Healthcare :: Harm reduction action plan in UK
Around ?2-million is to be spent to help reduce the number of people dying from drug overdoses or contracting blood-borne viruses through injecting themselves with dirty needles.
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NHS :: Training for the NHS workforce
The Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills today announced arrangements for the management of NHS training budgets by Strategic Health Authorities in England in 2007/8.
Healthcare :: Doctors & patients should work together to make decisions about treatment
The General Medical Council (GMC) has launched a consultation to find out how doctors and patients can best work together to make decisions about treatment.
Medical Negligence :: Woman died from septicaemia after haemorrhoids surgery in UK
A UK primary care trust made a public apology to the family of a patient who died from multiple organ failure due to severe flaws in the care provided by an out-of-hours GP service.
HIV :: AHF counters GSK ads that promote fear of HIV treatment
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider in the United States and operator of free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia unveiled a public awareness campaign targeting negative direct-to-consumer advertising of HIV/AIDS drugs by pharmaceutical companies.
Asthma :: Persistent and severe asthma associated with obesity
After analyzing results of a survey of more than 3,000 adults with asthma, researchers at Emory Crawford Long Hospital have found that obese patients with asthma are more likely to have severe asthma when compared to those who are not overweight.
Breast Cancer :: Follow-up care for breast cancer patients is devalued & deregulated
Follow-up of breast cancer patients after their initial treatment is becoming “devalued and deregulated”, according to new research published online in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology.
Avandia :: Physicians urged to take measured approach in response to potential Avandia risks
The Endocrine Society urges physicians to respond in a measured way to a recent study suggesting the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) increases the risk of heart disease and heart attacks.
Infant :: Small infants have greater survival rate in high level intensive care facilities
Very low birth weight infants are significantly more likely to survive when delivered in hospitals with high-level neonatal intensive care units that care for more than 100 such newborns annually than are those delivered in comparable facilities that provide care to fewer than 100 such children every year.
Healthcare :: African-Americans perceive people with extreme health problems as less productive and valuable
African-Americans appear to perceive people with extreme health problems as less productive or valuable according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.