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Rethink for failed pancreatic cancer drug
A failed pancreatic cancer treatment could be resurrected as a personalised medicine aimed at one in five patients with the disease, research suggests.
Waiting times in the NHS will get worse, Health Secretary admits
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary has admitted that waiting times will get worse as £250m is being pumped into the NHS to clear the backlog of operations and treatments.
Phone consultations ‘do not cut GP surgery pressures’
Introducing GP consultations over the phone, rather than face-to-face appointments, does not reduce pressure in busy surgeries, a study shows.
UK sperm bank to be opened in Birmingham
Heterosexual and same-sex couples will be able to use the service, as well as single women. People from ethnic minority backgrounds will be able to choose from culturally-matched donors.
Beach body emergency! You’ve only got days to fit into that bikini… but don’t panic – here is how to do it (no diet required)
Oh no! Your beach holiday is only weeks, maybe days, away and youre wondering how on earth youre going to squeeze into that bikini.
‘Heart in a box’: Pioneering device keeps donor organs alive OUTSIDE the body
Transplant surgeons are using a pioneering technology that keeps a donor heart pumping outside the body.
Are health MOTs for the over-40s useless? Illnesses they’re designed to spot could be ‘equally well detected’ without the check-up
Health MOTs routinely offered to over-40s on the NHS may be a waste of time, new research suggests.
Illnesses picked up during the mid-life health checks could be ‘equally well detected’ without the scheme, it has been claimed.
Australian couple abandon surrogate Down’s Syndrome baby
A campaign for a baby with Down’s Syndrome left with his surrogate Thai mother by an Australian couple has raised over $120,000 (£70,000).
No rise in numbers in care homes despite surge in elderly population
The number of elderly people going into care homes has remained static despite a huge increase in the ageing population over the last decade, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics.