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| Hospitals should learn to say sorry more often when things go wrong, the health watchdog said today. The Healthcare Commission report revealed a rise in the number of concerns about complaint handling and communication. It said, ‘We would like to see more organisations and healthcare providers prepared to apologise when errors have been made’. | |
| Health | The Sentinel, 7th April 2008 |
| Doing too much exercise could worsen cancer, a study suggests. A U.S. study found that prostate tumours in mice grew more quickly when the animals were active. They speculate that exercise might increase the blood flow to tumours, thereby assisting in their growth. Researchers warn that humans may not respond the same way as animals. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 14th 2008 |
| Ministers should step in to stop the inapproriate prescribing of powerful anti-psychotic drugs to Alzheimer’s patients, a group of MP’s said today. Up to 105,000 people in the UK are wrongly being treated with the drugs, claims a report from the All Party Parliamentary Group. The medications have side effects which can accelerate mental decline. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 28th 2008 |
| Pioneering stem cell treatment could “turn the clock back” for heart attack victims by repairing damaged tissue, a doctor said last night. Two heart attack victims have already undergone the process, which involves taking a small amount of the patients bone marrow andinjecting it into their arteries within hours of the attack. The stem cells, taken from the lower back under local anaesthetic, are purified before being “infused” into the damaged area. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 24th 2008 |
| A common chemotherapy drug may inflict serious brain damage on cancer patients with effects that are felt years after treatment has ended, research in the Jounal of Biology suggests. Labatory tests showed that it destroys vital cells in the brain that help to keep the nerves in working order. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 22th 2008 |
| There is no evidence that taking antioxidants prolongs life and some may even be harmfuls research suggested today. A review of 67 studies involving more than 230,000 people found “no convincing evidence” that supplements increased life expectancy. Experts added that betacarotene, vitamin A and vitamin E seemed to increase morality. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 16th 2008 |
| Children who attend day care or playgroups have about a 30 per cent lower chance of developing leukaemia, research suggested today. A review of studies found that children who interact with other youngsters early in life are at lower risk of the most common type of childhood leukaemia. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 29th 2008 |
| A way to outfox the HIV Aids virus has been discovered that may avoid the problems of drug resistance which limit current treatments. Scientists working in the labatory were able to block the HIV infection. The new approach targets a protein produced by human cells rather than HIV, and is therefore impervious to the virus’s mutations. | |
| Health | The Sentinel April 29th 2008 |
| Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that, starting this week, they will be forced to cut monthly rations in Darfur because banditry agaainst WFP-contracted trucks is preventing sufficient stocks of vital food relief from getting through. This month, the cereal ration will be cut will be cut in half to 225 grams per person per day, pulses will be cut in half to 30 grams and sugar by half, to 15 grams. At this time of year, WFP-contracted trucks should be delivering 1,800 metric tons of food daily to Darfur to supply warehouses ahead of the rainy season, due to begin next month. But deliveries have dropped to less than 900 tons per day. In this year already, 60 WFP trucks have been hijacked, 39 are missing and 26 drivers unaccounted for – many presumed dead. | |
| Health | The Universe May 4th 2008 |
| As little as one cup of coffee a day could have a protective effect against Alzheimer’s disease. A daily dose of caffeine blocks the disruptive effects of high cholesterol that scientists have linked to the disease, a study base on research by scientists at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences has discovered. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - April 3rd 2008 |
| “Problem anger” is ignored in the UK yet is endemic in society, according to a report published today. Despite widespread concern about family breakdown and mental health problems, not enough is being done to intervene at an early stage, it said. The study was produced by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF), which defines problem anger as that which is held on to for too long or which produces inappropriate aggression. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 25th March 2008 |
| Thousands of people are not collecting prescriptions because they find them too costly, Citizens Advice said today. Many poorer people could be putting their health at risk because they find the charges too much. A poll estimated that as many as 800,000 people in England failed to collect a prescription last year due to the costs. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - February 27th 08 |
| A radical overhaul of the UK’s organ donation system is required to boost the number of people given transplant, a report will say today. Dedicated teams to retrieve organs 24 hours a day will speed up the process while the number of transplant co-ordinators should be doubled to around 200, it will say. A task force will set out 14 recommendations to the government which could see a 50% rise in organ donation in the UK within five years. But the controversial issue of presumed consent – which has the backing of Prime Minister Gordon Brown – will not form part of the recommendations from the Organ Donor Taskforce | |
| Health | The Sentinel – January 16th 2008 |
| Millions of adults have not seen an NHS dentist for 2 years because they cannot find a practice that will accept them. A survey found that 34% of people in England and Wales have not visited a dentist since April 2006 The lack of access to the NHS was the most commonly cited reason, mentioned by 31% of those who have not been to an NHS dentist since that time. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – January 16th 2008 |
| More than 17,000 people die unnecessarily every year due to poor NHS performance, a study suggested today. The figure was more than five times the number dying in road accidents in 2004. Researchers compared the UK with France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain for the TaxPayers’ alliance report. The looked at “mortality amenable to healthcare” – The number of deaths from certain conditions and at certain ages – that healthcare can reasonably be expected to avert. If the UK were to achieve the same level as the average of other European countries, there would have been 17,157 fewer deaths in 2004, the most recent year for which data is available. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – January 18th 2008 |
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