Health news 20th January 2011

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The day that didn?t change my life ? by Helen May
20th January 2004. A date I will never forget. It was definitely the not the happiest day of my life but seven years later, I don?t think of it as a bad day. Just as Olly was saying, he remembers the day when his son was diagnosed with diabetes, I too remember the day I was diagnosed.

http://blogs.diabetes.org.uk/?p=487

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GPs face losing control of flu jabs programme
GPs face losing control of managing the flu vaccine programme following supply problems in England this winter, the government's head of immunisation says.There is a "pretty compelling" case for the government taking charge of ordering and supplying jabs, said Professor David Salisbury.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12224862

Ministers seek to answer critics as NHS bill published

Ministers have hit back at critics as they unveiled legislation seeking to shake-up the NHS in England, saying change is a "necessity not an option". The Health and Social Care Bill will allow GPs to get control of most of the NHS budget from 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12217668

Skin cancer pill shows 'remarkable' results

In almost 80 per cent of people treated with the experimental drug, tumours were significantly reduced in size. Last night one British skin cancer specialist hailed the development as "very promising".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7964397/Skin-cancer-pill-shows-remarkable-results.html

Faulty gene linked to more than a third of kidney cancers

The finding will help researchers understand how the cancer develops and may in future lead to new treatments and earlier diagnosis. Everyone is born with the gene, called PBRM1, but in some people it gets damaged during their lifetime and this can lead to cancer developing, it has been found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...d-to-more-than-a-third-of-kidney-cancers.html
 
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