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Heart attack hospital deaths 'have nearly halved in a decade'
Hospitals in England have seen the annual number of emergency admissions for heart attacks among patients aged 35 to 74 drop by more than a quarter in a decade and the death rate nearly halve. Emergency admissions fell from 42,400 in 2000/01 to 30,600 in 2009/10, NHS Information Centre figures show. During the same period the death rate for within 30 days of an emergency admission for heart attack almost halved; dropping from one in 11 to one in 20.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-quarter-death-rate-nearly-halves-decade.html
This level of healthcare privatisation is shocking
Compassion is crucial to good care, but the health bill will make it all the rarer in our diminished NHS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/29/healthcare-privatisation-health-bill-nhs
NHS plc: Patients could have to pay for vital services, reveals damning report
The true dangers of David Cameron?s NHS reforms are revealed today in a damning report by health experts. It warns patients could have to pay charges for vital services and says the plans mark the end of the NHS as we know it. The warning came as the Government vowed to steamroll the Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament ? despite the massive opposition to plans to hand 80% of the NHS budget to groups of GPs. A detailed study of the Bill by leading experts says it could lead to these GP commissioning groups charging patients for some vital services which are free at the moment
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-plc-patients-could-have-to-pay-748013
Gastric bands at age of 14 in obesity crisis
Children as young as 14 are being offered gastric band surgery as a quick-fix way to lose weight, it was revealed yesterday.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/305272/Gastric-bands-at-age-of-14-in-obesity-crisis
Stroke victims at highest death risk
Stroke victims admitted to hospital in an emergency are four times more likely to die than those admitted following a heart attack, according to NHS figures.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9114878/Stroke-victims-at-highest-death-risk.html
New IVF method gives 40% more chance of success: Lab mimics conditions in the womb
Doctors have dramatically increased the success of IVF by creating laboratories which mimic conditions found inside the womb. The fertility experts have boosted a woman?s odds of pregnancy by up to 40 per cent simply by keeping lab conditions more similar to those inside a woman?s body.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...hance-success-Lab-mimics-conditions-womb.html
We've had bird flu and swine flu - now scientists have found BAT FLU (and it could pose a threat to humans)
Scientists have found evidence of flu in bats for the first time - and warn it could pose a threat to humans. U.S. health officials say they found genetic fragments of a never-before-seen virus in some Guatemalan bats. Flu bugs are common in humans, birds, pigs and a variety of other mammals, but this is the first time one has been documented in these winged mammals.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2108036/Bat-flu-scientists--pose-threat-humans.html
Yes, you CAN think yourself thinner: The mind exercises that can help you stay slim
Every year we spend millions on diets and gym membership, but obesity specialists increasingly believe the problem doesn?t lie in what we eat or how much exercise we take, but how we think. ?There is a non-stop communication between your mind and body, but the mind is the most important because it drives your behaviour,? says nutrition and exercise specialist Janet Thomson, author of Think More, Eat Less. She is convinced we become overweight as a result of confused messages from the brain sabotaging our attempts to slim.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2108360/Yes-CAN-think-thinner-.html
Oh dear, OAP talk ?is ageist?
NURSES should be banned from calling elderly patients "dear" because it is patronising and ageist, a report says today. And phrases like "How are we today dear?" should become as unacceptable as racist or sexist language. The Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People wants to ensure frail pensioners are treated properly in hospitals and care homes. But Tory MP Nadine Dorries, an ex-nurse, said the move was "politically correct nonsense".
