Pioneering drug that hits prostate cancer’s weak spot gives hope to men with the incurable disease Olaparib works by interfering with key process that allows tumour cells to repair Drug already given to women with a specific type of breast and ovarian cancer Roughly 50,000 men in the UK each year are diagnosed with prostate […]
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Pioneering hair transplant therapy gets Government green light
Government gives green light for firm to BANK people’s frozen hair follicles for pioneering transplant therapy to combat baldness A company has been given permission by the Human Tissue Authority Cells within the follicles can be multiplied in the lab and stored for future use The cells are injected back into the scalp to produce […]
PROF STEPHEN WESTABY explains how the NHS is DOOMED
Pioneering heart surgeon PROF STEPHEN WESTABY reveals how his mother’s horribly cruel death – and an incompetent call centre – convinced him the NHS is DOOMED e-mail 36 View comments After 35 years on the front line of British medicine, heart surgeon Stephen Westaby has become a bestselling author. Last week, in the first part […]
Pioneering trial offers hope for restoring brain cells damaged in Parkinson’s
Results from a pioneering clinical trials programme that delivered an experimental treatment directly to the brain offer hope that it may be possible to restore the cells damaged in Parkinson’s. The multimillion-pound study, funded by Parkinson’s UK with support from The Cure Parkinson’s Trust and in association with the North Bristol NHS Trust, aimed to […]