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Sep 2024
Efforts to improve the early detection of lung cancer have seen over 20,000 people in parts of North East England take health checks over the past two years. Invites have been sent to people in South Tyneside and Sunderland aged between 55 and 74 and who have at some point smoked. As part…
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Sep 2024
Scientists at the University of Oxford are aiming to develop a vaccine for people with a genetic condition that increases their risk of a number of cancers. Lynch syndrome is caused by a mutation in the gene that fixes errors in DNA when it is copied, which can lead to uncontrolled growth in cells. …
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Sep 2024
Health leaders say the government’s plan to tackle the hospital backlog in England will fail without a fundamental reform in how services work. Labour plans to increase the number of appointments and operations undertaken each week by 40,000, to help hit the 18-week waiting time target. However, NHS Confederation research found that would deliver…
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Aug 2024
The first therapy that uses gene-editing is to be offered through the NHS in a “revolutionary breakthrough” for patients. The method will be used as a potential cure for blood disorder beta thalassaemia. Patients with the condition struggle to produce enough haemoglobin, which is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen…
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Aug 2024
Tens of thousands of women who have gone through the menopause could benefit from a new bone-strengthening drug, according to the medicines watchdog National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The drug, abaloparatide, can protect against the bone-thinning condition osteoporosis, which causes a high risk of broken bones in older age and according…
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Aug 2024
It has been claimed that some GPs in the region are carrying out an “unsustainable” number of consultations, seeing up to 70 patients in a single day, more than double the number deemed to be “safe” by the European Union of General Practitioners, which sets a maximum level of 25 patients each day. The…
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