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The number of young women in Scotland showing early signs of potential cervical cancer has dropped by 41% since a school vaccination programme was introduced, researchers have said.

The University of Aberdeen study looked at women who had received the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine.

It found 758 women were referred for further investigation in 2013-2014, down from 1,294 in 2008-2009.

The vac…

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How many foreign staff work in the NHS? Statistic and answers

How many foreign staff work in the NHS? Statistic and answers

BREXIt is getting closer, what will happend with the NHS? Here is the statistics behind How many foreign staff work in the NHS?

From Tuesday 1 August, most new students of areas such as nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy will no longer be able to apply for grants, and will have access instead to the student loans system.

UCAS announced earlier this year that there had been a notable decrease in…

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Hepatitis B added to routine baby injections in the UK

Hepatitis B added to routine baby injections in the UK

All babies born from Tuesday across the UK will have an anti-hepatitis B injection added to the other routine vaccinations they are given in their early life.

The jab protects against viral infections that cause cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Babies are already vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Hib and polio.

Public Health England said the new vaccine had been “shown to be…

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Greeks feel: Economic Crisis has Taken a Toll on their Health

Greeks feel: Economic Crisis has Taken a Toll on their Health

The health of Greeks has deteriorated during the economic crisis and this has had serious effects on the operation of the country’s health system, a new research which was conducted over eight months by pollster Dianeosis found.Asked “What effect did the economic crisis have on the state of your health?”, 591 respondents said the crisis has affected their health a lot / enough / a little, because…

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Being vegetarian isn't always healthy: may raise the risk of heart disease

Being vegetarian isn’t always healthy: may raise the risk of heart disease

“Being vegetarian isn’t always healthy: Plant-based diet may raise the risk of heart disease,” the Daily Mail reports. A US study found a vegetarian diet based on less healthy food options, such as refined grains, could increase the risk of heart disease.

The researchers behind the latest study made the point that many previous diet and health studies “lumped together” all types of vegetarian…

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Toothpaste ingredient could potencially contribute to antibiotic resistance

Toothpaste ingredient could potencially contribute to antibiotic resistance

The fight is on for antibiotic resistance superbugs. A new research suggest a common ingredient of soap and toothpaste could be causing antibiotic resistance and fuelling the spread of superbugs, as per  the Mail Online reports.

This news follows the results of a study that looked at whether there could be a common reason why some gut bacteria have resistance to both the quinolone class of…

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House dust linked to obesity – but only in mice

House dust linked to obesity – but only in mice

The news is true, however luckily only at mice yet.

“Bad news for those who hate cleaning: dusty homes could make you obese,” reports the Mail Online.

Scientists in the US tested extracts of household dust on mouse “pre-fat” cells grown in a laboratory. These are cells known to develop into fat cells when exposed to fat-causing chemicals.

The researchers found the cells were more likely to divide…

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Nurses, doctors leave Balkans to work in Germany

Nurses, doctors leave Balkans to work in Germany

As Central-Eastern European countries such as Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, has been experiencing doctors migrating to the UK, France and Germany from  2005, recently there is a new shift towards the Balkans.

They are Losing Best Experts

With their economies still recovering from a decade of political and economic turmoil in the 1990s, and unemployment in double-digits, the former Yugoslav republics…

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Measles outbreak - 31 dead in Romania

Measles outbreak – 31 dead in Romania

Thirty-five people have died in the past year from measles outbreaks across Europe, the World Health Organization has warned.

It described the deaths – which can be prevented with vaccination – as an “unacceptable tragedy”.

A six-year-old boy in Italy was the latest to die from the infection. More than 3,300 measles cases have been recorded in the country.

The most fatalities – 31 – have been in…

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Cambridge diet - review

Cambridge diet – review

Here is the Cambridge diet

The Cambridge Weight Plans are based around buying and eating a range of meal-replacement products with the promise of rapid weight loss. There are six flexible diet plans ranging from 415 calories to 1,500 calories or more a day, depending on your weight loss goal. There is also a long-term weight management programme. The bars, soups, porridges and shakes can be used…

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Albania has the lowest healthcare budget in Europe

Albania has the lowest healthcare budget in Europe

Albania is ranked last in Europe in terms of the level of expenses that the state allocates for the healthcare system as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The International Monetary Fund has published detailed information on the funds that the governments of 43 European countries allocate for healthcare.

Data for the period 2012-2015 indicate that Albania’s expenses for the healthcare…

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Happy sexless Japan - More than 40 per cent of Japan's adult singles are virgins, says study

Happy sexless Japan – More than 40 per cent of Japan’s adult singles are virgins, says study

  More than forty per cent of young singletons in Japan are virgins, according to a new study that highlights concerns about the country’s demographic challenges. Japan already suffers from the world’s oldest population and a shrinking birthrate, with the government struggling to incentivise marriage and parenthood.

Now a survey of unmarried people aged 18 to 34 found that around 42 per cent of…

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Here is the end of ORAL SEX - Dangerous gonorrhoea spreading

Here is the end of ORAL SEX – Dangerous gonorrhoea spreading

Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said.

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HUNGARIAN INVENTION HELPS GETTING RID OF TICKS

HUNGARIAN INVENTION HELPS GETTING RID OF TICKS

HE NOVELTY, WHICH WAS NAMED “TICK FUNGUS” BY ITS INVENTOR, IS CAPABLE OF TOTALLY ELIMINATING THE PARASITES.

According to Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu, the new pesticide that is specialized for killing ticks may be on the market by the end of the year. This invention offers a way to get rid of the bloodsuckers more effectively than ever before. The struggle against ticks has been quite difficult,…

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Painless flu jab patch for people scared of injections

Painless flu jab patch for people scared of injections

A ‘painless’ sticking plaster flu jab that delivers vaccine into the skin has passed important safety tests in the first trial in people.

The patch has a hundred tiny hair-like microneedles on its adhesive side that penetrate the skin’s surface.

It is simple enough for people to stick on themselves.

That should help more people get immunised, including those who are scared of injections, experts…

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Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found as perNature Communications.

Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have decoded the genome of ancient Egyptians for the first time, with unexpected…

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17 mind blowing sex facts

17 mind blowing sex facts

Here are 17 sex facts you’ll wish you never heard…

1. One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed.

2. Alfred Kinsey, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), had a collection of 5 million wasps and could insert a toothbrush into his penis, bristle-end first.

3. British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh.

4. A single sperm…