United Kingdom: 20,000 operations were canceled in 3 months
England breaks a sad record. Hospitals across the nation have deprogrammed more than 20,000 operations due to a lack of ...
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Medicated gel to replace tablets
British researchers have developed a medicated gel that is easy to swallow, which, unlike drinkable solutions, retains all the active ...
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Bath seats: beware of drowning babies
Bath seats do not protect against drowning. A British authority launches the alert, after an upsurge in accidents in the ...
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Overweight: the epidemic slows down among children in England
The overweight and obesity epidemic among children in England has slowed down considerably compared to the 1990s. The only downside ...
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Avian influenza: France strengthens surveillance measures
Bird flu threatens Europe again. A strain so far confined to Asia has been spotted in three countries. France has ...
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Man lived with a worm in his brain for 4 years
This parasite, which is part of the tapeworm family, infects humans extremely rarely. Since 1953, only 300 cases have been ...
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Papillomavirus: experts recommend vaccination for homosexuals
An English expert committee recommends extending the vaccination against the papillomavirus to men aged 16 to 40 who have sex ...
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Obesity: 32,000 overweight British soldiers
Overweight and obesity do not spare the ranks of the British Royal Army. 11% of troops in service since 2011 ...
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Stephen Sutton: bowel cancer at 15 is extremely rare
Stephen Sutton, 19, died of bowel cancer after raising more than three million pounds for the Teenage Cancer Trust. A ...
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Stephen Sutton dies: a teen’s courageous battle with cancer
Stephen Sutton, 19, was diagnosed with bowel cancer. After raising more than three million pounds for the benefit of an ...
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United Kingdom: 15 years in prison against the butcher surgeon
Dr Ian Paterson was sentenced to 15 years in prison for removing breasts from patients who did not need them.Dr. ...
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First reconstruction of the face with a 3D printer
A team of British surgeons succeeded in reconstructing part of the face of a road accident victim using titanium implants. ...
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When the city sends text messages to fight obesity
Stoke-on-Trent City Council (UK) will soon be sending encouraging text messages to obese citizens to encourage them to lose weight.€ ...
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Cardiac massage could save a third of victims
38,000 French people die each year from cardiac arrest. With better knowledge of cardiac massage, it would be possible to ...
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Cannabis smokers screened by cameras
After having tested ecstasy to celebrities, an English television will try the experiment with cannabis. The 2nd season of the ...
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Dr Mukherjee sings to improve asthma management
With a music video in which he stars, a British doctor has shown that he can help improve asthma management.Combine ...
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Assisted reproduction with three genetic parents
The United Kingdom could become the first country to legalize the so-called three-parent reproduction technique, in order to prevent mothers ...
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Mitochondrial diseases are a set of inherited deficits in oxidative phosphorylation responsible for a lack of oxygen consumption and energy ...
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United Kingdom: alcohol during pregnancy soon to be a crime?
In England, drinking during pregnancy could be penalized. The country's justice system will look into the case of a girl ...
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Penguins suffer from seasonal depression
A marine sanctuary in the north of Great Britain had to put penguins on antidepressants: the animals suffer from winter ...
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