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Mar 2020
According to a study published in the journal Nature, a person’s chance of developing bowel cancer may be increased by a common type of gut bacterium. The bacterium is a type of E. coli infection, which scientists believe is present in up to one in five people. It increases a toxin which experts say can…
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Mar 2020
The consumption of omega-3 supplements has long been believed to have a wide range of positive health impacts, including lowering the risk of strokes, as well as diseases such as dementia and cancer. However, researchers at University of Anglia (UEA) have found that the taking of daily supplements is likely to have no significant positive…
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Mar 2020
The number of people in the UK with ‘pre-diabetes’, those on the brink of type 2 diabetes and who must take urgent action, has risen from 1.3 million to nearly 2 million in the last twelve months. Currently, a sixth of the NHS hospitals budget is spent on treating patients with diabetes, affecting an estimated…
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Mar 2020
Health professionals say ‘corridor nursing’ is becoming increasingly prevalent as accident and emergency departments are becoming too full to look after the number of patients seeking treatment. In a recent poll of 1,174 emergency nurses in the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) Emergency Care Association, 73 per cent of those surveyed said they cared for…
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Mar 2020
A report by Target Ovarian Cancer says there is a postcode lottery in the speed at which women are diagnosed. Although a patient diagnosed in the early stages of the disease has more than a 90 per cent chance of survival, one in five are diagnosed too late to receive any treatment at all, and…
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Mar 2020
A report has warned that because the NHS offers too little rehabilitation for patients discharged from hospitals, they are failing to recover sufficiently from a heart attack or stroke. According to the report from charity Sue Ryder, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, ‘patchy provision’ means patients with multiple…
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