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Oct 2018
According to a recent study conducted in Norway, better care for mothers and babies during pregnancy and labour can cut cerebral palsy rates. Information for the study was gathered from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway between the years 1999 and 2010. The data collected included information on the mother’s health and the baby’s health…
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Oct 2018
Antibiotics have been readily available and widely prescribed by GPs and hospital staff for decades, and this is leading to initially harmless bacteria becoming drug resistant and could ultimately turn into superbugs. The World Health Organisation (WHO) have warned previously that if no action is taken, the world could be heading for a ‘post-antibiotic’ era,…
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Oct 2018
New figures released by NHS Digital show that there has been an eight-fold jump in the last ten years in new cases of MRSA and other hospital-acquired bugs, and the number has risen by 20 per cent in the last year alone from just over 40,000 to nearly 50,000 in 2017. These figures come at…
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Oct 2018
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has been ordered to report weekly to the Care Quality Commission on their maternity services, to protect patients. An investigation into the maternity deaths at the trust was ordered by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt and this has since widened. The CQC have said that they remain “very concerned”…
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Oct 2018
A new clinical trial has suggested that by combining hormone therapy with a pioneering drug may extend the lives of some women with advanced breast cancer. The women who took part in the trial and received the drug palbociclib alongside hormone therapy lived for up to 40 months longer than those given hormone therapy alone.…
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Oct 2018
Early clinical trials have shown encouraging developments in a newly created antibiotic, which acts like the Greek legend’s Trojan horse, by tricking bacteria into allowing it to enter. Clinical trials on urinary tract and kidney infection patients showed that the drug was as effective as current treatments. Speaking of the trials, Research leader Dr Simon…
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