LA hospital superbug: Dozens may have been exposed
Nearly 180 people at a Los Angeles hospital may have been exposed to a deadly strain of bacteria from contaminated medical equipment.
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Record numbers spend more than 12 hours in A&E in Wales
The number of people spending more than 12 hours in accident and emergency in Wales is at its highest since records began in 2012
NICE ‘sets price too high for NHS medicines’
The price the NHS in England agrees to pay for new medicines is too high, causing more harm than good overall, an analysis suggests.
1 in 3 Dutch doctors ‘would consider assisted death’ for patients with dementia, mental illness
According to the researchers of this latest study, led by Dr. Eva Elizabeth Bolt of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the country’s media have reported that doctors have refused some patients’ requests for assisted death based on their personal beliefs rather than their legal obligations.
Dementia research: Drug firms despair of finding cure and withdraw funding after a catalogue of failures
Drug companies are retreating from the search for a dementia cure after repeated and costly failures to develop a breakthrough drug, a major report has warned.
New contact lenses will help people see with inbuilt telescope
A tiny device in new contact lenses, aimed at hundreds of thousands of people suffering from age-related eye problems, could increase user’s vision nearly three fold.
Alzheimer’s £30m research collaboration begins
The charity Alzheimers Research UK is setting up a £30m trio of new drug discovery institutes at Oxford and Cambridge universities and University College London, which will work with academic and industrial partners in Europe and elsewhere.
Warning over drug-driving law and prescribed medication
People who have been prescribed powerful anxiety or pain relief drugs are being warned about a new drug-driving law.
Hinchingbrooke Hospital asks for £9.6m bailout as Circle withdraws
The first privately-managed NHS hospital in the country has applied for a £9.6m government bailout.
Thousands of care workers ‘miss out on minimum wage’
More than a tenth of UK care workers are being paid less than the national minimum wage of £6.50 an hour, a study suggests.