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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Half of Women and 43% of men in England now regularly take prescription drugs, a survey has shown. Cholesterol-lowering statins, pain relief and anti-depressants were among the most prescribed medicines. The Health Survey for England showed an average of 18.7% prescriptions per person in England in 2013. The cost to the NHS was more than £15 billion a year. More than a fifth of men and nearly a quarter of women are taking at least three prescriptions.
HealthThe Sentinel - December 11th 2014
 
Around two in every hundred of the UK’s over-75s are diagnosed with cancer each year. And this accounts for around a third of the nation’s new cancer cases each year. But because life expectancy in the UK is increasing, the number of older people living with cancer is growing. By 2020 there will be nearly two million people aged 65 and over alive following a diagnosis of cancer.
HealthCancer Research UK - 2nd January 2015
 
Lifestyle factors like smoking, too much unhealthy food, being overweight, alcohol, UV exposure and a lack of regular exercise have caused nearly 600,000 extra cases of cancer in the UK in the past five years.
HealthCancer Research UK - 2nd January 2015
 
Nearly 3,000 people have urged the Welsh Government to change medical guidelines, after a baby born less than two weeks before the legal abortion limit was left to die in hospital. Emma Jones’ son Riley was breathing independently for 93 minutes, but staff at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales refused to treat him because he was born at just 22 weeks and three days into the pregnancy. Now the Welsh Assembly’s Petitions Committee has considered Emma’s 2,759-signature call for guidance to ensure that babies born after 22 weeks and who show signs of life are given appropriate medical care.
HealthThe Christian Institute - 5th December 2014
 
Most doctors in Britain are still against legalising assisted suicide, a major new survey of nearly 9,000 doctors has found. Close to two thirds (62.5 per cent) of members of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) agreed that a change in the law is unnecessary, while 37.5 per cent disagreed, according to the survey. When asked what the RCP’s position on assisted suicide should be, fewer than one in four (24.6 per cent) said ‘in favour’ and 44 per cent said ‘opposed’, in this year’s survey.
HealthThe Christian Institute - 5th December 2014
 
Health and Social Care Services in South Cheshire have received more than £1 Million pounds extra from the Government to help cope with the coming winter when people are more likely to fall ill. The £1,077,000 has been handed to the area’s clinical commissioning group (CCG) to provide patients with additional support.
HealthThe Sentinel - November 6th 2014
 
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has already called for e-cigarette use to be banned in public places and workplaces because they could increase the levels of some toxins and nicotine in the air. It also warned about the risk of e-cigarettes acting as a gateway for non-smokers to start smoking real cigarettes.
HealthThe Sentinel, October 1, 2014
 
The wife of a man suffering after a stroke was shocked when council officials told her to consider leaving her husband, after she turned to them for support.
HealthChristian Institute - 31st October 2014
 
The NHS drugs watchdog in England has rejected a treatment that can extend the lives of some women with an advanced form of breast cancer because it is too expensive
HealthCare Not Killing - August 2014
 
Two thirds of people over 50 are scared of developing dementia, while just one in 10 were frightened about getting cancer
HealthCare Not Killing - August 2014
 
Barts Charity, the country's third largest NHS charity, has become the first to be granted independence from the regulation of the Health Secretary, under new rules approved last year.
HealthCivil Society News - 4th August 2014
 
Macmillan Cancer Support raised £186.9m in 2013 - an increase of £34.1m on the previous year, according to the charity's latest annual report.
HealthCivil Society News - 31st July 2014
 
Half of hospices in England have had their statutory funding from the NHS either cut or frozen this year, a survey by Help the Hospices shows.
HealthCivil Society News - 31st July 2014
 
CARE’s latest opinion poll also found that 12% would switch from support of assisted suicide to opposition when presented with the fact that the major disability rights groups oppose a change in the law. Furthermore, support for the law change drops by 10% when it is revealed that the majority of doctors oppose it.
HealthCARE - 18th July 2014
 
When the Death With Dignity Act first passed in Oregon in 1997, just over 13% of patients chose assisted suicide under the Act because of concerns about being a burden to others. In 2013 over 49% of patients in the State chose assisted suicide because they feared they might become a burden.
HealthCARE - 18th July 2014
 
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