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Channel blockers 'inferior'
Calcium channel blockers are inferior to less expensive antihypertensives in preventing cardiovascular complications of high blood pressure, according to a review by US researchers.
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In Brief
An agent that improves survival in metastatic breast cancer patients has been launched. Herceptin (trastuzumab), a humanised monoclonal antibody, suppresses tumour growth in the 20-30 per cent of metastatic breast cancer patients who overproduce a growth factor called HER2. It binds HER2 receptors on the cancer cell surface so that ...
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Keeping abreast
The NHS cancer plan gives the UK nine years to match the best breast cancer survival levels in Europe. As Wendy Moore reports, we could just do it
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Bring on the clones
Once thought of as beyond the pale, the cloning of human embryos is now being encouraged by the government. Jenny Bryan looks at what's in store
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A cure for Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and strokes?
Foetal and embryonic cells have already been used to try to repair nerve damage in people with Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis or following a stroke. In the 1980s British doctors were among the first to transplant foetal tissue into the brains of people with Parkinson's disease in an effort to ...
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Seeing double: what is cloning?
Cloning is making genetically identical copies of living things. Scientists have been doing it since the early 1970s with antibodies, cells and genes but, until Dolly's birth, whole-animal cloning proved elusive.
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It's a bug's life
Antimicrobial resistance to antibiotics is a growing problem. But while more research is needed, new data suggests that hospitals might need to change their strategies for dealing with the problem. Rhonda Siddall reports
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Bucking the trend: new data on antimicrobial resistance
The MYSTIC surveillance programme collects data from centres throughout the world that use the antibiotic meropenem, to compare the antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial isolates in specialist and general units year on year.
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CHC seeks probe into chair job
A community health council has called on the commissioner for public appointments to investigate the appointment of a trust chair after a major merger.
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Reeves to quit NHS on a fiscal high note
NHS director of finance and performance management Colin Reeves is to leave the service after 16 years, seven of which were on its top board. His departure in spring 2001 will follow a shake-up of the NHS Executive's finance function.
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A 'almost impossible' act to follow
Trust finance directors who could make the shortlist include Helen Chalmers, Neil Chapman, from Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust, and Barry Elliott, HFMA president, from Barts and the London trust. John Flook, from County Durham and Darlington health authority, was also named along with Bob Dredge, former HFMA chair and director ...
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NHS money eases Hackney cash woe
The NHS has bailed out crisisstricken Hackney council in East London, where a total spending freeze left elderly people 'stuck' in hospital without social services care packages.
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Trust battles £2.7m overspend
King's College Healthcare trust is facing a £2.7m overspend half way through the financial year.
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Network aims to educate on needlestick injuries
With NHS staff receiving over 100,000 needlestick injuries every year - risking infection with hepatitis or HIV - organisations including the Royal College of Nursing and Unison have launched the Safer Needles for Safer Healthcare Network to highlight better training and education in the use and availability of safety devices. ...
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Doctors should form GMC majority, say 99 per cent
Doctors should continue to form the majority of the General Medical Council, on the grounds that they are best placed to judge the actions of other doctors, according to the overwhelming majority of GPs.Nearly 99 per cent of them questioned in a survey by BMA News Review said the GMC ...
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Patients to face £100 fine for false exemption claims
Patients found to have falsely claimed exemption from NHS charges will be subject to penalty charges of up to £100 from 1 December, junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced. If patients cannot provide evidence they are entitled to help with charges they will still receive treatment, but claims will ...
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New post included in £6m strategy to bolster PAMs
A £6m strategy to improve the status, training, pay and career opportunities for the professions allied to medicine has been announced by junior health minister Lord Hunt.A new post of therapist consultant is to be created and the first wave of at least 400 will be in place by 2004.The ...
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RCN fears UKCC could fall foul of human rights law
The Royal College of Nursing says it is concerned that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting may be acting in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights - which guarantees a right to a fair trial - because it acts as judge, jury and prosecutor ...
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Paramedics given wider powers to administer drugs
Ambulance paramedics are to be allowed to administer a wider range of drugs as part of a move to allow speedier access to treatment for patients in longer ambulance journeys, junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced.The additional drugs include benzylpenicillin for use in cases of suspected meningococcal septicaemia; syntometrine ...
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18 staff lose jobs as Confed shuts office
The NHS Confederation is to close its Birmingham offices - three years after chief executive Stephen Thornton reassured staff there were no plans for a move to London.