Health
People seeking mental health care forced into getting help from police “is unacceptable”
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has released a report into policing and mental health. Mind was involved with the report - ‘Policing and Mental Health - Picking Up the Pieces’ - by being part of the reference group. Responding to the findings, Geoff Heyes, Head of Health Policy and Influencing at Mind, said:“We welcome this report, particularly the acknowledgement that many people seeking mental health care have to turn to the police to access...
Eating disorders have increased in young children & is higher than previously thought
It affects equally boys and girls and it is only after puberty does a clear sex difference emerge with girls more prone to bulimia, binge eating and other eating disorders
Bug passed from camels may trigger next deadly pandemic
MERS causes a harmless cold in the 'ships of the desert' but leads to severe lung disease in patients - and it is about to become even more contagious because it is developing mutations
Leave referendum win saw surge in antidepressants prescribed
Researchers found that antidepressant prescribing in England rose by 13.4 per cent relative to other types of drug in the immediate aftermath of the 'leave' EU referendum victory in 2016
Improving dementia care and treatment saves the NHS thousands of pounds
Care homes that treated residents with a new cost-effective care plan devised by experts saved the NHS up to £4,000 after nine months.
MRI scans ‘predict which people will develop Alzheimer’s’
MRI scans of the brain using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which assess the condition of the brain's white matter, were found to be between 89 and 95 per cent accurate
Concerns raised over Google-fuelled hypochondria after serious health searches skyrocket
Concerns that the internet is fuelling hypochondria have been raised after research revealed searches for serious health conditions have increased by thousands of percentage points over the last three years. UK search volumes for terms such as ‘how to know chest pains are serious’ have risen by 8,781 per cent from 2015 to 2018, analysis of Google data has found. And searches for keywords such as ‘sciatica’, ‘acne’ and ‘IBS’ plus ‘treatment’ are now searched over 100,000 times on average...
My £20 CPR class saved my baby’s life
Isaac Hoey was just six weeks old when he "stopped breathing and started to turn blue".
Genetically modified virus that kills cancer cells developed by British scientists
The dual action virus targets cancer cells and healthy cells tricked into protecting the cancer from the immune system