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Teacher goes the extra mile
A Hemingbrough teacher is running a 10K race in York on Sunday to raise awareness of the serious, life-long condition her eight-year-old pupil Evie Cumberland has to manage every day. Helena Cliff, 27, decided to fundraise for Diabetes UK after being given the responsibility of looking after Evie on a school residential trip.
http://www.selbytimes.co.uk/sport/Teacher-goes-the-extra-mile.6444510.jp
Groundbreaking wireless sensor monitors diabetics' blood sugar from the INSIDE
Researchers have developed an implantable sensor that measures blood sugar continuously and transmits the information wirelessly. The round device has the potential to overhaul the way Britain's 2.5million diabetics control their disease. The sealed device, which would be implanted in a person's torso, has a pair of sensors. One sensor detects oxygen while the other studies the reaction of oxygen and glucose. This information is then transmitted wirelessly through an integrated antenna.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...d-sugar-sensor-monitors-diabetics-inside.html
Fears public health may be hit in shake-up of NHS
Responsibility for public health is to be handed to local authorities The overhaul of the NHS may harm the public health drive, experts fear. Under government plans, primary care trusts in England will be abolished and GPs given control of the budget. The shake-up will also mean public health is handed to councils, but the King's Fund health think tank said this could lead the NHS to turn its back on issues like smoking and drinking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10789911
NHS should use term fat instead of obese, says minister
Using 'fat' may encourage people to take more personal responsibility, says Anne Milton GPs and other health professionals should tell people they are fat rather than obese, England's public health minister says. Anne Milton told the BBC the term fat was more likely to motivate them into losing weight. She said it was important people should take "personal responsibility" for their lifestyles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10789553
Anti-smoking review is cancelled
Smoking will not now be banned in parks and cars, after a health minister said the coalition had decided to cancel a planned review of the legislation. Anne Milton, the public health minister, said there was no need for the review as existing legislation "is working". In March 20 senior doctors called for a sweeping extension to anti-smoking laws, urging the government to prohibit smoking in vehicles and public places visited by children like parks and playgrounds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7914684/Anti-smoking-review-is-cancelled.html
Midges favour tall men and overweight women, study finds
Fifteen per cent of people produce natural repellent and are rarely bitten, research shows. Tall men and large women are prime targets for midges, according to researchers who surveyed people at Loch Ness, in the Scottish Highlands. Scientists at Aberdeen University and Rothamsted Research, based in Hertfordshire, questioned 325 participants and spectators at a 120km (75ml) duathlon on the shores of the loch in September 2008. Each was asked if they had been bitten and, if so, how many times.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/28/midges-tall-men-overweight-women
A Hemingbrough teacher is running a 10K race in York on Sunday to raise awareness of the serious, life-long condition her eight-year-old pupil Evie Cumberland has to manage every day. Helena Cliff, 27, decided to fundraise for Diabetes UK after being given the responsibility of looking after Evie on a school residential trip.
http://www.selbytimes.co.uk/sport/Teacher-goes-the-extra-mile.6444510.jp
Groundbreaking wireless sensor monitors diabetics' blood sugar from the INSIDE
Researchers have developed an implantable sensor that measures blood sugar continuously and transmits the information wirelessly. The round device has the potential to overhaul the way Britain's 2.5million diabetics control their disease. The sealed device, which would be implanted in a person's torso, has a pair of sensors. One sensor detects oxygen while the other studies the reaction of oxygen and glucose. This information is then transmitted wirelessly through an integrated antenna.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...d-sugar-sensor-monitors-diabetics-inside.html
Fears public health may be hit in shake-up of NHS
Responsibility for public health is to be handed to local authorities The overhaul of the NHS may harm the public health drive, experts fear. Under government plans, primary care trusts in England will be abolished and GPs given control of the budget. The shake-up will also mean public health is handed to councils, but the King's Fund health think tank said this could lead the NHS to turn its back on issues like smoking and drinking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10789911
NHS should use term fat instead of obese, says minister
Using 'fat' may encourage people to take more personal responsibility, says Anne Milton GPs and other health professionals should tell people they are fat rather than obese, England's public health minister says. Anne Milton told the BBC the term fat was more likely to motivate them into losing weight. She said it was important people should take "personal responsibility" for their lifestyles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10789553
Anti-smoking review is cancelled
Smoking will not now be banned in parks and cars, after a health minister said the coalition had decided to cancel a planned review of the legislation. Anne Milton, the public health minister, said there was no need for the review as existing legislation "is working". In March 20 senior doctors called for a sweeping extension to anti-smoking laws, urging the government to prohibit smoking in vehicles and public places visited by children like parks and playgrounds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7914684/Anti-smoking-review-is-cancelled.html
Midges favour tall men and overweight women, study finds
Fifteen per cent of people produce natural repellent and are rarely bitten, research shows. Tall men and large women are prime targets for midges, according to researchers who surveyed people at Loch Ness, in the Scottish Highlands. Scientists at Aberdeen University and Rothamsted Research, based in Hertfordshire, questioned 325 participants and spectators at a 120km (75ml) duathlon on the shores of the loch in September 2008. Each was asked if they had been bitten and, if so, how many times.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/28/midges-tall-men-overweight-women