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Elderly ignore skin cancer warnings
Deaths from skin cancer amongst the over 65s have tripled since the seventies, aggravated by the fact that older people are less likely to check their skin or visit their GP with suspicious moles. Can...Five in Five
BASEM, the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine, have called on schools in the UK to adopt a ‘five in five’ routine which involves five core exercises to do in five minutes. Childre...HRT – good or bad?
HRT, hormone replacement therapy, can make women’s brains younger according to research published by the University of Durham. Women using HRT were found to lower their mental age and were able to...Take an aspirin everyday
Research from Oxford University published in the Lancet shows that taking 75mg of asprin everyday for five years reduces the risk of getting bowel cancer by a quarter and deaths from heart disease by ...Blood clots kill 25,000 a year in UK hospitals
Professor Beverley Hunt, a haematologist and the director of Lifeblood, a thrombosis charity, believes that 25,000 NHS hospital patients die each year because NHS hospitals fail to follow guidelines o...Pancreatic cancer survival rates same as 40 years ago
Four out of 5 people with pancreatic cancer die within one year of diagnosis. Only 3% are alive after five years. This death rate has barely changed over 40 years according to Pancreatic Cancer UK...Keep Dr Mohammad Abdul Aziz Sultan off your back
Dr Mohammad Abdul Aziz Sultan made a serious error in his first operation in the UK. He operated on the wrong disc during spinal injury at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire. The patient...Spot Heart Disease Years in Advance
Researchers at the University of Maryland in the US have developed a simple blood test that can predict someone’s chances of suffering heart failure years in advance. Heart disease is a big killer i...Super-strain of C.difficile in Britain
C.difficile 027, a particularly dangerous strain of the hospital super-bug, makes a higher proportion of cases in the UK than elsewhere in Europe. C.difficile which can be fatal and causes diarrhoea a...8 in 10 Children Beat Cancer
Cancer Research UK has stated that there have been huge advances in child cancer treatment over the last 40 years. 78% of children diagnosed with leukaemia, brain cancer or lymphoma survive for at l...
