Research by the Health Foundation indicates that restoring the UK population's health to 2014 levels could boost GDP by 2% (£57bn) and generate a £72bn dividend for public finances. Healthy life expectancy fell by two years in a decade, increasing long-term health conditions and associated NHS and disability benefit costs.
A Anvisa aprovou uma nova indicação para o medicamento trastuzumabe deruxtecana, usado no tratamento de câncer de mama HER2-positivo. A terapia poderá ser usada mais cedo, em pacientes com doença residual após quimioterapia, terapia-alvo e cirurgia, reduzindo o risco de retorno da doença.
Um novo medicamento, daraxonrasib, dobrou a sobrevida mediana de pacientes com câncer de pâncreas metastático em estudo de fase 3, reduzindo o risco de morte em 60% e apresentando baixa toxicidade. Os resultados foram apresentados na ASCO e devem levar à aprovação regulatória nos EUA.
Nova droga oral, daraxonrasib, dobra sobrevida de pacientes com câncer de pâncreas em estágio avançado. Em ensaio clínico, reduziu risco de morte em 60% e oferece esperança onde antes havia poucas opções.
Deprivation and inequality are behind the fall in healthy life expectancy, writes George Binette. Plus letters from Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Dr Louise Lawson and Chris PhillipsonHelen McCarthy writes that today’s struggle “is the right to live a good, meaningful life, and to live it right to the end” (Britain pioneered the comfortable retirement – but that golden age is coming to an end, 2 May). Ironically, her column appeared days after the Health Foundation reported a notable fall of roughly two years in healthy life expectancy across the UK in the decade between 2012-14 and 2022-24 to below 61 years for both men and women – significantly below the state pension age. Among 21 high-income countries, Britain’s ranking slumped from 14th to 20th against this measure, ahead only of the US.The reasons for this relative and absolute decline are, of course, multifaceted, but there is an undeniable link to relative deprivation. With the state pension age continuing to rise and the Tony Blair Institute effectively calling for abolishing the meagre state pension, Prof McCarthy’s assertion that “the right to retire was yesterday’s struggle,” seems dubious at best. Pensioner poverty in Britain remains widespread and far worse than in France and Italy. Continue reading...
Analysis from the Health Foundation reveals a devastating two-year decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain, with the UK now ranking 20th out of 21 high-income countries, just above the US. Worsening mental health among younger adults shows the sharpest deterioration, while the pandemic is not to blame. By 2028, when retirement age rises to 67, the average person will be in poor health over six years before stopping work. Huge geographical disparities exist, with London improving while Blackpool and Hartlepool see steepest declines.
Exclusive: Health Foundation says Britain is ‘going backwards’ compared with most other rich countriesFindings on healthy life expectancy in UK shed light on its deteriorating healthPeople in the UK are spending fewer years in good health than a decade ago, prompting concern that the population’s health is “going backwards”.The sharp decline in Britain’s healthy life expectancy, the amount of time someone spends free of illness or disability, is in sharp contrast to its recent rise in most other rich countries globally. Continue reading...
The UK's healthy life expectancy has fallen by two years to around 60.7 years for men and 60.9 for women between 2012-14 and 2022-24, diverging from rising trends in other rich countries. The Health Foundation warns most areas now fall below the state pension age of 66, meaning people spend years in ill-health before retirement, with the poorest areas below 55 years. The thinktank calls for bolder policies including extending sugar tax principles to other products and minimum unit pricing of alcohol.
