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Oct 2016
Separation and financial implications are subjects that our Family Law team are approached with on a daily basis. It is a very difficult and frightening time when a relationship has come to an end, and any uncertainty regarding your financial position needs to be clarified in easy to understand terms. The situation varies depending on your relationship…
11
Oct 2016
The European Cancer Congress has presented promising results in a study of 350 head and neck cancer patients. In the study, the number of patients surviving for longer whilst taking the drug, nivolumab, exceeded those being treated with chemotherapy. In the trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 36% of the patients trialled…
05
Oct 2016
The study, which investigated over 200,000 births over five years, showed that health outcomes for babies whose care was led by midwives was significantly worse when compared with doctor-led care. The research, undertaken by the University of Otago in New Zealand, investigated 244,000 births in the country between 2008 to 2012, and revealed an “unexplained…
05
Oct 2016
A review by NHS England has revealed that over 80 per cent of regions in England need to improve their cancer care if they are to achieve the national target of delivering “world class” cancer care by 2020. The analysis investigated the performance of all 209 clinical commissioning groups in England in areas such as…
04
Oct 2016
Research has suggested that typical ‘red flag’ symptoms of bowel cancer, such as abdominal pain and weight loss, are being routinely missed by GPs, and that at least 2,000 patients whose conditions are diagnosed in A&E every year could have been picked up earlier. The study, which was carried out by Cancer Research UK and…
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Sep 2016
The new faecal immunochemical test (FIT), which will be rolled out in the UK over the next few years, will look for hidden blood in the stool, a possible early sign of bowel cancer. The new test is much simpler and more accurate than the current faecal occult blood (FOB) test, and a study has…
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