Author: healthprofessionalradio

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• Women who have a high sugar intake during pregnancy shows 38% higher risk of their children developing an allergy or allergic asthma.
• Stem cell tourism’should be more tightly regulated and must undergo clinical trials to determine whether a proposed treatment is safe and effective.
• Donald Trump may be responsible for convincing a majority of Americans that single-payer national health insurance makes sense. He wants to repeal Obamacare, but do it in a humane way.

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• Austin and Monash hospitals are trialling a new “body clock” rostering system in an attempt to improve their doctors’ performance, lessen medical errors and avoid fatalities.
• Calls to impose a controversial sugar tax in Australia have been bolstered by a new study led by researchers from the Australian National University. Sugary drink consumption is likely to reduce rates of diabetes in Australia.
• Minocycline, an antibiotic used mostly to treat acne, has been found to improve the quality of life of people with major depression.

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• Vulnerable people are playing “Russian roulette” when they need care in England, campaigners warn, as a quarter of services are failing on safety.
• The number of people living with dementia in England and Wales will rise to 1.2 million by 2040 as life expectancy increases.
• “Tangles” in the brain of a person with dementia were pictured by scientists, a very important discovery to design drugs to stop brain cells dying..

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• In an exclusive interview, Sanders answered questions about the health care bill, a federal investigation into the now-defunct Burlington College and President Trump’s attacks on the news media. Sanders called the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act “a disaster for working families,” and said he has delayed his own single-payer health care legislation to focus on stopping the bill.
• The Better Care Reconciliation act, which the Congressional Budget Office says would leave an additional twenty two million people without healthcare, is currently stuck in the Senate without enough votes to pass. Senator Ted Cruz’s amendment would allow insurance companies to sell plans that do not include the Affordable Care Act mandated “essential health benefits”, in a move he claims would reduce costs.
• The U.S. Agriculture Department is requiring districts to adopt policies this month for addressing meal debts and to inform parents at the start of the academic year. Free and reduced-price meals funded by the Agriculture Department’s National School Lunch Program shield the nation’s poorest children from so-called lunch shaming. Kids can eat for free if a family of four earns less than about thirty two thousand dollars a year or at a discount if earnings are under forty five thousand dollars.

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• An Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care report shows the use of antibiotics has fallen markedly in hospitals, a shift it says will help slow the spread of antibiotic-resistant germs that cause dangerous, hard to treat infections. Figures obtained by the National Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance Program from one hundred and fifty nine public and private hospitals, including thirteen WA, show anti-biotics use fell 7.6 per cent between 2011 and 2015.
• Ending Australia’s diabetes epidemic could be one step closer with a promising new technique curing the condition in mice. University of Texas Health Science Centre doctors used a virus as a carrier to introduce insulin-producing genes into the pancreas of rodent subjects.
• Associate Professor Carol Maher, a researcher in mobile health apps from the University of South Australia, says there’s a few basic principles people can follow when choosing which health app to download.Health apps that use your smartphone to journal or monitor progress over time are probably the least worrisome, she says.