Stop hospitals selling toxic treats to patients: How can doctors encourage healthy living when junk-food is served on hospital grounds?
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Improving the UK’s performance on survival after cardiac arrest
We thank Malhotra and Rakhit [1] for their observations of the challenges and potential beneficial outcomes in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Clearly, prevention is the best course of action and therefore the promotion of greater awareness of the prodromal symptoms and signs that may precede a cardiac arrest and when to call for help is paramount. If and when a cardiac arrest does occur, survival rates will be greater if this occurs when the ambulance is already on scene after an early call for help. These actions need to be combined with improved levels of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and reduced times to defibrillation for all victims of cardiac arrest.
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High incidence of acute coronary occlusion in patients without protocol positive ST segment elevation referred to an open access primary angioplasty programme
Background:
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) programmes vary in admission criteria from open referral to acceptance of electrocardiogram (ECG) protocol positive patients only. Rigid criteria may result in some patients with acutely occluded coronary arteries not receiving timely reperfusion therapy.
BBC Breakfast. Cardiologist explains why sugar is a threat to our health.
Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra Explains Why Sugar Is A Threat To Our Health.
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The dietary advice on added sugar needs emergency surgery
I welcome the response from Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK to my article entitled “the dietary advice for added sugar is need of emergency surgery.”
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Winding back the harms of too much medicine
BMJ’s too Much Medicine Campaign should be welcomed. An increasing evidence base exists documenting the harms and costs of over diagnosis and over treatment.(1)
Big Pharma Harms Patients for Profit but Doctors Must Also Share the Blame
Earlier this week, the government’s chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davis created headlines by announcing that the threat to our health posed by antibiotic resistance was on a level comparable to global terrorism. She suggested greater government collaboration to financially incentivise Big Pharma to produce newer, more effective antibiotics. But can we trust the pharmaceutical industry to deliver? Unfortunately their recent track record suggests we cannot.
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Why heart defibrillators should be provided as readily as fire extinguishers
A cardiologist explains the difference a defibrillator can make as Andy Burnham prepares to call for support of provision of the life-saving devices in the community.
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Keep yourself healthy
Keep yourself healthy. Way better than asking a doctor like me to do it for you by Dr