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New vaccine to help protect babies against rotavirus

Posted on November 13th, 2012

A new vaccination programme, planned to begin in September 2013, will see children under 4 months vaccinated against the highly infectious rotavirus. Causing around 140,000 diarrhoea cases a year in the under-5s, rotavirus leads to hospital stays for nearly 1 in 10 (around 14,000) of those who get it in the UK. The oral vaccine, [...]

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Could illegal drug meth hold key to flu cure?

Posted on November 13th, 2012

The Daily Mail reports that scientists have found a “bizarre cure” for flu: the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth). Responsibly, the Mail makes it clear that the scientists, “did not recommend taking the drug in its current available form” but hope it could have the potential to provide a cure in the future. This news story [...]

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Pregnant women ‘take two months sick leave’

Posted on November 12th, 2012

The Daily Mail reports that pregnant women take ‘at least two months sick leave’ from work, but fails to mention that the study they report on looks at Norwegian women. In the study, the researchers asked women how much sick leave they had taken during pregnancy and took detailed pregnancy-related information, recent medical and mental [...]

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Complaints about the NHS up by 8%

Posted on November 12th, 2012

“Complaints about NHS not acknowledging mistakes ‘up by 50%’,” The Independent reports, while The Daily Telegraph says doctors have been “careless and insincere” while talking to patients. The papers have been covering the latest annual report on how the NHS handles complaints. The report was produced by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, an independent body. [...]

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A million friends to join the fight against dementia

Posted on November 8th, 2012

A trailblazing campaign will help a million people to make a difference to the lives of people with dementia and carers, Alzheimer’s Society announced today (Thursday 8 November). Dementia Friends, supported and funded by the government, aims to increase dementia awareness and change the way the nation thinks, talks and acts. The drive forms part [...]

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Virtual surgery for doctors

Posted on November 8th, 2012

The first virtual 3D surgical programme has been developed to train the doctors of the future in Scotland. Medical students, trainee doctors and clinicians are benefitting from the innovative programme which allows them to practice surgical techniques on 3D models and animations. It is the first of its kind in Scotland, and has been developed [...]

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Early-onset Alzheimer’s gene explored in teens

Posted on November 7th, 2012

A “dementia gene” has been found in a third of teenagers, “helping to predict the disease 20 years before devastating symptoms strike”, the Daily Mail claims. While, according to the Daily Express, the “dementia gene” is “found in nearly half of teenagers”. Both of these claims are inaccurate. The news is based on the results [...]

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Failings in diabetes care ‘cost thousands of lives’

Posted on November 7th, 2012

‘Diabetes care depressingly poor, say MPs’, is the headline on the BBC News website. This is the damning verdict of a parliamentary report into standards of diabetes care in the NHS. The Public Accounts Committee reported that (in the words of the Daily Mail), “24,000 with diabetes ‘are dying needlessly’”. The report was published by [...]

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Sickness Benefit Crackdown In £25m Trial

Posted on November 6th, 2012

Sickness benefit will be stripped from claimants who refuse to get treatment for their problems under a crackdown to be tested in a £25 million Government trial. Ministers want to extend the concept of “conditionality” used to force the jobless to seek work to welfare payments for those with health complaints as well. A series [...]

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Could exercise heal a broken heart?

Posted on November 6th, 2012

The Daily Telegraph reports that “vigorous daily exercise could repair damage caused by a heart attack”. It has long been known that the heart muscle can increase in size in response to regular exercise increasing its workload. This has been thought to just be due to the existing heart muscle cells getting bigger. However, this [...]

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