Quarter of cancer patients in England face delays of up to TWO MONTHS before being diagnosed ‘because hospitals don’t have enough staff to carry out…
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‘Nudging’ heart patients to take their statins leads to better adherence and better outcomes
Statins are an effective medication for treating patients with heart disease—they cut the risk of a second major adverse cardiac event by almost 50 percent….
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FAQ: How We Rate Nursing Homes
Nursing home care can be as short as a few days or weeks after a hospitalization, or it can be years if aging family members…
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Dementia patients’ adult kids diagnosed earlier than their parents
A person’s chance of developing dementia is influenced by family history, variations in certain genes, and medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. But…
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Hope for coeliac patients with experimental injection
Hope for coeliac patients as scientists find an injection of a tiny ‘Trojan horse’ particle hiding gluten inside can teach the immune system to not…
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Certain genetic variants predispose patients with diabetes to kidney disease
In an unprecedented scale, researchers have begun to unravel the genetics that may predispose some individuals to develop kidney disease once they have diabetes, independent…
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Medical education does not equip students to provide high quality nutritional care to patients
Worldwide, nutrition is insufficiently incorporated into medical education, meaning that medical students lack the confidence, skills and knowledge to provide nutritional care to patients, according…
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DAVID GILBERT: How patients can improve the health of the NHS
DAVID GILBERT: How patients can improve the health of the NHS (not the other way around) One of the greatest resources of the NHS are…
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Statins could protect older patients from severe pneumonia, study finds
Statins could be used to treat older patients admitted to hospital with a severe type of pneumonia, researchers at the University of Birmingham have found….
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Exercise could help patients taking statins from suffering muscle pain
Moderate exercise could help patients taking cholesterol-busting statins beat the most common side effect of muscle pain, researchers say Roughly six million people in Britain…
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