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Diet high in processed meat ‘threatens health’

Posted on March 11th, 2013

The big health news of the week is the claim that eating a diet high in processed meat can increase the risk of premature death due to cancer and heart disease.  The current media scare stems from a large Europe-wide study looking at diet and mortality, involving just under half a million people who were [...]

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Rise in nursing students

Posted on February 26th, 2013

The number of student nurses and midwives entering degree programmes funded by the Scottish Government is to increase by 100 this year. It is the first time the student intake has increased since 2009, and Health Secretary Alex Neil has announced that the number of students starting nursing and midwifery places from October this year [...]

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Plastic plates and kidney stones claim ‘overcooked’

Posted on January 24th, 2013

“Eating hot food off plastic plates can increase the risk of kidney stones”, is the excitable and frankly inaccurate headline in the Daily Mail. The scare-story actually comes from a small study involving just 12 people. They were split into two groups of six: one group ate hot noodle soup from ceramic bowls the second [...]

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IVF pregnancies ‘increase blood clot risk’ in mothers

Posted on January 17th, 2013

“A new study has found that women who undergo IVF have a higher risk of experiencing blood clots and pulmonary embolism while they are pregnant,” ITV News has reported. These findings come from a Swedish study that looked at over 20,000 women who gave birth after conceiving through IVF, and compared them to over 100,000 [...]

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Secondhand smoke linked to dementia

Posted on January 14th, 2013

“Passive smoking can dramatically increase the risk of developing severe dementia,” is the Daily Mail’s headline. The newspaper reports that a study has been the first to show a significant link between exposure to secondhand smoke and dementia. This news is based on a large Chinese study that looked at the “mental state” of over-60s and their [...]

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Childless couples who wanted kids ‘die younger’

Posted on December 7th, 2012

Childlessness “may increase likelihood of early death” BBC News has reported. The story is based on a study of more than 21,000 Danish couples seeking IVF treatment. Researchers found that women who did not go on to have a child were four times as likely to die early compared with those who did have a [...]

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Care services not prepared for increase of people with dementia

Posted on November 26th, 2012

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today (23 November) published its ‘State of Care’ report. It examines all care sectors for the first time and explores why some care services are failing to meet CQC standards. The report notes a growing demand for nursing care within social care settings. This is due to the increasing [...]

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Criticism as parking fees at NHS hospitals increase

Posted on March 19th, 2012

New figures have revealed that car parking charges for patients and visitors have risen at more than a quarter of hospital trusts in England over the last year. Data from 197 hospital and mental health trusts revealed in some cases that charges have more than doubled. There have been reductions too but the Patients Association [...]

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Whooping cough cases increase

Posted on January 9th, 2012

Cases highlight importance of vaccine uptake and awareness of signs and symptoms Cases of whooping cough reported to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in England and Wales have more than doubled from 421 cases in 2010 to 1040* in 2011. Increases in levels of whooping cough are seen every three to four years and figures [...]

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Angina treatment ‘increases heart attack severity’

Posted on November 4th, 2011

Dosing up heart disease patients with nitroglycerin, routinely used to widen blood vessels, could end up damaging the organ, according to American scientists. The Stanford University team found that rats dosed with it for 16 hours sustained twice the muscle damage when they had heart attacks, compared to those spared nitroglycerin. Source The Telegraph – [...]

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