Health Awareness
Patient safety
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Hearing loss: the costs, the effect on society and how to prevent it
More than 5% of the world’s population — 360 million people — has disabling hearing loss. Unaddressed hearing loss poses an annual global cost of £580 billion.
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How to prevent accidents with children
Here are 10 important messages for preventing child accidents.
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How dances and world record attempts help improve hand hygiene worldwide
The World Health Organisation is using novel ways to promote hand hygiene in a bid to cut the global level of healthcare related infections.
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Now wash your hands: how hand hygiene can fight infection
The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria means that we can no longer rely on antibiotics to fight infection. Now good hand hygiene is even more vital in saving lives.
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Spreading the knowledge on pressure ulcers
The bittersweet memory of supporting his elderly grandmother who was left immobile due to a pressure ulcer gave Russell Jones the inspiration to set up Pressure Ulcers UK.
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The growing burden of leg ulcers in the UK
Improved treatment, diagnostics and greater patient participation could help to reduce both the financial and the social cost of leg ulcers in the UK.
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What happens if you’re burned as a child?
Being burned or scalded as a child means years of painful treatment and, in the worst cases, hundreds of operations to release the scar tissue as they grow.
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How Sadiq plans to eradicate acid attacks, and better support victims
Sale of dangerous acids to under 18s have been banned in an effort to halt the recent rise of acid attacks in London. Now the physical <em>and</em> pyschological trauma of the victims needs to be considered.
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Good news for people with foot and leg ulcers
Leg and foot conditions including ulcers are being overlooked. Now a new campaign urges patients and clinicians to stand up for legs.
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Terror threats and acid violence bring wound and scar care into focus
Wound care, treating scars and reconstructive surgery have been brought into sharp focus; they are now are motivating new solutions and awareness campaigns.
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Cutting edge techniques for wound care healing
A large wound technology industry has evolved in supporting clinicians in this area and research is at an all-time high.
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An apps to assess how severe a burn is
From first aid to reducing scars, new knowledge and technology is helping medical staff to bring faster, easier, better treatment for burn patients.
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Fat shaming stigma threatens obesity agenda
Science documents weight stigma as a strong risk to public health promotion and interventions. Despite this, a national mindset of justifying fat blaming and shaming, as a way of motivating individuals to lose weight, is the biggest hurdle in combating obesity that we face.
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Obesity is one of the biggest public health threats to the UK
The figures are startling. Nearly one in four children enter primary school with a weight classed as overweight or obese; this rises to more than one in three when they enter secondary school.
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Bariatric Surgery – ‘The Magic Wand?’
For many people suffering with obesity, there appears to be no way to control their weight in the long-term. But we know that weight loss is powerful medicine.
