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Sep 2018
Britain’s main insulin manufacturer is stockpiling four months’ supply of the medicine amid warnings the UK will run out if there is no deal, building up the reserve by January of next year. An estimated 4.6 million diabetes sufferers in the UK rely on insulin to stay healthy. Manufacturer Novo Nordisk of Denmark supplies over…
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Sep 2018
An investigation into suspicious incidents at Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed that more than 60 babies and mothers either lost their lives or came to serious harm at Shrewsbury and Telford maternity unit between 1998 and 2017. The investigation initially began into 23 suspicious incidents at the trust, but this number has now almost trebled…
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Sep 2018
A cutting-edge treatment for aggressive leukaemia is to be offered on the NHS and has been called the most exciting treatment advance for decades. CAR-T, used for treating the disease when other drugs have failed, usually costs hundreds of thousands of pounds for each patient. However, it has emerged that a fair and affordable price…
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Sep 2018
According to research in the European Journal of Cancer, half of people in England who received a home testing kit in 2015 did not use it, with fewer men than women returning the kits. It also emerged that those who lived in poorer areas were less likely to take part in the screening than those…
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Sep 2018
The new Versius robot, a rival to the American da Vinci system, which is currently used in over 70 UK hospitals, is expected to start operating on patients from next year. The new system is smaller and it is believed will be more versatile and flexible than currently used robots, which will allow it to…
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Sep 2018
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have said that letters written by doctors too often contain complex medical jargon, rather that plain English, which is easier for patients to understand. A new initiative set up by Dr Hugh Rayner, by the name of Please Write To Me, is primarily aimed at doctors working in outpatient…
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