Monthly Archives: September 2016
Cancer treatment stopped to pay for HIV drug
A senior NHS consultant, a former gynaecologist and a mother of three who all suffer from a rare blood cancer have been denied life-saving stem cell transplant operations because the NHS may be forced to pay for a drug that protects healthy people against HIV. The three have undergone months of gruelling chemotherapy to prepare […]
Statins expert in row over level of risk to patients
A leading Oxford medical researcher who says statins are safe is at loggerheads with a company that makes “misleading” claims about the drugs’ side effects to sell a diagnostic test he invented. More than 6m people take statins — drugs which reduce cholesterol and save an estimated 7,000 lives a year — but there is […]