS will pay locum doctor half a million pounds this year   
Telegraph.co.uk
Britain's best-paid locum doctor could be in line to earn nearly £500,000 this year, it has been revealed. The doctor is believed to be the highest paid temporary shift worker in the health service, according to reports in The Times newspaper. The ...
Britain's top-paid locum doctor to pick up £500000   Daily Mail
Hospital doctor 'set to earn almost £500000 from the NHS'   Belfast Telegraph

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BBC News
   
Newborn baby's death 'potentially avoidable'   
BBC News
The death of a newborn baby at Wick's Caithness Maternity Unit could have been avoided, NHS Highland has said. The health board said the recent incident had led to an immediate change to the arrangements at the unit. It said the baby's death was ...

More expectant mothers sent to Inverness after baby's death in far north   Herald Scotland
Hospital probe after 'potentially avoidable' baby death   Scotsman
NHS to investigate death of new born baby in Caithness   Sutherland Northern Times

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Financial Times
   
Cyborg brains are heading this way, soon   
Financial Times
Computing and neuroscience are coming together fast — a convergence illustrated vividly by the first use of a computer algorithm to process electrical signals in the human brain, disclosed this week. The implant developed at the University of Southern ...

Brain implant aims to reverse Alzheimer's memory loss   Belfast Telegraph
Brain implant could help people with memory loss   Alzheimer's Society

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Echo
   
New smoking rules in force today: what you need to know   
Echo
Today new rules on tobacco, e-cigarettes and smoking will come into force across England and Wales. Here's our handy guide to the changes and what it could mean for you: What is happening? From October 1 2015, it will be illegal for retailers to sell ...

Of course smoking in cars with kids should be illegal - it's tantamount to ...   Telegraph.co.uk
Stubbing out a health threat for our children   The Northern Echo
Stars line up to urge smokers to quit for 'Stoptober' as new laws come into force   Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Sky News   
Kent and Sussex Courier   
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