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| The cost of diagnosing and treating cancer patients may rise by two thirds over the next decade, a report has found. Healthcare analysts Laing & Buisson warned cancer survival rates in the UK could fall behind other developed nations because diagnosis and treatment costs are likely to increase from £9.4 billion in 2010 to £15.3 billion by 2021. It will mean the average cost of treating someone diagnosed with cancer will go from £30,000 in 2010 to almost £40,000 in 2021. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, December 12, 2011 |
| Does coffee prevent depression? Does it prevent churchgoing? The first question is considered by a team of researchers in the US, in a report Coffee, Caffeine, and Risk of Depression Among Women. They asked 50,739 female nurses about their coffee consumption, mental health, and other areas of their lives. They found that those who had at least one caffeinated coffee per day (or the equivalent) were 10% less likely to suffer from depression, and those who had more than five were 20% less likely. Decaffeinated coffee had no effect. | |
| Health | Third Way - December 2011 |
| Some health trusts are banning medicines approved for use on the NHS because they are too expensive. Drugs to treat conditions including cancer, heart disease, asthma, diabetes and epilepsy have been blacklisted, with GPs told not to prescribe them despite the medicines being approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) for NHS use. A freedom of information investigation by GP newspaper found one in four primary care trusts surveyed had blacklisted Nice drugs. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - November 24 2011 |
| NHS hospitals are to be banned from cutting costs by setting minimum waiting times and rationing certain treatments following a damning expose of ‘scandalous’ practices, the Government announced. An investigation earlier this year found waiting times were being deliberately extended in some areas so patients would go private or die before they were seen to slash costs. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said the cost-cutting methods would be banned from the end of March. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - November 14 2011 |
| A record high of 3,740 transplants were carried out in the UK last year. Organ Donor Register increased by four per cent last year to 17,751,795, demand still far outstrips supply. More than 10,000 people in the UK currently need a transplant. Of those, 1,000 each year will die waiting as there are not enough organs available. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 4th October 2011 |
| As many as 2,739 people in Stoke-on-Trent are now living with dementia, a new report has revealed. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 4th October 2011 |
| Last year the World Health Organisation forecast that “the world is heading for a post-antibiotic era”. In July this year a strain of gonorrhoea completely resistant to antibiotics was identified in Japan, with the warning that the infection could become a global threat. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, August 17, 2011 |
| On July 1, members of Russia’s lower house voted through a bill requiring abortion advertisements to carry health warnings. The warning will have to cover at least 10% of the total space of adverts for abortion clinics and services and will have to list the possible negative effects of an abortion to the mother. The upper house is expected to pass the measure and the President to sign it into law. Over a million abortions were carried out in Russia in 2008. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now September 2011 |
| On July 1, Polish MPs voted by 254-151 to outlaw abortion in all circumstances. Over 40 speakers spoke passionately in favour of the ban, labelling abortions the ‘modern day slaughter of the innocents’. The bill arose after a petition garnered 600,000 signatures in a fortnight. If the legislation goes through, abortion will no longer be allowed for serious disabilities or diseases, when the mother’s health is at risk or if she was raped. Meanwhile, Britain’s government has finally released the full details of abortion statistics after being forced to do so by the High Court. They reveal that last year seven babies were aborted merely for cleft lip and palate. Also, the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists is backing a proposal that women are offered independent pre-abortion counselling. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now September 2011 |
| The Department of Health is concerned that the growing number of doctors with pro-life views could restrict women’s access to abortion, it was reported in mid July. Research in the Journal of Medical Ethics found that over 45% of trainee doctors believe that they should have the right to opt out of any treatments which they disagree with for moral, cultural or religious reasons. Examples include prescribing contraception and treating alcoholics or drug addicts, but abortion tops the list. The study found that almost a third of students would not perform an abortion for a ‘congenitally malformed’ baby after 24 weeks and a quarter would not perform an abortion for failed contraception before 24 weeks. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists worries about the ‘slow but growing problem of trainees opting out of training in the termination of pregnancys. Current guidance by the General medical Council, which regulates doctors, advises doctors to refer a patient to a colleague if they object to a certain procedure or treatment. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now September 2011 |
| GPs are free to pray with their patients as long as they are receptive to the offer, it was reported in July. The Medical Defence Union’s new guidance quotes a senior figure at the General Medical Council (GMC) saying that a ‘tactful’ offer to pray could be appropriate. The GP magazine Pulse reports that the GMC is standing by the comments from Jane O’Brien, Assistant Director at the GMC. In a letter, she said: ‘Nothing in the GMC’s guidance, Personal Beliefs and Medical Practise, precludes doctors from praying with their patients. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now September 2011 |
| A universal flue vaccine that neutralises all strains of the virus has come a step closer with the discovery of a “super antibody” in a patient’s blood. In tests, the antibody disarmed both the main groups of influenza A viruses which cause a large proportion of seasonal flue outbreaks. Flue is difficult to control because it presents a shifting “target” to vaccines by mutating into new forms. Dr Steve Gambin said: “Our discovery may eventually help to develop a universal vaccine.” | |
| Health | The Sentinel July 29 2011 |
| According to the recent BBC documentary Secrets of the Superbrands, Apple products are capable of creating the same reactions in the brain as religious images – but only if you’re a big enough fan of Apple products. As part of the programme, UK neuro-scientists conducted an MRI scan on Apple fan Alex Brooks, the editor of World of Apple. When showing him pictures of Apple products, they found that the parts of his brain that were triggered were the same as those in religious people viewing religious images. Non-Apple products did not create the same reaction. | |
| Health | Third Way July/August 2011 |
| In 2010 there were 418,598 new STI diagnoses made in England, a decrease of one per cent from the previous year when 424,782 cases were diagnosed. | |
| Health | Health Protection Agency (HPA) June 2011 |
| New figures released by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show for the first time in more than a decade a small decrease in the total number of STIs diagnosed in 2010 in England, most notably in young people. | |
| Health | Health Protection Agency (HPA) June 2011 |
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