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"One of Britain's top heart doctors says he thinks anyone playing sport regularly should be screened for heart defects.
At the moment only top flight athletes are forced to be tested."
"Andrew Lloyd-Webber has urged the NHS to offer more screening for prostate cancer, according to . "
Evaluates the possible association of Parkinson disease (PD) and melanoma in North America. It finds melanoma prevalence appears to be higher in patients with PD than in the general population. Despite difficulties in comparing other databases with this study population, the study supports increased melanoma screening in patients with PD.
"HEALTH staff are offering you the chance to have your heart checked.
NHS Cumbria’s community heart failure team are holding an event at West Cumberland Hospital as part of the British Heart Foundation’s National Heart Month."
"THE BIG Bolton Health Check is being rolled out across the country after proving a huge success.
Primary care trusts across the UK are now following Bolton’s example after tens of thousands of people had a free “health MOT”. "
"Evidence from existing UK screening programmes indicates disparities in uptake rates between UK ethnic minorities and the white majority population. Looks at beliefs about bowel cancer, perceived barriers to the test and ideas about ways to increase uptake. Finds most barriers were shared by all ethnic groups but health educators should supplement approaches designed for the majority to incorporate the specific needs of individual minority groups to ensure equitable access."
"Suggests that cardiovascular primary prevention should be targeted at those with the highest global risk. This studies aim was to compare mass and targeted screening strategies in terms of effectiveness, cost effectiveness and coverage. It finds targeted screening strategies are less costly than mass screening, and can identify up to 84% of high-risk individuals. Additional resources required for mass screening may not be justified. "
"NHS Wirral is celebrating ten years since the launch of its chlamydia screening programme - in this time more than 105,000 screening tests for young people have been carried out.
As a result, more people are having the sexually transmitted infection detected and treated earlier – helping them to reduce the risk of long term effects. "
"Thousands of pregnant women face are being given misleading screening results for Down's syndrome by hospitals using outdated methods. Here is a full list of the tests used by hospitals in England. "
"Thousands of pregnant women are being given misleading screening results for Down's syndrome by hospitals using outdated methods."
"THE family of a young Merseyside mother who died of cervical cancer has taken a campaign to lower the screening age to Downing Street.
Kirsty Winstanley died aged 23 in August, leaving behind a son, Aiden."
"THE family of a young Merseyside mother who died of cervical cancer has taken a campaign to lower the screening age to Downing Street.
Kirsty Winstanley died aged 23 in August, leaving behind a son, Aiden."
"A CARDIOVASCULAR screening programme in Blackburn with Darwen has checked more than double the national average number of patients.
But NHS East Lancashire has failed to meet the national average for the screens, carried out to identify those at risk of cardiovascular illnesses, such as heart attacks and strokes. "
"A WIRRAL health expert is urging more women to attend cervical smear appointments following a drop in the numbers being tested.
Sunday marks the beginning of Cervical Cancer Awareness Week - just 10 months after the death of Jade Goody, who contracted cervical cancer and passed away on Mother's Day last year aged 27. "
"A CUMBRIAN health boss says that breast cancer screening is still the best weapon in the early detection of the disease.\n\nThis comes following an article published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, which claimed there was no evidence that the NHS breast screening programme saved lives."
"The latest dust-up among breast cancer experts shines a light into the grey areas of the NHS's screening programme"
"Hazel Thornton was called in for breast screening 18 years ago and the diagnosis was ductal carcinoma in situ. “The doctor just said, ‘This doesn’t look normal. I think we better excise it, don’t you?’ I’d already had this thing taken out of me by the time I found out what the treatment options were,” she said."
"Genetic variations that are linked to type 2 diabetes cannot yet help doctors to predict who is most likely to develop the disease, scientists have found.
While more than 20 DNA variants are now known to affect people’s risk of the condition, research has found that adding these to standard predictive tools does nothing to increase their accuracy. "
"The age limit for bowel cancer screening should be lowered from 60 to 50 to save thousands of lives, experts have said. "
"One in eight men screened for prostate cancer will test positive when they do not have the disease, a major European trial has shown.
A positive result can mean undergoing invasive tests such as biopsy as well as potentially unnecessary treatment. "
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