Brothers fined over "depressing, unsafe" Liverpool care home

Two brothers have been fined more than £82,000 after their “depressing, unhygienic and unsafe” care home was shut down by inspectors.

Amjad Latif, 56, and his younger brother Amer, 47, ran the Mossley Manor care home in Liverpool until June 2015 when a new resident’s daughter was so appalled by conditions that she took her mother home after two hours and complained to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

CQC inspectors gagged at the smell in some residents’ rooms when they made a surprise inspection, Liverpool magistrates court heard on Monday. The inspectors found elderly people who had not bathed properly for four weeks and had not been washed in days.

One man with Parkinson’s disease was taken to hospital with aspiration pneumonia after choking because carers kept giving him food he could not swallow. His need to be fed mashed food and have his head held up while drinking had not been properly recorded on his care plan, the court heard.

Sentencing the brothers on Monday after the CQC brought a case against them, a district judge branded Mossley Manor “a lack of care home, not a care home”.

Judge Andrew Shaw told the court he was shocked by the harrowing conditions suffered by some of the 43 elderly residents living there when it was closed. The Latif brothers had betrayed their vulnerable clients, he said.

Fees at the home started at £1,000 a month for council-funded residents, with private residents charged almost twice that.

A shortage of hot water meant that staff regularly had to boil pots of water in the kitchen in order to do the washing up or the most cursory bed baths. One resident showed inspectors the bathroom near their bedroom where there was no running water in the sink, a blocked toilet and no plug for the bath.

Some communal toilets were without soap, towels or plastic bags in the bins, with used incontinence pads left around residents’ rooms.

One bedroom window was broken in three places and the cracks had been taped over. It was also jammed open, leaving a 5cm gap that the resident tried to block with socks to keep warm.

A blind woman who fell 14 times in a year was told to press an alarm she could not see if she got into difficulty, said Jenny Ashworth, prosecuting, who branded the home “depressing, unhygienic and unsafe”.

In one of the most shocking observations in the CQC’s 16-page report, inspectors wrote: “We went into some people’s bedrooms and were shocked at the terrible smell and state of their rooms. On two occasions we had to leave the rooms as the smell of stale urine and body odour was overpowering.

“In one of these rooms a person was lying in bed at lunchtime. This person had incontinence issues and required incontinence aids. The records showed that this person had not had a bath or a shower in the four weeks prior to the inspection and had not had a wash for five days.

“We asked a member of the care staff why this person was in bed and they told us that they thought that the person was depressed as they kept saying that they wanted to die. We could not see that any appropriate action had been taken to support this person.”

The substantial Victorian property is part of an estate currently on the market for £2.5m. The elder Latif brother lives in a £1m house in Bowdon, Cheshire, while his younger sibling lives in a £1.2m gated house on a tree-lined street in Woolton, south Liverpool.

The brothers admitted at an earlier hearing that they had failed to notify authorities about the deaths of 10 residents at the home, failed to inform the CQC of three serious incidents, failed to provide safe care and exposed residents to “significant” risk and harm.

They pleaded guilty to 14 charges in all, between 14 April and June 2015.

Fining the brothers £82,429.72, the judge said he had been affected by reading the case papers. “It was a distressing experience and emotionally I felt both a degree of incredulity and anger that the residents in this home were so betrayed by the individuals paid to look after them and deriving a considerable amount for doing so,” Shaw told Amjad Latif, the only brother to attend court.

Latif’s lawyer, Kevin Donnelly, said his client was an educated man with many business interests who had inherited the business from his late father. He wrongly assumed the care home would run itself, Donnelly said. He was remorseful “and accepts that these failures were wide-ranging and significant”.

Amjad declined to talk to reporters outside court, saying: “There’s nothing left to say.”

But one couple whose mothers were both at Mossley Manor, paying £450 a week for private care, said the tough fine should be a deterrent.

“Let this be a lesson to other care home owners that you have got to follow the guidelines of the CQC otherwise they will close you down,” said the husband, whose mother was 91 when she had to leave the home and move to another with just four days’ notice after the CQC shut it down.

He said he was shocked and disgusted to hear how bad conditions had become. “It must have mostly been happening behind closed doors because our mothers were quite well looked after – but we were in almost every day to check on them,” he said. “Perhaps it was the others who didn’t receive any visitors. It was horrendous to hear what was going on.”

Brothers fined over "depressing, unsafe" Liverpool care home

Watchdog puts "unsafe" Cornwall care homes in special measures

Elderly people have been living in “grim, shoddy and unsafe” conditions in four care homes run by a private company in Cornwall, the health and social care watchdog has found.

Residents of the Morleigh Group homes lay in urine-soaked bedclothes, sat in chairs for hours with plates of unfinished food in front of them and waited weeks to receive medical attention, the Care Quality Commission said.

Publishing reports on the four homes on Friday, the CQC said all the homes had been rated inadequate and placed into special measures after separate inspections.

Andrea Sutcliffe, the chief inspector of adult social care, said:“These reports make horrifying reading – people in distress being ignored by staff; a person lying in a urine-soaked bed for two hours; people sat in the same chair all day with uneaten meals in front of them, and no help to eat or drink; someone needing medical attention waiting weeks to be referred to their GP.

“These and so many other examples show why we have rated each of these homes as inadequate and are taking further action to protect the safety and welfare of the people living there.”

Clinton House nursing home, in St Austell, closed earlier this month after an undercover investigation by BBC’s Panorama.

The CQC reports concluded:

• At Clinton House, there were not always enough staff on duty. Inspectors noticed one person in distress and crying for 90 minutes while staff walked by three times without speaking to the person to find out if they needed anything or to comfort them. The management of medicines was not robust. One person had not been given one of their prescribed medicines for three days. Inspectors had to intervene when one person – who had previously been assessed as being at risk of falls – was left unattended and nearly fell out of their wheelchair.


• At Elmsleigh care home, in Par, inspectors found one person who suffered from incontinence and was at risk of pressure sores, but was not routinely turned or checked by staff. Records showed that for several days the person often received no personal care – exposing them to the risk of urine burns to their skin. People sitting in the same seat all day, with their meals left in front of them uneaten, even though most needed encouragement to eat. Some appeared not to realise it was mealtime. Some people had sustained substantial weight loss but it was not clear what action had been taken to help them maintain a healthy weight.


• At Collamere nursing home, in Lostwithiel, inspectors witnessed people with dementia calling out repeatedly for some time with no response. One person shouted throughout the day and night. It was only after the inspection that their GP was asked to review their pain relief – and then they appeared to sleep without signs of distress.


