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NHS cover-ups ‘should be a crime’
6 February 2013 Last updated at 08:08 ET By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. “A story of appalling suffering”: Watch Robert Francis QC’s statement in full NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to a public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital.
Novel radiation therapy method shortens prostate cancer treatment time
Feb. 1, 2013 According to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology , the use of volume-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) to deliver intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to prostate cancer patients results in an overall reduction in treatment time of approximately 14 percent
New stroke gene discovery could lead to tailored treatments
Jan. 31, 2013 A study led by King’s College London has identified a new genetic variant associated with stroke
Researcher uncovers potential cause, biomarker for autism and proposes study to investigate theory
Jan. 31, 2013 A New York-based physician-researcher from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, best known for his research into fertility and twinning, has uncovered a potential connection between autism and a specific growth protein that could eventually be used as a way to predict an infant’s propensity to later develop the disease.
Discovery of sexual mating in Candida albicans could provide insights into infections
Jan. 30, 2013 Like many fungi and one-celled organisms, Candida albicans , a normally harmless microbe that can turn deadly, has long been thought to reproduce without sexual mating.
Discovery of sexual mating in Candida albicans could provide insights into infections
Jan. 30, 2013 Like many fungi and one-celled organisms, Candida albicans , a normally harmless microbe that can turn deadly, has long been thought to reproduce without sexual mating.
Discovery of sexual mating in Candida albicans could provide insights into infections
Jan. 30, 2013 Like many fungi and one-celled organisms, Candida albicans , a normally harmless microbe that can turn deadly, has long been thought to reproduce without sexual mating. But a new study by Professor Judith Berman and colleagues at the University of Minnesota and Tel Aviv University shows that C.
Stiff upper lip ‘harms cancer fight’
29 January 2013 Last updated at 21:52 ET By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online The UK’s “stiff upper lip” culture may explain why it lags behind other countries when it comes to beating cancer, say experts. Researchers, who surveyed nearly 20,000 adults in six high-income countries, said they found embarrassment often stopped Britons visiting the doctor. Respondents in the UK were as aware of cancer symptoms as those in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, but more reluctant to seek help, they said
Science needs a second opinion: Researchers find flaws in study of patients in ‘vegetative state’
Jan. 24, 2013 A team of researchers led by Weill Cornell Medical College is calling into question the published statistics, methods and findings of a highly publicized research study that claimed bedside electroencephalography (EEG) identified evidence of awareness in three patients diagnosed to be in a vegetative state. The new reanalysis study led by Weill Cornell neurologists Drs
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