Prevention of Teenage Smoking - urgent steps to take in health promotion - Future Health Keynote Speaker

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Smoking has fallen in response to government action but we have far to go. It is still the case that 6% of young people in the UK are already addicted to smoking by the time they are 15.  Most of the 250,000 new smokers a year are under 18.  Every one of them will die 10 years early as a direct result unless they find a way to kick the habit which is notoriously hard.  Here are three actions which should be taken immediately.

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The Truth about Ebola - why Ebola is such a global risk, and why we are so vulnerable to viral pandemics. Future risks from mutant viruses from animals.

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At the time of writing, October 8th 2014, there are still less than 4000 reported cases of Ebola, although actual cases may be far higher.  Experts are already warning that this may rise to more than 20,000 in the next 4 weeks, and to a million by early 2015 unless urgent action is taken.  But what happens by mid 2015 or 2016?

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Stop Getting Older - Anti-ageing research - stay young. Future Health - Keynote Speaker

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Antiageing therapies, science and research -- how to stop your biological clock. 65% of health care spending on people over 65 years old.

Aging process -- physiology of aging and remedies, antiaging therapies.

How to stay young. 7 key mechanisms of ageing in human cells. How we share common aging processes with many other animals. Shared genetic code and cell structures. Non-aging fish and whales. Genetic basis of ageing and aging as a treatable condition. Genetic damage inside nucleus of cell, damage to mitochondrial DNA.

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Pain relief in cancer - analysis by Dr Patrick Dixon - Future Health Keynote Speaker

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Relieving Pain - A DIY Guide. As a doctor who has cared for the dying I have often been asked to kill people. One reason is that the fear of pain is usually greater than the fear of death itself. All of us have relatives or friends who have died of cancer, and many of us have traumatic memories of a painful deterioration. What is scandalous is that in almost every case their suffering was largely preventable and unnecessary, inflicted not by the disease but by shocking medical ignorance, arrogance, complacency and pride.

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Future Health Care Trends - Impact of Ageing - Public Health Keynote Speaker

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Future of health care, from sickness to performance, disease prevention, health promotion and wellbeing, wellness. Impact of ageing, older people, senior citizens - growing health care demands. Health trends in treatment of genetic disease, inherited medical conditions, HIV, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis etc. How patients, clients, over the counter therapy customers, and consumers of health care products will manage their own treatment. Patrick Dixon is a health care keynote speaker at many public health conferences and forums on future of the pharmaceutical industry. Patient choice and public health policy changes with government budget health cuts, health care rationing, post code lotteries.

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Doctors playing God - the truth about future health rationing

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The near hysterical reaction to calls for health rationing is not because people are interested in the health of the nation but because they are afraid of their own future, afraid of diseases such as cancer and afraid of old age. Who will be there to care for me when I am dying and alone?

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Cure for blindness - retina repair using stem cells. Future of health

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How to cure blindness using your own cells. Repair retina damaged by macular degeneration in the eye. Retinal regeneration using adult stem cells - research and early clinical trials. Other studies using embryonic stem cells to partially restore sight in those with visual impairment / blindness. Use of adult neural stem cells from the olfactory bulb to treat brain disease, brain injury or spinal cord injury, paralysis. Antiageing therapies, science and research. 65% of health care spending is on people over 65...

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Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Health Care Trends

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Presentation for ICPM - medical directors of research in Pharmaceutical companies on innovation, new patterns of health care, challenges in drug development and drug discovery.

New regulations, government  and insurance remuneration policies. Patient expectations and unmet needs.  Over the counter therapies and prescription only treatments.

Health care costs, patents, generics and manufacturing, patient safety and future of clinical trials.

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Living Wills - letter to my doctor just in case... Future Health

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Living wills may be damaged by legislation

As a doctor who has specialised in the care of the dying I have often thought about how I would like to be treated when close to death. Should I write down my thoughts now just in case I am too weak to speak one day - and if I did, should my "living will" be legally binding on all who read it ?

The main reason why euthanasia and living wills are so much in the news is because of bad medicine. It is a scandal that people are still dying in terrible pain because of ignorance or obsession with cure at all costs. Many so-called technological advances are simply medicine gone stark raving mad.

 

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