Who Controls Diet Guidelines? Industry.: Meat producers showed dominance over nutrition experts this week.
Source: theatlantic.com
U.S. cancer doctors drop pricey drugs with little or no effect: U.S. oncologists, aware that patients are paying more of the costs of expensive cancer drugs, are increasingly declining to prescribe medicines that have scant or no effect, even as a last resort.
Source: reuters.com
The Hunt file: doctors' dossier of patients 'put at risk' by health secretary: Medics compile list of names whose lives, they say, were put in danger because they were misled by Jeremy Hunt into thinking hospitals do not provide 24/7 care
Source: theguardian.com
Landmark High Court ruling on BRCA1 gene patent as pensioner wins legal case | smh.com.au
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Air pollution: invisible health threat - BBC News
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Wyoming marks first known rabies fatality with death of woman, 77: Wyoming has recorded the state's first known fatality from rabies with the death of an elderly woman from Lander who contracted the viral disease in August after being bitten by an infected bat, state health officials said on Wednesday.
Source: reuters.com
How to spot the warning signs and prevent mass shootings: Research on the psychology of loneliness suggests we need to rethink the mental health aspects of such crimes and empower communities
Source: newscientist.com
Electronic health records software often written without doctors’ input: The reason why many doctors find electronic health records (EHR) difficult to use might be that the software wasn't properly tested, researchers suggests.
Source: reuters.com
NHS leadership in crisis as running hospitals becomes near-impossible | Denis Campbell: Health trusts are haemorrhaging chief executives under pressure to balance the books and deliver high-quality care
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Migration rules need re-think - NHS boss - BBC News: A re-think of immigration rules which protect ballet dancers but not vital foreign nurses need re-thinking, the head of the NHS in England says.
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Junior doctors – 'no one understands the level of responsibility we have': From listening to suicidal patients to looking after the sickest children in the UK, junior doctors are the backbone of the NHS
Source: theguardian.com
Genetic screening for mental health grows rapidly despite little evidence tests work - The Boston Globe: New tests that identify the best psychiatric drugs for patients based on their DNA have limited science behind them and lots of questions ahead.
Source: bostonglobe.com
The Existential Bleakness of Health Press Releases
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Disease free water, a global health challenge, commands an international team effort: Peter Vikesland, an expert in the optimization of drinking water disinfection practices and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, is the principal investigator for a new five-year $3.6...
Source: eurekalert.org
Greece urges health precautions after suspect cholera case on Kos: Greek health authorities urged the public to take health precautions on Friday after a suspected cholera case was discovered on Kos island, a tourist destination and entry point for migrants from the Middle East and Asia.
Source: reuters.com
Australians' experiences with access to health care in 2013–14. "Nearly 10% ... avoided seeing a GP due to cost" in some parts of Australia.
(Sample sizes are not quoted in the release but, from another report, it looks like the original survey was of 36,000 Australians aged 15 and over.)
The...
Source: myhealthycommunities.gov.au
Call for Britain to over-ride patents on Roche cancer drug: A group of patients and campaigners has called on Britain's health minister to over-ride patents protecting Roche's expensive breast cancer drug Kadcyla to allow for the import or manufacture of cut-price copies.
Source: reuters.com
How to “nudge” smokers to reduce tobacco use? - reduce the nicotine in cigarettes. Now@NEJM: Health problems due to smoking account for 6 million deaths annually and are the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite the dramatic reduction of smoking rates in the past 50 years in the U.S., nearly...
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Ready or Not, Here Comes ICD-10: By the Editors
Healthcare providers are required to use International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10 (ICD-10) diagnostic codes on Thursday. So now, when … NEJM Journal Watch.
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Car smoking ban comes into force - BBC News: A law banning smoking in vehicles where children are present comes into force in England and Wales.
Source: bbc.co.uk