The SCPN Newsletter: Latest Articles
The Department of Health (England) announced on the 21st June that the average intake of salt has decreased from 9.5 to 8.1g per day.1 This was stated as the lowest salt intake of any developed ...
In September 2008 a national program was launched to vaccinate all girls between the ages of 12-13 against human papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccine helps protect against certain strains of HPV ...
A campaign to combat rising levels of childhood obesity was launched in April this year. From surgeons and psychiatrists to paediatricians and GPs, health professionals are coming together to ...
Query: Should we all move to using alcohol free mouth wash to cut our risk of oral cancer or is this only relevant for people who smoke? The potential association between use of ...
On this year’s World No Tobacco Day1 which took as a theme ending tobacco industry interference, Anne Jones, the Chief Executive of ASH Australia, came to Scotland at the invitation of the ...
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women and kills around 20 women in UK each week. Although the incidence has been greatly reduced through organised screening over the past two ...
At the end of May, the Scottish Government passed a Bill that proposes to save hundreds of lives each year. The Alcohol Minimum Pricing Bill was passed and is set to introduce a minimum price of ...
Recent reports of a pilot lung cancer screening programme across Scotland were reported by the media with much excitement, and understandably so. Scotland has one of the highest rates of ...
New legislation in France to tax sugar sweetened beverages by one euro cent per container, is now in effect. The duty was passed by the Constitutional Council with the aim to reduce obesity ...
In the UK, broadcast marketing of high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) foods to children is restricted through rules put in place by the Broadcast regulator OFCOM. However, recent research suggests ...