UK: MORE MONEY TO FIGHT PROSTATE CANCER

Article Abstract:

8,500 men a year die from prostate cancer, that is 4% of all male deaths, with current average waiting times for treatment being between seven weeks and three months. The government is pledging that this time period will be cut to two weeks and it will also raise considerably the annual GB[pound] 1.2mn research programme into the cancer. A decision on whether to launch a national screening programme is likely in around two months time if it decides to extend a current trial screening programme. However, at present screening cannot distinguish between life threatening prostate cancer which requires radiotherapy or the less serious version which does not need surgery.

Government domestic functions, Cancer R&D, Cancer research, Statistics, Prostate cancer

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UK: WORK STRESS CAUSES MENTAL ILLNESS?

Article Abstract:

Mental health problems are caused mainly by stress at work, according to a study of 1,500 people by Mind and released on 10 October 2000. The charity found that 61% of those surveyed linked problems at work with mental illness, with loneliness cited by 59% as a contributory aspect. Half those surveyed felt that the burden of modern life were contributory factors, while relationship problems were cited, also by 50% of respondents. The findings, which emerge on World Mental Health Day, demonstrate that people who were acutely aware of mental health problems were impacted by concern that they could have a problem.

Market information - general, Health Research NEC, Medical research

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