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An article in the September edition of the highly respected scientific journal Nature has highlighted the risks associated with mitochondrial replacement therapy. The UK Government approved the technique earlier this year, which allows babies to be born using genetic material from two women. However, the Nature article examines ‘a growing body of research’ which shows that the changes to DNA are linked with conditions such as ‘neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and ageing’. | |
Health | Evangelicals Now - November 2015 |
More than 8,000 serious incidents were reported by mental health trusts in England last year - an increase of more than a third over a two-year period. | |
Health | BBC News - 26th January 2016 |
Experts have revealed that an HIV “epidemic” is decimating the Warao tribe in Venezuela. | |
Health | Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 18th January 2016 |
Emergency admissions to hospital due to alcohol have increased by more than 50% in nine years in England and now top 250,000 a year, a report has found. | |
Health | BBC News - 22nd December 2015 |
People held in segregation in prisons experience impoverished regimes with poor levels of purposeful activity. More than half suffer from three or more mental health problems, an in-depth research report published on 17 December by the Prison Reform Trust reveals. The report finds that segregation units and close supervision centres entail social isolation, inactivity, and increased control of prisoners – a combination proven to harm mental health and wellbeing. | |
Health | Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 22nd December 2015 |
The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled over the last 15 years with 26 new infections occurring every hour, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced. | |
Health | Ekklesia Weekly Digest - 3rd December 2015 |
Doctors should be able to euthanise those with "unbearable" mental conditions, even if the patient has not given consent, a Finnish researcher has said. Dr Jukka Varelius made the claim in the British-run Bioethics journal. | |
Health | Christian Concern - 21st November 2015 |
The UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) is considering proposals to introduce a new, non-invasive prenatal screening technique (‘cfDNA’) to test for disability in unborn babies. It is claimed the proposed technology will help reduce the number of miscarriages. | |
Health | Christian Concern - 31st October 2015 |
People with mental health conditions in Somaliland are increasingly forced into institutions, where they face serious abuses and poor conditions, says Human Rights Watch. The Somaliland authorities should provide oversight for all mental health facilities, prohibit chaining, and establish voluntary community-based services for people with mental health conditions. | |
Health | Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 2nd November 2015 |
Where it is legal, physician assisted suicide (PAS) "seemingly induces more self-inflicted deaths than it inhibits", according to a new US study. The data from the study show that PAS is associated with an 8.9 per cent increase in total suicide rates. The authors conclude that PAS does not inhibit non-assisted suicide but is "associated with an increased inclination to suicide in others", thus undermining one of the main arguments of assisted suicide advocates. | |
Health | Christian Concern - 10th October 2015 |
A recent study by The Economist Intelligence Unit ranks the UK's palliative care service first out of 80 countries. The 2015 Quality of Death Index assesses countries on factors such as hospital environment and quality and affordability of care. | |
Health | Christian Concern - 10th October 2015 |
The NHS is urging GPs to draw up end-of-life plans for those over 75, as well as vulnerable younger patients. GPs must ask them whether they want to be resuscitated in certain circumstances. Practice nurses are cold-calling patients to ask them. There’s news that this personal information will go into a huge IT database, accessible by GPs, hospital staff and ambulance crews. | |
Health | Evangelicals Now – June 2015 |
A 24-year-old Belgian woman has been told that she qualifies for euthanasia because she suffers from ‘suicidal thoughts’. | |
Health | The Christian Institute - 3rd July 2015 |
Christians are happier than people from other religious groups, according to data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of a three-year study measuring personal well-being in the UK. Jewish people are next in line. Muslims and Buddhists were found to be the least happy, after those who said that they had no religion at all. Christians and Jewish people are most likely to report that they feel that the things they do in life are worth while...It found that overall, British people were happier in the year up to December 2014 than they had been in the past two years, and that levels of anxiety were declining. Some 32.6 per cent rated their happiness level at 9, or 10 out of 10, in 2013-14- up from 30.9 per cent in 2012-13. Young people were found to be less likely than adults to feel that the things they did in life were worthwhile but they were more likely to report higher feelings of life-satisfaction and happiness. | |
Health | ThirdWay – May 2015 |
Whole areas of the NHS in England are being placed in special measures as a way of tackling failing services. NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said previous attempts to turn around to turn around services had been found wanting. He said the new approach would involve the whole system, including community services and social care, as well as hospitals. Essex, North Cumbria and most of Devon are the first areas to be tackled. All have reported significant financial problems and some of the hospitals in the areas are already in the old system of special measures. | |
Health | The Sentinel – June 4th 2015 |
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