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| Women who have just one alcoholic drink each day are increasing their risk of cancer, according to a new study. Consuming just one drink a day causes an extra 7,000 cancer cases in women in the UK each year, researchers found. Around 5,000 of these cases are related to breast cancer but others are cancers of the rectum, liver, mouth and throat. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 25th February 2009 |
| A drug targeting genetic flaws in blood cancer cells was launched in the UK today, the first medicine to treat the cause of the disease. Vidaza, generic name azacitidine, can be used to treat sufferers of high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) or acute myeloid leukaemia. It targets genetic faults in the cells which cause the cancer, and can help the body to produce healthy blood cells. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 2nd March 2009 |
| Firefighters are being asked to help lift fat patients at least once a week on average, a fire chief said today. David Johnson head of Essex fire service, said crews were called to help paramedics move obese people 86 times in 2008. He said the problem Indicated a “wider” social issue and highlighted the “broadening” of the fire service’s role. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 13th March 2009 |
| Care for people with learning disabilities came under fire today in a report that found a litany of “significant and distressing failures” across the NHS and councils. One man died as a result of failings in his care and it is likely that a second man’s death could have been avoided, the Health Service and Local Government Omsbudmen ruled. Patients with learning difficulties were treated less favourably than others. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - March 24th 2009 |
| Cancer patients in England can now apply for free prescriptions. Charges for cancer patients will be scrapped from April 1st but patients can apply from now on. Today’s announcement means the abolition of charges for everyone under-going treatment for cancer, the effects of cancer or the effects of cancer treatment. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 20th January 2009 |
| A call to double the number of people on the organ donor register to 16 million has been achieved a year early, figures out today show. More than one in four (26 per cent) people in the UK have now pledged to donate their organs after death, according to NHS Blood and Transport (NHSBT). In 2001, former Health` Secretary Alan Milburn urged people to sign up to double the number from eight million then to 16 million by 2010. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 22nd January 2009 |
| One in three GP’s would refuse to work in a surgery that offered abortions, a new poll has suggested. Almost half (49%) of 480 doctors questioned also called for a cut in the current 24-week time limit for an abortion, with 11% wanting it to be lowered to 15 weeks or under. A total of 48% thought the 24-week limit should remain, while 3% believed it should be increased to 26 weeks or more. More than half (56%) of the GPs questioned by GP Newspaper said offering abortions in surgeries or polyclinics would lead to more women having the procedure. | |
| Health | The Universe - 15th February 15th 2009 |
| The birth control pill is causing “devastating” environmental damage and plays a role in rising male infertility rates, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has stated. “We have sufficient evidence to argue that one of the considerable factors contributing to male infertility in the west – with its ever decreasing numbers of spermatozoa in men – is environmental pollution caused by the by-products of the pill” released in human waste, the article said. | |
| Health | The Universe - 11th January 2009 |
| Scientists are one step closer to curing nut allergies following the success of a clinical trial, they said today. Experts gave small daily doses of peanut flour to children with severe peanut allergies to help them build tolerance to the nuts. By the end of the trial, the children could eat up to 12 nuts a day without suffering a life-threatening reaction in the form of anaphylaxis. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 20th February 2009 |
| The number of measles cases jumped more than a third in 2008, figures showed today. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) revealed there were 1,348 cases in 2008 in England and Wales – a 36 per cent rise on the 990 in 2007. The rise has been blamed on a slump in the uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab after fears about its safety. The number of children receiving both doses of MMR by their fifth birthday is 77.9 per cent. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – 6th February 2009 |
| Cosmetic surgery has avoided the economic downturn - with more people than ever in the UK choosing to go under the knife. More than 30,000 procedures were carried out last year - up five per cent from 2007 - with breast operations soaring. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 26th January 2009 |
| Consumers are being misled into believing ‘detox’ products actually work despite a lack of scientific evidence. The study, compiled by Voice of Young Science (VoYS), found manufactures were unable to provide reliable evidence of what the “detox” process actually means. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - January 5th, 2009 |
| The Government is still failing NHS patients when it comes to mixed-sex accommodation, the Conservatives said today. One in seven hospital trusts also still used large dormitory-style wards to look after men and women. Shadow health secretary, Andrew Lansley, said: “Patients have enough to worry about without mixed wards.” | |
| Health | The Sentinel - January 9th, 2009 |
| Ministers are to press ahead with moves to force cigarette sales “under the counter”, Health Secretary Alan Johnson will signal today. A ban on displays of tobacco products was reported to have caused a row within the Cabinet, with Business Secretary Peter Mandelson arguing it would affect recession-hit shops. But Mr Johnson will say no shops have been forced to shut by similar policies abroad, where underage smoking has been cut by up to a tenth. | |
| Health | The Sentinel December 9th, 2008 |
| Health Secretary Alan Johnson ordered an inquiry today into why many people still do not have access to an NHS dentist despite billions of pounds of investment. The move follows continued criticism that the number of people seen by NHS dentists has fallen steeply since a controversial overhaul of services. Some 1.2 million fewer patients visited dentists in the two years to June than in the period before new the contracts. | |
| Health | The Sentinel December 12th, 2008 |
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