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Reducing child poverty in England would significantly boost child health and narrow health inequalities

It would cut infant deaths, numbers of children in care, hospital admissions Likely have other beneficial knock-on effects on local authority and health services Most deprived regions, especially in the North East, stand to benefit the most Renewed efforts to reduce child poverty in England between now and 2033, such ...

Follow Australia’s lead and ban artificial stone, researchers urge European governments

Until then, adopt all possible control measures to minimise exposure to harmful silica dust The UK and the European Union should follow Australia’s lead and ban the kitchen worktop favourite and cause of irreversible and rapidly progressive lung disease—artificial stone siliicosis—urge researchers in an editorial, published online in Occupational & Environmental ...

Think about banning kitchen worktop favourite to ward off incurable lung disease, urge doctors

Call prompted by treating first 8 cases of artificial stone silicosis reported in UK It may now be time to ban artificial stone—a firm favourite for kitchen worktops in the UK— to ward off the incurable lung disease caused by its manufacturing and fitting, say a team of doctors in ...

2024-08-07T14:38:48+00:007 August 2024|Press release, Thorax|

Interplay of sex, marital status, education, race linked to 18 year US lifespan gap

No one factor paramount, but individual risk rises in tandem with number of such factors Simple scoring system helps overcome this complexity to identify those at risk of early death The interplay of a quartet of sex, marital status, education, and race is linked to an 18 year lifespan gap ...

2024-08-07T14:20:53+00:006 August 2024|BMJ Open, Press release|

Rising toll of serious injuries linked to expanded Mexico-US border wall crossing

Poor discharge care and interpreting facilities equal “humanitarian and health crisis” Injured from 38 different countries; 21 languages other than Spanish spoken The expansion of the Mexico-US border wall crossing has been accompanied by a rising toll of serious injuries, with poor discharge care and a lack of appropriate interpreting ...

Lettuce may be just as good as dock leaf for easing nettle sting symptoms

Cooling and soothing effect of sap evaporating from a crushed leaf may be what helps Rubbing a lettuce leaf on a nettle sting to ease the associated discomfort may be just as good as using the age-old folk remedy of a dock leaf, suggest the results of a small comparative ...

2024-07-30T10:12:04+00:0030 July 2024|Emergency Medicine Journal, Press release|

Inflammatory activity of rheumatoid arthritis linked to specific cognitive impairments

Poorer visuospatial ability, recall, abstract thinking, working memory, concentration, inhibition The inflammatory activity in the body caused by rheumatoid arthritis is linked to specific cognitive impairments, finds a small comparative study, published in the open access journal RMD Open.  These are diminished visuospatial abilities, recall, abstract thinking, and the executive functions ...

2024-07-30T10:08:27+00:0030 July 2024|Press release, RMD Open|

Little evidence to back widespread prescribing of mood-altering drugs to children for mental health issues

But current practice needs to be a lot safer, insist experts There’s limited evidence to back up the widespread and increasing rates of prescribing mood-altering drugs (psychotropics) as the mainstay of mental health treatment for children and young people, warn experts in an editorial, published today in the August issue ...

Unplanned pregnancies among active service women likely curb US military readiness

They result in an estimated 2.5 million to more than 4.5 million active service days lost Highest rates among 18-24 year olds, those of White race, in junior ranks, and in the Army  Unplanned pregnancies among active service women may be curbing overall US military readiness for action and compromising ...

2024-07-26T15:52:26+00:0026 July 2024|BMJ Military Health, Press release|

More than 10-fold difference in rates of unintentional gun deaths across US states

More than 12,000 lives lost to these incidents between 2001 and 2021 Poverty, rurality, non-White ethnicity and firearms ownership all linked to higher rates There’s more than a 10-fold difference in the rates of unintentional gun deaths across US states, with such incidents claiming more than 12,000 lives between 2001 ...

2024-07-26T15:50:30+00:0026 July 2024|Injury Prevention, Press release|
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