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Jan 2019
The teenager will start the therapy at a new £125m treatment centre at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. The specialist radiotherapy targets cancer cells without damaging tissues surrounding the tumours and until now, most NHS patients needed to travel abroad to have the treatment. The Christie Cancer Centre first opened its doors to patients in…
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Jan 2019
The health secretary plans to unveil a new five year plan to tackle the problem of drug-resistant superbugs amid claims that they are as big a threat as climate change. Infections have become harder to treat due to overuse of antibiotics, leading to thousands of deaths each year through drug-resistant superbugs. The new plan will…
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Jan 2019
Researchers at Cardiff University have identified a protein which allows the ‘growth, spread and invasion’ of aggressive breast cancer cells, and now plan to study ways to target the protein (named LYN) in improved cancer treatments. Currently, 11,000 people are killed by breast cancer in the UK and there are around 150 new cases diagnosed…
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Jan 2019
In July 2017, the UK Government commissioned and published an independent review of ‘Modern Working Practices (namely the ‘Taylor Review’)’ which sought to modernise UK employment law practices to ensure a consistently fair labour market and an evolving legal and social landscape towards the attitudes of employment. Briefly, the independent Taylor Review discovered the need…
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Jan 2019
Receiving a grievance from an employee is rarely welcome – dealing with it can soak up resources, cause disquiet among other employees and in some cases escalate into a dispute which ends up before an employment tribunal. The key to dealing with grievances is to adopt a fair process and to be aware of some…
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Jan 2019
New research has shown that future x-ray machines will be powered by artificial intelligence to help diagnose chest abnormalities, also easing pressure on staff. The software will utilise machine learning and computer vision to speed up the detection of abnormalities, flagging up any issues and urgently referring patients on for diagnoses. Scientists involved in the…
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