Number of NHS staff leaving for a better work/life balance triples
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Number of NHS staff leaving for a better work/life balance triples

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/27/number-nhs-staff-leaving-better-worklife-balance-triples/ By Laura Donnelly, health editor The number of NHS staff quitting over long hours has tripled in six years, new figures show. Nurse leaders said patient care was being “routinely compromised by chronic staff shortages” which were set to worsen, unless action is taken. The NHS figures show that more than 200,000…

New Sheffield research could help to develop preventative treatments for heart disease
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New Sheffield research could help to develop preventative treatments for heart disease

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This article was taken from: https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2019/march/new-sheffield-research-could-help-to-develop-preventative-treatments-for-heart-disease By  Isabelle Masters at the British heart Foundation Researchers at the University of Sheffield are to study if ‘turning off’ a protein could help prevent heart attacks and strokes. We’ve provided funding to a team of scientists, led by Professor Paul Evans from the university’s Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease…

New brain cells made throughout life
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New brain cells made throughout life

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47692495 By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent, BBC News People keep making new brain cells throughout their lives (well at least until the age of 97), according to a study on human brains. The idea has been fiercely debated, and it used to be thought we were born with all the brain…

Are genetic tests useful to predict cancer?
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Are genetic tests useful to predict cancer?

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/23/are-predictive-genetic-test-useful-to-predict-cancer-matt-hancock By Hannah Devlin at the Guardian news The health secretary’s call for tests to be rolled out on NHS was met with controversy The health secretary, Matt Hancock, this week shared his shock at discovering that he is at greater than average risk for prostate cancer, despite having no family history of…

Hospital bosses told to get on a plane and find more foreign nurses to work in the NHS
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Hospital bosses told to get on a plane and find more foreign nurses to work in the NHS

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This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/23/hospital-bosses-told-get-plane-find-foreign-nurses-work-nhs/ By Henry Bodkin  Hospital bosses should personally fly to low and middle income countries in a bid to recruit more foreign nurses to work in the NHS, policy experts have said. Richard Murray, chief executive of the King’s Fund, said delegating hiring to private agencies risked Britain losing the “international competition”…