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Feb 2022
New data has revealed that more than one in ten school entry-age children in England are at risk of measles because they have not had their vaccine jabs. Current coverage for the two MMR doses that help to protect five-year-olds against measles, mumps and rubella is at 85.5 per cent. That is the lowest…
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Feb 2022
New research suggests that cells collected during smear tests for cervical cancer may be useful for detecting early tumours elsewhere, such as in the ovaries and breasts. Scientists say they have found tell-tale signatures in these cells linked to other cancers and say looking for these patterns could provide a warning doctors can act…
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Feb 2022
A screening procedure to detect bowel cancer which features a tiny camera placed inside a pill has been used on its 2,000th patient in Scotland. The Pillcam, or Colon Capsule Endoscopy device, passes through the digestive system taking 50,000 images of the bowl on its journey. The pictures are stored in a recorder worn…
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Feb 2022
Researchers at Oxford University looked at 1,100 autopsies from several areas of England for fatalities from a ‘potentially treatable condition’, where the patients had struggled to access medical care or died after being told to self-isolate. A total of 44 of 602 deaths were attributed to these issues during the first lockdown. Investigators…
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Feb 2022
Ministers are being warned that improvements in cancer care will be a huge challenge as they pledge a new ten-year strategy for England. Figures show that there have been 34,000 fewer cancer diagnoses since the start of the pandemic in England, 50,000 for the whole of the UK. Cancer charities have said there…
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Feb 2022
A breast cancer drug that can blast away tumours in weeks has been given the green light for NHS patients in Scotland, raising hopes that the rest of the UK will soon follow suit. Last October, England’s prescribing watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) failed to recommend the medication, tucatinib,…
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