Sunday 27 July 2008

Infections

An early warning system to alert doctors about deadly outbreaks of hospital infections will not be set up in Scotland until next year.

Link to news article: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/latestnews/No-superbug-alert--system.4329067.jp

Monday 28 July 2008

Children's Health

Fall in numbers of school nurses in Scotland between 2005 and 2007 reported in Scottish Parliament

Link to Herald article: http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2410690.0.drop_in_number_of_nurses_in_schools.php

Link to Scottish Parliament:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/default.aspx?pq=S3W-14825

Tuesday 29 July 2008

Infections

ISD publishes latest annual update on sexually transmitted diseases in Scotland.

Link to ISD press release and statistics: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5709.html

Breast Cancer

Statistics released for Scotland's Breast Screening Programme including uptake, cancer detection, recall for assessment and early recall rates.

Link to Scottish Government press release:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/07/29100016

Link to BBC article:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7530826.stm

Link to ISD statistics: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5712.html

Wednesday 30 July 2008

Immunisation

ISD publishes statistics on influenza uptake in 2007-08.

Link to ISD news release and statistics: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5707.html

Obesity

UN report obesity levels on the increase in Mediterranean countries

Link to UN FAO press release:http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000871/index.html

Link to UN FAO report http://www.fao.org/es/ESD/Montreal-JS.pdf

Thursday 31 July 2008

Cardiovascular diseases

National consultation on heart disease and stroke strategy announced by Scottish Government

Link to press release:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/07/31104052

Ethnicity

More information on ethnic groups is to be contained in official statistics

Link to BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7533531.stm

Link to SG news release: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2008/07/30120328

Friday 1 August 2008

Smoking

Scottish researchers assess the effect of the smoking ban on heart disease hospital admissions

Link to New England Journal of Medicine paper (abstract only): http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/5/482