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Can BILL GATES find a cure for the Zika virus?
The world’s richest man has founded a £14.5 million programme to tackle the problem through special mosquitos Recently two UK tourists in Florida were reported to have contracted Zika But help is on the way… researchers have found a new approach to the jab Bill Gates reveals his plans in an exclusive interview with Good […]
Patients asked to pay thousands for cancer drug trial
Cancer patients will be asked to pay thousands of pounds to test new drug treatments under a controversial trial. Although the four drugs being used cost only a few pence each, the thousand patients in the trial will be asked to pay £450 to be included and £250 for each monitoring consultation every three months […]
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 […]
Are you paying the NHS for more drugs than you need? Billions worth of life-saving cancer remedies are poured down the drain every year
In 2014, wife and mother Beryl Davies was diagnosed with ovarian cancer Because of the rarity of her condition, the NHS refused to fund medication Out of the £5,000 her family paid for medication, a fifth went down the drain Now her husband Derek has launched a petition to stop this common issue Derek […]
When back pain is a sign you have broken bones: Former national athlete discovered fractures in her back due to osteoporosis
Katrina Langford spent years working through her painful back problems While in hospital with a broken ankle, doctors discovered her osteoporosis Experts say 58% of those affected by the condition live in constant pain For years, Katrina Langford — a former national athlete and keen horsewoman — assumed her excruciating back pain was just […]
Why asbestos in schools is STILL a deadly danger to our children: Experts predict 60,000 related deaths over the next 30 years
Annabel Freyberg, the Oxford-educated daughter of an hereditary peer, doesn’t fit the typical picture of a mesothelioma victim. The industrial disease is associated with dockyard and construction workers and is caused when needle-sharp asbestos fibres from building materials become embedded in the lungs. But Annabel, who died two-and-a-half years ago, is one of a growing […]
Patients who pay £1,000 for life-saving drugs online that would cost NHS £35,000: More and more are doing it – but doctors warn it’s a big risk
Kim Crisell, 60, from Witham, Essex, was told he faced certain death He had been diagnosed liver disease three years ago, and looked online The best hope was to wait for a new wonder drug called Harvoni When Kim Crisell was told he faced certain death from recently diagnosed liver disease three years ago, […]
Why walking by a main road is as bad for you as smoking. And beware of your air freshener, too!
William Phin, six, has a problem which may be triggered by pollution At one, he was left dependent on oxygen cylinders to help him breathe William, from Whitley Bay, north of Newcastle, has obliterative bronchiolitis A lung transplant is the only cure At six, William Phin has already had to deal with a deadly […]
UK breakthrough on zika vaccine
BRITISH scientists believe they have developed a vaccine that will tackle the zika virus by neutralising disease-laden mosquito saliva before the virus can spread around the body. Experts at Seek, a small biotech firm in London, think the vaccine will also be effective against other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, and it […]