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Sep 2014
According to Cancer Research UK, NHS cancer services in England are struggling following years of cost savings and recent reforms in the NHS. The charity is calling for greater funding to meet the demands of an ageing population. In 2013-14, GPs referred nearly 1.5 million patients in England with suspected cancer, which was an increase…
09
Sep 2014
GP practices that are currently providing inadequate care are to be provided with deadlines to improve or face potential closure, under recently proposed special measures. The special measures will be introduced from October this year by the Care Quality Commission, coinciding with 8,000 practices being rated on whether they are outstanding, good, requiring improvement or…
03
Sep 2014
Researchers at the Monash Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, have identified three types of stem cells in umbilical cord blood, which could be the key to preventing cerebral palsy. The researchers have found that giving back the blood to newborns within 12 hours of birth could prevent the likelihood of birth asphyxia, which…
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