Hope has emerged for patients with a serious type of bone marrow cancer as new research into a therapeutic drug has revealed improved outcomes and survival rates.
Dec 15, 2018
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New guidance on when people living with dementia should stop driving has been published to support doctors and other health care professionals.
Dec 13, 2018
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Hundreds of thousands of people will receive NHS help to battle obesity and type 2 diabetes under radical action set out by Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England.
Dec 7, 2018
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Children with cancer are to benefit nationally from a service which for the first time will allow doctors to personalise their treatment.
Nov 28, 2018
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For the first time scientists have identified how to halt kidney disease in a life-limiting genetic condition, which may pave the way for personalised treatment in the future.
Nov 16, 2018
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Newcastle University experts are chairing a national session on new guidelines for the early detection and treatment of sarcopenia—a loss of muscle strength that affects many older people in the UK.
Nov 15, 2018
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Scientists led by Newcastle University have been able to identify the group of children needing more intensive, aggressive chemotherapy treatment for the most common form of brain cancer.
Nov 1, 2018
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Scientists reveal the mechanism which allows a commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes to prevent heart disease in patients with type 1 diabetes–and could lead to new treatments.
Oct 19, 2018
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Mistakes in "proofreading" the genetic code of retinal cells is the cause of a form of inherited blindness, retinitis pigmentosa (RP) caused by mutations in splicing factors.
Oct 12, 2018
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A recently-approved breast cancer drug could be used to target and treat a life-threatening leukaemia, new research has revealed.
Oct 9, 2018
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