• At St Theresa’s nursing home, in Callington, inspectors identified one person who had pressure sores, but had not been repositioned for eight hours. There had been a delay of five days in seeking appropriate specialist advice. Medicines were not being managed safely, the premises and equipment were not being maintained, and the collection of soiled laundry from bedrooms and cleaning procedures did not ensure suitable standards of cleanliness.

Sutcliffe added: “These services were providing grim, shoddy and unsafe care – the sort that no one should ever have to put up with. I am sorry that people have had to endure this poor level of care.”

The CQC said the Morleigh Group, which is family owned, had been supported by Cornwall council and the NHS Kernow clinical commissioning group to make improvements. But it said the company had failed to listen.

CQC inspectors visited Collamere on 10 October in response to concerns about the service. They visited Elmsleigh on 25 October to follow up on improvements required by a previous inspection. Planned inspections of Clinton House and St Theresa’s were brought forward following information received from Panorama.

The BBBC investigation included undercover filming showing one nurse threatening to give morphine to a resident “to shut her up”.

Panorama

Watchdog puts "unsafe" Cornwall care homes in special measures

"Dangerous and unsafe" care driving midwives out of NHS

Inadequate staffing levels are driving midwives to leave the NHS, with some looking after as many as 15 mothers and babies at a time, a report has found.

The study of more than 2,700 midwives uncovered fears about making mistakes because they were working 12-hour shifts with no break.

Midwives reported not being listened to when they told managers they feared for the safety of mothers and babies, while others experienced bullying from senior staff.

The respondents to the poll, for the Royal College of Midwives, were made up as follows: 31% were midwives who have left the profession in the past two years and 69% were intending to leave in the next two years.

The top reasons for leaving were not being happy with staffing levels at work (52%), not being satisfied with the quality of care they were able to give (48%) and being unhappy with the workload (39%).

A third (35%) were unhappy with the level of support from their managers while 32% were unhappy with working conditions.

Of those who intended to leave the profession, 62% were unhappy with staffing levels, 52% were not satisfied with the quality of care they were able to give, 46% were unhappy with the workload, 37% were unhappy with conditions and 30% did not agree with the model of care they had to work in.

When asked if they might return to midwifery, only 18% said they would consider doing so.

When asked to expand on their experiences, one midwife who left more than 18 months ago said she was stressed “trying to provide good as well as safe midwifery care despite ridiculously low staffing levels and having to complete endless paperwork just to prove I was there”.

Others reported feeling depressed and under-valued, while one who intended to leave midwifery in the next 12 to 18 months said: “I am tired and worn out and am concerned that if this continues that I might make a tragic mistake.”

A midwife who left after 40 years said the “stress of under-staffing and the ever-increasing workload” had left her burnt out.

One who left the profession in the past six months said: “I was often working 12.5 hours with no breaks. My unit was struggling with employing enough midwives – we had a shortage of 30 full-time midwives in the unit. I was not able to deliver the care I wanted as decisions were often made about women’s birth without her full involvement.

“It was not safe to look after 15 mums and babies on a postnatal ward by one midwife. We were not listened to when we raised issues over staffing and safety.”

Others described in detail “dangerous and unsafe” working conditions.

One who left more than six months ago said: “I felt scared with the care I was able to deliver. I was left in a dangerous position on many occasions due to a lack of staff and a lack of support from managers when escalating concerns.”

Another said: “Maternity is the most litigious area in healthcare, yet we cannot actually practice safely and in a way that makes us proud, due to chronic staff shortages and cost-cutting.”

Some midwives with young children said their applications to work flexibly or part-time were denied, forcing them to leave. Others described bullying bosses and said they were working in a “culture of fear”.

One said: “Changes are put in place after serious incidents – ie more staff in those specific areas – but as soon as the workload reaches capacity these staff are moved to cover other areas once again leaving you in a vulnerable position.”

Another said: “I have seen midwifery colleagues destroyed by management if something goes wrong and yet they had worked 12-hour shifts without breaks and no one will accept that the system has caused the failure.”

Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the RCM, said the findings were “saddening, dispiriting and worrying”. She added: “Maternity services are performing as well as they are on the backs of the selfless dedication of midwives and other maternity staff, and their capacity to go that extra mile for mothers and babies, day after day. However, this shows that many cannot fight that battle any longer.

“Enormous demands are being made on midwives and the services they work for, yet investment in these services from the government remains inadequate to provide the quality of care that women deserve.”

The RCM has repeatedly called for more midwives, saying there is a shortage of 3,500 across the NHS.

Conservative MP Dr Dan Poulter, who was the maternity services minister in the coalition until May 2015, said that the risks involved in delivering babies could be prompting some midwives to leave.

“Delivering babies is a very rewarding job, but also a very risky one, so it is unsurprising that chronic understaffing in some already overstretched maternity units is resulting in midwives feeling unable to deliver safe care to the women they are caring for. It is perhaps unsurprising that this has resulted in a demoralised maternity workforce,” he said.

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s shadow health secretary, said: “This is yet more evidence of the staffing crises in the NHS affecting staff morale and patient care. Midwives want to do the best for their patients but as this survey shows, pressure on services and staff shortages mean too many are unhappy with the quality of care they are able to give. The government needs to do something to relieve this crisis and ensure that no exodus occurs that will make the current situation even worse.”

"Dangerous and unsafe" care driving midwives out of NHS

Stafford hospital suspends "unsafe" children"s A&E

A&E services at County hospital in Stafford have been suspended for under-18s because “senior clinicians have advised that the service is not currently clinically safe”.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS trust brought the interim measure into place from 10am on Thursday, owing to a lack of “professionally trained and experienced staff”.

The temporary changes do not affect the adult A&E, which remains open.

Liz Rix, chief nurse and acting deputy chief executive, said: “I fully appreciate the impact these temporary changes will have on families in Stafford and the surrounding area, and understand that people will be very concerned about this news.

“However, we cannot and will not continue to deliver services without the confidence that those services are safe.

“I want to thank my fellow clinical colleagues for reviewing the situation and for their advice, which has led to us taking this difficult short-term decision.

“This allows us the space to examine future options for safe children’s services at County hospital with input from our staff, regulators and partners.”

Stafford hospital suspends "unsafe" children"s A&E

1-fifth of in excess of-65s consuming at unsafe ranges, say experts

A fifth of in excess of-65s are drinking unsafe amounts of alcohol, posing a main chance to their well being, authorities have said. Academics at the institute of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience at King’s College London mentioned the baby boomer generation, of folks born amongst 1946 and 1964, represents an ever escalating population of older men and women drinking at unsafe levels.

Analysis of the wellness information of individuals residing in the London borough of Lambeth discovered that heavier drinkers were much more likely to be male, wealthier and far better educated. Less than half (46%) of folks in the review have been men, but they comprised 60% of the drinkers and 65% of individuals drinking at unsafe amounts.

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The study found drinkers have been a lot more likely to be white British or Irish, although individuals from Caribbean, African or Asian backgrounds have been much less most likely to drink. The ethnically diverse nature of Lambeth suggests that other components of the nation may have higher numbers of above-65s drinking heavily. It was also pointed out that, simply because the findings rely on individuals offering information of their drinking routines to GPs, there is a probability of beneath-reporting, meaning the true figures could be greater.

Tips state that males must not drink a lot more than 21 units of alcohol a week, and ladies 14 units. The examine, published in the journal BMJ Open, analysed the GP records of virtually 28,000 folks in the borough.

Dr Tony Rao, the lead author, said: “As the little one boomer generation turn into seniors, they represent an ever-escalating population of older people consuming at ranges that pose a chance to their health. This review displays the require for greater awareness of the possible for alcohol-related harm in older individuals, notably people of increased socioeconomic standing, who could endure the consequences of sick wellness from alcohol at an earlier age than these in previous generations.”

The median alcohol consumption was 6 units a week for the in excess of-65s who reported drinking. In the top five% of alcohol drinkers, guys reported consuming a lot more than 49 units a week and ladies much more than 23 units.

Dr Mark Ashworth, from the division of wellness and social care research at King’s School London, explained: “This research highlights that as GPs we require be far more mindful of the danger of older folks, particularly men, drinking excessively. Minimizing alcohol misuse is essential to avoid premature death and serious damaging overall health effects, this kind of as alcoholic liver ailment, which are large burden on our health program.

“Alcohol excess carries additional hazards in the older population such as falls and confusion. Based on our findings, the elderly who were most at chance have been these from the white British population rather than from an ethnic minority, and were wealthier and better educated rather than those from a far more deprived background.”

1-fifth of in excess of-65s consuming at unsafe ranges, say experts

More than 50 elderly individuals killed by hip substitute operations after NHS ignored warnings cement was unsafe, former chief healthcare officer finds

Sir Liam, who was chief medical officer from 1990 to 2010, explained advice that advised monitoring the cardiac wellness of sufferers before hip operations was getting ignored.

“The orthopaedic surgery community seems to have concluded that the benefits of cement outweigh the hazards,” he stated.

“The NHS needs to look at when it is genuinely needed to use cement and when an operation may possibly be successful without having making use of it. In somecountries they don’t use it at all, it varies a whole lot across the world but in Britain it has usually been regular process.

“We want to see this entire question about the use of cement opened up once more and further research and evaluation of the dangers.”

In 2009, the now defunct Nationwide Patient Safety Company raised considerations about the use of cement during partial hip replacements for fractured femurs, and issued advice to the NHS on how to minimise the risks.

It discovered that 26 individuals had died and 6 suffered extreme harm as a consequence of “Bone Cement Implantation Syndrome”.

The Medicines and Healthcare Goods Regulatory Agency also obtained reviews of deaths and advised surgeons they ought to reduce hazards through “patient evaluation and revised anaesthetic and surgical techniques”.

But most of the deaths occurred right after 2009, suggesting that the implementation of recommendations was “suboptimal” the staff concluded in an post in the on the internet journal BMJ Open.

A spokesman for NHS England stated the NHS was functioning with patient safety groups and the Royal colleges to tackle the dilemma.

More than 50 elderly individuals killed by hip substitute operations after NHS ignored warnings cement was unsafe, former chief healthcare officer finds

Unsafe intercourse: why everyone"s at it

‘So… wait,” I asked my buddy Hayley, above some overpriced wine in my regional one evening, “you will not use any contraception, at all?” “None,” she mentioned matter-of-factly. “I have had unprotected intercourse so a lot of instances with no final results that I think I might be infertile.” I doubt that she needed my judgment encounter at that certain minute, but she received it. She’s no teenager, and I have to admit I’d thought she would know far better.

Unprotected sex. At one particular level or one more, we have all had it (haven’t we? Have not we?). I’ve stopped asking my close friends if they’ve utilised a condom when we do our normal one particular-evening-stand postmortems, not because it helps make me look like a neurotic teenager, but due to the fact I know that they have not. And I have no concept how we, effectively educated in the dangers of unprotected intercourse and way past our teenagers, have received to this stage. I am shocked, when canvassing my friends, that in taking the contraceptive pill I am in the minority. Some friends are making use of other methods, but others aren’t using something. They are just styling it out. Bareback.

I will admit, I’ve been lackadaisical with contraception myself (Dad, if that isn’t adequate to make you end reading now, then I don’t know what is) and have taken the morning-soon after pill 6 or 7 instances (maybe that?) so I’m in no position to be casting stones, but my several journeys to the genitourinary medication (GUM) clinic for numerous exams (including 1 for HIV) were scary adequate to convince me that I had been conducting myself like a fool. Add an abnormal smear check result into the combine (pre-cancerous cells on the cervix are normally brought on by human papillomavirus, HPV up to eight out of 10 men and women will be infected with it at some level. As a character in Girls says, “all adventurous ladies” have it) and I grew to become pretty convinced of the importance of strapping it up.

In the United kingdom, sexually transmitted infections are on the rise amid all age groups, as is the abortion fee. In accordance to Public Health England figures, STI diagnoses rose 5% in 2012, with people below 25 encountering the highest prices (they account for 64% of chlamydia instances). Public Wellness England acknowledges that this is in portion to due to improved data assortment, but also warns that “the continuing substantial STI charges in England propose as well a lot of people are nevertheless placing themselves at threat by way of unsafe sex, especially younger grownups and guys who have intercourse with men”. That young people engage in risk-taking behaviour will be a surprise to no one, of course, but what is intriguing is that we’re seeing this kind of behaviours in people who are mature and responsible in other components of their lives. We pay out our lease and bills on time, we hold down careers – but accountable contraception use appears to be a stumbling block. We never have the excuse of a lack of education to fall back on. Whilst there are difficulties with the way sex schooling is taught, vagueness about contraception and the mechanics of intercourse does not seem to be a single of them (a lot of individuals I spoke to recall the infamous cartoon Johnny Condom song, a supply of much classroom hilarity).

Some even declare that twentysomethings are the poster demographic for unprotected sex. The improve in risky intercourse between my age group (I am 26) led to American journalist Ann Friedman describing us as the “pull-out generation”. As monikers go, I have to admit it’s not my favourite, but it does resonate. Most of my close friends have admitted to getting employed this fallible and messy technique to steer clear of pregnancy, even though some depend on it as their only technique of contraception. “These ladies describe a deliberate transition from the pill to the pull-out,” wrote Friedman. “They get natural kale and all-all-natural cleansing items, and so can’t very get down with taking synthetic hormones every day. They see orgasms as a correct, not a privilege.”

