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Poor health habits of NHS staff damaging patient care, audit finds

Health trusts must do more to help doctors and nurses exercise and give up smoking and heavy drinking, says the Government. NHS organisations will be expected to improve access to intervention programmes such as counselling or gyms as part of a drive ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Health Service,  Department of Health

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu spreads between patients in Wales

A form of swine flu that is resistant to antiviral drugs has begun spreading between hospital patients in Wales, health officials said. A strain that appears resistant to Tamiflu, the most common treatment has infected five patients at the University ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Department of Health

Fake medicines seized as websites are shut down

The public are being warned of the dangers of buying unlicensed medicines on the internet. The alert comes as hundreds of websites are being shut down for selling fake or illicit drugs around the world. In the largest operation of its kind, nearly 16 ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Danny Lee

Controversial study suggests heavy drinking in men ‘good for heart’

Drinking alcohol may cut the risk of heart disease by almost a third in men according to a new study — although health campaigners have warned that the findings should be treated with caution. Spanish research on individuals aged between 29 and 69 ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  18 Nov 2009

Hospitals use ploys to beat 4-hour deadline on A&E waiting times

Patients are being admitted to hospital to avoid breaching a Government target on waiting times, NHS figures suggest today. More than one in twenty patients attending hospital in an emergency are being admitted to wards just minutes before the ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Health Service

Statins reduce risks of heart attack in women by nearly half, research suggests

Women who take a statin can reduce their risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 50 per cent, even if they do not have unhealthy cholesterol levels, research suggests. A daily dose of Crestor (rosuvastatin) reduced the chances of subsequent ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: American Heart Association

Good news for slimmers as scientists rethink calorie counting

Slimmers, rejoice — those forbidden sweet treats or extra bags of crisps may no longer be off-limits. Scientists advising the Government say that the calorie counts used as the basis of diet plans and healthy-eating advice for the past 18 years may ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Health Service,  Department of Health

‘Alzheimer’s drug turned her into a zombie’

Minnie Htay was 59 when she was found to have early-onset Alzheimer’s in 1995. She initially had trouble putting names to faces or remembering friends’ addresses, but after several years of decline she was prone to disorientation and wandering. Her ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  12 Nov 2009

Chief Medical Officer tells mothers-to-be to have swine flu jab

Pregnant women are being urged to have the swine flu vaccine that is being offered as part of a national immunisation programme. Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, said that all mothers-to-be should consider having a vaccine in order to ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrew Lansley

Wrongly prescribed dementia sedatives kill 1,500

Up to 150,000 people with dementia are wrongly being prescribed powerful sedatives to calm them down with around 1,500 of them dying as a result, a Government-ordered review has found. Only around 36,000 of the 180,000 people being given the drugs ...

From DAVID ROSE, Times Online,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Phil Hope,  National Health Service

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