By: Martha Linden, PA, The Independent
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Nearly 4,000 new cases of mental health disorder were diagnosed last year among armed services personnel, according to figures published today.
Mental health statistics released by the Ministry of Defence showed 3,917 new cases of armed services personnel assessed to have a mental disorder [...]
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Post traumatic stress rises among war zone soldiers
Posted in Editor, Men's health, Politics, Practice, RISKS, Science, Violence, Women's health, diagnosis, health, life, mental health, news, soldiers on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muslim GP faces sack over homophobic letter
Posted in Editor, GMC, Politics, Practice, SORRY, health, life, mental health, news on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By: Harriet Shawcross, PA, The Independent
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
A former head of the Islamic Medical Association sent a homophobic letter to a magazine for GPs, saying gay people needed the “stick of law to put them on the right path”, the General Medical Council heard today.
Dr Muhammad Siddiq was working [...]
Strict new benefit rules ‘will drive mentally-ill people into poverty’
Posted in Editor, Politics, RISKS, Science, chronic disease, health, life, mental health, news on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: Nina Lakhani, The Independent
Monday, 27 October 2008
People with mental health problems will be driven into poverty by the introduction of a new benefit today, campaigners have warned.
Around half of applicants for the employment and support allowance are expected to be rejected because of much stricter rules, forcing thousands of people [...]
Ignored: the mentally ill killed by drugs that are meant to help them
Posted in Editor, Politics, RISKS, Science, chronic disease, drug companies, health, life, mental health, news on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: Nina Lakhani, The Independent
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Campaigners plan to use World Mental Health Day to highlight discrimination within the medical profession against some of its most vulnerable patients.
Daniel Galvin died of a heart attack in August. He was six stone overweight and had high blood pressure; his hair was falling [...]
Medical website to offer Viagra online
Posted in Editor, Men's health, Politics, RISKS, Science, diagnosis, health, life, news on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: PA, The Independent
Monday, 29 September 2008
Men will be able to get Viagra online without having to visit their GP, in what a pharmacy claims is the first reputable joint venture with a health website.
Lloydspharmacy and the website DrThom have teamed up to offer the service to men who fill in [...]
Damning verdict on health trusts’ out-of-hours emergency care
Posted in Editor, Politics, Practice, RISKS, Science, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life, news on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Friday, 26 September 2008
Almost one in five health trusts are delivering poor quality care outside normal office hours, the most comprehensive investigation into urgent and emergency services has concluded.
The Healthcare Commission also found that proportion of out-of-hours calls categorised as “urgent” varied from under 4 per [...]
Cost of treating cancer: Because I’m worth it
Posted in Editor, Politics, RISKS, Science, bmj, cancer, chronic disease, health, life on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source: BMJ, 17 September 2008.
Before Robert Mayer, a GP and family therapist, died earlier this year of pancreatic cancer, he wrote about the cost of treating cancer on the NHS and why patients should be allowed to co-pay for expensive drugs. Read his personal view, as well as extracts from a diary he kept [...]
Antibiotics to delay premature birth may harm babies
Posted in CHILDREN, Editor, INFECTIONS, Politics, RISKS, Science, Women's health, chronic disease, diagnosis, health, life, news on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Thursday, 18 September 2008
A warning about the indiscriminate prescribing of antibiotics to pregnant women to delay premature labour was issued to all doctors yesterday after research unexpectedly revealed that the practice may cause long-term harm to their babies.
The Government’s chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, wrote to GPs, [...]
Appeal for new antibiotics after resistant E.coli infections treble
Posted in Editor, INFECTIONS, Politics, RISKS, Science, chronic disease, health, life, news on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Thursday, 11 September 2008
An increase in infections that are resistant to all known antibiotics is threatening Britain and the world, unless ways can be found to develop and finance new drugs, public health experts warned yesterday.
The Health Protection Agency said yesterday that of 20,000 blood [...]
Can it ever be right for the NHS to reject drugs that could extend life?
Posted in Editor, NICE, Politics, Science, cancer, chronic disease, health, life, news on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Friday, 8 August 2008
“Why are we asking this now?
Cancer charities, kidney specialists and campaigners were outraged yesterday when the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice), announced that it had rejected four new drugs for advanced kidney cancer as too [...]
