This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47724068 By Nick Triggle Health correspondent There is a growing clamour to raise the age at which tobacco products can be bought, from 18 to 21. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health put forward the idea earlier this month, and now a leading doctor, Imperial College London respiratory specialist Dr…
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.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.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…
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”…