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NHS accused of bias against private sector
Evidence is emerging that some health managers are rebelling against plans to create greater competition in the NHS. The BBC has learnt that many English trusts are introducing steps that make it harder for patients to opt to have NHS care done by private hospitals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12862528
Death rates 'higher' among young adults than children
Premature deaths are now more likely to occur in adolescence and early adulthood than in childhood, a new global report claims. The study in The Lancet looked at data from 50 countries - rich, middle-income and poor - over 50 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885241
Doctors cause a third of stubborn high blood pressure
A third of hard-to-treat high blood pressure may actually be 'fake' and instead a patient's nervous response to being seen by a doctor, say experts. They made the discovery when they continuously monitored the blood pressure of nearly 700,000 people as they went about their normal lives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12880560
Scared of heights? Take this pill
Scientists have discovered that giving people a tablet of the stress hormone cortisol can help reduce their phobia. The hormone, which is part of the body's "fight or flight" reaction to danger, appears to open the brain up to being reprogrammed and to permanently remove anxieties.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8411753/Scared-of-heights-Take-this-pill.html
Evidence is emerging that some health managers are rebelling against plans to create greater competition in the NHS. The BBC has learnt that many English trusts are introducing steps that make it harder for patients to opt to have NHS care done by private hospitals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12862528
Death rates 'higher' among young adults than children
Premature deaths are now more likely to occur in adolescence and early adulthood than in childhood, a new global report claims. The study in The Lancet looked at data from 50 countries - rich, middle-income and poor - over 50 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885241
Doctors cause a third of stubborn high blood pressure
A third of hard-to-treat high blood pressure may actually be 'fake' and instead a patient's nervous response to being seen by a doctor, say experts. They made the discovery when they continuously monitored the blood pressure of nearly 700,000 people as they went about their normal lives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12880560
Scared of heights? Take this pill
Scientists have discovered that giving people a tablet of the stress hormone cortisol can help reduce their phobia. The hormone, which is part of the body's "fight or flight" reaction to danger, appears to open the brain up to being reprogrammed and to permanently remove anxieties.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8411753/Scared-of-heights-Take-this-pill.html