News Items by Date - July 2006

1 July 2006Computer models may reveal what makes human body clock tick - Edinburgh University

3 July 2006Helping the addicts of today and tomorrow - Bristol University

3 July 2006Ambulance Service Report challenges idea that ambulances are just patient transport

3 July 2006Infections link with diabetes, suggests biggest study yet - Newcastle University

4 July 2006Bioengineered tissue implants regenerate damaged knee cartilage - Bristol University

4 July 2006Powerful radiation source to further cancer research - Liverpool University

5 July 2006UK smokers most likely to cash in on cheap cigarettes

5 July 2006UK Health and social care inspectorates set out concerns about services for people with learning needs

5 July 2006UK Govn Health News - £750 million Cash boost for community hospitals

5 July 2006Study finds hospital admissions for Parkinson’s patients often avoidable

6 July 2006NZ Indians more at risk from diabetes and heart disease, Asians less prone to cancer

6 July 2006Children’s Mental Health Doesn’t Take a Summer Break

6 July 2006Heat halts pain inside the body - University College London

6 July 2006Tánaiste Announces the full implementation of the Mental Health Act - Ireland

7 July 2006Children in families with no adult in paid employment are more likely to die from injury or poisoning

7 July 2006New MRC centre to research cancer diet link

7 July 2006Australian olive leaf extract shows promise in laboratory testing - hope for breast & prostate cancer patients

7 July 2006Research shows whooping cough is endemic among UK schoolchildren

9 July 2006Study reveals New Zealand campylobacter rates highest in world - Otago University Research (NZ)

9 July 2006Safety First: Call to prevent child poisonings - Griffith University, Australia

10 July 2006UK Healthcare watchdog promises rigorous analysis of trust declaration on standards

10 July 2006Reading University Researchers: Suppose we all ate a healthy diet...

10 July 2006Women students know nothing of lifestyle links to breast cancer

10 July 2006Scientists unravel breast cancer risk gene mystery

11 July 2006Glasgow Scientists Search For Blindness Cure

11 July 2006UK Food Standards Agency salt awareness campaign continues

11 July 2006FSA issues new guidance to improve food labels for consumers with allergies

11 July 2006Evidence that rest facilities for Junior Doctors improves patient safety in UK hospitals

11 July 2006Physiotherapists endorse UK Government decision to permit patients to self-refer

12 July 2006Life-Saving Cancer Treatment Pioneered in Leicester an International Success

12 July 2006Findings of MRC monitoring study of Pentosan Polysulphate treatment in CJD patients

12 July 2006Brain-computer link allows paralyzed patient to manipulate devices by thought

12 July 2006Sleep deprivation doubles risks of obesity in both children and adults

12 July 2006Healthcare regulators sign information-sharing agreement with police chiefs

13 July 2006New hope for ways to overcome drug resistance in lung cancer

13 July 2006Major improvement in hospital hygiene in Ireland

14 July 2006Basic, regular training helps doctors treat alcoholism

14 July 2006BMA responds to UK Chief Medical Officer report on medical regulation

14 July 2006Award for Ireland in recognition of leadership in tobacco control

16 July 2006New gene link to dementia opens up possibilities for diagnosis and treatment

17 July 2006G8 commitments to infectious disease can improve global health security

17 July 2006AMA: Physician participation in lethal injection violates medical ethics

18 July 2006British Medical Association (BMA) response to review of payment by results

18 July 2006Cancer Research - Protein 'engines' accelerate pancreatic cancer

18 July 2006Smoking to blame for over half of difference in men's mortality across UK class groups

18 July 2006UK Health Minister explains Payment-by-Results proposals for Childrens' Health Services

18 July 2006UK News - NHS Confederation respond to Health Select Committee report on charges

18 July 2006UK: No NHS jobs for more than 90% recently qualified physiotherapists

19 July 2006Patients worldwide could suffer if US stem cell Bill is vetoed - according to the Royal Society

19 July 2006Statement on Rota Virus vaccines - Australia

19 July 2006UK Health Minister announces taskforce for electronic records

19 July 2006Mental Health charity calls for zero tolerance policy of violence and abuse in inpatient units

19 July 2006Genetic disease gives new insight into immune responses

19 July 2006UK National Patient Safety Agency publishes first analysis of mental health patient safety incidents

19 July 200620 Indonesian staff in Singapore for lab training on bird flu diagnosis

20 July 2006Statement by UNICEF and the World Health Organization on escalating violence in Lebanon and Israel

20 July 2006Percentage of women leading medical research studies rises, but still lags behind men

20 July 2006Gene Variant Increases Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

20 July 2006Dogs itching to try homeopathic remedies - Bristol University

21 July 2006New Australian research: Aboriginal SIDS rates and knowledge of overseas-born mothers

21 July 2006Scientists team up with an unlikely ally — hookworms (Nottingham University)

21 July 2006Agency nurse wins UK Employment Rights case

21 July 2006New Zealand introduces new licensing rules for industrial hemp

21 July 2006UK National Patient Safety Agency: Analysis of mental health patient safety incidents

24 July 2006Ireland: safefood reminds consumers to practice food safety

24 July 2006Scottish study pinpoints protein's role in cancer spread

24 July 2006Irish yacht race team to take men’s cancer message across Atlantic

24 July 2006Believers, Skeptics Benefit Equally From 12-Step Programs

24 July 2006*Clean Your Hands* campaign enters second year

25 July 2006UK News: NHS Confederation respond to Health Select Committee report on ISTCs

25 July 2006Canada: PM announces agreement to compensate hepatitis C victims

25 July 2006New legal code to tackle healthcare associated infections

25 July 2006Wales: Medication safety scheme wins national award

25 July 2006Carotid Stenting the New Anti-Depressant ?

26 July 2006UK Mental Health Charity urges Government to use Welfare Reform opportunity

26 July 2006UK: British Heart Foundation comments on Tony Blair's lecture on public health

26 July 2006UK Health News: BMA calls for gov. decision about employment of overseas doctors

26 July 2006Public say prevention is single most important area for research into age-related ill-health

26 July 2006Obesity an Increasing Obstacle to Medical Diagnosis

27 July 2006Irish government decision on feasibility of litigation against pharmaceutical companies

27 July 2006UK Government announces strategy to improve end of life care

27 July 2006New guidance to help sufferers of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (UK)

28 July 2006Go-ahead for stem cell researchers at Newcastle University, UK

28 July 2006University of Leicester Produces the first ever World Map of Happiness

28 July 2006Imperial College (London) shows simple measures could control smallpox epidemic

29 July 2006Canadian Government - New website about Access to Medicines for Developing Nations

29 July 2006NHS Confederation responds to DH announcements on palliative care

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