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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Rat hairs, urine and arsenic have been found in counterfeit cosmetics. The substances were discovered during tests carried out by Staffordshire Country Council’s trading standards team. Now shoppers are being warned to beware when buying bargain make-up products online. The items tested included eye shadow, eyeliner; foundation and mascara purporting to be from top name brands. Among the other ingredients found in them were lead, mercury and bacteria. Experts say the substances could cause skin irritation or even serious damage to the body.
HealthThe Sentinel – 22nd May 2015
 
Women are half as likely to have taken regular exercise than men, according to research commissioned by commercial property advisor CBRE, Principal Partner of England Rugby’s All Schools Programme. The research of more than 2,000 UK adults, conducted by Opinion Matters in November 2014, shows that just one in six women (16.6%) say they have regularly exercised since childhood compared to one in three men (36.2%). On average, women who regularly exercise do so 48 times each year, just under once a week, while men who exercise do so 65 times a year on average....Recent research from Sport England found two million more men than women regularly exercise or play sport and that 75% of women would like to do more.
HealthInspire – June 2015
 
Generalised anxiety disorders affects around four per cent of the population, with a further ten per cent suffering from occasional panic attacks. In anxiety disorders, perhaps more than many other disorders, we see that the physical and the emotional are inextricably linked: anxiety presents in a very physical symptoms, including heart palpitations, shortness of breath and panic attacks, as well as the psychological symptoms such as rumination and hyper-vigilance.
HealthYouthwork – May 2015
 
Ground breaking research is taking place at north Staffordshire’s main hospital to try to find a way of diagnosing lung cancer quickly - by analysing patients’ breath. The research, if successful, could lead to the invention of a simple test, which would allow for a far earlier diagnosis of lung cancer - automatically improving prognosis.
HealthThe Sentinel - 4th February 2015
 
GPs in Belgium are deciding when their patients should die. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium for adults and ‘emancipated children’ experiencing ‘unbearable suffering’. A study suggests that Belgian GPs end patients’ lives without consent more often than with it.
HealthChristian Concern - 13th June 2015
 
A pro-life initiative has addressed the United Nations, calling for the medical establishment to discontinue the use of the term ‘incompatible with life’.
HealthThe Christian Institute - 10th April 2015
 
Over 100,000 people in the UK do not have access to adequate palliative care, a new report claims. Research conducted by the London School of Economics suggests that those most at risk include ethnic minorities, those living in poorer areas and those aged 85 or over.
HealthChristian Concern - 11th April 2015
 
The latest figures for assisted suicide in the US State of Oregon were recently released and reveal an alarming trend. Often held up by proponents of assisted suicide as the model which should be adopted in the UK, Oregon's statistics for 2014 reveal 105 people were helped to end their own lives – this is a 44% increase from 73 people in 2013. Eleven patients ended their lives in 2014 who had been prescribed their “medication” in 2012 or 2013, raising questions about the criteria in Oregon – the same advocated in the UK by Lord Falconer – which specify that patients should have been diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months.
HealthCARE Impact Direct - 27th February 2015
 
New research suggests that nearly one in five Dutch doctors (18%) would consider helping those who do not have any physical problems but are simply 'tired of living', to commit suicide. Disturbingly, 2 per cent of the GPs surveyed said they had already taken part in such euthanasia or assisted suicide. Euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalised in the Netherlands in 2002. The findings highlight the collapse in regard for the value of human life once such a law is passed.
HealthChristian Concern - 21st February 2015
 
In the 1960s only 1 in 4 children survived cancer, but today 3 in 4 children are now cured of the disease. But every day 10 children and teenagers in the UK are diagnosed with cancer.
HealthCancer Research UK Kids & Teens - 13th February 2015
 
NHS leaders have been criticised for investing £13.5 million in portable wards and theatre’s instead of permanent buildings at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
HealthThe Sentinel - February 10th 2015
 
Doctors who provide end-of-life support oppose assisted suicide and think palliative care would suffer if the practice was introduced, a new survey has shown. A survey of members of the Association for Palliative Medicine found that 82 per cent of respondents opposed Lord Falconer’s assisted suicide Bill. More than 70 per cent of practicing doctors responding to the questionnaire said there would be an “adverse” or “very adverse” impact on the delivery of palliative care if assisted suicide was legalised.
HealthChristian Institute
 
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has spoken out against a recent Court of Appeal judgement in a foetal alcohol syndrome case. Judges ruled that a child born with foetal alcohol syndrome is not legally entitled to compensation after her mother drank excessively while pregnant. The seven-year-old was born with severe brain damage and is now in care.
HealthChristianity - Feb 2015
 
The regulations for techniques to create three and four parent babies were published in late 2014, with MPs and Peers due to vote early in 2015 on allowing the two procedures, Maternal Spindle Transfer and Pro Nuclear Transfer. If legalised, the UK would become the only country in the world to permit the two techniques.
HealthEvangelicals Now - February 2015
 
Target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients could be lengthened. A NHS document leaked to the BBC includes plans to change the response time for those patients – with ‘serious but not the most life threatening’ conditions – from eight to 19 minutes in England. It said the plans had been backed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, subject to approval by ambulance trust bosses.
HealthThe Sentinel - 22 December 2014
 
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