Latest news – Page 2528
-
News
Night porter shifts up with a £250,000 book deal
A hospital night porter who took 10 years to write a book during quiet shifts has just signed a £250,000 publishing deal.
-
News
When coughing up is essential
GPs are under constant pressure from health authorities to reduce prescribing costs, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the treatment of asthma.
-
News
Type-righting lessons
The huge rise in the type-2 diabetes population - and the introduction of major new drug treatments - is set to pose some increasingly tough management decisions, writes Jenny Bryan
-
News
Fresh insights into type 2 diabetes
Type-2 diabetes used to be called non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus because, at least in the early stages of the disease, people do not require insulin treatment.
-
News
The new drugs and how they work
Until recently, the question of which comes first in type-2 diabetes - loss of pancreatic function or development of insulin resistance - was only of academic importance, since there was no effective treatment for insulin resistance.
-
News
Breathlessness a key sign of COPD
The biggest-ever survey among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients has revealed the enormous detrimental impact COPD has on patients' quality of life and the significant burden the disease places on healthcare services.
-
News
H pylori drug cash claim
Drug treatment to eradicate Helicobacter pylori in infected patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia may be cost-effective, according to a new meta-analysis by the dyspepsia review group (BMJ, 16 September 2000, p659).
-
News
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.
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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
-
News
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
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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.
-
News
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
-
News
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.
-
News
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.
-
News
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.
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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.
-
News
Trust battles £2.7m overspend
King's College Healthcare trust is facing a £2.7m overspend half way through the financial year.