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Feb 2020
A survey recently distributed and conducted by medical royal colleges has raised concerns about excessive workloads within the NHS, with almost a third of doctors surveyed reporting that they are suffering from stress, burnout and ‘compassion fatigue’. The survey, which has been published in the BMJ Open Journal, also found that GPs and A&E doctors…
04
Feb 2020
For many years, an increased risk of type 2 diabetes was seen as the result of poor nutrition during pregnancy, evidenced by a low birth weight. However, although in recent years babies’ birth weights have been increasing, cases of the disease have continued to rise, leading to a search for alternative explanations. The ability to…
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Jan 2020
Latest figures show that prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England, and has overtaken breast cancer for the first time. In 2018, there were approaching 50,000 registered cases, an increase of around 8,000 on the previous year. In that year, 316,680 cancer diagnoses were made, which is the equivalent of 868…
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Jan 2020
Cancer Research UK say that thousands of people with bowel cancer in England are ‘slipping through the net’ each year and being diagnosed too late due to a lack of NHS staff who specialise in conducting colonoscopy tests. Colonoscopies locate pre-cancerous growths in the bowel. A referral in England is harder to access than in…
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Jan 2020
On 5th January 2020 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced its plans to invest up to £165 million into its esteemed Trouble Families Programme. The current programme was rolled out in England in April 2015 and replaced the first programme which had been in place since 2012. The scheme aims to provide…
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Jan 2020
Scientists at King’s College London analysed data obtained from studies relating to 60 million people over a period of eight years to determine the true effectiveness of the vaccination. The injection, which has been given to teenage girls since 2008 and boys since the start of the current school year, destroys a virus which causes…
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