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| 03/07/2009 |
| The Times |
| By: Presswatch |
| Swine flu can't be stopped: 100,000 new cases a day are forecast for next month |
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More than 100,000 swine flu cases could be diagnosed every day by the end of next month, the Health Secretary has warned. Cases of the H1N1 virus were doubling each week in Britain and could reach six figures daily by the end of August if current trends continued, he added. Anyone with flu-like symptoms will now be advised to stay at home and telephone their GP for advice. Doctors have warned that "several million" people could become ill as the flu season returns in the autumn and winter. A vaccine for the H1N1 strain, which has spread across the world, is understood to be at an advanced stage of development and could start becoming available as early as next month. |
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| 03/07/2009 |
| The Guardian |
| By: Presswatch |
| Dementia is greater risk for single people in later life, study finds |
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Divorcees, widowers and middle-aged people who live alone are much more likely to develop dementia than those who are married or who live together, according to a study conducted by the Karolinska Institute medical university in Sweden. While both single men and women had a "significant" extra risk of dementia, men had a "slightly higher odds ratio", the researchers said. About 700,000 people in the UK have some form of dementia, and that figure is expected to rise to 1.7 million by 2051. |
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| 03/07/2009 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| Boys should be given cervical cancer vaccine, says BMA |
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Boys should be given the cervical cancer vaccine to protect them against sexually transmitted infections, the British Medical Association's annual meeting said. The motion was passed despite Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the association's council, saying evidence had indicated that vaccinating boys in England would not be cost effective. Doctors also called on the Government to reinstate cervical cancer screening for younger women. A motion was passed for the age at which women are first screened for cervical cancer to be lowered from 25 to 20 years. |
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| 03/07/2009 |
| The Independent |
| By: Presswatch |
| Appeal for funds to fight curse of brain tumours |
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Brain tumours have become the biggest cause of death among young cancer patients, but the disease receives only a small fraction of the funding spent on researching other forms of cancer. Some 16,000 people in Britain are diagnosed with a brain tumour each year and more men under the age of 45 and more women under the age of 35 will die of the disease than from any other cancer, according to a report out today. In children, brain tumours have overtaken leukaemia in terms of the number of deaths caused by cancer each year, yet leukaemia research receives almost 10 times as much funding as studies into brain cancer, according to the charity Brain Tumour Research. The charity found that the actual amount of money spent by the Government on brain tumour research was only half of the official figure for 2007-08 given by the Medical Research Council. |
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| 03/07/2009 |
| By: Presswatch |
| NHS and Health Sector News |
| The Guardian reports that patient safety has been put at risk through "disastrously unsafe care" in a handful of NHS trusts, and insufficient progress is being made in improving services, according to a report by the House of Commons Health Select Committee. The Daily Telegraph reports that the Conservatives have been accused of planning a pay freeze for doctors and nurses. Andrew Lansley, the party's shadow health secretary, said that the health service could not afford "inflationary" pay rises. The Evening Standard reports that a cronyism row erupted today after it emerged three times more Labour activists than Tories are being appointed to NHS boards. The Times reports that hospitals and ambulance services reported a sharp rise yesterday in emergency calls for people with breathing difficulties and chest pain brought on by the heat. |
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