Media captionZoe Sharam bought her hepatitis C drugs off the internet. A charity that tried to force the NHS to buy more of an expensive hepatitis C treatment received large amounts of money from the drug’s manufacturer, the Victoria Derbyshire show has found. The Hepatitis C Trust has taken £200,000 in grant funding from US […]
Pregnant women are being urged to ask questions of private providers offering a new test for Down’s syndrome. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics while many clinics provide a good service, some give too little advice and support. It says some fail to make it clear that non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can offer only an estimate […]
Image caption Caroline Presho took part in the trial and believes the blood test would be an enormous benefit to women A blood test every four months could help women at high-risk of ovarian cancer find tumours early, say doctors. There is currently no screening programme for the disease, so high-risk women are advised to […]
Image copyright Trinity Mirror Image caption Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man A breast surgeon carried out “completely unnecessary” operations after inventing or exaggerating cancer risks, a court has heard. Ian Paterson, 59, of Altrincham, denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and […]
Image copyright Alexander Fuhrmann Image caption The green cells pictured are less ‘sticky’ and are migrating cancer cells Cell “stickiness” could indicate the likelihood that cancer will spread to other parts of the body. University of California researchers found tumour cells that stuck less to surrounding cells are more likely to migrate and invade other […]
Image caption Dora Melton’s abusers were sentenced for ill treatment and wilful neglect More than 23,000 allegations of abuse have been made against carers working in people’s homes across the UK. The data comes from a Freedom of Information request submitted by the BBC Radio 4 programme File on 4. The United Kingdom Homecare Association, […]
Image copyright Thinkstock More patients are being admitted to hospital in England for drug-related mental health issues or poisoning than at any time in the past 10 years. Official figures reveal 15,074 cases of people in hospital with illicit drug poisoning in 2015-16, 51% more than 2005-06. Mental health issues had drugs as a cause […]
Image copyright SPL NHS England is investigating whether any patients have been harmed by an administrative mix-up. Some 500,000 documents containing medical information, including cancer test results, were mistakenly put in storage rather than being sent to the GP or filed in the patients’ records. An investigation is under way, focusing on the estimated 2,500 […]
Image copyright SPL The World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the drug-resistant bacteria that pose the biggest threat to human health. Top of the list are gram-negative bugs, such as E. coli, which can cause lethal bloodstream infections and pneumonia in frail hospital patients. The list will be discussed ahead of this […]
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption The milk bank relies on volunteers to use breast pumps to express milk and donate supplies The milk of human kindness is in short supply, with the only breast milk bank on the island of Ireland warning its stock is running exceptionally low. The storage facility, in Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, […]
