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Coronary Heart Disease and what Causes Heart Attacks

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is arguably the the UK’s biggest killer. CHD develops when the blood supply to the muscles and tissues of the heart becomes obstructed by the build-up of fatty materials inside the walls of the coronary arteries. Some…

New online course Information Governance

We have added another online course on Information Governance.  This is a good add on to sell to people in the healthcare sector to enable them to comply. Information governance, is an emerging term used to encompass the set of multi-disciplinary…

Should we worry about H7N9?

There is a new disease in town – at least there is if you live in eastern China. Long after most people had lost interest in – and the media had stopped writing about – H5N1 bird flu, we now…

Can potassium in bananas cut your stroke risk?

‘More bananas and fewer crisps can help ward off strokes’, the Daily Mail reports, saying a study has found that people with high potassium intake have a 24% reduced risk of stroke. Researchers are also reported to say that lowering…

Parasite ‘resistant to malaria drug artemisinin’

New drug-resistant strains of the parasite that causes malaria have been identified by scientists.   Researchers found parasites in western Cambodia that are genetically different from other strains around the world.  These organisms are able to withstand treatment by artemisinin –…