Pulling out has, for me, in no way actually had much to do with kale. In my group of buddies, it appeared to be one thing that occurred accidentally or due to bad organisation. Penny Barber, area director for sexual overall health services Brook in the Midlands, agrees: “Typically we hear that youthful individuals have unprotected intercourse since they ran out of condoms or tablets, or they had as well much to drink.”

In accordance to the Household Planning Association, there is scant analysis on contemporary use of coitus interruptus (which they describe as “the oldest kind of birth management practised today”) in Britain, but an American research performed by Duke University final 12 months discovered that 31% of younger ladies in America aged in between 15 and 24 had relied on the withdrawal method at least after.

I was interested to locate out no matter whether or not we are seeing a more conscious shift away from hormonal contraceptive approaches in favour of the pull-out strategy. The most recent figures available on contraceptive use are from the Workplace for National Statistics from 2008-2009. They uncovered that the majority of girls beneath 50 were employing contraception (75%), with condoms (25%) and the contraceptive pill (25%) the most popular methods. Of people ladies who weren’t utilizing contraception, just in excess of half have been not engaged in a sexual romantic relationship with a member of the opposite sex. But that was more than 5 many years in the past. Could it be accurate that women are currently being turned off the pill and condoms, as well? Amongst the a lot of twentysomethings I spoke to from all above the Uk, it would appear so.

Alex, 24, a charity worker, says that unprotected intercourse is anything that she and her spouse go by way of in phases, “based on how sensible both of us is feeling at the time”, and that a dislike of condoms is a factor. She has relied on the withdrawal method in the previous and has had chlamydia, gonorrhea and 1 pregnancy scare. She has produced a aware choice not to get the pill: “I have in no way taken hormonal contraception and I can not see me ever wanting to take it there is anything about the idea of adding hormones to my physique that I just detest. Maybe it really is the fact that they can modify your mood. Throughout my MA year, 1 friend slept her way via an whole city employing practically nothing but the pull-out approach and remained pregnancy- and ailment-free of charge – even though at the same time I received chlamydia from sleeping with a single man for eight months.” Regardless of possessing contracted an STD, Alex is philosophical about her techniques, as were a lot of of the women I spoke to. ”I see unprotected intercourse as a selection made by adults, and as a fairly intelligent and informed adult I consider accountability for any consequences,” she says.

Elise, 32, uses withdrawal with her lengthy-phrase companion and is similarly laid-back. She is perhaps what you’d call “pregnancy ambivalent”: “I don’t have the horrible nervousness about accidental pregnancy that I had when I was twenty,” she says. “We each detest condoms and I received exhausted of taking the pill. I could not settle on one particular and had to keep going back to the medical professional with bleeding. I ended up saying I would take a break and never went back.”

When Elise was younger, it was diverse. Even though she says she was anxious about receiving pregnant, she did have unprotected sex at least 5 occasions. It was, she says, a period “characterised by carelessness and drunken choices at a time the place I did not feel something bad would take place to me. I consider some of the guys would rather I had insisted we use a condom but did not speak up themselves.

“I was very fortunate not to get pregnant, or to get an STD worse than the practically inevitable chlamydia I ended up with. When the GUM nurse referred to as me to tell me I had chlamydia I was overcome with relief. I feel she imagined my reaction was inappropriate.” Inappropriate, possibly, but not unusual – several of the women I interviewed admitted they were considerably far more concerned about undesirable pregnancy than they have been about STIs, and chlamydia, which is handled with antibiotics, no longer would seem to strike the fear of God into young women.

But it really is not just youth that can make you truly feel invulnerable, as Danni, 32, a communications manager, explains: “Extremely handful of single women I know would use condoms with any regularity. I’ve had unprotected sex with about 15 men, in relationships and casually, and I can say I’ve employed a condom about 3 instances. I’m not that confident about utilizing condoms – putting them on. Guys look to hate them, and often, I’m as well drunk or turned on to care.”

The notion of condoms not currently being conducive to spontaneity – especially drunken spontaneity – is cited as a reason for rejecting them yet again and once again, as is strain from guys. Gina, 29, an IT helpdesk supervisor, has had unprotected sex although drunk but says she wouldn’t do it now, obtaining as soon as contracted chlamydia. I can realize youthful individuals in their teenagers feeling too embarrassed or intimidated to broach the subject of condoms, but I anticipated girls who are a bit older to truly feel much more confident and assertive when it came to contraception. Then I thought about all these morning-following pills, and remembered that I hadn’t been, either.

‘I felt less sexy and a bit depressed on the pill.’ Photograph: Rui Faria for the Guardian

At instances, the youthful ladies I spoke to seemed to resent feeling that they had to get responsibility for contraception. “I have in no way felt personally pressured by a man I have slept with not to use a condom – most have been absolutely fine with it,” says Beatrice, twenty, a student. “However, none of them took the initiative to suggest utilizing one.” She blames a lack of self-assurance for the truth that she has had unsafe intercourse much more occasions than she can count, saying that she requires emergency contraception and has regular STI exams “due to my inability to query guys I rest with on their very own testing background”.

A failure to talk was a frequent issue, which helps make me question no matter whether British intercourse education – which focuses really considerably on the mechanics – may possibly have a whole lot to solution for soon after all. I also wonder if porn – not renowned for its on-display condom use – might perform a component. Intercourse educators seem to be hellbent on convincing young men and women that condoms can be sexy and usually provide them with guidelines and tricks to make the encounter far more erotic. Probably they’d be greater off encouraging far better conversations. It wasn’t that anyone I spoke to did not know how to use condoms, or that they were one particular of the couple of strategies that protected against STIs, it was that they did not come to feel they had the language to speak about them. Gina stated she felt unable to deliver up the topic: “I’m unable to inquire, or stop someone when they have gone that far.” Harriet, a 23-year-old pupil, agrees. “In the previous I have definitely felt ashamed to inquire a person to place a condom on, kind of like you’re currently being a bit of a bore. By no means in my complete time of sleeping with guys has 1 of them accomplished it or supplied.” She has had unprotected sex with one-night stands approximately 15 times – “I always just believed I would get the morning-right after pill” – and she ultimately acquired pregnant and had an abortion. Four of her close friends have also had abortions following unprotected intercourse.

