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Extra FGM training for public sector staff
Extra training is to be given to teachers, doctors and social workers to help them to identify and assist girls at risk of female genital mutilation.
Social media driving rise in complaints to GMC: report
Complaints to the doctors’ regulator the General Medical Council have doubled in five years with patients discussing their treatment on Twitter and Facebook identified as one of the main drivers.
Lib Dem concerns over late night hospital discharges
Nearly 20,000 patients have been discharged from Welsh hospitals late at night over the last two years.
Queen’s University Belfast in bowel cancer discovery
Dr Sandra van Schaeybroeck and her team have discovered two genes cause bowel cancer cells to become resistant to treatments used to fight the disease.
‘Biological pacemaker’ tested in lab
Grow-your-own pacemakers are a step closer to reality, after pioneering experiments in pigs.
Prescribing statins more widely could avert tragedy, new medical guidelines suggest
Four-and-a-half million more adults should be offered statins to avert a tragedy waiting to happen by reducing the number of people suffering heart attacks and strokes, according to new medical guidelines.
HIV-specific law criminalising deliberate transmission to be amended
Australias only HIV-specific law that criminalises the intentional transmission of the virus will be amended, the Victorian health minister, David Davis, announced to a standing ovation of HIV researchers and advocates at a satellite event to the Aids 2014 symposium in Melbourne.
Drug-resistant bacteria: Sewage-treatment plants described as giant ‘mixing vessels’ after scientists discover mutated microbes in British river
The researchers believe the discovery shows how antibiotic resistance has become widespread in the environment, with sewage-treatment plants now acting as giant mixing vessels where antibiotic resistance can spread between different microbes.
Dozen babies born using ‘safer’ IVF treatment
A dozen babies have been born using a pioneering fertility treatment hoped to spare thousands of women from potentially life-threatening complications in early pregnancy.