Sedlescombe & Westfield Surgeries

Behind the Headlines : Archive

All news stories for September 2011 are shown below.

• A drink a day and health in older women
• Brain clots linked to elderly walking problems
• Brain steroids provide MS clue
• Bread 'often high in salt'
• Can vitamin B prevent Alzheimer's?
• Coffee drinkers 'less likely to be depressed'
• Costs of cancer treatments questioned
• Could bone drug treat arthritis too?
• 'Crocus drug' studied for cancer
• Do eggs raise prostate cancer risk?
• Does coffee cut stroke risk?
• Does laughter increase tolerance to pain?
• Early days for 'memory restoring' molecule
• Eating chocolate is not exercise
• Engineered virus 'attacks cancer cells'
• Eyelid marks 'sign of heart risk'
• 'Gene for chronic pain identified'
• Glowing bandages 'could show infections'
• Glowing cats 'may aid HIV research'
• Glowing dye 'boosts cancer surgery'
• Heart risk of painkillers examined
• HIV vaccine passes phase 1 trial
• Ibuprofen may ‘raise miscarriage risk’
• Important clues to chemo resistance found
• Long term painkiller use linked to cancer risk
• Low blood sugar 'affects food cravings'
• Men who have sex with men can now give blood
• Mice fed yoghurt 'less depressed'
• New genetic blood pressure links
• New motor neurone disease gene
• New radiation drug for cancer tested
• New TB vaccine investigated
• Pollution 'linked to heart attack risk'
• Pregnancy allergy claims unfounded
• Research into blood test for premature birth
• Scale of mental health problems examined
• Stem cell trial for eye condition to go ahead
• Stroke stem cell trial extended
• Study examines mortality in bereaved parents
• Study tests slimming clubs
• Tabex smoking drug shows promise
• Targeted back care 'better and cheaper'
• Teenagers influenced by smoking in movies
• Video games 'blur reality', claims newspaper
• When is best to screen for bowel cancer?