Written on June 29, 2011 by Seth Climpson
In your front-page story it was claimed that mental health is “in crisis” and that “society will be overwhelmed” because of unsafe wards and too few psychiatrists (Mental health in crisis over staff shortages, 21 June). Then Darian Leader wrote that our whole understanding of mental ill-health is mistaken, and even its most serious symptoms, delusions, are actually a “crucial resource” in overcoming it (How psychiatry became a damage limitation exercise, 22 June).
In fact, the report on which the “crisis” story was built is a summary of reports from earlier years, drawing heavily on the 2009 Care Quality Commission (CQC) survey of mental health inpatients but omitting its overall finding.
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Written on June 29, 2011 by George Moowattin
Village to ban smoking – Independent
Stony Stratford in north Buckinghamshire, population 12,000, styles itself as the ‘Jewel of Milton Keynes’. This town could become the first town in Britain to ban smoking in the street.
Village may ban smoking in public
Text messages help quit smoking – BBC News
Supportive text messages can double the chance of someone successfully quitting smoking, according to UK researchers.
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Written on June 29, 2011 by admin
Federal health officials say the lead poisoning rate for U.S. adults has fallen by more than half in the last 15 years, but it remains unusually high in Pennsylvania, Missouri and Kansas.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said that about 6 out of every 100,000 employed adults had lead poisoning in 2009, down from 14 per 100,000 in 1994.
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People with Type 2 diabetes could reverse their condition by following a very low calorie diet, according to new research.
The expert behind the study said the “remarkable” findings showed an eight-week diet could prompt the body to produce its own insulin.
The breakthrough suggests a dramatic drop in calories has a direct effect on reducing fat accumulated in the pancreas, which in turn prompts insulin cells to “wake up”.
Just 600 calories a day as part of a special diet could be enough to reverse Type 2 diabetes in some patients. The condition affects 3.5 million people in the UK.
The findings are consistent with the belief that a lack of insulin secretion — which is vital for blood sugar control — is due to accumulation of fat in the liver and pancreas.
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Written on June 29, 2011 by Seth Climpson
The Advanced Diagnostic Laboratories (ADx) at National Jewish Health has been awarded accreditation in the CAP 15189SM Accreditation Program, administered by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The accreditation is based on Standard 15189 for laboratory technical competence and continual quality management, which is administered by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It seeks to improve patient safety and reduce risk, by outlining standards for quality and competence in medical laboratories. Fewer than 20 laboratories in the United States have been awarded the CAP 15189 Accreditation.
CAP 15189SM is a voluntary, non-regulatory accreditation to the ISO 15189:2007 standard as published by ISO.
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