10/12/2009
Thousands Of Asthma Patients Put At Severe Health Risk By Allergic Rhinitis
According to a report in Primary Care Respiratory Journal (PCRJ), New data shows that allergic rhinitis quadruples the likelihood of asthma ...
09/12/2009
Study Highlights Implications Of Influenza Pandemics On Blood Supplies
A German research team has examined data on supply and demand for blood transfusions against a computer simulation of an influenza pandemic, and disco...
09/12/2009
Study Highlights Lack of Patient Knowledge Regarding Hospital Medications
In a new study to assess patient awareness of medications prescribed during a hospital visit, 44% of patients believed they were receiving a medicatio...
09/12/2009
New Bioscience Awareness Campaign launch
BSRC, the main UK public funder of bioscience research, has today launched a new campaign to highlight the role and impact of bioscience research on e...
16/11/2009
The campaign launched in February this year with hard-hitting imagery to highlight the visible signs of stroke and encourage people to call 999 as soo...
02/11/2009
New Report Claims Parents Drinking Habits Play Part in Influencing Youngsters Binge Drinking
New Report Claims Parents Drinking Habits Play Part in Influencing Youngsters Binge Drinking A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation claims th...
02/11/2009
3000 Lives Could Be Saved By Improvements In Treatment of UK’s Second Biggest Cancer Killer
3000 Lives Could Be Saved By Improvements In Treatment of UK’s Second Biggest Cancer Killer According to the United Kingdom Lung Cancer...
26/10/2009
New cases of swine flu have almost doubled last week, with an estimated 53,000 new infections compared to 27,000 in the week previous. The&n...
26/10/2009
Change4Life Backs Popular Video Game Exercises
The Times reports that Nintendo Wii Fit Plus has become the first computer game to be endorsed by the Department of Health, which has allowed it to ...
13/10/2009
New Wave Of Talking Therapy Sites To Benefit 100,000 plus
More than 100,000 people will benefit from a new wave of talking therapy services going live across the country from today, World Mental Health Day, C...
13/10/2009
Hundreds more transplants, but more organ donors still needed
Almost a million more people registered to become organ donors in the last year and hundreds more lives were saved in the UK through organ transplan...
14/09/2009
Smoke Free Generation Shun Cigarettes
A new ‘Smokefree Generation’ of children say that they will never try a cigarette, think that smoking is really uncool and are increasingl...
14/09/2009
England To Ban Dr's Premium Rate Telephone Numbers
The use of phone numbers that charge the public or patients a premium rate to contact the NHS are to be banned in England, Health Minister Mike O&rsqu...
07/09/2009
New Alzheimer Genetics Link ‘Opens The Door To New Treatments’
The first genetic clues in the development of Alzheimers disease to be discovered in over a decade have been uncovered by UK researchers, prompting ...
26/08/2009
Women"put at risk because of ovarian cancer diagnosis delays"
Delays in Diagnosis for ovarian - putting women at risk are highlighted in Dr Willie Hamilton’s new research published in the B...
26/08/2009
Agency warns consumers to avoid certain clay-based drinks
The Food Standards Agency is today warning consumers not to drink certain brands of clay-based products, following test results that show unsafe level...
26/08/2009
The incidence of cot deaths could be on the decline - suggests provisional figures from the Office of National Statistics which show...
29/07/2009
New Research Suggests High Blood Pressure Is Overlooked In Smokers
A new study conducted by scientists at University College London found that only half of hypertensive smokers had their condition diagnosed. The resea...
29/07/2009
Premature Birth Can Be Identified By Hormone Presence, Study Claims.
A study has indicated that women who experience early preterm labour have a propensity to have low levels of progesterone in their saliva.Scientists b...
29/07/2009
Guidance Issued To Healthcare Professionals On Recognising Maltreated Children
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has released guidance for workers in the healthcare industry on how to indentify chil...
10/07/2009
Charity Calls For Us To Spare A Kiss & Save A Life
AS opart of a two year initiative to boost awareness of an incurable lung condition that new research shows only 3% of the UK* have heard of, patient ...
26/06/2009
‘GROSSLY UNFAIR TAX’ ON THE DISABLED The campaign led by National charity’s the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (UK) and the Brit...
20/05/2009
Age Of Menopause Onset Linked To Genetics
New research conducted by US Women's Health scientists have indentified new gene variants which are thought to be responsible for when a woman commenc...
20/05/2009
Quitting The Cigarettes Could Also Increase Happiness
A new study suggests that those who successfully give up smoking tend to be happier than those continuing the habit. Cancer Research UK recently carr...
19/05/2009
World Health Assembly Forced to Postpone Decision on Viral Hepatitis
Global epidemic kills one person every 30 seconds and one million people will die before the World Health Assembly meets again in 2010 Switzerland, G...
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