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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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Oct 2018
According to figures from NHS Digital, nearly 30 per cent of labour in England is induced, which is a rise from one in five ten years ago. Experts have said that the increasing numbers of overweight and older mothers is behind the trend. NHS data shows that in the year 2017-18, natural labours occurred in…
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Oct 2018
A new nerve-stimulating battery-powered implant is to be made available to patients in the UK with severe heart failure, offering hope to patients where standard treatments provide no relief. The implant, known as Barostim Neo, is sited in the chest below the collar-bone. A wire protruding from a small generator is connected beneath the patient’s…
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