Sending general practitioners (GPs) in England a letter giving feedback on their antibiotic prescribing habits could cut unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics, according to the first nationwide randomised trial of its ...
Feb 19, 2016
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Adolescents discharged from hospitals in England after an admission for violent, drug- or alcohol-related, or self-inflicted injuries have increased risks of subsequent death and emergency re-admission up to a decade later, ...
Dec 29, 2015
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Almost three quarters of the weekend emergency care caseload is linked to excess alcohol intake, finds an activity analysis of one large inner city hospital in England, and published online in Emergency Medicine Journal.
Dec 21, 2015
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It is within the power of a judge to sever all legal ties between a child in care and its birth family through an adoption order. Most adoption orders for children in care in England are made without parental consent, and ...
Dec 10, 2015
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New figures released by the Office for National Statistics have shown that Alzheimer's disease and other dementias were the leading cause of death for women in England and Wales in 2014, and the second leading cause of death ...
Nov 10, 2015
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Environmental factors may be a contributory cause in the development of some childhood cancers, leading scientists have revealed.
Nov 9, 2015
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Hospital patients are up to a third more likely to die if they are sent home from hospital at weekends, a major Aston University research has revealed. The study of nearly one million hospital patients admitted to hospital ...
Sep 15, 2015
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E-cigarettes should be prescribed to smokers to help them quit the habit, British public health experts recommended in a study on Wednesday.
Aug 19, 2015
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Waiting time targets for treating patients referred with suspected cancer have been missed for a sixth successive quarter, according to new NHS England figures.
Aug 14, 2015
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Cancer survival in England remains lower than countries with similar healthcare systems, according to a new Cancer Research UK funded study published in the British Journal of Cancer today.
Aug 4, 2015
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