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/4161097/Oh-dear-OAP-talk-is-ageist.html
Doctor, doctor, I've got this strange tattoo
Forget Angelina Jolie's shoulder-covering Buddhist incantation or David Beckham's Christ on the cross. The smart money is on a new kind of tattoo: the medical tat. Americans with severe allergies, or conditions such as diabetes, are ditching their "allergy bracelets" and turning to the indelible ink of the tattooist's pen to ensure that they aren't given drugs that trigger their allergy in an emergency.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ctor-ive-got-this-strange-tattoo-7466835.html
The six million dollar question
Forty years ago, the first bionic human featured in the hit US TV science-fiction series The Six Million Dollar Man. Today, he has become science fact. New technologies that "intervene" in the brain, building superhuman capabilities and enabling users to operate weapons or wheelchairs with the power of thought alone, are on the market or under development.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-six-million-dollar-question-7466988.html
Sleep quality 'improves with age'
The belief that older people tend to suffer worse sleep may be false - in fact the reverse may be true, according to US researchers. A telephone survey of more than 150,000 adults suggested that, apart from a blip in your 40s, sleep quality gets better with age. Those in their 80s reported the best sleep, says the study in Sleep journal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17209448
Change4life - Alcohol: The sobering facts
These are two of the most common and enduring myths associated with drinking ? and they?re both misleading. It pays to be clued up about what you?re putting into your body and the effect it may have, so here are some popular misconceptions about alcohol ? and the truth behind them...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/change4life/change4life---alcohol-the-sobering-facts-747716
25 simple steps to help prevent Alzheimer's
Alzheimer?s strikes fear in all of us. The thought of losing your mind as you grow older is terrifying and made worse by the fact that, before now, there appeared to be little we could do to slow down or avoid Alzheimer?s, the most common form of dementia. This week, Mirror columnist Fiona Phillips, 51, talked openly about her experience of Alzheimer?s after losing first her mother Amy and, earlier this month, her father Neville to the disease. She fears that, like her mother who was struck down in her late 50s, she too will start to develop symptoms in the next five years. Having witnessed Alzheimer?s first hand she knows how sufferers are stripped of self respect, leaving them incapable of performing even the most basic daily tasks.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/25-simple-steps-to-help-prevent-748327
Revealed: wonder ward of the NHS
Since 1740 the Royal London ? where Dr Barnardo was a medical *student and ?elephant man? Joseph Merrick was a patient ? has helped see London?s poorest through cholera, typhoid and the Blitz. But today the building is *virtually derelict.
Fortunately something far more uplifting is rising up behind the old Georgian premises. Two blue-clad towers ? one navy, the other aquamarine ? gleam proudly behind the original building. For the past 12 weeks more than 3,000 staff and patients from 110 wards and departments have been moving into this ?650million, 17-storey edifice which today officially opens its doors as Europe?s newest hospital.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/305338/Revealed-Wonder-ward-of-the-NHS
Hospitals in England have seen the annual number of emergency admissions for heart attacks among patients aged 35 to 74 drop by more than a quarter in a decade and the death rate nearly halve. Emergency admissions fell from 42,400 in 2000/01 to 30,600 in 2009/10, NHS Information Centre figures show. During the same period the death rate for within 30 days of an emergency admission for heart attack almost halved; dropping from one in 11 to one in 20.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-quarter-death-rate-nearly-halves-decade.html
This level of healthcare privatisation is shocking
Compassion is crucial to good care, but the health bill will make it all the rarer in our diminished NHS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/29/healthcare-privatisation-health-bill-nhs
NHS plc: Patients could have to pay for vital services, reveals damning report
The true dangers of David Cameron?s NHS reforms are revealed today in a damning report by health experts. It warns patients could have to pay charges for vital services and says the plans mark the end of the NHS as we know it. The warning came as the Government vowed to steamroll the Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament ? despite the massive opposition to plans to hand 80% of the NHS budget to groups of GPs. A detailed study of the Bill by leading experts says it could lead to these GP commissioning groups charging patients for some vital services which are free at the moment
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-plc-patients-could-have-to-pay-748013
Gastric bands at age of 14 in obesity crisis
Children as young as 14 are being offered gastric band surgery as a quick-fix way to lose weight, it was revealed yesterday.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/305272/Gastric-bands-at-age-of-14-in-obesity-crisis
Stroke victims at highest death risk
Stroke victims admitted to hospital in an emergency are four times more likely to die than those admitted following a heart attack, according to NHS figures.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9114878/Stroke-victims-at-highest-death-risk.html
New IVF method gives 40% more chance of success: Lab mimics conditions in the womb
Doctors have dramatically increased the success of IVF by creating laboratories which mimic conditions found inside the womb. The fertility experts have boosted a woman?s odds of pregnancy by up to 40 per cent simply by keeping lab conditions more similar to those inside a woman?s body.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...hance-success-Lab-mimics-conditions-womb.html
We've had bird flu and swine flu - now scientists have found BAT FLU (and it could pose a threat to humans)
Scientists have found evidence of flu in bats for the first time - and warn it could pose a threat to humans. U.S. health officials say they found genetic fragments of a never-before-seen virus in some Guatemalan bats. Flu bugs are common in humans, birds, pigs and a variety of other mammals, but this is the first time one has been documented in these winged mammals.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2108036/Bat-flu-scientists--pose-threat-humans.html
Yes, you CAN think yourself thinner: The mind exercises that can help you stay slim
Every year we spend millions on diets and gym membership, but obesity specialists increasingly believe the problem doesn?t lie in what we eat or how much exercise we take, but how we think. ?There is a non-stop communication between your mind and body, but the mind is the most important because it drives your behaviour,? says nutrition and exercise specialist Janet Thomson, author of Think More, Eat Less. She is convinced we become overweight as a result of confused messages from the brain sabotaging our attempts to slim.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2108360/Yes-CAN-think-thinner-.html
Oh dear, OAP talk ?is ageist?
