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Feb 2020
It has been revealed that doctors working on a clinical trial for treatment of heart disease held back key information. The Excel trial tested to see whether stents were as effective as open heart surgery at treating patients with a heart problem called left main disease. The data was eventually published, but only following treatment…
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Feb 2020
The Public Health Agency has said a rise of 700% in mumps cases in Northern Ireland is partly due to the vaccine becoming less effective over time. Northern Ireland Public Health Agency’s Dr Jillian Johnston said that most of the cases were children and young adults aged between 15 and 24, who had had two…
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Feb 2020
The Edon (Early Detection of Neurogenerative Diseases) project is being spearheaded by charity Alzheimer’s Research UK. The project will initially analyse data from ongoing studies into the disease through the use of artificial intelligence, the information from which will be used to design a prototype device within three years. The wearable device will collect an…
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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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