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Oct 2019
Huddersfield based Mamas & Papas has been fined £20,000 for selling dangerous car seats. An investigation was conducted by Milton Keynes Council Trading Standards Team into the car seats which were tested in crash simulation using a child sized dummy. Mercury branded car seats were found to be defective as they could crack and allow…
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Oct 2019
IR35 is a tax law initiative introduced in April 2000 to address issues of ‘deemed employment’ where a business engages workers on a self-employed basis, (usually through intermediaries) rather than on an employment contract, essentially ‘disguising’ the worker as an employee. There are benefits to the company in using this method, alleviating the requirement to…
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Sep 2019
A recent study has suggested that men who have fertility treatment carry an increased risk of prostate cancer later in life. The research looked at 1.2 million pregnancies over the course of 20 years and found that men who had received ICSI, a male fertility treatment, had an increased risk of developing prostate cancer. Professor…
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Sep 2019
Researchers have predicted that a pioneering new urine test for detecting pancreatic cancer could drastically improve survival rates, following a 90 per cent accuracy rate in recent studies. Pancreatic cancer currently has the lowest survival rate, with only around five per cent of patients still alive five years following diagnosis. The new test, which has…
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Sep 2019
A study by academics at Oxford University suggests mothers are safer choosing to have a C-section for their next delivery, as a vaginal birth increases the risk of a uterine rupture by seven times, and also carries increased risks of blood transfusion, surgical injury and sepsis. Research for the study looked into over 74,000 deliveries…
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Sep 2019
Official figures from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) have revealed that the waiting list for heart transplants has more than doubled in ten years. 313 patients are currently waiting for an organ to become free, a rise of 130 per cent from a decade ago, which is thought to have been caused by an ageing…
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