This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47699791 By Hugh Pym Health editor Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock wants new legislation to force social media companies to remove content promoting false information about vaccines. He said the government is working with internet companies to identify misleading material on jabs, including Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR). Artificial intelligence programmes…
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…
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…
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…
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…