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| Three in four children diagnosed with leukaemia today will be cured of their disease experts believe. Leukaemia cure rates for children have increased from 25 per cent in the early 1970s to 68 per cent in the early 1990s. Scientists expect this figure to have risen to 73 per cent for children diagnosed recently. The success of treatment is defined as the point at which life expectancy returns to normal. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 2nd 2008 |
| A gene linked to obesity causes people to put on weight by keeping them hungry. Previous research had shown that the gene, known as FTO, was strongly associated with obesity. But it was not clear whether this was to do with appetite or burning calories. The new study of 3,337 children shows the gene’s effects are due to a lack of normal appetite control. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 28th 2008 |
| Anglo-Catholicism may be harmful to your health, a study published in the April 25 issue of the Journal of Clinical and Molecular Allergy reports. In a study of the health consequences of burning incense, researcher’s from the Department of Environmental Engineering at Taiwan’s National Cheung Kung University found that incense smoke contains pollutants that when inhaled, caused respiritory distress and allergic reactions. | |
| Health | The Church of England Newspaper - June 6th 2008 |
| Men who expect to die from prostate cancer have been offered hope by a drug which could represent the biggest step forward in treating the disease in 60 years. A preliminary trial has shown that Abiraterone can reverse even the most aggressive, resistant and deadly cancers. Doctors believe it could potentially prolong the lives of up to 10,000 British men each year, as well as providing relief from symptoms such as excruciating bone pain. Between 70 and 80 per cent of the seriously ill men treated with the drug have shown significant improvements. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 22nd 2008 |
| Some nurses lack basic training in treating heart disease, the UK’s biggest killer. More than one in four (28 per cent) are uncomfortable seeing patients with cardiovascular disease, while one in eight (14 per cent) have never had any basic training. The poll of more than 800 Primary Care nurses was carried out for journal Nursing In Practice. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 22nd 2008 |
| A fifth of children aged 11 to 13 are not fully protected against meningitis and may require a booster jab, researchers said today. A study found youngsters could be at risk of contracting the disease even if they have received the vaccine. In 1999/2000, the government ran a mass immunisation campaign aged one to 18. But experts have discovered that the youngsters who were aged six to eight when they were vaccinated were not sufficiently protected when they reached the ages of 11-13. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 6th 2008 |
| Twelve-year-old girls are being treated for sexually transmitted infections and doctors say binge drinking is to blame. They are among the 200 children diagnosed every month in Britain with sex-related diseases including ghonorrhoea and syphilis. A total of 627 under-18’s were treated last year at just one of the country’s leading sexual health clinics, St Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth. More than 100 of them were under 16 and in one case, a 12-year old girl was diagnosed with herpes – an incurable disease, which can cause fatal infections in babies born to mothers who have it. In 2006 2,282 under-16s were diagnosed with sex diseases, official figures show. | |
| Health | Youthwork - June 2008 |
| Doing excercise helps teenagers feel confident, according to a recent study from Manchester Metropolitan and Edinburgh. The five-year study revealed that teenagers’ physical self-worth decreased significantly between the ages of 11 to 16 in females but not males. It found that there was a sharp decline in physical activity for girls aged 11-15 but not for their male classmates. | |
| Health | Youthwork - June 2008 |
| Viagra may protect the hearts of muscular dystrophy patients, a study suggests. The anti-impotence drug was shown to reduce damage to the hearts of mice with a verion of the human disease. Scientists believe it could do the same for people afflicted with muscular dystrophy. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - May 13th 2008 |
| The number of cancer survivors in the UK has hit two million – a massive increase on previous estimates. Macmillan Cancer Support, which commissioned the study, said health trusts’ failure to provide resources for the long-term care of these patients was a “ticking time bomb”. Until now, health charities have quoted findings from the 1990s showing that the UK has 1.2 million people living with or after cancer. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 14th 2008 |
| The abortion figures published in June demonstrate that 196,600 able bodied babies were aborted in England and Wales in 2007. The total number of abortions for the year was 198,500, compared with 193,700 in 2006, a rise of 2.5%. Of those just 1% (1,900) were carried out because of a risk that the child would be born handicapped. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now - August 2008 |
| Women living in countries where abortion is restricted – including Northern Ireland – are using the internet to buy medication enabling them to perform an abortion at home, it emerged today. A medical study found more than one in 10 customers on one of the most well-known websites needed a surgical procedure after taking the medication. Women in more than 70 countries have used the site Women on Web to purchase the drugs for £55 a time. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 11th 2008 |
| Ikea has recalled a baby sleeping bag because of the risk a child could choke on the zip. Two customers who bought the Barnslig sleeping bag have said the zip bottom stop has detached from the zip during use. This means the zip slider could come off and present a choking hazard to small children although no injuries have been reported. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 24th 2008 |
| A new drug to kill off the fatal hospital bug MRSA is being tested by British scientists. Destiny Pharma believes its compound - codenamed XF-73 - could beat the bug. A study showed that, even after 55 exposures, MRSA did not develop resistance to the drug - which is applied as a gel into patients noses - as it does to antibiotics. | |
| Health | The Sentinel May 19th 2008 |
| We can get the vitamins and minerals out body needs by eating a balanced, varied and coloourful diet. There is one vitamin, however, that we can make ourselves, simply by carefully exposing our skin to sunlight. Vitamin D is made in the skin after interaction with UVB rays. It plays a vital role in building up bone density, as well as aiding the immune system and protecting the body against cancer and the development of diabetes. A Recent study at Harvard Medical School also added to the evidence that low vitamin D status is linked to an increased risk of heart disease | |
| Health | The War Cry 10th May 2008 |
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