Male distaste for condoms isn’t the only explanation unprotected intercourse takes spot. There is also the reality that the side effects of the pill are also significantly for some young females to bear. Like several of the young ladies I spoke to, Harriet’s motives for using withdrawal or getting unprotected intercourse have been partly as a outcome of male stress not to use condoms, but also due to the fact of a genuine discomfort with the achievable side effects of hormonal contraception. “The [contraceptive] pill sent me crazy. There was a definite alter in my moods and when I was not sleeping, I was screaming or crying… it put me off for very good,” she says. “I fell head over heels for an individual. The believed of putting anything hormonal back in my physique frightened me but he refused to wear condoms. Every time I’d get a time period it would just be like a green light saying, ‘You’re not pregnant! Carry on!’ Clearly the day came exactly where I was pregnant. I had the op” – that means an abortion – “and at the very same time had the implant shoved into my arm. 6 months of what can only be described as hell followed. I was continually bleeding and I went into a deep dark depression.”

Scare stories about hormonal contraception hit the newspapers every handful of months. In January, doctors were suggested by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Company to warn sufferers taking “third generation drugs” including Yasmin, Femodene and Marvelon, that they are twice as likely as older medication to cause daily life-threatening blood clots. (The risk applies to women who are presently much more probably to develop clots.)

It is no wonder that ladies are hyperconscious of prospective side effects. Holly Grigg-Spall, writer of Sweetening The Pill: Or How We Received Hooked On Hormonal Birth Manage, says that side effects this kind of as depression and loss of libido steer several ladies away. “I felt oppressed by the pill,” she tells me. It was when she started a site on the topic that she realised other girls felt the same way. “Numerous women don’t want to be taking these drugs any much more,” she says. She endorses a natural household organizing method that includes combining a time period tracker app with other indications of fertility, this kind of as cervical mucus and body temperature, to function out when it is safe to have sex.

“There are two camps,” she says. “[There are] females who haven’t used condoms for a long time or never want to use them, and rather than using condoms as a stopgap they just make a decision they will use the withdrawal approach.” Then, she says, you have people who use the (small-understood) fertility awareness methods, noting their cycles to work out when they can have sex. “We also have this movement of women who are actually interested in studying about their cycles so that they are quite significantly in handle of their bodies.” It truly is correct that the pill can perform havoc with libido, but with all of society’s technological advances, isn’t returning to the “outdated way” of performing issues a little bit backwards?

“It’s a genuine shame that natural family arranging is obtaining baffled with the withdrawal method,” says Natika Halil, of the Loved ones Preparing Association. “It truly is a form of contraception and it is 94% accurate when utilized correctly.” Grigg-Spall agrees that the confusion has not been helpful, and the boom in time period tracker apps has extra to the confusion. “They can try out to say when you happen to be going to get your time period but these apps shouldn’t be telling you when you are fertile, since they don’t know,” she says, emphasising that there are apps accessible that capture a lot more data and so are considerably a lot more reputable. Fertility awareness is a strategy of contraception that has, according to the figures offered, quite small uptake in Britain – less than one% of sexually active folks – and Brook isn’t going to advise it for people below 25 “as it does not tend to match in with their lifestyles”. (She’s not wrong: I struggle to envisage myself taking the time out of freshers’ week to check my cervical mucus.)

From my conversations with women in their teens, 20s and 30s, there is definitely a sense of dissatisfaction with the contraceptive options accessible. For each and every girl who says that she felt pressured by guys into not using condoms, there is another who says that she dislikes the sensation. A lot of, like Frieda, 27, are also wary of the pill. “I just didn’t feel correct on it. I felt less attractive and a little bit depressed,” she says. “I came off it and was horrified not to have a period for six months. I didn’t like that I had been altering my all-natural state for so long.” Frieda also dislikes the implication that her techniques are irresponsible. “I have a really normal time period and know when I ovulate, so I go by that.”

Dr Georgina Noble, a specialist in integrated sexual wellness, is quick to level out that, unlike in America, the NHS can make it simple for female sufferers to try out diverse kinds of contraception in the US, insurance coverage firms will cover only particular types, so there’s much less freedom to experiment. Functioning in a GUM clinic, she’s much far more probably to see withdrawal utilized by teenage ladies who have not however identified out how to get accessibility to contraception. “They will not take into account condoms, they think, ‘It’s Ok since he pulled out.’ Eventually they pluck up the courage and have a tendency to come to the clinic in a group with their friends.”

She’s fast to highlight the risks of utilizing the withdrawal strategy. I hadn’t heard pre-ejaculate referred to since I was a reader of teenage magazines, which have been obsessed with it, but Noble cites a review indicating that sperm is present in 41% of samples. Noble also mentions a patient who had never had penetrative sex and nevertheless grew to become pregnant via get in touch with with pre-ejaculate.

Luke, 25, advised me a equivalent story. “Undesirable pregnancy has occurred to me twice. The initial time, the initial partnership I was in, I got a girl pregnant from employing the pull-out strategy,” he says. “It was via the magic of pre-come. It was quite nerve-racking as a 17-yr-outdated.” The second time he made a lady pregnant was due to a defective coil. “It’s made me massively a lot more cautious now.” Noble says that most females are content on Microgynon thirty, the default contraceptive that the NHS gives, and, even though she admits there can be some side effects, these may be bearable thinking about the option. “Pregnancy is also existence-altering,” she says. “I want my patients to get the most successful contraception that is acceptable to them. I take hormonal contraception and am content to advise all hormonal and lengthy-acting reversible contraceptions to friends and family.”

Numerous of the ladies I interviewed expressed regret at the truth that they had utilized the withdrawal technique or had unprotected intercourse when they were younger. Elise, for instance, says, “There is no excuse for currently being so stupid and I don’t know why I did it.” Jane, a 32-yr-previous civil servant, caught chlamydia when she was 19. “I have by no means felt so dirty,” she says. “I wish I would utilised a condom. Real, they make sex much less spontaneous, but I’d swap that for an internal examination and accompanying swabs, quite frankly.”

There’s a palpable sense of embarrassment from individuals who truly feel that the unprotected sex they had was a end result of carelessness. Numerous of my buddies steer clear of the pill due to the fact of issues about bodyweight obtain, in spite of the truth that research reveal it to be minimal. Other people, like Harriet, uncover the mood swings unbearable. Getting had an abortion and been fitted with the implant, she lastly had it removed and went back to relying on the pull-out technique. Earlier this year the Nationwide Institute for Overall health and Care Excellence (Great) recommended that younger females must be permitted to preserve a provide of the morning-right after pill at property in situation they need to have it. At the moment you can purchase only a single pill at a time, but the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has argued that enabling females to get packets of capsules will reduce the variety of undesired pregnancies. In the same report, Wonderful also recommended that well being specialists not be as well quick to prescribe the contraceptive pill, and to make other extended-acting approaches obtainable to all young women.

