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Hospitals: They’re as dangerous as mines and factories, commission says

Hospitals are as dangerous as mines and factories, a special commission into hospital health and hygiene has reported. Lessons aren’t being learned, and any hospital could be the site of a major pande... more »

Hospital Beds: Hungary learns to cut back, the EU way

The European Union is a wonderful thing. It endeavours to provide a level playing field for all its member states, as Hungary has just discovered. more »

Hepatitis C: Hospital patients are new group at risk

Hepatitis C is a virus that can cause liver damage and cancer, sometimes fatally. Body fluids and the sharing of contaminated needles can spread it, and so high-risk groups include homosexuals and dr... more »

Hospital Deaths: 11% of elderly suffer heart attack

Around 11 per cent of elderly people in hospital will suffer a serious heart attack while there, a new study has discovered. They are also twice as likely to die from the attack. more »

Elective surgery beta-blocker shocker

A recent analysis of 37,151 patients receiving atenolol (a long-acting beta-blocker) or metoprolol (a short-acting beta-blocker) in patients aged over 65 undergoing elective surgery found that those g... more »

Elective surgery: giving it a vote of no confidence

Elective surgery is any procedure that is subject to choice, as opposed to urgent or emergency surgery that must be performed straightaway. You can derive benefit from an elective procedure, but it ma... more »

Elective surgery surgical risk

High risk operations Major surgery particularly in the elderly Aortic and other major vascular surgery Peripheral vascular surgery Any surgery with large fluid changes and or blood loss... more »

Elective surgery

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Prostate surgery what to do instead

Opt for watchful waiting if your tumour is localised while monitoring whether your cancer is progressing and if so how quickly This conservative management approach entails regular PSA prosta... more »

Prostate surgery

Radical prostatectomy to remove the entire prostate - the walnut-sized gland located in front of the rectum, between the bladder and the penis - is the first port of call in the treatment of clinicall... more »

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3 Nov 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

The poisoned generation

Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulat... more »

23 Oct 2009 | Health from your Gar... (bshubbard)

Your good health is down to yo...

One thing is sure in this world: only you can establish total wellness and health. Unless you want it, and are sufficiently motivated to gain it and keep it, no amount of outside support will su... more »

1 Oct 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

DNA: it's not destiny

When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what m... more »

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