Topic: United Kingdom
A London hospital has won its High Court battle over health authorities' plans to close down its children's heart surgery unit.Lawyers for the Royal Brompton in Chelsea, west London, argued that a consultation exercise launched by the Joint Committee of the Primary ...
LONDON (Reuters) - People who regularly work long hours may be significantly increasing their risk of developing heart disease, the world's biggest killer, British scientists said Monday.Researchers said a long-term study showed that working more than 11 hours a day increased the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have linked drinking sugary drinks like fizzy cola and fruit drinks with high blood pressure and say their findings suggest that cutting both sugar and salt intake could help reduce the risk.High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a ...
A leading health expert has questioned the government's case for radical reform of the NHS, saying that Britain's healthcare compares more favourably to the rest of Europe than ministers claim.John Appleby, chief economist at the King's Fund think tank, cast doubt over ...
Ischemic stroke patients treated with intravenous alteplase tend to fare better than those who do not undergo thrombolysis, and this holds true for those over the age of 80, according to research published online Nov. 23 in BMJ.. Nishant K. Mishra, of ...
Working as an editor and learning a lot made my eyes very sensitive. In Hungary I used to swim outside but since I live here in the UK I have opportunity only for indoor swimming. I found that this antifog protection doesn?t ...
Globally, about 20,000 people die each year as a direct result of sitting in cramped conditions in an airplane. Airlines have known for some years that there is a serious risk of developing a fatal Deep Vein Thrombosis (or DVT) on long ...
The article reports on the important contributions to Ulster medicine of Irish Cardiologist Professor James Francis " Pantridge is the inventor of the portable defibrillator, better known as the Pantridge defibrillator, which transformed the cardiac ambulance. Patrick J Morrison INTRODUCTION It is ...
The article presents abstracts of papers on medical topics discussed during the 81st meeting of Ulster Society of Internal Medicine in Portadown, Northern Ireland on May 15, 2009, which include the prognosis of basilar artery occlusion due to atrial fibrillation, the efficacy ...
Thrombosis ? All You Need to Know About The Silent Killer. A deep vein thrombosis (DVT) forms in one of the large, deep veins in the body, often in the legs and if part of it breaks off it can travel to ...
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