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Feb 2020
It is hoped that the new treatment, Luxturna, which costs around £600,000 and has been approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, will improve vision and even halt sight loss. The gene therapy will benefit patients who have retinal dystrophy, a condition which stems from inheriting a faulty copy of the RPE65…
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Feb 2020
Mumps outbreaks in colleges and universities have increased the number of cases to 5,042 in 2019, four times the number last year, with most new cases occurring in young adults who had missed out on the MMR jab. Mumps is a viral infection which was very common in children prior to the MMR (measles, mumps…
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Feb 2020
Following the news that contaminated blood victims in Northern Ireland are receiving a lower financial settlement than those elsewhere in the UK, a group recently met with health minister Robin Swann and urged him to address the disparity in payments. Nigel Hamilton of the campaign group Haemophilia NI said those affected by the scandal in…
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Feb 2020
Charity Versus Arthritis has warned that delays in diagnosing and treating children with arthritis are leaving them in pain and at an increased risk of lifelong damage. Arthritis is a common ailment which causes inflammation and pain in a joint. There are currently over 10 million people in the UK who have arthritis or other…
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Feb 2020
Current recommendations are that in cases where ovarian cancer has returned following initial treatment, further surgery takes place in some cases to remove as much of the cancer as possible before recommencing chemotherapy treatment. However, hard evidence to support this practice is not available. Now, following the result of a large clinical trial undertaken by…
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Feb 2020
NHS England have announced an independent review which is to take place into maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust following the deaths of 15 babies there in recent years. Earlier this week, the trust’s chief executive said that there had been “six or seven” avoidable deaths at two hospitals in Margate and Ashford…
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