NHS trust rations chemo to cancer patients with best survival chance
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHospitals are having to ration chemotherapy to cancer patients with the best chance of survival. Read More
Covid experts issue fresh warnings to those unvaccinated ahead of the winter
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Reading Time: < 1 minute“We have to keep on with the message that Covid is much worse than anything that the vaccines are likely to do to you….
WHO recommends Regeneron's Covid antibody treatment
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA panel of international experts representing the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended high-risk COVID-19 patients receive Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment Read More
Thousands more people than usual are dying ... but it’s not from Covid
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile focus remains firmly fixed on Covid-19, a second health crisis is quietly emerging in Britain. Since the beginning of July, Read…
Give fat children weight loss surgery because it's safe and works, doctors say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFat children should be given weight loss surgery because it is safe and can improve their health, scientists say. Read More
If I HADN'T seen my patient in person, he'd have died... that's why it would be a disaster to rely on remote appointments, writes DR MARTIN SCURR
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome weeks ago one of my former patients, a man in his mid-70s, asked if I would meet him. Read More
'Thousands will die' over the next decade because of a huge cancer care backlog, damning report reveals
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThousands of cancer patients will die over the next decade because of the devastating treatment backlog caused by the pandemic, a damning…
Gloomsters got it wrong (again) on hospital admissions which have now fallen to the lowest level for two months - as data shows Britain is 'over the worst' of the pandemic
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHospital admissions for Covid-19 have fallen to the lowest level for two months as bleak warnings from government scientists once again failed to materialise….
Pregnant women should NOT routinely take paracetamol because it may harm development of babies in the womb, doctors say
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePregnant women should only take paracetamol when told to by a doctor, scientists ruled today. Read More
Tooth decay in children will be ‘slashed by a quarter by adding fluoride to drinking water’
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePlans to add fluoride to drinking water will cut tooth decay in children by around a quarter and halve the numbers undergoing…