Category Archives: health

The Health Bill – ‘outright Opposition’

January 19, 2012   family, health, hospital

NHS plans: Unions move to ‘outright opposition’

By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News

 The health bill is currently working its way through Parliament

The unions representing nurses and midwives have joined others in stating their “outright opposition” to the government’s NHS plans in England.

The Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives had expressed concerns in the past, but said they were willing to work with ministers.

However, now they want the entire bill covering the changes to be dropped.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said the unions wanted to “have a go” at government about “pay and pensions”.

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New UEA diabetes study into women’s diet and heart disease hailed as a ‘significant’ success

January 16, 2012   Carers, Diabetes, health

New UEA diabetes study into women’s diet and heart disease hailed as a ‘significant’ success

By RICHARD WOOD Monday, January 16, 2012
12:01 AM

A PIONEERING new study has shown that eating more flavonoids can potentially reduce the risk of heart disease for women with diabetes.

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Daily consumption of bacon and other red meat products can raise cancer rates

January 13, 2012   Cancer, Carers, health

Bacon linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer, says report

Study claims eating two rashers or one sausage a day can increase threat of contracting disease by nearly 20%

 

Daily consumption of bacon and other red meat products can raise cancer rates, according to the study.

Eating two rashers of bacon a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19% and the risk goes up if a person eats more, experts have said.

Eating 50g of processed meat every day – the equivalent to one sausage or two rashers of bacon – increases the risk by 19%, compared to people who do not eat processed meat at all.

For people consuming double this amount of processed meat (100g), the increased risk jumps to 38%, and is 57% for those eating 150g a day. But experts cautioned that the overall risk of pancreatic cancer was relatively low – in the UK, the lifetime risk of developing the disease is one in 77 for men and one in 79 for women.

Nevertheless, the disease is deadly – it is frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage and kills 80% of people in under a year. Only 5% of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis.

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