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Private firms buy identifiable data on NHS patients
Private health firms, including Bupa, can now pay a fee to identify potentially millions of patients and then access their health records, detailing intimate medical histories, under a new national arrangement in the NHS.Private insurer Bupa is one of four private firms that has been approved to access England's "sensitive or identifiable" patient data, housed centrally by the Health and Social C...
Job stress may raise our 'bad cholesterol' levels
'A stressful job really can kill you – by raising your cholesterol,' reports the Mail Online website. This headline is based on Spanish research that looked at the relationship between job stress and lipid (fat) levels in the blood of more than 90,000 people. The research found that people who reported difficulties coping with their job had higher levels of what has been dubbed "bad chole...
Former nurse to leave chief exec job after safe surgery row
An NHS trust at the centre of a row over children’s heart surgery is to replace its chief executive, it has been announced.
Hospitals 'not ready for dementia', warns top specialist nurse
Many hospitals are ill-equipped for patients with dementia when they are admitted with a medical problem, a leading nurse has claimed.
Vitamin D may help treat severe asthma
”Sunshine vitamin 'may treat asthma'”, BBC News informs us, as a new lab-based study suggests vitamin D could help control symptoms of severe asthma. Asthma is caused by inflammation of the airways, related to malfunctioning of the body’s immune system. In theory, the immune system mistakes harmless substances, such as dust mites, as a threat and triggers inflammation of the lungs and airwa...
Ginger 'helps alleviate asthma'
Spicing up asthma medications with ginger may make them more effective, a study has shown.
First baby due in new IVF technique
The first baby to be conceived using a breakthrough IVF technique will be born in Scotland next month, a clinic has said.
With High Deductible Health Plans, It Pays To Shop Around For Care
When Maria and Vadim Brodsky's then 7-year-old daughter needed an MRI two years ago to examine a tumor in her head, they took her to a hospital in their health plan’s network and were dismayed to receive a $4,500 bill. The couple had a $6,000 deductible on their family plan. And even though the bill was reduced to $3,000 — the price the provider and insurer had agreed to by contract &...
Number of pupils walking to school is 'falling'
Living Streets, the charity, say numbers of children walking to school are falling.Following a survey of 1,000 parents, it found one in four parents did not consider walking their child to school.
PICCs are associated with a higher risk of deep vein thrombosis than are CVCs, especially in patients who are critically ill or those with a malignancy. The decision to insert PICCs should be guided by weighing of the risk of thrombosis against the b...
[Health Policy] Redefining global health-care delivery
Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely...
The need to align investments in health research and development (R&D) with public health demands is one of the most pressing global public health challenges. We aim to provide a comprehensive description of available data sources, propose a set...
[Comment] Peripherally inserted catheters: all that glitters is not gold
Indwelling central venous catheters are used widely for a range of indications, such as cancer treatment, diagnostic monitoring, and cardiac pacing; and administration of fluids, parenteral nutrition, or blood products. However, the benefit provided...
Third NHS employer signs up in support of Speak Out Safely campaign
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust has become the third NHS employer to publicly pledge its commitment to the principles underpinning our Speak Out Safely campaign.
New indemnity rules could cost nurses £1,200 a year, warns union
The union Unite has rejected government plans to require health professionals to have indemnity insurance in order to practise, arguing that it could cost health visitors and school nurses £1,200 a year.
Patients with severe pain likely to benefit most from joint replacement
People with severe pain and a single affected joint are likely to benefit most from hip or knee replacement surgery, new research suggests.Scientists at the University of Toronto in Canada conducted a study to determine which patients are most likely to benefit from joint replacement surgery.They looked at 202 patients, four-fifths of whom were women, with an average age of 71 years.Of these, appr...
Family history may increase susceptibility to bunions
Men and women with a family history of bunions (hallux valgus) may be more likely to develop the condition themselves, a new study suggests.Researchers at Harvard Medical School in the US studied data on 1,370 people with an average age of 66 years who took part in the Framingham Foot Study.Participants underwent foot examinations to see whether they had bunions, lesser toe deformities such as ham...
Republicans Pressing Link Between Obamacare And IRS Scandal
News coverage of the ongoing IRS scandal is focusing on Republican criticism of Sarah Hall Ingram, who is now in charge of helping to implement the health care law. The New York Times: Republicans Expand I.R.S. Inquiry, With Eye on White House Congressional Republicans, not resting with the Internal Revenue Service scandal, are moving to broaden the matter to an array of tax malfeasanc...
Looking Toward 2014, GOP Linking IRS Scandal With Obamacare
News coverage of the ongoing IRS scandal is focusing on Republican criticism of Sarah Hall Ingram, who is now in charge of helping to implement the health care law. The New York Times: Republicans Expand I.R.S. Inquiry, With Eye on White House Congressional Republicans, not resting with the Internal Revenue Service scandal, are moving to broaden the matter to an array of tax malfeasanc...
Feds Make It Easier For States To Enroll Poor Under Health Law
The Obama administration is making it easier for states to sign up the poor for health coverage – and to help those people stay covered. On Friday, it informed state officials that they could simplify enrollment in Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor, to handle the onslaught of millions of anticipated enrollees next year when the health care law expands coverage. At least...
Meet the World's Most Advanced Brain Scanner
The super-MRI used in the Human Connectome Project is the ultimate brain hacking machine.
Following the conclusion of the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) that the benefits of Diane 35 and its generics outweigh the risks in a specific patient group, the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicine and Health Product...
Opioids for back pain are linked to increased risk of erectile dysfunction
Men who take opioid analgesics for back pain over a long period may have an increased risk of erectile dysfunction, a study has found.1Long term opioid use has already been linked with...
P values or confidence intervals?
The effectiveness of topical chloramphenicol in preventing wound infection after minor dermatological surgery was evaluated. Researchers performed a randomised placebo controlled double blind...
Misreporting of suicide after the L'Aquila earthquake
Until recently the suicide rate in the L’Aquila province of the Abruzzo region was greater than the Italian mean, but this changed abruptly in the aftermath of a natural catastrophe, the earthquake...
