07
Jan 2020
Macmillan Cancer Support has warned that cancer patients are increasingly feeling they cannot ask questions to overstretched NHS staff caring for them. The charity reported that they had received 240,000 inquiries to its support line in 2019, many patients calling in distress feeling they are unable to ask questions of doctors and nurses, some being…
07
Jan 2020
A new ‘two-pronged-attack’ combination drug therapy could provide a lifeline to thousands of patients in the UK battling incurable blood cancer. Until now, patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, also known as CLL, one of the most common types of blood cancer in adults, have been forced to endure repeated rounds of gruelling chemotherapy to keep…
06
Jan 2020
Sajid Javid announced during the Election campaign that the National Living Wage (“NLW”) will increase to £10.50 over the next five years and the age banding eventually expanded to anyone over the age of twenty-one years. He claims that this move will offer pay rises to over four million workers by the time that the…
20
Dec 2019
NHS hospitals are commencing trials into a pioneering way of delivering chemotherapy in an attempt to make the cancer treatment more effective. The treatment involves using miniscule bubbles to get more drugs inside tumours without having to damage healthy cells, which is a current side effective of chemotherapy. The treatment, known as acoustic cluster therapy,…
20
Dec 2019
Regulators say that more GPs are choosing to work part-time hours, raising concerns about the government’s push to recruit additional doctors. A survey by the General Medical Council has indicated that a third of GPs have reduced their hours in the past year and that around 45% are working less than full-time. The poll also…
20
Dec 2019
Scientists at the University of Cambridge found a technique whereby the microscopic devices crafted from intricately folded strands of DNA, and forcing bacteria into contact with drugs, slowed the growth rate of two common bugs, one of which was E. coli. They added that the folded DNA method could allow lower doses of antibiotics to…
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