Category: Health

Bristol Labour launches pledge to ‘limit damage’ on NHS

NHS

Labour Party councillors in Bristol have said they will act as “patient champions” to “limit the damage” of the government’s NHS reforms

£28m spent on NHS reforms in Bristol, MP claims

NHS reform protest in Bristol

Labour MP for Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy, described the Government’s NHS reforms as “a scandalous waste of money”

Brush your teeth to stop heart disease, say Bristol scientists

Brushing your teeth

Bacteria in the mouth that isn’t removed by good dental hygiene can enter the bloodstream and cause blood clots

Bristol research suggests we are fated to be fat

Childhood obesity

Factors such as whether a mother smoked or had a poor diet during pregnancy affects their child’s genetic code before birth

Bristol survey reveals Bristol’s changing drug-use trend

drugs

Nitrous oxide is the fourth most popular drug in use across Bristol, according to a new survey by the Safer Bristol partnership

Bristol diabetes amputation rates ‘unacceptably high’

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Bristol has a higher rate for amputations caused by diabetes than the national average, says Diabetes UK

Bristol assisted suicide campaigner Kelly Taylor dies

Kelly Taylor

Her family said they were too upset to talk, which came after nearly 10 years of legal battles to allow voluntary euthanasia