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May 2023
After the second drug in less than a year has now been shown to slow the disease, experts say we are now “on the cusp” of drugs being available, something which had recently seemed “impossible”. The new drug, donanemab, works the same way as lecanemab, which created headlines around the world when it was…
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May 2023
In the recent case of Farzana Yasin v Swift Lawyers Ltd (2407552/2021) the Employment Tribunal held that Ms Yasin, (‘the Claimant’) was discriminated against on the grounds of pregnancy but was not unfairly dismissed. The Respondent was a Law Firm and the Claimant commenced employment in 2017 as a paralegal working on cavity wall insulation…
02
May 2023
A woman who was part of a study using artificial intelligence to spot bowel cancer is free of the disease after it was found and removed. The patient from South Shields took part in the Colo-Detect study as part of a trial at ten NHS trusts, and for which around 2,000 patients have been…
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May 2023
A new blood test could dramatically speed up lung cancer treatment and remove the need for patients to have uncomfortable tissue biopsies under general anaesthetic. A clinical study will determine whether survival rates can be improved. Dr Magda Meissner, medical oncologist and liquid biopsy lead for the All-Wales Medical Genomics Service in Cardiff,…
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May 2023
New draft guidelines for the NHS say women in labour should be offered an alternative to an epidural spinal block injection. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is recommending remifentanil, a fast-acting morphine-like drug given through a vein. Women control the medication themselves, by pressing a button to release more of the…
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May 2023
Up to 2,000 people in England will be asked to submit stool samples so scientists can find out more about superbug levels in the population. Health officials want to design better ways of tackling bacteria that no longer respond to medicines, known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which kill thousands of people each year in…
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