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Alzheimer’s Society to train all CQC staff in dementia awareness

Posted on May 7th, 2013

Staff at the body responsible for standards of care in care homes and hospitals will for the first time be trained in dementia awareness. A new partnership between Alzheimer’s Society and the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the regulator of health and care services in England will see experts from the charity train all of the [...]

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Use of e-cigarettes continues to rise among British adult smokers but use among young people is negligible

Posted on May 7th, 2013

Figures released by health campaigning charity ASH today show that use of electronic cigarettes by smokers and ex-smokers is continuing to rise but among young people it is negligible.  The survey findings have been submitted as evidence to a committee of the European Parliament which is meeting today to discuss electronic cigarettes. The key findings [...]

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New bird flu strain requires vigilance researchers warn

Posted on May 7th, 2013

Most of the UK media are reporting on a worrying new strain of bird flu in China – the H7N9 strain of the bird flu virus. According to the media, virology experts at a recent press conference warned that the virus “should not be taken lightly”. This warning was prompted by new genetic research into the disease [...]

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111 helpline is ‘struggling’, NHS board concedes

Posted on May 3rd, 2013

“NHS 111 helpline ‘failing to meet targets’,” says The Guardian, along with much of the media. The new health helpline, designed for people with urgent but non-life threatening health problems, has been criticised for failing to meet patient demand. Many patients have been unable to have their call answered quickly enough. It is reported that [...]

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Health groups press Prime Minister not to drop standard packs for cigarettes

Posted on May 3rd, 2013

After today’s report in The Sun that the Government has abandoned plans to bring in standard packaging for cigarettes and other tobacco products, members of the Smokefree Action Coalition have written to the Prime Minister to express their concern.  The health groups say that such a step would seriously undermine the Government’s credibility on public [...]

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In response to an article in The Sun today, ASH has issued the following statement

Posted on May 2nd, 2013

ASH comment on article in The Sun re dropping of standardised tobacco packaging from Queen’s speech Deborah Arnott Chief Executive of ASH said, “For a Whitehall source to say that improving public health and reducing premature mortality is no longer one of the Government’s key purposes is shocking. Smoking remains the major preventable cause of [...]

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Hormone drugs can cut breast cancer rates

Posted on May 2nd, 2013

“Hormone treatments can cut breast cancer rates in at-risk women by 38%,” reports the Daily Mirror. The news, covered by much of the media, is based on research into selective oestrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), a class of drug that binds to oestrogen receptors in breast cells and elsewhere. The study making today’s news suggests that [...]

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Does fish in Mediterranean diet combat memory loss?

Posted on May 2nd, 2013

The health benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet have hit the headlines, with The Daily Telegraph reporting we should, ‘Eat oily fish to prevent memory loss,’ while the Mail Online focuses on how oily fish can keep the memory ‘sharp’. These somewhat overenthusiastic headlines are based on a large study that looked at how eating habits similar to those seen in [...]

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Last Man Standing

Posted on May 1st, 2013

Extraordinary charity runner, Dean Godwyn, who is 31 and lives with spina bifida, arrives home in last place in the 2013 Virgin Active London Marathon after twelve hours on the move. Dean, who set out on his task to fundraise for Shine, the charity working to support everyone affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus is today resting [...]

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1st May Folic Acid Awareness Day

Posted on May 1st, 2013

  May 1st 2013 – Peterborough – A young international athlete has become ‘the body’ of the first national Folic Acid Awareness Day, in the hope that provocative images will help to encourage more women who should be taking folic acid to do so. Rower, James Fox (21), kindly volunteered his modelling services to help [...]

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