So has the pill liberated us? On the one particular hand, I am of course relieved that I can have regular sex and not get pregnant. But on the other, after speaking to so numerous women who would rather use withdrawal because of the side results, I agree with Grigg-Spall that we have turn into blindly accepting of its use. “It’s very hard to criticise publicly,” she says. “Sexual liberation has trumped other sorts of liberation. We have fundamentally linked hormonal birth control with sexual liberation, which is interesting simply because numerous females encounter a negative affect on their sexual libido. And that is apparently fine.”

Grigg-Spall points out that there has been a prolonged historical past in the women’s motion of ambivalence in direction of the pill, but that objections have been sidelined. “The pharma market has a genuine grip. We’ve been led to think that the selections ladies have are hormonal birth management or pregnancy and absolutely nothing in in between. “Females having unprotected intercourse, relying on withdrawal – they need to see that as a warning sign that we’re not carrying out enough.

Harri Wright, 25, exams officer, in a long-term connection

Harri Wright: ‘Pulling out is our principal method of contraception.’ Photograph: Felicity McCabe for the Guardian

I have had unprotected sex possibly hundreds of times. I have been in a romantic relationship with my boyfriend for eight years, and far more frequently than not we never use any form of contraception. I had been on and off many different types of pill – simply because of moving around throughout my university many years I wasn’t ready to settle on one particular. The hormones usually manufactured me feel a bit weird and later on I started out experiencing nausea. In the finish my companion and I were content for me to cease taking the pill. We’ve never consistently employed condoms as neither of us like the come to feel of them.

Pulling out is our principal technique of contraception. I maintain an eye on my cycle and we keep away from peak occasions or use a condom. We would desire to program a pregnancy, but a shock would not be the end of the planet. We would not have created the selection for me to come off the pill if we did not feel we could deal with the repercussions.

Jess Tyrer, 23, travel advisor

Jess Tyrer: ‘Naive as it sounds now, I didn’t actually have any worries about STDs or pregnancy.’ Photograph: Felicity McCabe for the Guardian

As a teenager I was vigilant about my sexual overall health, but after a couple of many years, my friends and I grew to become far more lax with contraception. We had been currently being irresponsible and testing our limits.

I’ve had unprotected sex quite a handful of occasions, and I utilized the pull-out approach with my former spouse. Searching back, I don’t think we even discussed it. Naive as it sounds now, I didn’t truly have any worries about STDs or pregnancy. I knew that neither of us had any STDs, and with other people, if we did have unprotected sex I constantly went to the GUM clinic.

Unprotected sex transpires for a number of motives. It could be that you will not want to stop to put a condom on, often you may possibly be embarrassed to request your spouse, or they may think that you have an IUD or are on the pill. Obviously if you have been consuming, that increases the risk.

I think I am more mature now. I type of want to go back and shake the younger me and make her see sense.

Emma Alfonso, 26, business owner, single

Emma Alfonso: ‘Condoms are disgusting and at times funny, and no a single wants to feel people feelings when obtaining intercourse.’ Photograph: Felicity McCabe for the Guardian

I’ve had unprotected sex with five distinct guys, 3 of whom I was in a partnership with. The other two have been casual.

It starts when you are a teenager and your loving boyfriend suggests you never use a condom, since he’ll shed sensitivity. You, currently being the awesome, chilled out type of lady you’re desperately striving to be, go with it. After you’ve carried out it when and survived, you shed the fear.

Condoms are disgusting and sometimes humorous, and no a single wants to really feel those emotions when obtaining sex. No matter how you colour, flavour or add small ribs and dots “for her pleasure”, condoms are a mood killer.

The pill is a ache to keep track of and has caused me and my friends horrible side effects from headaches and acne to weight gain and mood swings. Similarly the contraceptive injection turned me into a “psycho bitch from hell”, according to my boyfriend. Then there was the coil. I was one particular of the .one% that managed to get up the duff anyway with it in. Not that I am complaining, my daughter is a delight.

Many people would judge me for obtaining unprotected intercourse but it is a threat I take in the exact same way I will not constantly use sunscreen, and I binge drink. Having unprotected intercourse is one factor, but not obtaining checked and possessing unprotected sex when you happen to be not sure whether you are “clean” or not is quite another.

• Some names have been changed.

Unsafe intercourse: why everyone"s at it

Is Zohydro, The Super Potent New Opiate Painkiller, Just Too Unsafe?

A new opiate painkiller with five to 10 instances the energy of Vicodin, set to hit the marketplace in March, could trigger a disastrous spike in overdoses and deaths, says a effective coalition of doctors, lawmakers, and addiction specialists.

In a strongly worded letter that could be titled “Just Say No to Zohydro” far more than 40 experts urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reconsider its approval of Zohydro ER, a potent extended release formulation of straight-up hydrocodone, citing its prospective to include to the increasing epidemic of painkiller addiction.

“In the midst of a significant drug addiction epidemic fueled by overprescribing of opioids, the really final thing the nation needs is a new, dangerous, substantial-dose opioid,” the authorities wrote, addressing FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD.

One member of the letter-writing coalition, Andrew Kolodny, president of the advocacy group Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, was more blunt: “It’s a whopping dose of hydrocodone packed in an straightforward-to-crush capsule. It will kill men and women as quickly as it is released.”

This isn’t the very first group of professionals to beg the FDA to reconsider. A coalition of Congressional representatives and state Attorney Generals has also urged the FDA to listen to its own advisory panel, which voted 11 to 2 against approving Zohydro.

What’s all the fuss about? Plenty. Zohydro is so strong that an individual new to opioids could die of an overdose from just two pills, the professionals say. And a little one could die from ingesting just 1 capsule. In accordance to the FDA’s evaluation, the relief – or the substantial – of Zohydro can last up to 12 hrs per dose.

An ad for Zohydro ER, which professionals say is as well dangerous and ought to not have obtained FDA approval.

The CDC’s data on opioid painkiller deaths speaks for itself, exhibiting that deaths quadrupled in a 10 12 months period. Among 1999 to 2010, the number of U.S. drug poisoning deaths involving an opioid analgesic went from 4,030 to almost 17,000, now topping people from heroin and cocaine mixed. CDC data display that prescriptions for painkillers have nearly tripled above the previous two decades, and 5 million Americans are dependent on the painkillers.

There is no disagreement that we’re in the middle of an epidemic of painkiller abuse. Given that 1999, the U.S. has seen deaths from opiate painkillers jump by 415 percent in ladies and 265 percent in men. And this isn’t just black-marketplace drugs – the biggest victims are middle-aged men and women legitimately prescribed the medication for persistent pain, the experts say. Nearly 60 percent of all drug overdoses are from FDA-accredited prescription drugs, not illegal drugs. In accordance to Forbes’ personal Robert Pearl, MD, three in four drug overdose deaths are due to an opioid painkiller such as oxycodone, hydrocodone or methadone.

