London – Have scientists found the great breakthrough for cancer therapy? The medical research world is abuzz this week with the news that an experimental treatment has banished blood cancer symptoms in 94 percent of patients. What’s more, this success rate was seen in patients who were expected to live only months because such conventional […]
Researchers engineer immune cells so they boost body’s natural defences to fight tumours and stand guard for lifetime – acting effectively like vaccine A revolutionary new cancer treatment that remembers the disease and acts like a watchman to prevent it ever returning is being developed by scientists. Researchers are engineering immune cells so that they […]
The Royal College of Nursing believes nurses are burdened with too much paperwork and too many targets.
A report suggested 56% of people aged over 65 who experienced a problem did not complain because of worries about how it might impact future treatment.
Families will be able to check the safety and quality of every care home in the country on a new TripAdvisor-style website run by the NHS.
The charity said families often contacted them in January after spending time with elderly relatives over Christmas, and noticing worrying symptoms which could signal dementia.
Dine with Dignity has created an adult bib which can make dining stress free, for people who have difficulty eating, or people with a disability and where spillages can be a problem.
The director at Antibiotic Research UK, whose discoveries helped make more than £20bn ($30bn) in pharmaceutical sales, said efforts to find new antibiotics are “totally failing” despite significant investment and research.
Some 92% of the 225 acute hospital trusts in England did not manage to run wards with their planned number of nurses during the day in August
A new five-year plan to put palliative care at the heart of the NHS in Scotland has been unveiled by ministers in the wake of calls for a major overhaul of the system.
