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Nov 2022
A new treatment to protect babies against a common and potentially dangerous winter virus has been approved by the UK regulator. The single antibody injection helps to stop infants getting chest infections such as pneumonia for around six months. A large study has now commenced to determined whether nirsevimab should now be offered…
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Nov 2022
Recent analysis by the BBC has shown that the number of patients waiting longer than the 62 day target time for cancer therapy in the last year has exceeded 67,000 across England, Northern Ireland and Scotland – twice as many as the same period in 2017-18. The national cancer director for NHS England said…
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Nov 2022
A new study has revealed that the number of people aged under-40 with type 2 diabetes has increased by almost a quarter in five years. The disease is typically linked to unhealthy lifestyles and until recently was relatively rare in younger patients according to new analysis by Diabetes UK. The charity warns the…
08
Nov 2022
Experts have claimed that pancreatic cancer could be diagnosed up to three years earlier if people were regularly weighed and had their blood sugar levels checked. Currently over 10,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with the disease, which has a high death rate due to around 90 per cent of people being diagnosed…
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Nov 2022
A study has found that intense physical activity has increased heart health benefits. Researchers in Cambridge, Leicester and the National Institute for Health and Care Research used activity trackers to monitor 88,000 people. The study showed there was a greater reduction in cardiovascular disease risk when activity was of at least moderate intensity,…
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Nov 2022
In an attempt to cut response times, some emergency calls are to be downgraded by ambulance trusts. London and West Midlands Ambulance Services will take part in the trial, which will see category two calls, such as heart attacks, strokes, sepsis and burns, reassessed to see how quickly paramedics should respond. The move…
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