The question, professionals say, is do we want a new opiate painkiller at all, given that we seem to be unable to avoid the ones we already have from ending up in the wrong hands? A drug this sturdy has huge likely for abuse, and the U.S. does not have a good track record in avoiding that from taking place. The death of Philip Seymore Hoffman put a spotlight on the possible of oxycodone, Vicodin, and other painkillers to set folks up for heroin addiction, which has also been on a quick rise in the U.S. above the previous number of many years.

The U.S., with just 5 percent of the world’s population, now accounts for 84 percent of global oxycodone (Oxycontin) consumption and a lot more than 99 % of hydrocodone (Vicodin, Lortab) consumption. That is a great deal of painkillers.

Zohydro ER was authorized by the FDA on October 25, 2013. Pharmaceutical professionals have expressed shock that  Zohydro was accredited with no an “abuse-deterrent” formulation, which implies a formulation like additives like naloxone or niacin that cause undesirable side effects when the drug is snorted or injected but are tolerable when taken orally as prescribed.

The primary issue that sets Zohydro apart – other than its strength – is that it doesn’t contain acetaminophen, as Vicodin does, and it is on this basis that its maker, Zogenix, has argued that it is safer than the options. That’s simply not true, argue its opponents, who stage out that there are lots of other opiate painkillers already on the industry that don’t include acetaminophen. Zohydro is anticipated to be accessible as early as March.

In addition to Kolodny, the coalition, which calls itself Fed Up, unites medical professionals, pharmaceutical business professionals, advocacy groups, and addiction professionals, including G. Caleb Alexander, MD, Co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Security and Effectiveness Stuart Gitlow, MD, President of the American Society of Addiction Medication Daniel Busch, MD, of the Feinberg College of Medication at Northwestern University.

In response to previously expressed concerns, Zogenix has established a secure-use board of specialists outdoors the company to help in overseeing “appropriate use” of the drug.

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E-cigarettes: assisting smokers quit or glamorising a unsafe habit?

Electronic cigarettes are to be classed as medicines, which means medical doctors will be able to prescribe them to smokers trying to quit. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

Smoking is great again. At least, electronically. The electronic cigarette (e-cig, vapouriser, fake fag, digital cancer) is, if you feel the adverts and scare stories in the press, the new black.

No longer pleased with the adverse well being effects of smoking analogue conventional cigarettes, a big swathe of smokers are hanging up their lighters and picking up minor metal sticks loaded with a battery, a metal coil, propylene glycol, glycerine and nicotine.

“In one year, its use has doubled,” says Iain Quinn of ILoveVapour.com. “In 2012, there have been about 500,000 vapers in the Uk. Now there are 1.2 million.”

The ubiquity of the digital cigarette is undeniable. As a new convert to vaping – a reference to the smoke-like vapour the unit emits when you suck on it, I appear to uncover them everywhere. Men and women use them in offices, in bars, on public transport. And, though some quizzical looks are thrown when you puff out a cloud of smoke, faces calm as soon as men and women realise you’re not smoking an real cigarette.

Because England’s smoking ban in 2007, smokers have had to duck out of buildings to get their nicotine resolve. Action on Smoking and Well being (Ash) estimates that two thirds of the UK’s ten million smokers would like to quit. Health-related tips varies from GP to GP, but mine advised I give e-cigarettes a go soon after its cousin, the inhalator – a plastic tube filled with a nicotine-soaked sponge – manufactured me come to feel I was sucking on a tampon.

From 2016, the electronic cigarette will be classed as a medicine. This signifies it will be regulated by the MHRA and medical doctors in the NHS will be in a position to prescribe it to support smokers minimize down or quit.

However this seeming official acceptance of vaping cannot quell fears that it is not only normalising smoking, but glamorising it. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus chuffed on a single at the Golden Globes and celebs are papped strolling out of bars with them. Advertised as the healthy way to smoke and seeing a gap in the market place, firms are now becoming acquired by tobacco companies that want a stake in the £200m business – for example, Skycig’s acquisition by Lorillard.

Vapour liquid comes in flavours from chocolate to piña colada, top colleges in the US to ban it simply because they worry it will act as a gateway drug to the true issue.

“Smokers are addicted to the nicotine but it is the smoke that kills them,” says Martin Dockrell of Ash. “Nicotine is frequently element of the resolution rather than the difficulty, and we know that nicotine substitute treatment combined with skilled support makes smokers four instances a lot more likely to quit successfully.”

For a smoker, the benefits are clear. You can feed – or wean by yourself off – your addiction to nicotine. You will not have to inhale the 4,000-seven,000 toxins a regular cigarette sends down your throat. It is less costly. A unit charges a minor a lot more than a packet of cigarettes and refills are just more than a pound each and declare to have as much nicotine as twenty smokes.

You never drop the social facet of cigarette smoking both. Variations in nicotine doses and tastes appear to be an easy subject of conversation from the darkest of Soho members’ bars to the rainiest of Hackney bus stops.

There are downsides.

Legal authorities, this kind of as Alex Bonner from London’s Blake Lapthorn, say it truly is up to employers to make their personal policy determination as to whether or not or not to allow vaping at perform. “Employers have an obligation to supply a risk-free spot of operate,” says Bonner. “The lengthy-phrase well being implications of the e-cigarette are not nevertheless recognized, and it has even been suggested that they may possibly not presently meet acceptable specifications of safety and top quality.”

A University of Sterling and Cancer Investigation Uk report on the trend raises inquiries about the safety of some of the doses of nicotine in some designs as effectively as the propylene glycol utilized to suspend it.

The report also addressed the problems of corporate power and tobacco companies’ real commitment to harm reduction through their exploration of the e-cigarette market place. They have extended been making an attempt to push reduced-tar and “safer” cigarettes. As the cigarette marketplace deteriorates, does their recent investment maintain rather than minimize harm?

“I know a couple of men and women who by no means smoked cigarettes but are now hooked on e-cigs,” says Mohammed, a thirty-12 months-previous sound engineer. “I’ve completed a couple of Bengali weddings and even the girls are puffing away. It is a amazing thing to do.”

What transpires to discarded e-cigs and refills is also a concern as they contribute to the volume of global e-waste. “How quickly will these products end up on the shores of Africa and Asia?” asks Michael Jones of the United Nations’ Secure Planet campaign.

The truth remains that we might be moving away from tobacco, but, as prolonged as we have nicotine, we’re just finding new approaches of dosing up with the drug we’re addicted to. And as long as there is demand, a person is going to provide.

