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from or mentioning Scotland (UK)
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Breast Cancer in Men
Breast cancer in men is not unknown but awareness of male breast cancer is low and, according to researchers at Leeds University (England), most men do not even know they are at risk - despite an i...
Everyday medicines can destroy lives
Could roundworms provide new treatment for sepsis ?
ES-62 has the therapeutic ability to enhance recovery in septic shock by suppressing and limiting catastrophic inflammatory responses while allowing for bacterial clearance to occur. Administration...
NHS IT plans require safeguards
Oxford Uni Study links economic insecurity with obesity
Oxford researchers compared 11 affluent countries and found that those with a liberal market regime (strong market incentives and relatively weak welfare states) experienced one-third more obesity ...
The fear of cancer
Ban on cigarette sales to teenagers had little effect on access to tobacco
University researchers in the UK have found that banning under-18s from buying cigarettes has had little impact on young people's access to tobacco and that large numbers of teenagers continue to b...
UK BMA concern about cuts to time senior doctors can spend on new services
According to the British Medical Association (BMA), innovation in the NHS is at risk of being stifled as hospitals cut the amount of time senior doctors can devote to new services.
BMA Consultants Chairman criticises lists of 'banned treatments'
The Chairman of the British Medical association (BMA)'s Consultants Committee has criticised lists of treatments "banned on the NHS", and said that cuts to services were being driven by "the quest ...
Mental Health Foundation (UK) Comments on high rate of hospital admissions among BME groups
Cuts to training budget could threaten patient care - BMA (UK)
The BMA's Junior Doctor Committee (JDC), has asked the UK Department of Health to halt their review of training funding because they say that it threatens to cut millions of pounds from junior doct...
