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| 01/10/2009 |
| The Guardian |
| By: Presswatch |
| Sunbed ban for under-18s in Wales over cancer fears |
| Under-18s will be banned from using sunbeds in Wales because of the risk of skin cancer, the Welsh health minister said yesterday. Edwina Hart also outlined plans to ban unstaffed tanning salons after reports that they were being used by children. Officials in Cardiff are considering all law-making means available to impose the ban. Hart said: "I am particularly concerned about the use of sunbeds by people under the age of 18 and by the use of coin-operated sunbeds." |
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| 01/10/2009 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| Schools to restart vaccinations |
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Schools signalled yesterday that cervical cancer vaccinations would resume after it emerged that a 14-year-old girl who died after having one of the jabs had been suffering from a serious and rare underlying illness. Some schools and primary care trusts had suspended their vaccination programmes while the batch of Cervarix involved was identified and sent back to GlaxoSmithKline, the maker, for testing. |
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| 01/10/2009 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| Dementia patients left without support until they reach crisis |
| Many patients diagnosed with dementia received no support and were told to come back to their doctors in a year's time, according to a group of experts. Some got help only when they reached a "crisis", which would not happen with other conditions like cancer, said a report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. People who cared for relatives with dementia were often not told crucial information about the condition because of patient confidentiality rules. Some carers were not even given the diagnosis, the group said. |
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| 01/10/2009 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| Study links flu to heart disease |
| Unborn babies exposed to swine flu could be more likely to have cardiovascular disease later in life than those who are not exposed, according to a new study to be published in Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. For example, men born in early 1919, after the 1918 influenza pandemic in the US, were 23.1 per cent more likely to have heart disease after 60 than the overall population. |
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| 01/10/2009 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| Cigarette packets to carry graphic health warnings |
| Cigarette packets will have to carry graphic health warnings, showing images such as diseased lungs and a tumour growing from a victim's neck. A total of 15 images with written warnings will be displayed on cigarette packets. From today, it will be a legal requirement for all packets to carry the warning. |
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| 01/10/2009 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| NHS and Health Sector News |
| Doctors allowed a young woman to kill herself because she had signed a "living will" that meant they could have been prosecuted if they intervened to save her life. Kerrie Wooltorton, 26, who was suffering depression over her inability to have a child, drank poison at home and called an ambulance. However, she remained conscious and handed doctors a letter saying she wanted medical staff only to make her comfortable and not to try to save her life. Separately, free car parking permits would be provided for all hospital inpatients under a future Labour government, the health secretary promised yesterday. In an emotional and crowd-pleasing speech that included references to his father's recent heart bypass operation, Andy Burnham hailed Labour as "the party of the NHS". Finally today, private hospitals used to cut NHS waiting times are to face checks after the death of a patient was highlighted in an investigation. The Care Quality Commission will examine emergency procedures at Independent Sector Treatment Centres, which have been used to treat NHS patients and cut waiting times for common operations. |
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