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Take better care of your health, Welsh NHS users are told
WALES has been told to stop relying on the NHS to treat illness caused by unhealthy lifestyle habits. Paul Williams, chief executive of the nation?s health service, gave his stark assessment during the Welsh NHS Confederation conference in Cardiff yesterday. Dai Williams, national director of Diabetes UK Cymru, quoted.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...alth-welsh-nhs-users-are-told-91466-27637860/
NHS 'must improve care of elderly surgery patients'Hospitals must improve their care of elderly patients undergoing surgery, an independent review has concluded. Pain management, nutrition and delays were all highlighted as problems by experts from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11728163
Bubbles 'could deliver stroke drugs directly to the brain'Bubbles could deliver a devastating blow to disease, scientists believe. Injected into the blood, tiny bubbles of gas can ease the passage of vital stroke drugs into the brain, helping prevent damage to the grey matter. Some years ago, scientists discovered by chance that 'microbubbles' of air in the blood made ultrasound images clearer and brighter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1328644/Bubbles-deliver-stroke-drugs-directly-brain.html
Stem cells bulk up muscle and stop them ageingResearchers have discovered that transplanting specially treated repair stem cells into damaged muscle makes them twice as big and strong ? and also stops them from ageing. The results have stunned scientists who still have no real clue as to why the muscles are so miraculously transformed but hope that discovering the mechanism could provide a treatment for muscle wasting in the elderly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ells-bulk-up-muscle-and-stop-them-ageing.html
Developing world warned of 'obesity epidemic'Developing countries should act now to head off their own "obesity epidemic", says a global policy group. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says obesity levels are rising fast. In a report in the Lancet medical journal, it says low-income countries cannot cope with the health consequences of wide scale obesity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11730091
WALES has been told to stop relying on the NHS to treat illness caused by unhealthy lifestyle habits. Paul Williams, chief executive of the nation?s health service, gave his stark assessment during the Welsh NHS Confederation conference in Cardiff yesterday. Dai Williams, national director of Diabetes UK Cymru, quoted.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...alth-welsh-nhs-users-are-told-91466-27637860/
NHS 'must improve care of elderly surgery patients'Hospitals must improve their care of elderly patients undergoing surgery, an independent review has concluded. Pain management, nutrition and delays were all highlighted as problems by experts from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11728163
Bubbles 'could deliver stroke drugs directly to the brain'Bubbles could deliver a devastating blow to disease, scientists believe. Injected into the blood, tiny bubbles of gas can ease the passage of vital stroke drugs into the brain, helping prevent damage to the grey matter. Some years ago, scientists discovered by chance that 'microbubbles' of air in the blood made ultrasound images clearer and brighter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1328644/Bubbles-deliver-stroke-drugs-directly-brain.html
Stem cells bulk up muscle and stop them ageingResearchers have discovered that transplanting specially treated repair stem cells into damaged muscle makes them twice as big and strong ? and also stops them from ageing. The results have stunned scientists who still have no real clue as to why the muscles are so miraculously transformed but hope that discovering the mechanism could provide a treatment for muscle wasting in the elderly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ells-bulk-up-muscle-and-stop-them-ageing.html
Developing world warned of 'obesity epidemic'Developing countries should act now to head off their own "obesity epidemic", says a global policy group. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says obesity levels are rising fast. In a report in the Lancet medical journal, it says low-income countries cannot cope with the health consequences of wide scale obesity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11730091