News alerts: w/b 21st June 2008

 

Please find below details of selected public health-related news stories that were reported in the above week. ScotPHO is not responsible for the content or reliability of the linked news articles / publications and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Please note that some of the linked websites may require registration whilst others may require payment to view archived articles. Information on how we compile the news alerts pages is available on the ScotPHO website.

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Saturday 21st June

NHS Tayside to offer Dundee smokers money to give up

Media Coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7465908.stm

http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2356133.0.smokers_to_be_paid_50_a_month_to_help_them_quit_habit.php

Sunday 22nd June

Government launches plan to combat obesity

Scottish Government News Release: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/06/20163233

Media Coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7467864.stm

Monday 23rd June

Aortic Aneurysm screening programme for men to be launched in Scotland in 2011

Media Coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7470436.stm

Australian study of key factors which may encourage the spread of MRSA

Lancet paper: http://tinyurl.com/3f8oll

Media coverage:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2359518.0.mrsa_may_thrive_due_to_lack_of_staff.php

Tuesday 24th June

Statistics on meals in Scotland's schools

Scottish Government news release: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/06/24110235

Media coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7471060.stm

Wednesday 25th June

New Community Health and Wellbeing Profiles published

ISD news release: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5700.html

Media coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7471318.stm

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Shock-report-lifts-the-lid.4218426.jp

Latest figures on teenage pregnancies in Scotland

ISD news release: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5699.html

Media coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7471713.stm

ISD reports on trends in cancer incidence in Scotland

ISD news release: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5671.html

Thursday 26th June

Fat content in takeaway meals revealed

Which report: http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/food_and_drink/reports/diet_nutrition_and_safety/diet_advice/Takeaway%20food/How_healthy_is_takeaway_food_657_139855.jsp

Media coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7471862.stm

Friday 27th June

Road deaths in Scotland at a 50-year low

Scottish Government news release: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/06/26135209

Antenatal depression can cause development problems for children

Media coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7476192.stm

The original article from the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is not available on-line yet.