Cromwell Hospital installs innovative, interventional solution

The Artis dMP is proving popular with Cromwell clinicians as it is easy to use and offers sharp images for diagnosis. The flat detector provides a more stable image than a traditional image intensifier, expanding the range of interventional procedures that can be performed.

In addition to real time imaging, fluorodynamics can be recorded to DVD.

Whole body wash at the RSM

The Third Best Practice meeting took place at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Chandos House, London, on the 18th March 2008. Moderated by Dr Rowland Hill, this cohort of key opinion leaders including Professor Judith Tanner, Professor Dinah Gould, Professor Richard James, Dr Angela Kearns, Dr Carol Pellowe, Helen Jenkinson and Susan Pirie, met together to discuss issues and formulate guidelines which will allow healthcare professionals to give best advice to patients about to undertake any form of surgical intervention.

WEST LONDON MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST UNDER INVESTIGATION

The Healthcare Commission has launched an investigation into
services provided by West London Mental Health NHS Trust. The investigation
follows concerns from different sources about how the trust handles serious
incidents, including incidents involving self-harm.

200 CHILDREN A MONTH DIAGNOSED WITH STIs

Almost 200 children a month are diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), new research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. From 2002-2006, 11,256 children under-16 were diagnosed with either gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis, herpes or genital warts.

Hyperactive girls face problems as adults

Hyperactive young girls are more likely to have poor school-leaving qualifications, become hooked on smoking and fall into mentally abusive relationships later in life, according to a collaborative study led by UCL (University College London) and the University of Montreal. Few studies have looked at the consequences of aggressive and hyperactive behaviour in girls, but the latest study shows that hyperactivity combined with aggressive behaviour in girls as young as six may lead to greater problems with abusive relationships, a lack of job prospects and teenage pregnancies.