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Plan to hit 18-week NHS wait target ‘set to fail’

The government’s plan to tackle the hospital backlog in England will fail without a fundamental reform in how services work, health leaders say. Labour aims to increase the number of appointments and operations done each week by 40,000, to help hit the 18-week waiting time target. But NHS Confederation research found that would only deliver about 15% of the extra ...

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UK regulator finds no suicidal thoughts link to diabetes, obesity drugs

Britain’s health regulator said on Wednesday that the available data does not establish a link between a popular class of diabetes and obesity drugs, including Novo Nordisk’s NOVOb.CO Wegovy, and suicidal thoughts. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) began a review of safety data for the class of drugs, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, more than a year ...

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Baby poo study reveals mysteries of newborn guts

Scientists have studied more than 2,000 samples of poo from babies in the UK to get a clearer idea of which types of bacteria first colonise a newborn’s gut. Researchers say they were surprised to find baby poo fell into three distinct microbiological profiles, with different “pioneer bacteria” being abundant in each. One in particular, called B. breve, could help ...

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Men on sodium valproate told to use contraception

Men taking sodium valproate are being warned to use contraception while on the medicine, because of a “potential small increased risk” of autism and other neurodevelopmental problems for any children conceived. They should continue to do so – and cannot donate sperm – until three months after they have stopped taking the drug. Sodium valproate, prescribed under brand names including ...

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Early diagnosis of cancer enhances survival rate

Cancer occurs in people of all ages and can affect any part of the body while the disease is a leading cause of death for children and adolescents worldwide. It is afflicting that the number of cancer patients has been increasing day by day due to food habit, unhealthy lifestyle and negative impact of industrialization and technology. In such a ...

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Cigarettes are completely banned in Britain

  Matiar Chowdhury:   Every year in Great Britain, 80 thousand British citizens die due to smoking. And that’s why the British government wants to completely ban cigarettes in Britain to protect citizens from death. From now on no one can smoke in public wherever they want. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Stormer has called for a ban on smoking ...

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Mobile phones and brain cancer are not linked: Study

There is no link between mobile phone use and increased brain cancer risk, according to a new World Health Organization-commissioned review of the available published evidence worldwide, Reuters reports. Despite the huge rise in the use of wireless technology, there has not been a corresponding rise in the incidence of brain cancers, the review, published on Tuesday, found. That applies ...

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Doctors at all hospitals return to work from Wednesday

After two hours’ of sit-in programme, doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have returned to their work. They have resumed outpatient services. Meanwhile, Abdul Ahad, resident surgeon of Department of Neurosurgery at DMCH, informed that doctors at all public and private hospitals across the country will return to work from Wednesday (September 4). He said, “The hospital administrations ensured ...

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Doctors resume services on a limited scale, will continue sit-ins

The protesting doctors have announced they will resume services at outdoor and indoor departments at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) from Tuesday on ‘limited scale’. Abdul Ahad, resident surgeon of Department of Neurosurgery at DMCH, told this to newsmen at a press conference held in front of the hospital’s administrative building on Monday afternoon. He said that the outdoor services ...

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