Drinking less in middle age can cut risk of dementia, says Nice: Health authority urges people to reduce alcohol intake,
Drinking less in middle age can cut risk of dementia, says Nice: Health authority urges people to reduce alcohol intake, stop smoking and eat more healthily when they hit 40 to avoid ill-health in later life
Source: theguardian.com
Updated OECD 2015 Health Data. U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health
Updated OECD 2015 Health Data. U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health in 13 Countries: Despite spending far more on health care than other high-income countries in 2013, Americans had comparatively poor health outcomes, including shorter life expectancy...
Source: commonwealthfund.org
‘This change will be the end of the Open University as we know it’: Staff are balloting for strike action as OU plans
‘This change will be the end of the Open University as we know it’: Staff are balloting for strike action as OU plans to close seven of nine regional centres in England amid competition from free online courses such as Moocs
Source: theguardian.com
Chiropractic and osteopathy – how do they work?: (Spoiler - they don't) If you have a bad back, you might see an osteopath
Chiropractic and osteopathy – how do they work?: (Spoiler - they don't) If you have a bad back, you might see an osteopath or chiropractor, but what’s the science behind their hands-on techniques?
Source: theguardian.com
Half of Britons believe weekend hospital admissions 'more dangerous': Amid junior doctor contract row, Observer/Opinium
Half of Britons believe weekend hospital admissions 'more dangerous': Amid junior doctor contract row, Observer/Opinium poll shows 35% of adults have delayed seeking medical help at weekend
Source: theguardian.com
Internet interventions interest informed melanoma patients: (HealthDay)—The melanoma patients receptive to an Internet-delivered
Internet interventions interest informed melanoma patients: (HealthDay)—The melanoma patients receptive to an Internet-delivered behavioral intervention to promote skin self-examination (SSE) and sun protection behaviors may already have higher knowledge of melanoma signs, according to a research letter...
Source: medicalxpress.com
Shadowing a junior doctor was a humbling tour of the NHS frontline | Heidi Alexander: When I speak at the rally opposing
Shadowing a junior doctor was a humbling tour of the NHS frontline | Heidi Alexander: When I speak at the rally opposing Jeremy Hunt’s pernicious new contract in London today, I know I’ll be on the right side
Source: theguardian.com
UK's oldest person breaks hip replacement record at 112: Gladys Hooper from Isle of Wight is understood to have eclipsed
UK's oldest person breaks hip replacement record at 112: Gladys Hooper from Isle of Wight is understood to have eclipsed previous record of John Randall, who had operation aged 102
Source: theguardian.com
Polio in Ukraine: nationwide vaccination campaign needs to start straight away: With two WHO-confirmed cases of polio in
Polio in Ukraine: nationwide vaccination campaign needs to start straight away: With two WHO-confirmed cases of polio in Ukraine in September, vaccinating the country’s 1.8 million children needs to start as soon as possible
Source: theguardian.com
Doctors ask Cabinet Office to investigate Jeremy Hunt's patient deaths comments: Medics say health secretary breached ministerial
Doctors ask Cabinet Office to investigate Jeremy Hunt's patient deaths comments: Medics say health secretary breached ministerial code of conduct with claim that 11,000 patients a year die after being admitted to hospital at weekends
Source: theguardian.com
Doctors Overlook Lucrative Procedures When Naming Unwise Treatments : In the "Choosing Wisely" campaign, medical specialty
Doctors Overlook Lucrative Procedures When Naming Unwise Treatments : In the "Choosing Wisely" campaign, medical specialty societies have published lists of procedures that doctors and patients should consider skeptically. But some groups overlooked their own dubious...
Source: khn.org
Computers match doctors in predicting patient discharges: A computer can do as good a job of predicting how many patients
Computers match doctors in predicting patient discharges: A computer can do as good a job of predicting how many patients will be discharged from a hospital unit on a given day as doctors and nurses can, according to new research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and...
Source: medicalxpress.com
Doctor who accessed lovers' medical records is suspended: A village GP who became romantically involved with two of her
Doctor who accessed lovers' medical records is suspended: A village GP who became romantically involved with two of her patients and even altered medical records has been suspended
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Edith Cavell: nurse, martyr, and spy? | Vanessa Heggie: 100 years ago today Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing
Edith Cavell: nurse, martyr, and spy? | Vanessa Heggie: 100 years ago today Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for smuggling Allied soldiers out of occupied Belgium. Vanessa Heggie explains how a nurse became a spy
Source: theguardian.com
Jeremy Hunt accused of suppressing evidence on benefits of 'sugar tax': Health select committee chair questioned whether
Jeremy Hunt accused of suppressing evidence on benefits of 'sugar tax': Health select committee chair questioned whether political pressure had been applied to Hunt to prevent the release of important documents
Source: theguardian.com
Low awareness of DVLA safe driving guidelines among hospital doctors: New research published today by JRSM Open concludes
Low awareness of DVLA safe driving guidelines among hospital doctors: New research published today by JRSM Open concludes that medically disqualified patients may wrongly assume themselves fit to drive on discharge from hospital because of inadequate knowledge among doctors of DVLA guidelines relating...
Source: medicalxpress.com
Four doctors respond to claims of self-entitlement over the right to strike: For junior doctors (up to the age of 35 on
Four doctors respond to claims of self-entitlement over the right to strike: For junior doctors (up to the age of 35 on average) the NHS is a single-monopoly employer. Australia offers three times the salary, lower living costs and, crucially, equivalent training to consultant level that is recognised...
Source: independent.co.uk
NHS workers from abroad: 'I don't think people here appreciate what they have': One in four doctors in the UK is now non-British,
NHS workers from abroad: 'I don't think people here appreciate what they have': One in four doctors in the UK is now non-British, and there are thousands more foreign-trained nurses. Do they feel welcome? And how does healthcare in Ghana or the Philippines compare?
Source: theguardian.com
U.S. cancer doctors drop pricey drugs with little or no effect: U.S. oncologists, aware that patients are paying more of
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,
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
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