UK’s health service pilots iPhone device to detect throat cancer – ET HealthWorld

UK’s health service pilots iPhone device to detect throat cancer – ET HealthWorld

The UK National Health Service (National Health Service) stated on Saturday that thousands of patients could be cleared for suspected throat cancer faster as a result of a new iPhone device and pilot application in some of its hospitals. The innovative adapter that provides a 32mm lens and the accompanying app can convert a iPhone … Read more

Two-thirds of veterans are grappling with mental health challenges

Two-thirds of veterans are grappling with mental health challenges

NEARLY two-thirds of veterans face mental health issues and more than half are left without adequate treatment plans. A study of 1,000 former military personnel found that 48 percent had been diagnosed with a mental disorder. health condition such as anxiety, depressioneither Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nearly Half of Veterans Open to Trying Medical Cannabis … Read more

How patients are being denied mental health treatment that might stop them harming, or even killing themselves, by doctors who believe they’re ‘attention seekers’ simply ‘making it up’

How patients are being denied mental health treatment that might stop them harming, or even killing themselves, by doctors who believe they’re ‘attention seekers’ simply ‘making it up’

Thousands of children and young adults in the UK with serious mental illness are being denied the help they need because doctors label them as difficult and requiring care.searchingexperts say. Leading doctors are now calling for an immediate ban on young people being classified as having borderline personality disorder (BPD), a condition in which they … Read more

How to stop over-medicalising mental health

How to stop over-medicalising mental health

For a place with a reputation for demure stoicism, Britain is remarkably open about mental health. Britons are more likely than people in any other rich country to think that mental illness is an illness like any other. Only Swedes are more accepting of the idea that a history of mental health problems should not … Read more

Alexa will now offer advice on periods to UK teenagers, here’s how – ET HealthWorld

Alexa will now offer advice on periods to UK teenagers, here’s how – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Conversations about menstruation can still make parents and teens a bit uncomfortable. However, they need some good knowledge about this before entering a new phase of life and making decisions about their health. As long as the problem persists, Amazon United Kingdom has trained alexaits virtual assistant technology on how to give advice … Read more

UK trials free health tracker app with rewards in anti-obesity drive – ET HealthWorld

UK trials free health tracker app with rewards in anti-obesity drive – ET HealthWorld

London: A government-backed trial of free fitness trackers linked to an app to offer incentives like discount vouchers and cinema tickets to people who eat healthy and exercise more launched for the first time in the UK on Friday . He Better Health – Rewards App is being tested in Wolverhampton in England’s West Midlands, … Read more

Smokers urged to give Stoptober a go and improve their mental wellbeing

Smokers urged to give Stoptober a go and improve their mental wellbeing

People in Oxfordshire who smoke are encouraged to consider taking part in Stoptober this year and see the benefits quitting smoking could bring to their mental well-being. Statistics show that there is a higher prevalence of smokers among people with mental health problems. That’s why Oxfordshire County Council and its partners are joining forces to … Read more

NHS rejects ketamine for depression as psychiatrists accuse NICE of mental health discrimination

NHS rejects ketamine for depression as psychiatrists accuse NICE of mental health discrimination

A row has broken out between National Health Service spending watchdogs and leading mental health doctors over the approval of a controversial ketamine-based antidepressant. Spravato, a nasal spray also known as esketamine, was given the green light by the European Medicines Agency in December 2019 as a fast-acting treatment for depression patients who had not … Read more