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| People should avoid calling 999 unless it is an emergency because ambulance services and A&E departments are “struggling to cope” with the winter illness season, an NHS chief has said. Peter Bradley, national director of ambulance services in England, said they had just had their busiest week ever. He put it down to the coldest start to a winter for 30 years, causing a rise in falls and breathing problems, combined with outbreaks of flu and the winter vomiting bug norovirus. | |
| Health | The Sentinel December 18th, 2008 |
| Facebook has been accused of fueling ‘friendship addictions’ and fostering insecurities, especially among teenage girls and young women, according to leading psychologist. David Smallwood, an addictions expert with the Priory, says the social networking site has the power to dent self-esteem and creates an unhealthy obsession around building large friends lists. Women are particularly vulnerable because their self-worth often stems from relationships with others and facebook ‘compels them to ‘acquire’ hundreds of friends’, warned Smallwood. | |
| Health | Youthwork – January |
| Thousands of people with a devastating eye disease could have their sight saved by a drug being made available on the NHS under new guidelines published today. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended the drug Lucentis after performing a U-turn on draft guidance published last year. This follows a move by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to fund the drug. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 27th |
| Overweight people need to face up to reality and live healthily, the Tories said today. Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said it was time to “take away the excuses” of biology and environment and get people to exercise and eat more fruit and vegetables. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 27th |
| Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher’s daughter Carol has revealed details of her mother’s struggle with dementia. In her new book Carol Thatcher said she first noticed her mother’s failing memory while the pair had lunch in 2000 and also disclosed that she had to repeatedly break the news of her father Sir Denis’s death to her mother. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 25th |
| Babies born by caesarean section are 20% more likely to become insulin dependant diabetics in childhood, say researchers. Although the reason for the link is not clear, scientists believe exposure to hospital bacteria may be involved. Childhood infections, along with genetics, are already known to play an important role in the development of type 1 diabetes. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 26th |
| The government was announcing plans today to allow patients to top up their NHS care with private treatments. Professor Mike Richards was unveiling his long awaited review of top ups, which have sparked controversy after several patients died fighting for the right to add on to their NHS care. The report set out the circumstances in which people can pay privately for drugs while still receiving care on the NHS. | |
| Health | The Sentinel – November 4th |
| A woman has become the first person in the world to be given an entirely laboratory-engineered organ in a landmark operation that could change the face of transplant surgery. Claudia Castillo’s own stem cells were used to create an artificial airway which replaced the bronchus to her left lung, which had collapsed after she suffered a serious tuberculosis infection. Without the operation in June, Ms Castillo’s lung would have been removed. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 19th November 2008 |
| Thousands of people with a devastating eye disease could have their sight saved by a drug being made available on the NHS under new guidelines published today. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended the drug Lucentis after performing a U-turn on draft guidance published last year. This follows a move by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to fund the drug. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 27th |
| Hospital units for premature and sick babies are being stretched to the limit, a report suggests. Staff shortages and units forced to work at maximum occupancy are affecting the way care is delivered, the charity Bliss said. Between 2006 and 2007 160 more nurses were recruited to neonatal units but there remains a shortfall of 1,700 nurses, it said. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 15th October 2008 |
| Overweight people need to face up to reality and live healthily, the Tories said today. Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said it was time to “take away the excuses” of biology and environment and get people to exercise and eat more fruit and vegetables. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 27th |
| Diabetes sufferers should not routinely take aspirin to prevent heart attacks, research suggests. It had been argued that routine use of the drug could help prevent heart attacks. But new research by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that people who showed no symptoms of heart disease received no benefit after regularly taking aspirin. The study found aspirin did benefit people who had already suffered a heart attack or stroke. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 17th October 2008 |
| Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher’s daughter Carol has revealed details of her mother’s struggle with dementia. In her new book Carol Thatcher said she first noticed her mother’s failing memory while the pair had lunch in 2000 and also disclosed that she had to repeatedly break the news of her father Sir Denis’s death to her mother. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - August 25th |
| A drug used to treat leukaemia can also combat the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis. Research published in the New England Journal Of Medicine will bring fresh hope to many of the UK’s 100,000 MS sufferers. Led by researchers from the University Of Cambridge, the study found alemtuzumab can stop MS advancing in its early stages. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 23rd October 2008 |
| A “genetic MOT” which would allow parents using IVF treatment to screen embryos for a range of genetic diseases could be available as early as 2009. The £1,500 test aims to help people at risk of passing on genetic defects, The Times reported. It is believed to be able to detect almost any known genetic disease. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - 24th October 2008 |
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