Mental health patients want mental health diagnostic descriptions to better reflect what it feels like to live with their conditions in the World Health Organisation’s global manual of diagnoses – according to a new Lancet Psychiatry report. The study, by UK and US researchers at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), the University of […]
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Variations in lung cancer care ‘cannot be tolerated’ and many people face ‘unwarranted’ delays in treatment, says a new report published this week by the UK Lung Cancer Coalition (UKLCC). According to the report, just a quarter (27%) of lung cancer patients in England receive an early diagnosis (stage I or II) – and only […]
Bowel Cancer UK and Beating Bowel Cancer is funding six bowel cancer research projects totaling nearly £440,000, part of the charity’s investment to support research with the greatest benefits for those at risk and affected by the disease. All the research projects support the charity’s vision that by 2050 no one will die from bowel […]
Early diagnosis is a major focus of the work of Target Ovarian Cancer and we take a three-pronged approach to try and ensure that more women are diagnosed at an early stage when the cancer is still very treatable. Over 7000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year in the UK. Although fewer than […]
Now in its second year, the March for Men series organised by Prostate Cancer UK has grown bigger with a further four organised walks in Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham, to add to last year’s sites in Glasgow, Leeds, and London. Each walk is taking place in a beautiful local park with the option to […]
The annual National HIV Testing Week (NHTW) promotes HIV testing to gay and bisexual men and black African men and women. These groups make up seven out of 10 people in the UK living with HIV. For more information go to National HIV Testing Week. […]
The health of people with diabetes is being put at risk due to the failure of doctors to recognise an important subtype of diabetes which is known as Type 3c, according to a new study in the journal Diabetes Care. In the first ever study of its kind, researchers from the University of Surrey, examined the […]
Over the last 10 years, since I founded the charity Medical Detection Dogs, I have seen for myself what things these amazing dogs are able to do for human beings. Even before that, I was aware of the incredible benefits dogs could bring. When I qualified as a behavioural psychologist at Swansea and Warwick Universities, […]
Pancreatic cancer is one of the more deadly forms of cancer and only between 7-25 per cent of people will survive for five years or more. For those whose cancer has spread to other parts of the body, the average survival is between 2-6 months. [Cancer Research UK figures 2015) The location of pancreatic cancer […]
World Cancer Day brings people together across the world who have been affected by the disease. As a specialist nurse in the patient services team at blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan, my job is to provide information and support for patients and families who have had a stem cell transplant. Recovery can be challenging and […]