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It shouldn't be you
The Lottery is bad for our health, hitting poorer communities hardest, and NHS managers should boycott it, writes Donald Coid
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Counsel homes
Housebound patients offered home-based counselling services by a primary care team have reduced their need for other services. Paul Gurney explains
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A world of experience
NHS managers who break their careers to work abroad benefit enormously but may experience problems on their return - and find that employers are less enthusiastic. Barbara Millar reports
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In Brief: Screening for ovarian cancer may increasese
Screening for ovarian cancer may increasese, according to a pilot feasibility study. The study randomised more than 20,000 postmenopausal women aged over 45 into a screening and a control group. Those screened were offered annual measurements of the cancer antigen, Ca125, and ovarian ultrasonography. The study found that screening identified ...
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In Brief: US urologists devise way to predict risk of recurrence of prostate cancer
US urologists have devised a way of predicting the risk of a recurrence of prostate cancer after a radical prostatectomy. Using a study sample of 1,997 men who had had a radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancer, the urologists studied the time it took for the concentration of prostate-specific antigen ...