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Baroness Young: 'It's good to return to a job where anything's possible'
The chief executive of Diabetes UK says a less than fond goodbye to a decade in the public sector. Ambitious leaders seem to move with increasing ease between the public and voluntary sectors nowadays, but Baroness Barbara Young, who has great experience of both, says she is very happy to be back in charge of a charity.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/A...Young-Its-good-return-job-anythings-possible/
NHS shakeup could set patients against their GPs, warns report
The biggest shakeup of the NHS since its creation could turn patients against GPs because doctors are likely to start receiving "unpalatable" cash bonuses, an influential health thinktank warns today. Giving income incentives to GPs, whose average salary is already ?105,300, runs the risk of a backlash from patients, who may perceive that money meant for healthcare is enriching doctors at the expense of the treatment that sick people need, according to the Nuffield Trust.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/19/nhs-shakeup-patients-gps-report
Male subfertility helped by antioxidants says research
Antioxidants may help improve male fertility, early research suggests. A review of existing data found, compared with controls, a couple was more likely to have a pregnancy or live birth if the man took certain vitamins or other antioxidants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12215496
Malaria risk warning to last-minute holidaymakers
Travel websites offering late deals to destinations where malaria is a risk should carry clear warnings, say experts. The call comes from doctors who had to treat three patients in a week, all of them UK citizens who had returned from "winter sun" holidays to The Gambia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12216682
Not enough evidence for statins in people at low risk of heart disease
Healthy people at low risk of heart disease should not take statins, researchers have found.
The review says that while the cholesterol-lowering drugs have well established benefits for people with - or at high risk of - heart disease, there is not enough evidence that statins prevent heart disease in people at low risk.
http://www.bhf.org.uk/media/news-from-the-bhf/statins.aspx
The chief executive of Diabetes UK says a less than fond goodbye to a decade in the public sector. Ambitious leaders seem to move with increasing ease between the public and voluntary sectors nowadays, but Baroness Barbara Young, who has great experience of both, says she is very happy to be back in charge of a charity.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/A...Young-Its-good-return-job-anythings-possible/
NHS shakeup could set patients against their GPs, warns report
The biggest shakeup of the NHS since its creation could turn patients against GPs because doctors are likely to start receiving "unpalatable" cash bonuses, an influential health thinktank warns today. Giving income incentives to GPs, whose average salary is already ?105,300, runs the risk of a backlash from patients, who may perceive that money meant for healthcare is enriching doctors at the expense of the treatment that sick people need, according to the Nuffield Trust.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/19/nhs-shakeup-patients-gps-report
Male subfertility helped by antioxidants says research
Antioxidants may help improve male fertility, early research suggests. A review of existing data found, compared with controls, a couple was more likely to have a pregnancy or live birth if the man took certain vitamins or other antioxidants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12215496
Malaria risk warning to last-minute holidaymakers
Travel websites offering late deals to destinations where malaria is a risk should carry clear warnings, say experts. The call comes from doctors who had to treat three patients in a week, all of them UK citizens who had returned from "winter sun" holidays to The Gambia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12216682
Not enough evidence for statins in people at low risk of heart disease
Healthy people at low risk of heart disease should not take statins, researchers have found.
The review says that while the cholesterol-lowering drugs have well established benefits for people with - or at high risk of - heart disease, there is not enough evidence that statins prevent heart disease in people at low risk.
http://www.bhf.org.uk/media/news-from-the-bhf/statins.aspx
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