NURSES should be banned from calling elderly patients "dear" because it is patronising and ageist, a report says today. And phrases like "How are we today dear?" should become as unacceptable as racist or sexist language. The Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People wants to ensure frail pensioners are treated properly in hospitals and care homes. But Tory MP Nadine Dorries, an ex-nurse, said the move was "politically correct nonsense".
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/4161097/Oh-dear-OAP-talk-is-ageist.html
Doctor, doctor, I've got this strange tattoo
Forget Angelina Jolie's shoulder-covering Buddhist incantation or David Beckham's Christ on the cross. The smart money is on a new kind of tattoo: the medical tat. Americans with severe allergies, or conditions such as diabetes, are ditching their "allergy bracelets" and turning to the indelible ink of the tattooist's pen to ensure that they aren't given drugs that trigger their allergy in an emergency.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ctor-ive-got-this-strange-tattoo-7466835.html
The six million dollar question
Forty years ago, the first bionic human featured in the hit US TV science-fiction series The Six Million Dollar Man. Today, he has become science fact. New technologies that "intervene" in the brain, building superhuman capabilities and enabling users to operate weapons or wheelchairs with the power of thought alone, are on the market or under development.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-six-million-dollar-question-7466988.html
Sleep quality 'improves with age'
The belief that older people tend to suffer worse sleep may be false - in fact the reverse may be true, according to US researchers. A telephone survey of more than 150,000 adults suggested that, apart from a blip in your 40s, sleep quality gets better with age. Those in their 80s reported the best sleep, says the study in Sleep journal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17209448
Change4life - Alcohol: The sobering facts
These are two of the most common and enduring myths associated with drinking ? and they?re both misleading. It pays to be clued up about what you?re putting into your body and the effect it may have, so here are some popular misconceptions about alcohol ? and the truth behind them...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/change4life/change4life---alcohol-the-sobering-facts-747716
25 simple steps to help prevent Alzheimer's
Alzheimer?s strikes fear in all of us. The thought of losing your mind as you grow older is terrifying and made worse by the fact that, before now, there appeared to be little we could do to slow down or avoid Alzheimer?s, the most common form of dementia. This week, Mirror columnist Fiona Phillips, 51, talked openly about her experience of Alzheimer?s after losing first her mother Amy and, earlier this month, her father Neville to the disease. She fears that, like her mother who was struck down in her late 50s, she too will start to develop symptoms in the next five years. Having witnessed Alzheimer?s first hand she knows how sufferers are stripped of self respect, leaving them incapable of performing even the most basic daily tasks.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/25-simple-steps-to-help-prevent-748327
Revealed: wonder ward of the NHS
Since 1740 the Royal London ? where Dr Barnardo was a medical *student and ?elephant man? Joseph Merrick was a patient ? has helped see London?s poorest through cholera, typhoid and the Blitz. But today the building is *virtually derelict.
Fortunately something far more uplifting is rising up behind the old Georgian premises. Two blue-clad towers ? one navy, the other aquamarine ? gleam proudly behind the original building. For the past 12 weeks more than 3,000 staff and patients from 110 wards and departments have been moving into this ?650million, 17-storey edifice which today officially opens its doors as Europe?s newest hospital.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/305338/Revealed-Wonder-ward-of-the-NHS