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Feb 2020
Trials have shown that the technique cut the need for regular daily insulin injections by more than 50 per cent in animals, and is now to be tested on humans. Whilst type-2 diabetes is linked to an unhealthy lifestyle and occurs when the body produces insufficient insulin, type-1 is caused by the immune system destroying…
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Feb 2020
National law firm Weightmans’ dismissal of a facilities assistant with over twenty years service was deemed fair by an Employment Tribunal, where the employees non-business related internet use was found to be ‘substantial’ following an internal investigation. The search activity was considered to be gross misconduct by the employer, as the substantial internet usage demonstrated…
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Feb 2020
An £80m treatment fund has ‘significantly reduced’ the time taken for newly recommended treatment to become available to patients in Wales, cutting the wait from 90 days to 13. First launched in 2017, the New Treatment Fund provides health boards with financial assistance to speed up access to life-prolonging and improving medicines. The fund now…
05
Feb 2020
Cancer Focus Northern Island have announced a £300,000 investment in pioneering research at Queen’s University Belfast into two cancers which are among the hardest to treat and have very low survival rates. The five-year survival rate in England for pancreatic cancer is 6.9% and for oesophageal cancer approximately 15%. In Northern Ireland, the statistics are…
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Feb 2020
An investigation by the BBC has found that stroke, heart attack and burns victims are amongst the seriously injured and ill patients waiting for longer than an hour for an ambulance to arrive in England and Wales. Experts say these delays, which are intended to be reached in 18 minutes on average, are putting lives…
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Feb 2020
The health secretary Matt Hancock is to investigate allegations that some women are being denied pain-relieving epidurals during childbirth by NHS trusts. Current NHS guidelines state that pain relief during labour can be requested at any time and that women should be given support and information to choose what is right for them. Although epidural…
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