This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47884105 By BBC Healthcare news A bowel cancer charity is calling for more older people in Wales to be able to access free screening kits. Currently, only people aged 60 to 74 in Wales are invited to be screened every two years for the disease. Bowel Cancer UK said those aged…
This article was taken from: https://news.sky.com/story/long-term-use-of-antidepressants-could-cause-permanent-damage-doctors-warn-11688430 By Katie Spencer, news reporter NHS figures show antidepressant prescriptions in England doubled in the last decade, with more than 70 million handed out in 2018. Long-term antidepressant users are risking permanent damage to their bodies, according to leading medical experts. Dr Tony Kendrick, a professor of primary care at…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47852728 By Owain Clarke BBC Wales health correspondent Wales can become a “global player” in precision medicine and game-changing treatments, according to the health minister. Vaughan Gething is officially opening the UK’s first high-energy proton beam therapy centre for treating cancer. The Rutherford Cancer Centre in Newport is a private clinic but took…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/08/it-can-be-a-wonderful-freeing-moment-opening-up-about-mental-health-at-work By Moya Sarner Mental illness is still taboo in many workplaces. But life can be transformed when you are able to talk to colleagues Iwould rather tell an employer I have excruciating period pain or terrible diarrhoea than say I need to take a day off for my mental health. Despite…
This article was taken from: https://news.sky.com/story/mum-weeps-after-medical-cannabis-for-daughters-epilepsy-is-seized-at-airport-11685889 By Sky News The family flew to Rotterdam to obtain the medicine prescribed by a paediatric neurologist at the Erasmus Hospital. A mother who returned to the UK with illegal medical cannabis for her severely epileptic daughter wept after it was confiscated at the airport. Emma Appleby flew back to…