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Key breast cancer breakthrough could save thousands of lives
Scientists have heralded a breast cancer breakthrough that will increase survival chances for tens of thousands of women.The Cancer Research UK testing was the largest global gene study of breast cancer tissue ever performed and has for the first time uncovered the exact triggers for the disease. Scientists have now been able to group tumours into 10 new ?types? based on the genetic changes that, between them, account for the vast majority of breast cancers.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...gh-could-save-thousands-of-lives-7660153.html
Washing up, cooking and cleaning can 'reduce Alzheimers risk even in those over 80'
Researchers asked 716 volunteers with an average age of 82 to wear a device that monitors day-to-day activity. Study participants were also given cognitive tests to measure memory and thinking ability. After around three years, 71 of the volunteers developed Alzheimer's disease. The research showed that the least active were more than twice as likely to develop the disease as those who were most active.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...uce-Alzheimers-risk-80.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Government laxity on flu led to more deaths, says report
The government's failure to launch a publicity campaign urging people to get a flu jab may have contributed to a rise in deaths in the year after the flu pandemic, according to the former chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson. In a new paper, Donaldson, who led the fight against the flu pandemic in 2009 but stepped down when the coalition took power in May 2010, says the change of government response was the key difference between the two years and criticises the "laissez-faire" attitude of Andrew Lansley's Department of Health.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/16/flu-deaths-government-failure?newsfeed=true
Consultation over language tests for foreign doctors
Doctors wanting to work for the NHS will have to prove they are fluent in English if proposals go ahead. The move comes after the case of Daniel Ubani, a German locum doctor who gave a 70-year-old patient a fatal painkiller overdose on his first and only shift in Britain in February 2008. Currently only doctors from outside the EU must take rigorous language tests. European laws make it illegal to systematically test EU doctors when they register.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17746069
Scientists have heralded a breast cancer breakthrough that will increase survival chances for tens of thousands of women.The Cancer Research UK testing was the largest global gene study of breast cancer tissue ever performed and has for the first time uncovered the exact triggers for the disease. Scientists have now been able to group tumours into 10 new ?types? based on the genetic changes that, between them, account for the vast majority of breast cancers.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...gh-could-save-thousands-of-lives-7660153.html
Washing up, cooking and cleaning can 'reduce Alzheimers risk even in those over 80'
Researchers asked 716 volunteers with an average age of 82 to wear a device that monitors day-to-day activity. Study participants were also given cognitive tests to measure memory and thinking ability. After around three years, 71 of the volunteers developed Alzheimer's disease. The research showed that the least active were more than twice as likely to develop the disease as those who were most active.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...uce-Alzheimers-risk-80.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Government laxity on flu led to more deaths, says report
The government's failure to launch a publicity campaign urging people to get a flu jab may have contributed to a rise in deaths in the year after the flu pandemic, according to the former chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson. In a new paper, Donaldson, who led the fight against the flu pandemic in 2009 but stepped down when the coalition took power in May 2010, says the change of government response was the key difference between the two years and criticises the "laissez-faire" attitude of Andrew Lansley's Department of Health.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/16/flu-deaths-government-failure?newsfeed=true
Consultation over language tests for foreign doctors
Doctors wanting to work for the NHS will have to prove they are fluent in English if proposals go ahead. The move comes after the case of Daniel Ubani, a German locum doctor who gave a 70-year-old patient a fatal painkiller overdose on his first and only shift in Britain in February 2008. Currently only doctors from outside the EU must take rigorous language tests. European laws make it illegal to systematically test EU doctors when they register.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17746069
