via Older people who self harm need long term follow-up to reduce suicide risk | BMJ.
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Older people who harm themselves are at a much greater risk of suicide than are people of the same age in the general population and three times as likely to take their own life than are younger people who self harm, a study has found.
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Bullying victimisation and risk of self harm in early adolescence: longitudinal cohort study | BMJ.
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Objectives To test whether frequent bullying victimisation in childhood increases the likelihood of self harming in early adolescence, and to identify which bullied children are at highest risk of self harm.
Design The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) longitudinal study of a nationally representative UK cohort of 1116 twin pairs born in 1994-95 (2232 children).
Newspapers hail ‘new breast cancer blood test’ – Health News – NHS Choices.
NHS Choices examines the science behind the newspaper headlines.
This case-control study provides evidence that a type of molecular modification (methylation) at a particular genetic site may be associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer.
GPs are making too many mistakes when prescribing drugs to patients, the official regulator says.
via BBC News – GPs ‘making too many errors prescribing drugs’.
via Childhood obesity increases blood pressure in adolescence, study shows | BMJ.
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Children who are overweight or obese throughout childhood show raised blood pressure at the age of 14, a new study has found.
Fizzy drink consumption amongst Scottish secondary school children has fallen dramatically, according to a World Health Organisation survey.
via BBC News – Scottish children ‘shunning’ fizzy drinks, says WHO study.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should look at the risk-benefit profile of approved drugs at pre-specified times after they are put on the market, the Institute of Medicine has recommended.
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via Income and job satisfaction fall among US doctors | BMJ.
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The income of US doctors in most specialties fell from 2010 to 2011, while their unhappiness with practising medicine rose. Just half (54%) said that they would choose medicine again as a career
The NHS and social networking site Facebook have joined forces in an attempt to increase the number of organs being donated.
via Warning of ‘deep unease’ about safeguarding fragmentation | News | Health Service Journal.
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Safeguarding arrangements for vulnerable children could become “more confusing, fragmented and possibly riskier” under government reforms, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Objectives To derive and validate a risk adjustment model for predicting seven day mortality in emergency medical admissions, to test the value of including physiology and blood parameters, and to explore the constancy of the risk associated with each model variable across a range of settings.
Design Mixed prospective and retrospective cohort study.
Setting Nine acute hospitals (n=3 derivation, n=9 validation) and associated ambulance services in England, Australia, and Hong Kong.
via New BMA council members back action to repeal health act | BMJ.
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The BMA needs a national strategy to campaign for the repeal of the Health and Social Care Act and to publicise its damaging effects, says a newly elected member of the BMA’s council.
via FDA moves towards becoming a global public health agency | BMJ.
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The US’s Food and Drug Administration has announced how it is broadening its scope and collaborating with foreign agencies to ensure that imported food, drugs, medical devices, and other products that it regulates meet the same standards as those made in the United States.
via Stroke recovery care ‘failing’ patients | News | Health Service Journal.
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A lack of post-hospital care means stroke survivors are not making the best recovery possible, according to a new report.
