| 03/09/2010 |
| Daily Express |
| By: Presswatch |
| Hope of cure for infertility |
| Scientists have come a step closer to understanding why women in their late 30s and early 40s have problems conceiving. The key is declining levels of proteins called cohesins, which are essential for chromosomes to split evenly when cells divide. |
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| 03/09/2010 |
| Daily Express |
| By: Presswatch |
| Hair shows if you risk a heart attack |
| Measurements of the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the hair could provide a more accurate indicator of a person's risk of suffering a heart attack than current methods. Cortisol is normally monitored in urine and saliva but those tests reveal stress levels only at the time the sample is taken, so cannot show long-term patterns. |
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| 03/09/2010 |
| Daily Mail |
| By: Presswatch |
| Health fear over metal in formula baby milk |
| A study by researchers at Keele University, Staffordshire, has found that formula baby milk can contain 40 times more aluminium than breast milk, potentially causing health problems in later life. Chemist Dr Chris Exley, who led the study, said: "We've known about the high aluminium content in infant formula for many years and there is evidence to show it is potentially quite dangerous. It has been linked to neurological diseases and bone defects in later life and there are even links with dementia." |
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| 03/09/2010 |
| Daily Mail |
| By: Presswatch |
| Drugs to fight bone thinning "double the risk of cancer" |
| Researchers from the University of Oxford's cancer epidemiology unit and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have warned that thousands of women taking drugs to combat bone thinning could be doubling their risk of cancer of the oesophagus. |
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| 03/09/2010 |
| Financial Times |
| By: Presswatch |
| Potent malaria drug offers hope of a single-dose cure |
| The first patient trials of a potent new anti-malaria drug could begin by the end of the year, after animal experiments showed it to be highly effective against the disease. The drug, NITD609, has a new mechanism of action and shows great promise as a treatment for drug-resistant malaria, according to Elizabeth Winzeler of the Scripps Research Institute in California. |
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| 03/09/2010 |
| The Guardian |
| By: Presswatch |
| NHS and Health Sector News |
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Thousands of vulnerable patients could suffer from plans by NHS officials to privatise out-of-hours GP services in London. More than 200 doctors have written to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and Mayor Boris Johnson to protest at the transfer of evening and weekend care to Harmoni, a private health company. Separately, hospitals have been told to be careful when giving infants intravenous doses of fluids or drugs, after a baby girl died after a glucose overdose at London's Great Ormond Street children's hospital. |
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