Yoga: a cost-effective treatment for back pain sufferers?
Posted on 16 August 2012 Specialised group yoga classes could provide a cost-effective way of treating patients with chronic or recurrent low back pain, according to the UK’s largest ever…
As many as 3 in 4 hospital tests not followed up after discharge
Public release date: 7-Feb-2011 The safety implications of missed test results for hospitalized patients: A systematic review Up to three quarters of hospital tests are not being followed up, suggests…
NHS patients ‘frightened to ask for help’ as wards ‘stretched to breaking point’ With the “normalisation of cruelty” (U.K.)
Hospitals have made “no improvement” since the Mid-Staffs scandal in ensuring patients are kept safe or treated with dignity, Care Quality Commission finds Inspections which focussed on the neglect of…
Home Office: Drugs must remain illegal to ‘protect society’
Government clashes with one of England's leading police officers who says Class A drugs should be decriminalised Charlie Cooper Sunday, 29 September 2013 Drugs are dangerous and must remain illegal…
New study discovers copper destroys highly infectious norovirus
Ref: 13/162 10 September 2013 Sarah Warnes and Professor Bill Keevil Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered that copper and copper alloys rapidly destroy norovirus – the…
New study discovers copper destroys highly infectious norovirus
Ref: 13/162 10 September 2013 Sarah Warnes and Professor Bill Keevil Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered that copper and copper alloys rapidly destroy norovirus – the…
Unhealthy lifestyles will see British children die before their parents
Research from British Heart Foundation warns of health problems affecting a generation, from lack of exercise to dietary issues Adam Withnall Monday, 12 August 2013 The unhealthy lifestyles of today’s…
Pricing scandal sees NHS pay £89 for cod-liver oil capsules
Taxpayers are being charged up to 40 times the usual cost for common over-the-counter products being prescribed by NHS doctors, The Telegraph can disclose. The NHS confirmed that inflated prices…
Medical schools could drop grades for poorer students
Medical schools could drop their grades for students from poorer backgrounds, meaning those with better results miss out, under a project which has sparked concern from academics. The project hasbeen…
Folic acid lowers risk of autism
Women who take a vitamin B9 supplement (folic acid) during the beginning weeks of their pregnancy can cut the risk of having a child with autism in half. But the…
Folic acid lowers risk of autism
Women who take a vitamin B9 supplement (folic acid) during the beginning weeks of their pregnancy can cut the risk of having a child with autism in half. But the…
Healthy patients who exercise regularly and avoid fatty foods ‘should be fast-tracked for surgery’
Nigel Morris Tuesday, 12 March 2013 Patients who exercise regularly and avoid fatty foods should go to the front of the queue for NHS operations, a think tank urges…
One in three have online medical record, many without knowledge
More than one in three people have had their medical details uploaded onto a central database accessible by healthcare professionals across the country, many without their knowledge, it has been…
Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards (U.K.)
Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today. There were 558 cases last year where doctors…
The great hospital robbery: Defibrillators, baby heart monitors, even beds – thieves are walking out of NHS wards with vital equipment
By John Naish PUBLISHED:20:32 EST, 24 September 2012| UPDATED:02:20 EST, 25 September 2012 You may think that even the lowest, most callous criminal would draw the line at stealing…
Medical doctors who do research could be a dying breed
Re post 2008 Contact: Nick Birch nick@biologists.com 44-122-342-6164 The Company of Biologists Britain's training programs may be contributing to the 'lost tribe' of clinician-scientists -- medical doctors who also perform…
NHS hospitals sending your confidential notes to India to be typed up
A series of hospitals have admitted using cheap secretarial agencies in India By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED:10:53 EST, 10 September 2012| UPDATED:19:25 EST, 10 September 2012 Hospitals are sending hundreds of…
Nigerian ‘health tourist’ flew to UK for caesarean birth on NHS (U.K.)
A heavily-pregnant woman from Nigeria flew thousands of miles to have her baby at a Manchester hospital costing the taxpayer around £10,000, it has emerged. The 'health tourist' travelled more…
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