Image caption NHS England said it was working to combat stress among GPs GPs should be able to charge patients for some procedures such as vasectomies and mole removals, proposals by Dr Prit Buttar, of the Oxfordshire local medical council, suggest. He says the plans would allow GPs to increase the overall money available to […]
Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption Adults in Wales are regarded as having allowed organ donation unless they have opted out A campaign for Wales’ organ donation laws to be adopted in England has been launched by a mother whose daughter needed a transplant. Wales became the only nation in the UK to introduce a “deemed […]
Image copyright LEON NEAL Image caption About 500,000 Londoners aged under 19 live in areas that breach EU pollution limits A “very high” air pollution warning has been issued for London for the first time under a new alert system. Warnings are being issued at bus stops, roadside signs and Tube stations under the new […]
Image copyright Thinkstock Banks must offer basic account options, as given to other vulnerable people, to assist those struggling with mental health conditions, a think tank says. Mental health problems affected everyday activities such as budgeting and paying bills, the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI) said. Setting spending limits on cards and allowing […]
Image caption Dr Osborne said clinical research was a vital part of the NHS New research could see patients with a rare blood cancer live longer without the side-effects of drugs, doctors say. Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients are often required to take tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) indefinitely. But 93% of those in a new […]
Image copyright Adriano Guedes Image caption Adriano Guedes spent more than two years in James Paget hospital in Norfolk A patient who was evicted from a hospital after spending more than two years in a bed said he did not want to stay and “tried to get out of there”. Adriano Guedes, 63, was admitted […]
Media captionExperts say bread should be cooked to a golden yellow colour to reduce our intake of a harmful chemical Bread, chips and potatoes should be cooked to a golden yellow colour, rather than brown, to reduce our intake of a chemical which could cause cancer, government food scientists are warning. Acrylamide is produced when […]
Media captionDr Davide Crivelli explains how the osteoarthritis smart patch would work Scientists are hoping to create a smart patch which could detect the early onset of osteoarthritis in patients’ knees. Cardiff University’s team uses damage sensors from aircraft wings to catch subsonic cracking sounds in joints before the disease fully develops. They believe a […]
Image copyright SPL Image caption Scans of the prostate can show if there is a cancerous growth The biggest leap in diagnosing prostate cancer “in decades” has been made using new scanning equipment, say doctors and campaigners. Using advanced MRI nearly doubles the number of aggressive tumours that are caught. And the trial on 576 […]
Media captionA man spent two years as a hospital patient A hospital applied for a court order to remove a patient who had occupied a bed “unnecessarily” for more than two years. The man, who has not been named by the hospital, had refused to leave the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk. The hospital […]
