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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.
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Supernurse jobs double as wage shortfall leaves posts unfilled
The government is under fire for doubling the number of nurse consultants as the posts are not attracting the £40,000-plus salaries promised by prime minister Tony Blair.
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Gardening leave 'inadequate system for solving disputes'
Senior NHS managers, many of whom are living with the threat of suspension because their face no longer fits, need a formal procedure for when things go wrong.
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Ribbon development
With still no sign of the government's long-awaited HIV strategy, and downward pressure on funding, campaigners are losing patience. Jeremy Davies reports
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Dear Mel. . .
A letter in a recent HSJ pointed out that the NHS doesn't need to use private sector beds - all it needs to do is bring back into use some of those thousands already lying unused.
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New pay deals for junior doctors should force down excessive hours
The announcement that 30,000 junior doctors are to benefit from higher pay deals from tomorrow will encourage trusts to reduce the excessive hours they work.
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Days like this
Speculation about a change in health policy is rife following Margaret Thatcher's resignation as prime minister and her replacement by John Major. But it is thought unlikely that health secretary William Waldegrave - appointed only last month - would be moved in any Cabinet reshuffle.
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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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GDC increases lay members to counter public fears
The General Dental Council has voted to allow greater lay representation on its ruling body to counter public concern about complaints relating to NHS and private dentistry. At its meeting earlier this month, the council agreed to set up a 'smaller, more strategic' body which will comprise 11 lay members ...
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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.
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Cost index sparks familiar rows on data
The NHS index of reference costs has come under attack for its use of faulty data and a 'continued lack of sophistication' in the way costs are measured.
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Trusts no longer clueless
Lothian and Borders Police in Scotland has contracted its forensic medical services out to Lothian primary care trust.
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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 dog's life as CHCs refuse to lie down and die
Thumbing through my copy of the NHS plan I notice I did not even tick, asterisk or otherwise (*! ! ? *) mark paragraph 10.27, where it should have boasted a signpost: 'Here be dragons.' Instead, under the bland heading 'Scrutiny of the NHS', it notes: 'The power to refer ...
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Law change paves way for probe into retired GPs
The Consumers' Association is celebrating a victory after a change in the law allowing the health ombudsman to investigate GPs who have retired from the NHS. The move follows a complaint from a reader of the association's Which? magazine, which highlighted a loophole in the law. An investigation into the ...
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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).