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NHS chaos warning as diabetes drug axed in shake-up
Thousands of diabetic patients face changing medication as a pharmaceutical giant plans to withdraw a key treatment from the UK, creating extra work for the NHS at a time when hundreds of jobs are *facing the axe. Doctors say the removal of insulin Mixtard 30, on which some sufferers have relied for more than a decade, would cause significant upheaval for patients and the health service. Bridget Turner, head of policy, quoted.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...g-as-diabetes-drug-axed-in-shake-up-1.1033734
Risk for babies born ONE WEEK early: Serious health problems more likely, warn British researchers
Babies born only a week early are at higher risk of a host of serious health problems from autism to deafness, research has shown. A study of hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren found that those born at 39 weeks are more likely to need extra help in the classroom than those delivered after a full 40 weeks in the womb. The findings are particularly worrying because one in five babies in England and Wales is born at 39 weeks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1285105/Babies-born-week-early-risk-health-problems.html
Smoking ban has dramatically slashed number of heart attacks
The number of heart attacks has fallen dramatically since the smoking ban came in, figures reveal. At least 1,200 heart attacks were prevented in England in the year after the ban's introduction, according to a report in the British Medical Journal. In the largest study of its kind, information on adult heart attack patients from the five years before the ban came into force in July 2007, was compared with data from the subsequent 14 months.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ramatically-slashes-number-heart-attacks.html
Being short 'raises heart risk'
Women shorter than 5ft appear to be at risk, say the researchers Short people are more likely to develop heart disease, researchers say. Being under 5ft 4in or 165.4cm if you are a man and below 5ft or 153cm if you are a woman poses a risk, they say. After analysing data on over 3m people, they found shorter adults were 1.5 times more likely to develop and die from heart disease than tall adults.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10256868.stm
Breast milk best because it 'kick-starts babies' immune system'
Breast-fed babies are better at fighting off infection than bottle-fed infants because their mothers milk kick-starts their immune system, scientists have discovered. Now researchers have found that the milk activates the body?s natural defences in a way that formula cannot. The milk triggers a reaction in the gut which helps to defeat infection. Thousands of heart attacks 'prevented by the smoking ban' It had long been known that breast-fed babies have a lower risk of developing a range of illnesses.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ause-it-kick-starts-babies-immune-system.html
Battle over Britain's healthcare
Just before he was announced last year as the new chief executive of health thinktank the King's Fund, Chris Ham, professor of health policy and management at Birmingham University, wrote an erudite critique of Conservative health policy in the British Medical Journal. The King's Fund has a reputation for being a cool, dispassionate observer of the politically charged world of healthcare, but Ham's razor-sharp commentary jolted. In the editorial, he said the Tories were taking "further and faster the [health] policies initiated under Tony Blair".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jun/09/chris-ham-kings-fund-nhs
Thousands of diabetic patients face changing medication as a pharmaceutical giant plans to withdraw a key treatment from the UK, creating extra work for the NHS at a time when hundreds of jobs are *facing the axe. Doctors say the removal of insulin Mixtard 30, on which some sufferers have relied for more than a decade, would cause significant upheaval for patients and the health service. Bridget Turner, head of policy, quoted.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...g-as-diabetes-drug-axed-in-shake-up-1.1033734
Risk for babies born ONE WEEK early: Serious health problems more likely, warn British researchers
Babies born only a week early are at higher risk of a host of serious health problems from autism to deafness, research has shown. A study of hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren found that those born at 39 weeks are more likely to need extra help in the classroom than those delivered after a full 40 weeks in the womb. The findings are particularly worrying because one in five babies in England and Wales is born at 39 weeks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1285105/Babies-born-week-early-risk-health-problems.html
Smoking ban has dramatically slashed number of heart attacks
The number of heart attacks has fallen dramatically since the smoking ban came in, figures reveal. At least 1,200 heart attacks were prevented in England in the year after the ban's introduction, according to a report in the British Medical Journal. In the largest study of its kind, information on adult heart attack patients from the five years before the ban came into force in July 2007, was compared with data from the subsequent 14 months.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ramatically-slashes-number-heart-attacks.html
Being short 'raises heart risk'
Women shorter than 5ft appear to be at risk, say the researchers Short people are more likely to develop heart disease, researchers say. Being under 5ft 4in or 165.4cm if you are a man and below 5ft or 153cm if you are a woman poses a risk, they say. After analysing data on over 3m people, they found shorter adults were 1.5 times more likely to develop and die from heart disease than tall adults.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10256868.stm
Breast milk best because it 'kick-starts babies' immune system'
Breast-fed babies are better at fighting off infection than bottle-fed infants because their mothers milk kick-starts their immune system, scientists have discovered. Now researchers have found that the milk activates the body?s natural defences in a way that formula cannot. The milk triggers a reaction in the gut which helps to defeat infection. Thousands of heart attacks 'prevented by the smoking ban' It had long been known that breast-fed babies have a lower risk of developing a range of illnesses.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ause-it-kick-starts-babies-immune-system.html
Battle over Britain's healthcare
Just before he was announced last year as the new chief executive of health thinktank the King's Fund, Chris Ham, professor of health policy and management at Birmingham University, wrote an erudite critique of Conservative health policy in the British Medical Journal. The King's Fund has a reputation for being a cool, dispassionate observer of the politically charged world of healthcare, but Ham's razor-sharp commentary jolted. In the editorial, he said the Tories were taking "further and faster the [health] policies initiated under Tony Blair".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jun/09/chris-ham-kings-fund-nhs