Health

Recessions increases stress by 40 per cent among workers

A research has found that there is an increase in the number of people taking offs due to job stress, especially during an economic dip.

The percentage of this dip is 25 per cent and it makes one out of four people experiencing job related stress during an economic slump.

The Society of Occupational Medicine has urged companies following the findings that have come out during predictions that Britain could be facing a double dip recession.

Laws against smoking in cars likely

As the first phase of a campaign by the Welsh Government kick starts, across Wales, parents and child carers are being asked not to smoke in their cars.

Cars are the main target of this campaign that is known as the Fresh Start Wales Campaign and it aims at saving kids from second-hand smoke and the risks associated with it as the smoke inside cars gets confined to one place.

Inappropriate websites worry parents

According to a survey, parents fear children seeing inappropriate content over the internet the most.

The National Parents Council Primary and the National Centre for Technology in Education carried out the survey and it stated that concerns about children getting an access to inappropriate content over internet was shown by about 83 per cent of parents.

Designer babies might be designed by scientists

In an attempt to avoid life-threatening diseases, OZ scientists are trying to make designer babies that have the DNA of three parents.

Multi-organ failures and problems like heart problems, liver problems and muscle conditions will be eradicated by removing defective genes and replacing them with healthy DNA from a donor, IVF specialists stated.

Fraught with danger is what the procedure has been described by scientific opponents and they said that this procedure will make sure that children do not get severe genetic conditions from mothers.

Front-line cuts leave parents wanting help

According to England’s departing communication tsar, there is a lot of struggle being made by parents who have kids with language and speech difficulties due to front-line cuts.

The number of kids needing help and cuts to NHS services and to council corresponded, according to Jean Gross.

She added that two years back the percentage of parents who needed help was about 18 and this time it has increased to 28.

The ministers have stated that the new bill will be ensuring that help was given better by GPs as they will be placed in such a way.

Cheap implants did not ring alarm bells

It has been stated that when it came to the price of PIP breast implants, they were about eight times cheaper than standard types.

The price of normal pair is about £1,000 but clinics paid about £130 a pair for these.

Women who wanted the implants were told that these implants were of a good quality and were charged £4,500 and £6,000 for one surgery, as charged for expensive implants, the implants were faulty but no one told women so.

According to Dr Vikram Vijh, the cost of these implants alone should have alarmed clinics but no one paid any heed to their quality seeing the cost.

Family support is vital to success at school

According to the Prince's Trust, unstable households lead to young people leaving school with no good GCSEs of which the chances are two times more.

The research conducted by the trust stated that people who did not have a good education were also likely to have heard fewer bedtime stories and did not have support at home as compared to their peers who were successful.

Children who did not have a good grade also had parents who did not assist them in their homework. The charity's fourth annual Youth Happiness Index stated that stability at home was linked to success in later life.

Not much success for many who wish to quit smoking

According to a research, it is only for seven days that millions of New Year resolutions to quit smoking last.

There was a study conducted on about 6300 people and it states that about 10 per cent people out of two-thirds of Britain’s smokers, around six million people, who will make an attempt to leave smoking will be lighting up again within 24 hours.

Attempts were made about five times by 20 per cent of smokers and that too without any success.

No mental health risk due to abortion

According to experts’ review, abortion will not increase the possibilities of a risk among women who have mental health problems.

To conclude this, data from 44 studies was taken and it was seen that in general, there was a higher incidence of mental health problems among women with an unwanted pregnancy.

No effect was however seen from whether these women had an abortion or delivered a child.

The review was however meant to reduce psychological effect of terminating a pregnancy.

November: The Mouth Cancer Awareness Month

November not only marks prostate cancer awareness month but also Mouth Cancer Action Month. Due to which the NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR) organized an awareness campaign about mouth cancer.

The campaign was named as “If In Doubt, Get Checked Out”, in which people were asked to get their mouth tested in order to know the early signs of mouth cancer. Number of people is unaware of the signs and symptoms of mouth cancer. Therefore, it is very necessary that they should be acquainted with it, so they do not have to suffer afterwards.

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