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Cancer cure hope as new drugs target tumour cells
MILLIONS of cancer sufferers were given new hope last night after scientists said they have uncovered a new way of killing tumours.The breakthrough not only sheds light on why some people fail to respond to chemotherapy, it also reveals a new way of targeting cancer cells. Until recently, it was thought cells could only die through a process called apoptosis.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/257429/Cancer-cure-hope-as-new-drugs-target-tumour-cells
Doctors to see patients by video link
Patients will routinely be able to consult with doctors over the internet from their own homes within "a year rather than a decade", the medical director of the NHS has said. Sir Bruce Keogh said that using emerging video internet technology he could envisage an NHS that was "available 24-7".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8623517/Doctors-to-see-patients-by-video-link.html
Transplant of world's first man-made organ
Surgeons have carried out the world?s first transplant of a fully synthetic organ - a windpipe created using the patient?s stem cells and an artificial ?scaffold?. A 36-year-old cancer patient received the organ a month ago at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8624593/Transplant-of-worlds-first-man-made-organ.html
NHS waiting times increase for diagnostic tests
Patients' health and treatment could suffer because NHS waiting-times for x-rays, cardiology tests and ultrasound scans are increasing sharply, doctors are warning. Longer waits to access diagnostic tests could cause anxiety for patients and mean that identification of serious illnesses such as cancer is delayed, they say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/06/nhs-waiting-times-increase-diagnostic-tests
MILLIONS of cancer sufferers were given new hope last night after scientists said they have uncovered a new way of killing tumours.The breakthrough not only sheds light on why some people fail to respond to chemotherapy, it also reveals a new way of targeting cancer cells. Until recently, it was thought cells could only die through a process called apoptosis.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/257429/Cancer-cure-hope-as-new-drugs-target-tumour-cells
Doctors to see patients by video link
Patients will routinely be able to consult with doctors over the internet from their own homes within "a year rather than a decade", the medical director of the NHS has said. Sir Bruce Keogh said that using emerging video internet technology he could envisage an NHS that was "available 24-7".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8623517/Doctors-to-see-patients-by-video-link.html
Transplant of world's first man-made organ
Surgeons have carried out the world?s first transplant of a fully synthetic organ - a windpipe created using the patient?s stem cells and an artificial ?scaffold?. A 36-year-old cancer patient received the organ a month ago at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8624593/Transplant-of-worlds-first-man-made-organ.html
NHS waiting times increase for diagnostic tests
Patients' health and treatment could suffer because NHS waiting-times for x-rays, cardiology tests and ultrasound scans are increasing sharply, doctors are warning. Longer waits to access diagnostic tests could cause anxiety for patients and mean that identification of serious illnesses such as cancer is delayed, they say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/06/nhs-waiting-times-increase-diagnostic-tests