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Thinking about your mortality could help your marriage, according to a study, because an awareness of death makes people value their relationships. Researchers found that awareness of death can reduce divorce rates, and suggested that contemplating death could make people more positive, and less aggressive or selfish. A review of studies into mortality found that catastrophic events, such as the September 11 attacks, could have positive effects. Other studies found that thinking about death influenced people to exercise more or cut down on smoking. The research was published in Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Health	The Daily Telegraph May 2 2012



GPs are being put under pressure to reduce the number of patients they refer to hospital in order to save money, a survey has suggested. Research by GP magazine has found hat more than half of GPs had experienced "inappropriate demands" from local NHS managers to send fewer patients to hospital. The NHS is struggling to save £20 bil¬lion in order to cope with more modest increases in funding than in previous years, at a time when the demand for health care is rising. The doctors spoken to in the survey described a "constant pressure to justify referrals and admis¬sions, and pressure to avoid them".
Health	The Daily Telegraph May 2 2012



Family doctors are giving out almost two million prescriptions a year contain¬ing potentially life-threatening errors, the General Medical Council warns today. One in five patients is receiving drugs from GPs with mistakes including wrong dosage, incorrect instructions or inadequate monitoring, the doctors' regulator finds. Most of the serious errors related to the blood-thinning drug warfarin, which researchers said could have "catastrophic" consequences if not properly monitored. Elderly people and young children are twice as likely to be given a prescription with an error, the GMC study into prescribing errors shows. The study found evidence that GPs are signing prescrip¬tions without seeing patients, issuing repeat prescriptions without questions and failing to adjust drug dosages follow¬ing new tests.
Health	The Daily Telegraph May 2 2012



With the UK Government expected to launch its public consultation on plain packaging of tobacco products tomorrow, UK residents overwhelmingly believe a ban on branded packs would increase the black market for cigarettes. That’s according to the results of a new independent poll of people living in and around the UK’s major cities. Additionally, another piece of research, consisting of a behavioural experiment involving 3000 UK residents, released by London Economics, shows that plain packaging would result in consumer preferences shifting from premium to cheaper products, making cigarettes more affordable.
Health	Media Intelligence Partners - 15 April 2012



Deaths from liver disease in England have jumped 25 per cent with alcohol the major cause, men the biggest victims and fatalities more prevalent in the North, new statistics have revealed. The figures are certain to fuel further debate on how to tackle the problem of binge drinking. The National End of Life Care Intelligence Network report said the vast majority of the deaths were people under 70, with more victims in their 40’s. But obesity, hepatitis C and hepatitis B have also increased the total liver disease deaths between 2001 and 2009.
Health	The Sentinel – 22nd March 2012



Eight out of 10 EU doctors working as GPs in the NHS have never had their language skills tested despite being ordered to by ministers. NHS managers were told to tighten up the assessment of foreign doctors following the Daniel Ubani case. The German doctor killed a pensioner with an accidental overdose of morphine on his first shift in Cambridgeshire. Pulse magazine has found that 83 per cent of EU doctors on the so-called performers lists held by trusts, which allow them to work as GPs, had not been assessed.
Health	The Daily Telegraph - March 28 2012



Thousands of nursing posts have been shed in the NHS as the health service struggles to make savings. Official figures show there are now almost 3,500 fewer nurses working in the service than in 2010 and the number of managers has also dropped, the NHS workforce census has shown. Overall, the workforce declined by 19,799 to reach 1,350,377 at the end of September last year, a decrease of 1.4 per cent on the same time in 2010. It is the biggest fall in staff figures for a decade and comes as the NHS is making £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014-15. Critics said the figures provided proof that, despite reassurances, front-line NHS jobs were not being protected, and there were calls for the cuts to stop.
Health	Daily Telegraph - March 22 2012



Homeopathic potions do not work and it is unethical to give them on the NHS, a leading scientist has claimed. Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine, also described the logic behind homeopathy as bizarre and accused homeopaths of lying to their patients. The NHS spends around £4million a year on homeopathy, despite calls from the British Medical Association for the funding to end. The discipline - which has won the backing of Prince Charles - claims to prevent and treat diseases by using dilute forms of materials that in higher concentrations could produce the symptoms of the condition. A typical remedy could have one part of an ingredient to one trillion, trillion parts of water. Although scientists argue the potions are so dilute they are unlikely to contain any of the original substance, homeopaths claim the water retains a 'memory' of the active ingredient, which it passes to the body to help fight the illness. But Professor Ernst said that even if an ultra-dilute homeopathic solution was somehow different from pure water, this would not make it an effective drug. Professor Ernst, a former homeopath who now researches complementary medicine at Exeter University, said the treatments could be dangerous if people chose them over conventional medicines with proven benefits.
Health	Daily Mail - March 19 2012



People whose minds wander might actually have sharper brains. A study shows that those who appear to be constantly distracted actually have more 'working memory', giving them the ability to do two things at the same time. The results of the research, published online in Psychological Science, are the first to show the association with mind wander¬ing and intelligence.
Health	Daily Mail - March 17 2012



The Governments plans for the reform of the NHS came under fresh attack yesterday from one of the GP groups pioneering the move to local commissioning. The tower Hamlet’s Clinical Commission Group wrote to David Cameron, urging him to ditch the Death and Social Care Bill and echoing the concerns raised by professional bodies including the British Medical Association. The group is the first CCG to go public with a call for the Bill to be scrapped.
Health	The Sentinel – 29th February 2012



Heath Secretary Andrew Lansley’s controversial NHS Reforms have suffered another blow after a former chief executive of the service branded the plans “a mess”. With the Health and Social Care Bill set to resume it’s troubled passage in the Lord’s today, Lord Crisp said the legislation was “unnecessary, confused and confusing”. Meanwhile, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) was preparing for an emergency general meeting which could see it ballot it’s members on whether to join other royal colleges in calling for the bill to be dropped.
Health	The Sentinel – 27th February 2012



A large-scale review of NHS data has uncovered further evidence that people are more likely to die if they are admitted to hospital at weekends. Patients are 16 per cent more likely to die if they are admitted on a Sunday than a Wednesday, and 11 per cent more likely to die if they are admitted on a Saturday. For every 100 deaths following admissions on a Wednesday, 116 occur for admissions on a Sunday – a “significant increased risk”, the researchers said.
Health	The Sentinel - February 3, 2012



Research published in Norway suggests that there could be a link between church attendance and low blood pressure. Torgeir Sørenson of the School of Theology and Religious Psychology Centre which carried out a study of 120,000 Norwegians, 4 per cent of whom were churchgoers, said: ‘We found that the more often the participants went to church, the lower their blood pressure.’
Health	Salvationist, 14 January 2012



At least one in four patients would be better-off being treated at home under community-based services, independent NHS representatives said today. Mike Farrar, head of the NHS Confederation, believes 2012 will be a key year for the service as it attempts to find £20 billion in efficiencies by 2015. He said: “Hospitals play a vital role but we do rely on them for some services which could be provided elsewhere.
Health	The Sentinel, December 29, 2011



A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in November shows a drop in national birth rates in the US for the third year. The declines were seen in most age groups and for all races, and rates for teens and women in their early 20s were the lowest since record-keeping began in the 1940s. There were four million births last year; rates have been dropping since an all-time high in 2007.
Health	Evangelicals Now, January 2012

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