Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• A study has found that the average adult spends 2 hours and 11 minutes every day feeling stressed – the equivalent of 5 and half years over the course of a lifetime. Researchers found heavy workloads, financial worries, health problems and family dramas means the average adult spends the equivalent of more than fifteen hours a week feeling under pressure. The study of 2,000 adults, found more than two thirds of the population (69% per cent) often struggle with the daily demands of modern life.
• The number of foreign-born mothers having babies in England and Wales in 2016 reached 28 % – the highest level on record, official statistics show. This figure has increased every year since 1990.
• The Mail Online reports that vitamin D will not protect your child from a cold: myth-busting study says ‘more isn’t always better’ to help toddlers stay healthy. The story is based on a study that looked at whether giving healthy young children high doses of vitamin D in the winter protects them from colds and flu better than the standard recommended lower dose.

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• Senator John McCain, 80, has been diagnosed with a primary glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor. The senator underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on Friday at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. McCain is now recovering at his Arizona home. He and his family are considering treatment options, which will likely include radiation and chemotherapy, his doctors said.
• The Arkansas Board of Health has approved emergency regulations to implement a new state law dictating how fetal remains must be handled after an abortion. The board decided Wednesday that abortion clinics won’t be responsible for handling fetal tissue in medication abortions that happen outside of their clinics.
• A new poll suggests the US may be shifting toward the political left on the healthcare issue, with 62% saying it’s the federal government’s responsibility to make sure that all Americans have healthcare coverage, while 37% say it is not. Currently the U.S. has a hybrid system of paying for medical care, with employers, federal and state governments, and individuals sharing responsibility. Government at all levels pays close to half the annual three trillion dollar cost, and federal tax breaks support employer-provided coverage.

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• Fatalities from food-induced allergic reactions in Australia have been increasing by around 10% each year. As the number of Australians with severe food allergies rises, so too has the number of restaurant diners suffering food-induced anaphylaxis. To combat the problem a new online training course for hospitality workers was launched today by Sydney chef Alex Herbert, the website is foodallergytraining.org.au.
• Australia is contributing funds to help Sri Lanka combat its worst outbreak of dengue fever, which has claimed 250 lives and infected nearly 100,000 people so far this year in the Indian Ocean island nation. Australia is giving $ 475,000 Australian dollars to the World Health Organization to implement immediate dengue prevention, management and eradication programs in Sri Lanka.
• Doug Young was diagnosed with dementia in 2011 and has became one of more than  410,000 Australians with the disease, which has become the country’s second leading cause of death. The Lancet recommendations for improving brain health and minimising the risk of dementia are: increasing education (past the age of 15), physical activity and social engagement while reducing smoking and obesity, treating blood pressure, depression, diabetes, and hearing impairment.

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• The Cleveland Clinic says a 21-year-old woman disfigured by a gunshot as a teenager has received a face transplant. The hospital says the 31-hour surgery in May was its third face transplant and its first “total face transplant.” It included her scalp, eyelids, nose, facial muscles and nerves, teeth and much of her jaw. The medical center isn’t sharing names and other details about the patient and donor to protect their privacy.
• The box prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated the 1969 moon landing. Most were 30 to 40 years past their expiration dates — possibly toxic, probably worthless. ProPublica has been researching why the U.S. healthcare system is the most expensive in the world. One answer, broadly, is waste — some of it buried in practices that the medical establishment and the rest of us take for granted.
• There are 3.3 million people in the US who had diabetes in 2015. That means 9.4 percent of the  U.S. population that has diabetes.  That’s 1 in 10 people. The number of newly diagnosed cases of diabetes among U.S. adults in 2015  was 1.5 million. The number of newly diagnosed cases of diabetes among U.S. adults in 2015. That works out to 6.7 new cases per 1,000 people.

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• Ambulances have been queued 10 deep for hours outside some overstretched emergency wards across south-western Sydney, with doctors having to “tuck people in every corner” due to a surge in patients in the past forty eight hours. Australian Paramedics Association NSW president Steve Pearce said ambulance crews were having to wait for up to 3 and a half hours with patients on stretchers.
• Three in 4 Australians who are vision impaired don’t need to be. This month, the Eye Surgeons’ Foundation is calling for donations for research projects to help end preventable blindness. The national not-for-profit organisation celebrates its 10th annual JulEYE eye health campaign this year. Since 2002 the foundation has supported more than 200  eye research projects, raised in excess of $21 million  for vision programs.
• More than one thousand cases of almost-untreatable superbugs were reported in Australia in the twelve months to March this year. For the first time, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has tracked dangerous bacteria resistant to the last line of antibiotics.