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Gene therapy 'treats' Parkinson's disease
Treating Parkinson's disease with gene therapy has been shown to be successful in clinical trials for the first time, say US researchers. The illness causes uncontrolled shaking, stiffness and slow movement as part of the brain dies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12758230
Cholesterol drugs could cut clots
Drugs which can regulate levels of cholesterol in the blood may also reduce the risk of dangerous clots, say scientists. Blood clots can result in stroke or heart attack. Researchers, writing in the journal Blood, reduced the size and stability of blood clots in mice and said the discovery could lead to new drugs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12737549
Social care 'facing funding gap of over ?1bn'
Social care is facing a funding gap of more than ?1bn by 2014 in England - a situation which would have consequences for the NHS, a leading think-tank says. The King's Fund analysis predicted councils would struggle to protect home help and care home places as they come to terms with funding cuts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12758282
Non-hormonal Pill may give women contraception without side-effects
Scientists have made a breakthrough that creates the possibility of a contraceptive pill not based on hormones. They have tracked down the signal of ?fertile attraction? between egg and sperm.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ive-replace-Pill-laboratory-breakthrough.html
NHS reforms will see 'shut' signs on hospitals, patients warned
Hospitals will shut, others will lose their accident and emergency or maternity units, and some will be downgraded to glorified health centres because of the government's NHS shakeup, the head of England's leading hospitals has warned. Sue Slipman, chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network, told the Guardian that handing GPs control of ?80bn of NHS funds, letting private healthcare firms provide treatment and giving patients more choice about where they are treated ? key policies promoted by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley ? would increase existing pressures on hospitals so much that some will not survive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/16/health-nhs-reforms-will-shut-hospitals-warning
Treating Parkinson's disease with gene therapy has been shown to be successful in clinical trials for the first time, say US researchers. The illness causes uncontrolled shaking, stiffness and slow movement as part of the brain dies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12758230
Cholesterol drugs could cut clots
Drugs which can regulate levels of cholesterol in the blood may also reduce the risk of dangerous clots, say scientists. Blood clots can result in stroke or heart attack. Researchers, writing in the journal Blood, reduced the size and stability of blood clots in mice and said the discovery could lead to new drugs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12737549
Social care 'facing funding gap of over ?1bn'
Social care is facing a funding gap of more than ?1bn by 2014 in England - a situation which would have consequences for the NHS, a leading think-tank says. The King's Fund analysis predicted councils would struggle to protect home help and care home places as they come to terms with funding cuts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12758282
Non-hormonal Pill may give women contraception without side-effects
Scientists have made a breakthrough that creates the possibility of a contraceptive pill not based on hormones. They have tracked down the signal of ?fertile attraction? between egg and sperm.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ive-replace-Pill-laboratory-breakthrough.html
NHS reforms will see 'shut' signs on hospitals, patients warned
Hospitals will shut, others will lose their accident and emergency or maternity units, and some will be downgraded to glorified health centres because of the government's NHS shakeup, the head of England's leading hospitals has warned. Sue Slipman, chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network, told the Guardian that handing GPs control of ?80bn of NHS funds, letting private healthcare firms provide treatment and giving patients more choice about where they are treated ? key policies promoted by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley ? would increase existing pressures on hospitals so much that some will not survive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/16/health-nhs-reforms-will-shut-hospitals-warning