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Dave W Healthy Living Professional

Oxford, United Kingdom
The inCapitalHealth blog accompanies our website www.incapitalhealth.com which is all about medical education for patients
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Prefer Surgery to Remove Fat? by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education A survey of more than 1,700 people by an online sport and exercise equipment retailer has found that the majority of people would p ... Read on »
A Breast Cancer Expert comments on whether women should take Tamoxifen for more than five years by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education   The recent data from the ATLAS study show that women who had Tamoxifen for at least ten years as an adjuvant treatment, follo ... Read on »
Genetic Therapy may Prevent HIV by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered a new potential means of preventing HIVThe abbreviation for hu ... Read on »
Maintaining Healthy Blood Cells Could Be Key to Fighting Leukaemia by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education Instead of focusing on destroying cancerAbnormal, uncontrolled cell division resulting in a malignant tumour that may invade surrou ... Read on »
A Rude Awakening for Sleeping Sickness by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education American scientists have made a discovery that may lead to new cures for Sleeping Sickness. African trypanosomiasisA tropical d ... Read on »
Should Breast Cancer Drugs be used Proactively in High-Risk Women? by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education Breast Cancer expert Professor Kefah Mokbel welcomes the recent suggestions from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Ex ... Read on »
Look out for purple, blue and red colours in your choice of fruit and vegetables! by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education Research from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of East Anglia published in the journal Circulation suggests t ... Read on »
Girls Knees Require Different Care by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) ruptures are one of the most common knee injuries and are three times more likely to happen in fem ... Read on »
Spine Surgery Outcomes Measurably worse in Obese Patients by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education   Obese patients are more likely to have back problems requiring surgery, the surgery is also made more complex, takes longer a ... Read on »
Melatonin from Cows Milked at Night induces Sleep by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education A German company Milchkristalle Ltd claims that it can raise the concentration of naturally occurring melatonin in milk and has dev ... Read on »
Latest Evidence casts doubt on Benefits of Statins with Omega 3 Fatty Acids (n-3) by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education According to this month’s edition of BMC Medicine, statinsA class of drugs that inhibit cholesterol formation in the liver. might a ... Read on »
The NHS must Innovate or hospitals will be ‘at risk’ … and the clock is ticking by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education   A cash-strapped NHS has exhausted all the obvious means of finding efficiencies and saving money. If it really is to transfor ... Read on »
New Antibiotic Drug for HAI Danger Bug C. Diff by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education A new antibiotic called Fidaxomicin is now being marketed in the UK for treating Clostridium difficile infectionInvasion by organis ... Read on »
The midlife blues or are you round the U-bend? by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education There used to be an advertisement for a famous toilet disinfectant (Harpic). The strapline for the advert was, “cleans clear round ... Read on »
Child's Leukemia Cured By Re-Engineered Immune Cells by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education An experimental new therapy that uses a custom-built version of an individual’s own specialist immune cells has been used to succes ... Read on »
Porridge Oats Promote Gut Health and Protect the Heart by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education Anecdotally there are many health benefit claims associated with porridge oats, and these claims are important. Some benefits are c ... Read on »
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Good Bug Gone Bad? by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education … why has Crohn’s Disease increased five-fold in Scottish children over the last 35 years? The nature of the bacterial presence ... Read on »
Breath-Test to Diagnose Colorectal Cancer by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education New research has demonstrated for the first time that a simple breath analysis could be used for colorectal cancerAbnormal, uncontr ... Read on »
Intelligence And Mental Illness – a genetic accident by Dave W Healthy Living ProfessionalFacebook Posted in: Blog Posts in Health Education   Scientists have discovered that our ability to think and reason is the result of a geneticRelating to the genes, the basic un ... Read on »