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6 Unsafe Fat Loss Supplements You Must Not Take

This week, the FDA issued two new warnings about well-liked excess weight reduction supplements the agency discovered to be contaminated with other substances, some of them quite dangerous or even banned. In December, the FDA published warnings about 7 further goods, component of an ongoing campaign in which the company tracks and exams bodyweight loss supplements accessible each online and in retailers.

The FDA started listing tainted bodyweight loss supplements in 2009, and has been incorporating to the list ever since. The company has also designed a YouTube video on excess weight loss supplement risk and fraud, “Being Fooled By Empty Diet program Guarantees.”

Here, organized by lively ingredient, are the leading six fat reduction supplements the FDA says you must not get. (And if you’re in search of safer fat reduction supplements, see this list of bodyweight reduction supplements that have acquired higher Organic Standard ratings for efficacy and safety.)

1. Dream Physique Slimming Capsule, Asset Severe, SlimEasy Herbal, SlimExtra Herbal

In accordance to the FDA’s most recent laboratory testing, samples of Dream Body Slimming Capsule, SlimExtra Herbal, SlimEasy Herbal, and Asset Severe capsules had been discovered to incorporate sibutramine (brand identify: Meridia), a drug that was banned by the FDA in 2010 as unsafe. The risks of sibutramine contain spikes in blood stress and pulse fee that could probably set off heart attack or stroke, specifically in someone with large blood stress or cardiovascular illness.

Many excess weight reduction supplements incorporate dangerous or banned medication, FDA warns (photograph: public domain)

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sibutramine was originally offered as an appetite suppressant right up until 2010, when clinical studies found an improved threat of heart attack and stroke in individuals taking the medication.

Meridia, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, was pulled from the U.S. market. Subsequently the drug, marketed as Reductil in Excellent Britain and Apotex in Canada, was banned in these nations as properly, and Abbott voluntarily ceased manufacturing Meridia. The FDA’s ever-expanding list of supplements found to contain sibutramine now involves 70 diverse items.

The diet program dietary supplements listed on the FDA’s warning listing are imported, the bulk from China, and efforts to track down and get in touch with the producers and distributors have been unsuccessful. The FDA lists Slim Elegance USA as a supply for Dream Body, but the mobile phone amount listed for the web site is no longer in service. On some packaging, Guangzhou Beili Biology Technological innovation Organization Ltd is listed as the maker of SlimExtra Herbal, but the business does not have a website. Calls to one of the primary importers of record, Greenbuy International Trade Co., Constrained, went unanswered.

2. Magic Slim, Dr. Ming’s, Super Slim, Lipo-X, Ideal Slim 5x, Diet Master

On January 21st the FDA issued a warning about Magic Slim, the latest in a group of dietary supplements that contain phenolphthalein. This natural compound is an really robust laxative, the effects of which that can final for as prolonged as 3 to four days. According to the FDA, phenolphthalein is regarded genotoxic, meaning it can lead to genetic harm, and is a feasible carcinogen. Phenolphthalein can also result in an unpleasant skin rash and irritate the kidneys.

Heart attack, stroke, kidney injury and psychological health troubles are between the side effect of fat loss dietary supplements (photo: public domain)

Phenolphthalein has also been linked with severe mood swings. A number of days in the past, ABC information reported on an army reservist’s lawsuit claiming that tainted diet plan drugs containing phenolphthalein offered under the brand title Lipo-X, were responsible for an extreme episode of paranoid rage that caused her to ruin her residence, shed her task, and enter a mental hospital. Sainah Theodore is suiting the wellness foods keep that offered her the Lipo-X supplements and the owner of the store.

The FDA’s list of other medicines containing phenolphthalein involves Imelda Perfect Slim, Royal Slimming Formula, eight Factor Diet program, Fatloss Slimming, and  Zhen de Shou. The bulk of these drugs, like Magic Slim and Dr. Ming’s, contained sibutramine as nicely.

The goods on the FDA’s warning record are imported, most of them from China. Magic Slim is also listed by the FDA as sold by Slim Elegance USA. Packaging of a prior Magic Slim product examined by the FDA in 2011 named Floyd Nutrition LLC as the distributor, but the company’s web site no longer lists the product for sale, and the firm did not return calls. Magic Slim also has its personal solution internet site, (although the packaging pictured is not identical to the packaging of either solution tested by the FDA) and emailed requests to that site also received no response.

3. 3X Slimming Electrical power, Extrim Plus

6 Unsafe Fat Loss Supplements You Must Not Take

Is skiing the world"s most unsafe sport?

Michael Schumacher, seven-time winner of Formula One is in a essential issue soon after suffering a serious head damage although skiing in the Méribel resort in France. Several analysis scientific studies put the information in context by comparing damage costs amongst various sports.

Is skiing more dangerous than snowboarding?

The popularity of snowboarding has rapidly grown more than the past two decades despite (or some may possibly argue simply because of) considerations about the sport getting a unsafe 1. A four-yr review by medical doctors in California sought to compare injuries sustained by skiers and snowboarders to figure out which winter sport had the highest danger.

Their results display the importance of expertise 49% of injured snowboarders were newbies compared to 18% of skiers. Wrist and ankle injuries are far a lot more very likely amid snowboarders although skiers are a lot more very likely to injury their knees throughout a fall. 

Total although, snowboarding carries a increased risk of injury and, according to Professor Michael Henrie at the University of Utah, has turn out to be much more hazardous – Henrie discovered that there were 6.97 snowboarding injuries per one,000 visits in 2001, compared to 3.37 per one,000 ten many years earlier.

.9 per one,000

In a separate study of skiers in Norway, a healthcare officer documented 883 injuries more than 980,000 days – amounting to an injury rate of close to .9 per one,000 days. About one in six of all injuries had been to the head, although that figure rose to 1 in 4 of all injuries that were the end result of a collision.

Image: Lystad

Protection

two out of three skiers and snowboarders who had been in a collision but hadn’t suffered an injury stated that they constantly wore helmets. In spite of accounting for a comparatively tiny fraction of all injuries, head injuries are specifically critical offered that they are the most frequent trigger of death and severe disability.

Other sports

Even though their information doesn’t consider into account the popularity of diverse sports, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons monitors head injuries taken care of in US hospital emergency rooms, notably those that impact the brain. 

Around 10.8 million US citizens skied for the duration of the 2010/11 season, compared to around 18.three million who played football and 46.8 million who cycled. When these participation charges are regarded, the risks of sustaining a head injury are comparable across all three sports. 

Listed under are the twenty sports activities and recreational actions most commonly witnessed in the emergency room for head injuries.

Is skiing the world"s most unsafe sport?