Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• The World Health Organization has warned that 35 people have died in the past year from measles outbreaks across Europe. According to Doctor Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, the WHO regional director for Europe every death or disability caused by this vaccine-preventable disease is an unacceptable tragedy and measles remains a leading cause of death among children worldwide, and unfortunately Europe is not spared.ath.
• UK officials will launch an inquiry into why thousands of patients, many of them hemophiliacs, became infected with HIV and hepatitis C from blood products used more than 30 years ago. Some 2,400 people died as a result of the tainted blood treatment.
• BBC News reports that nearly a quarter of women who don’t make cervical screening appointments are unaware that the process even exists according to a UK survey. Cervical cancer is responsible for around 900 deaths a year in the UK.

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• According to a report released by the California’s Department of Public Health, 111  people died last year under California’s new right-to-die law. It allows for California residents, age eighteen and older, to request life-ending medication from their doctor if they are suffering from a terminal illness and want to set their own timetable for their death.
• US Republican senator John McCain has predicted that the bill to roll back Obamacare would probably fail, adding to growing signs that the bill is in trouble. The Senate bill, which faces unified Democratic opposition, has been further imperilled during a week-long recess where several Republican senators have had to return to their states and face constituents strongly opposed to it.
• The Natural Resources Defense Council reported that about 40% of Americans live in counties where a “double whammy” of unhealthy levels of smog and ragweed pollen — both tied to climate change — combine to threaten respiratory health. California leads the list with 6 of the top 10 most polluted U.S. cities.

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• Perth researchers are moving closer to preventing blood clots that can cause miscarriage. While blood clots could affect anyone, they were the second leading cause of death in pregnant women and could cause fertility problems and miscarriage
• According to Australian researchers people who self-harmed as teens are more than twice as likely to be weekly cannabis users at the age of thirty five. Teenagers who self-harm are more likely to suffer mental health problems, have substance abuse issues and relationship failures, even decades after the behaviour stops.
• Quentin Smith, 49, from Goodna, south-west of Brisbane, sought help from Ipswich Hospital’s emergency department on January 12 this year. The following day, Quentin took his own life at his home. His mother Joyce Smith said the hospital should also have contacted her or Quentin’s brother as soon as he presented to the hospital’s emergency department, to discuss his treatment. She said its failure to do so was a breach of the Mental Health Act.

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• British Nutrition Foundation’s survey shows children thought cheese comes from plants and strawberry jam must be included in their daily fruit diet – an evidence that children must be educated of healthier food choices.
• Cancer cases among women are rising six times faster than in men – obesity being one of the factors of womb and ovarian cancer.
• Gonorrhoea – caused by oral sex and a decline in condom use – is spreading fast and becomes harder to treat according to WHO.

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• Medication errors are on the rise causing more serious health problems. Records show some errors were made by the patient taking over-the-counter drugs without a professional’s prescription.
• US Birth and Fertility Rates declines and reaches a record low – puts US population below replacement level.
• U.S. Senator Rand Paul has emerged as one of the biggest obstacles to passing the Republican answer to the Affordable Care Act, adding another wrinkle in his complex relationship with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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• Two-thirds of drug company-sponsored events occur in clinical settings. Royal North Shore Hospital tops the list of Sydney hospitals hosting these events .
• Australia should meet its financial commitments for women’s sexual and reproductive health at the Family Planning 2020 Summit in London on July 11, 2017.
• Women from South Asian countries giving birth in Australia are 27% more likely to experience stillbirth than women from Australia according to studies.

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• Abortion becomes the birth control that women need when the contraceptive method they use lets them down.
• Cancer – the most feared disease among the public ahead of Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression, heart disease and multiple sclerosis – is now one of the most common life-changing events in people’s lives.
• Children with higher IQs may be at a lower risk of dying from a range of major diseases such as respiratory, coronary heart disease, and stroke.