PPG Posts

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• Children’s Illnesses Presentation

BBC Health News

• Allied Healthcare: Home care provider seeks rescue plan April 21, 2018
  Allied Healthcare, one of the UK's biggest providers of in-home care, blames a "challenging environment".
• Cystic fibrosis: Company urged to lower cost of life-changing drug April 21, 2018
  Health ministers call on company to lower price of cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi so the NHS can afford it.
• 'The gym helps me cope with my OCD' April 21, 2018
  Gemma has OCD, but has found bodybuilding helps her manage and works as coping strategy.
• Is marathon running bad for you? April 20, 2018
  Some 40,000 runners are due to take part in the London Marathon, but are those 26.2 miles doing us harm?
• Gestational diabetes an 'epidemic' April 20, 2018
  Experts say more screening is needed to tackle the disease, which affects pregnant women.

NHS Health News

• NHS Choices January 31, 2018
  Health A-Z Symptoms, conditions, medicines, treatments and guides Find conditions and treatments Live well Articles, videos and tools from the NHS on more than 100 topics, including alcohol, diet, fitness, tiredness and weight loss, giving you and your family tips on healthy living. Visit healthy living information Common Health Questions A comprehensive list of common […]
• Cancer treatment response may be affected by gut bacteria November 3, 2017
  "Gut bacteria 'boost' cancer therapy," BBC News reports. The news comes from research into whether people with cancer might respond differently to cancer treatment depending on the bacteria in their gut. Researchers specifically looked at a type of cancer treatment called immunotherapy. This involves stimulating the immune system to attack cancerous cells – in this […]
• Could a blood test in middle age predict dementia risk? November 2, 2017
  "Tissue inflammation blood test points to dementia risk," is the headline in The Times. Researchers in the US say people who have higher measures of inflammation in middle age are likely to have less brain tissue in some parts of their brain in older age. The differences in brain volume, seen on MRI scans, were […]
• Acid reflux drugs linked to increased stomach cancer risk November 1, 2017
  "A drug commonly used to treat acid reflux is linked to a more than doubled risk of developing stomach cancer," reports The Guardian. Researchers wanted to investigate whether there's a link between medicines known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and stomach cancer. Widely used PPIs include esomeprazole, lansoprazole, omeprazole, pantoprazole and rabeprazole. PPIs are used […]
• Nutrient drink for Alzheimer's has disappointing result in trial October 31, 2017
  A new study investigating the effects of a nutrient drink for Alzheimer's disease has led to very different headlines in the media. While BBC News tells us the "Alzheimer's nutrient drink falters in clinical trial", the Daily Mirror reports the drink "could help stave off Alzheimer's disease, according to scientists". The trial investigated the effects […]