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May 2023
A new report has found that pregnant women and new mums are missing out on vital mental health services and the NHS is not on track to meet key targets. The Maternal Mental Health Alliance found a wide disparity in care for new and expectant mums across the country, and that progress was at…
09
May 2023
After the second drug in less than a year has now been shown to slow the disease, experts say we are now “on the cusp” of drugs being available, something which had recently seemed “impossible”. The new drug, donanemab, works the same way as lecanemab, which created headlines around the world when it was…
04
May 2023
In the recent case of Farzana Yasin v Swift Lawyers Ltd (2407552/2021) the Employment Tribunal held that Ms Yasin, (‘the Claimant’) was discriminated against on the grounds of pregnancy but was not unfairly dismissed. The Respondent was a Law Firm and the Claimant commenced employment in 2017 as a paralegal working on cavity wall insulation…
02
May 2023
A woman who was part of a study using artificial intelligence to spot bowel cancer is free of the disease after it was found and removed. The patient from South Shields took part in the Colo-Detect study as part of a trial at ten NHS trusts, and for which around 2,000 patients have been…
02
May 2023
A new blood test could dramatically speed up lung cancer treatment and remove the need for patients to have uncomfortable tissue biopsies under general anaesthetic. A clinical study will determine whether survival rates can be improved. Dr Magda Meissner, medical oncologist and liquid biopsy lead for the All-Wales Medical Genomics Service in Cardiff,…
02
May 2023
New draft guidelines for the NHS say women in labour should be offered an alternative to an epidural spinal block injection. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is recommending remifentanil, a fast-acting morphine-like drug given through a vein. Women control the medication themselves, by pressing a button to release more of the…
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