County require cessation of smoking at surgery

Patients in Västmanland County Council must not smoke during the period surrounding the surgery, according to a new policy.
Västmanland County Council has banned smoking for patients about to undergo surgery. The ban applies to four weeks before and four weeks after surgery, according to Sveriges Radio P4 Västmanland.

Five new threads drugs classified

On August 19, gets five new substances classified as narcotics in Sweden. The topics reminds including ecstasy and methamphetamine.

Long queues at the eye clinic

Patients may have to wait a long time before receiving treatment at the eye clinic in Lund. The poor staffing has led to long waiting lists.
Staffing levels at the eye clinic at Skåne University Hospital, Sus, has been a lack of time, which has led to medical injuries, according Sydsvenskan. The problem is so large that the Inspectorate for Health Care, Ivo, have oversight of patient safety.

Paracetamol does not treat lumbago

The drug paracetamol does not help improve the back pain than placebo, a new study shows.
Paracetamol has been compared with placebo in acute lumbago, ie lumbago, in a new study from Australia. The results of the study, published today in the scientific journal The Lancet, showed that the drug was not more effective, writes Dagens Nyheter.

Poppi for health people to get KD-politician

Hundreds of health workers want to venture into politics in the fall. The county council and regional elections is the Christian Democrats who have received the most from the services professions to get involved.

"Children with mental disabilities can be captured by school doctors"

All children should have the right to meet with a school doctor for a check - at least once during their twelve-year schooling, consider pediatrician.

Therefore not killed HIV virus

Researchers at Karolinska Institute have come up with what happens when the immune system can not be bothered to knock out HIV virus.

"Government must stop suicides"

Establish a new agency to stop the suicides, requiring representatives of psychiatry and the non-profit Mind.

Municipalities also have a shortage of nurses

Not only county councils the nursing shortage in summer. In Blekinge, all municipalities had problems with recruitment in the summer.

Social Democrats criticized for wasting

Two Moderates in Västmanland County Council criticizes in a letter to the newspaper VLT how the red-green majority handled the tax money, and writes that they have notified the county council to "Waste Ombudsman".

Long wait may give ten patients but

Every third patient has to wait too long for surgery at Skåne University Hospital. Right now in danger ten waiting patients to receive permanent disability.

Poor security in psychiatry

Safety in psychiatry in Gothenburg and Malmö has serious shortcomings. Among other dangerous items left in front, showing the magazine Faktums review.
160 serious incidents that show the lack of security in psychiatry has been found in the survey conducted by the magazine fact. In fact, writes that many more adverse events than has been reported, but the newspaper chose to focus on the more serious cases. The survey, which included both the psychiatric and forensic psychiatric care, was based on adverse events reported by staff and interviews with staff and patients.

Long queues at the eye clinic

Patients may have to wait a long time before receiving treatment at the eye clinic in Lund. The poor staffing has led to long waiting lists.
Staffing levels at the eye clinic at Skåne University Hospital, Sus, has been a lack of time, which has led to medical injuries, according Sydsvenskan. The problem is so large that the Inspectorate for Health Care, Ivo, have oversight of patient safety.

Four out of ten Englishmen can get statins

Forty percent of the adult English population will be offered lipid-lowering statin drugs on prescription.

The research ethics committee left out bogus documents

GRANSKNING. Saxen togs fram för att ändra i beslut när Centrala etikprövningsnämnden lämnade ut handlingar till Dagens Medicin.