The British Lung Foundation recently made the announcement during Love Your Lungs week, to raise awareness that millions of people in the UK are living with undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Meaning that those undiagnosed are missing out on the crucial care that they need. A study of 350,000 responses between January 2016 and
A recent release of NHS statistics showing the impact of the UK’s obesity crisis has shown that the number of children being hospitalised with fatty liver disease in England has more than doubled since 2013. NHS Digital statistics stated that 195 under-18s were admitted to hospital with the problem last year, a rise from 96 cases reported in
Asthma UK has revealed that those with asthma are rationing their medication due to prescription costs which is causing avoidable asthma attacks and extra hospital admissions. Recent reports by the charity has claimed that more than a million people in England are having to ‘pay to breathe’ and are at risk of having a life-threatening
A report comparing 18 countries led by the Nuffield Trust and Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH) suggest that young people in the UK are more likely to develop a long-term condition which may kill them or deny them years of healthy life, compared to European and western nations. Britain is “letting down its side of the bargain” with young
The ABPI is warning that the UK needs to address an increasing number of science skills gaps in order to retain its leading position for medicines and vaccines research and development. The Association states that the UK is falling behind Europe and the rest of the world in terms of numbers of students studying many
Diabetes UK has recently called on the out-of-home sector to recognise their responsibility to help consumers eat more healthily. A survey commissioned by the charity found over half of UK adults struggle to find information on nutritional contents of food brought from restaurants, cafes and takeaways. With half of respondents (49%) reporting they eat dinner
A new scheme has been adopted by Lancaster University to embed physical activity into the training for medical students which has been showcased at a national and international level. Lancaster Medical School was the first school in the UK to fully adopt the involvement of Movement For Movement physical activity resources into the undergraduate programme
A large study of UK adults has found that women who smoke, have diabetes or high blood pressure increase their risk of a heart attack more than men faced with the same risks. The researchers, writing in the BMJ, also mentioned that women should receive the same treatments as men and be offered support to
The British government has extended the expiry date on epinephrine pens to combat shortage in the UK. The Danish pharmaceutical company ALK announced that it was working with MHRA as the agency decides which specific batches of the Jext EpiPen’s will receive an extension on their expiry. ALK estimates that approximately 100,000 Jext pens in
Life expectancy in the UK has stopped improving for the first time since the figures were first recorded back in 1982. The figures from the Office for National Statistics, for 2015-17, show that women’s life expectancy from birth remains 82.9 years and for men it is 79.2. The report also noted that in some parts
