Archive: 31/10/2017

Less red tape and shorter working hours might help stave off retirement of UK doctors

Less red tape and shorter working hours are the two key factors that might persuade older UK doctors to carry on working rather than hanging up their stethoscopes, suggests an analysis of survey responses, published in the ...

Oct 31, 2017

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Long-term use of drugs to curb acid reflux linked to doubling in stomach cancer risk

The long term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a class of drugs commonly used to treat acid reflux, is linked to a more than doubling in the risk of developing stomach cancer, finds research published online in the journal ...

Oct 31, 2017

Understudied racial minority groups show alarmingly high rates of obesity and diabetes

Some of the smallest and historically neglected racial groups in the United States experience far more obesity, diabetes, and other health conditions than non-Hispanic white adults, a study by researchers at the University ...

Oct 31, 2017