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 All the latest news from www.politics.co.uk MPs fed up with social care 'point-scoring' 12 Mar 2010 at 12:00am MPs have called on the major parties to avoid "pre-election point-scoring" and come together to achieve consensus on social care reform. Health inequality progress 'disappointing' 11 Mar 2010 at 12:01am The NHS' spending watchdog says billions of pounds spent on tackling health inequalities are not having a big enough impact. No respite for carers 8 Mar 2010 at 12:00am Less than a quarter of government funding aimed at giving carers a break to go on holiday has been used in this way, new figures have shown. Privacy fears raised as NHS IT project ploughs ahead 1 Mar 2010 at 8:59am Doctors' organisations and privacy groups have raised concerned about the implications of the new NHS IT system. 'Motive' is new focus for assisted dying prosecutors 25 Feb 2010 at 4:44pm The "motivation of the suspect" has been made the main focus for prosecutors when they assess assisted dying cases, but the director of public prosecutions has denied relaxing rules on euthanasia. |
 Health News  Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating (AP) 12 Mar 2010 at 12:04pm AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated. People with variable blood pressure at stroke risk (AP) 12 Mar 2010 at 11:19am AP - People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday.  Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given (AP) 11 Mar 2010 at 12:03am AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests. Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section (AP) 10 Mar 2010 at 10:14pm AP - Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."  CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP) 11 Mar 2010 at 3:03am AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries. |
 News on health from Discovery.  Culture (Not Just Genes) Drives Evolution by Marlowe Hood, AFP 28 Oct 2009 at 9:00pm Cultural differences have manifested themselves in the DNA of distinct, regional populations.  Human Speech Gene Found by Tina Hesman Saey, Science News 27 Oct 2009 at 5:30pm A newly discovered gene helps to keep vocal cords limber.  Drinking Water Wells Contaminated with Zinc by Emily Sohn, Discovery News 26 Oct 2009 at 10:15pm Zinc may be creeping into the water supply, which could have an affect on brain function.  'Mermaid Girl' Shiloh Pepin Dies at Age 10 by Associated Press 26 Oct 2009 at 7:00pm Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with fused legs, passed away over the weekend.  Artificial Intelligence Diagnoses Abuse by Eric Bland, Discovery News 26 Oct 2009 at 12:00pm A new computer program developed by doctors can detect victims of abuse. |
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