Archive: 27/06/2018

Financial incentives help to drive down unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions from GPs

Offering financial incentives to NHS commissioners reduces the amount of antibiotics in the community, and could help to curb drug-resistant infections.

Jun 27, 2018

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Recorded penicillin allergy linked to increased risk of 'superbug' infections

Patients who have a penicillin allergy recorded in their medical records are at an increased risk of developing the drug resistant 'superbug' infection MRSA and healthcare-associated infection C difficile, finds a study published ...

Jun 27, 2018

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Providing care based on need not ability to pay is the NHS's greatest achievement

'Providing care based on need and free at the point of delivery' has been voted the NHS's greatest achievement in its 70 years by readers of The BMJ.

Jun 27, 2018

Men with aggressive prostate cancer may get new powerful drug option

Men with non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer and a quickly rising PSA level present a medical dilemma. The rising PSA (prostate-specific antigen) means there is cancer activity, but no visible metastasis in ...

Jun 27, 2018

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Look before locking: protect your child from a hot car tragedy

(HealthDay)—Before the summer of 2018 was even one day old, 16 American kids had died after being left in hot cars, according to a group called KidsAndCars.org.

Jun 27, 2018

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Breast cancer studies ignore race, socioeconomic factors

The Bloomberg School scientists, in a commentary that appears in the July issue of Cancer Causes & Control, point to evidence that social factors help determine people's vulnerability to cancer, and argue that these factors ...

Jun 27, 2018

Men with migraine may have higher estrogen levels

While it has been known that estrogen plays a role in migraine for women, new research shows that the female sex hormone may also play a role in migraine for men, according to a small study published in the June 27, 2018, ...

Jun 27, 2018

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New findings on bacteria in female bladders

Scientists and physicians at Loyola University Chicago and Loyola Medicine were the first to publish groundbreaking research that debunked the common belief that urine in healthy women is sterile.

Jun 27, 2018