07
Jan 2020
People often make promises. If a promise has been made and relied upon by the person to whom it was made and is later broken, it may be possible to bring a claim. For example, if an adult child gives up work to look after a parent on the promise of financial benefit that is…
07
Jan 2020
A study in the journal Nature has suggested that artificial intelligence is more accurate than doctors in diagnosing breast cancer from mammograms. During the study, a team of international researchers designed and trained a computer model on x-ray images from nearly 29,000 women and the algorithm outperformed six radiologists in reading mammograms. Currently the system…
07
Jan 2020
The study led by the University of San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, found that the build-up of a harmful protein in the brain can predict atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease patients at least one year in advance. Whilst previous studies have shown that two tell-tale plaques, amyloid beta and tau, develop clumps which smother and…
07
Jan 2020
Macmillan Cancer Support has warned that cancer patients are increasingly feeling they cannot ask questions to overstretched NHS staff caring for them. The charity reported that they had received 240,000 inquiries to its support line in 2019, many patients calling in distress feeling they are unable to ask questions of doctors and nurses, some being…
07
Jan 2020
A new ‘two-pronged-attack’ combination drug therapy could provide a lifeline to thousands of patients in the UK battling incurable blood cancer. Until now, patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, also known as CLL, one of the most common types of blood cancer in adults, have been forced to endure repeated rounds of gruelling chemotherapy to keep…
06
Jan 2020
Sajid Javid announced during the Election campaign that the National Living Wage (“NLW”) will increase to £10.50 over the next five years and the age banding eventually expanded to anyone over the age of twenty-one years. He claims that this move will offer pay rises to over four million workers by the time that the…
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