It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the holiday season! Everyone is looking forward to enjoying spending time with loved ones and taking part in the festivities. On the other hand, how do we plan on staying healthy when there’s an abundance of baked goods, buttery carbs and other temptations? Not to mention the […]
Unfortunately, the medicines we currently have to relieve pain have their shortcomings. From paracetamol to aspirin, gabapentin to opioids, they all have their adverse effect and, in reality, most don’t work very well at all. Pain medicines are not like antibiotics which can cure 80-90 per cent of all infections. The effects of pain medicines […]
· Only 28 per cent of people believe cancers can be controlled long term – yet the average patient now lives more than 10 years from diagnosis · Just 26 per cent of people think we are making major progress against cancer, even though average survival time from cancer has approximately doubled in a decade […]
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Sarcoma UK is disappointed to see that life extending cancer drug trabectedin (Yondelis) will not be made available routinely on the NHS to sarcoma patients in Scotland. Trabectedin, a chemotherapy drug which has been routinely available in the rest of the UK for over a decade, has been denied approval for regular use in Scotland […]
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Two leading Priory experts in mental health and bereavement counselling offer advice on getting through Christmas Everyone experiences the pain of bereavement, and the struggle to reconcile the conflicting emotions that comes with it; sadness, anger, frustration and even exhaustion are all normal. Acutely distressing feelings may lessen and change as time passes, but there […]
People in the UK will for the first time have their entire genetic code read from samples taken at a GP practice as part of a pioneering study to assess the potential benefits of screening for gene faults that increase the risk of disease. Blood tests to be used to read entire genetic code […]
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Every year, thousands of clinicians and healthcare students undergo formal disciplinary hearings. Each case involves allegations of wrongdoing, from academic misconduct (e.g., cheating in exams or lying on an application form) to causing harm to patients. Many defendants are advised, usually by their lawyer, to complete some sort of ethics course to deepen their knowledge […]
Beneath the little black dress, 1000s of women are having to hide their protective ‘party pants’ to avoid embarrassing moments The Office Christmas party, with copious amounts of drinking and dancing, has all the ingredients for festive fun but is often a recipe for disaster in terms of embarrassing leaks and awkward moments amongst colleagues […]
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Changes in heart rate, due to low oxygen conditions, experienced by the fetus during pregnancy, could be used to predict the future heart health of babies, shows research published in The Journal of Physiology today. Previous research has shown that sustained low levels of oxygen (called chronic hypoxia) during pregnancy significantly impair the growth of the fetus, leading to a condition known as intrauterine growth […]
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A major survey of medical record keeping in the NHS has revealed critical deficiencies that could risk patients’ safety. Researchers at the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at Imperial College London, found NHS Trusts were using at least 21 different electronic medical record systems which are unable to effectively share information. Almost four million […]