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Aug 2023
A new test could reduce the time it takes to diagnose a condition which causes chronic pain for thousands of women. Endometriosis causes cells similar to those in the lining of the womb to develop elsewhere in the body, especially in the bowel and reproductive organs. They react to the menstrual cycle each month…
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Aug 2023
The daily capsule comprises a combination of two existing Parkinson’s medications, rasagiline and pramipexole, given at low doses in a slow-release formula, the idea being that the complementary mechanisms work together to increase levels of dopamine in the brain – a key trigger of the disease. The use of low doses means the drugs won’t…
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Aug 2023
Men with prostate cancer which has an intermediate risk of spreading when they receive radiotherapy treatment are currently offered hormone therapy for between six months and three years at the same time. However, AI, which searches for biological patterns in the cancer cells taken from biopsies at the point of diagnosis, can identify those…
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Aug 2023
The new drug, donanemab, is being hailed as a turning point in the fight against Alzheimer’s, following an international trial which confirmed it slows cognitive decline. The antibody medicine helps in the early stages of the disease by clearing a protein that builds up in the brains of sufferers of this type of dementia.…
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Jul 2023
Up to one million further people in England will be eligible for a vaccine against shingles on the NHS from September of this year. Anyone over the age of 65 will now be eligible, as well as those over 50 with a severely weakened immune system – it was previously only available to over-70s.…
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Jul 2023
A review into maternity care failings in hospitals in Nottingham will be the largest ever carried out in the UK. Inquiry chair Donna Ockenden, told a meeting earlier this week that 1,700 families’ cases would be examined. Ms Ockenden led the probe into maternity services in Shropshire, which found at least 201 mothers…
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