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Apr 2021
In what is being hailed as a major scientific breakthrough for the world, a malaria vaccine, developed by the same team behind the Oxford coronavirus jab, has been found to be 77 per cent effective in providing protection against the disease. The findings have come from the first twelve months of an ongoing trial, involving…
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Apr 2021
A Leeds private hospital has become one of the first in the region to offer a prostate cancer test which is so targeted it can detect cases other tests might miss. The new ultrasound equipment is also performed under local anaesthetic rather than general anaesthetic, enabling patients to attend as a day patient instead of…
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Apr 2021
A British man may be the first in the world to be cured of advanced glioblastoma brain cancer by an experimental new therapy. The patient was told he may only have months to live, but twelve months on his tumour has disappeared and his recovery has been hailed by doctors as ‘extraordinary’. He is one…
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Apr 2021
The latest NHS England figures show that around 4.7 million people were waiting for routine procedures and operations in England in February, the highest since 2007. Up to 388,000 were waiting for longer than twelve months for non-urgent surgery, compared with 1,600 before the pandemic. NHS England said that despite the winter peak, one million…
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Apr 2021
Patients undergoing treatment for a rare cancer linked to exposure to asbestos are being assessed with artificial intelligence in a pilot project. Scotland currently has the highest incidence of mesothelioma, connected to traditional heavy industry, worldwide, but treatment options are limited. Researchers have now created a prototype AI system which is able to detect and…
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Apr 2021
Two directors are to step down at a hospital that asked staff for handwriting samples and fingerprints as it hunted down a whistleblower. An inquiry into the handling of the affairs at West Sussex Hospital is due to report imminently. An inquest was told about a series of errors in the treatment of a patient…
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