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Viruses can be used to kill cancer |
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Hospital waiting times are 'still too long' according to survey |
| A survey of 3,000 people conducted by the National Centre for Social Research has found that the majority of people feel waiting times are too long, in spite of recent improvements. Waiting list times have improved significantly over recent years, with A&E waits down to below four hours in 95% of hospitals... |
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Demands on dentists are increasing |
| An increase in quality dental care has led more people to retain their teeth into their later years. This has placed an unprecedented demand on dentists as patients often need restorative work, which requires more maintenance and care than dentures. Dental health has improved dramatically over the past 40 or so years... |
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Disciplinary hearing fines optometrist |
| An Optometrist based in North London has been given a maximum financial penalty after being found guilty of serious misconduct. Rob Lamont appeared before a disciplinary panel of the GOC last week following allegations from patient Timothy Spinks who claimed that he failed to correctly diagnose a detached retina... |
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Leisure industry faces new challenge |
| A survey of 2,000 adults conducted by YouGov found that consumers in the UK are spending less of their free time in fitness clubs and more time at home meaning the industry has to think of new ways to attract people into their clubs. 80% of consumers go out less than twice a week and only 21% say they go out more than 3 times per week... |
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Increasing medical costs cause worldwide poverty |
| Many countries offer no social health protection to their inhabitants - as a result 100 million people each year are reduced to poverty and another 150 million people are forced to spend almost 50% of their incomes on medical payments. Poorer countries suffer the most... |
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Student doctors may quit the profession |
| Student doctors believe many doctors will quit in the future due to a growing lack of professionalism in the sector. Unreasonably high public expectations on doctors have also been cited, as they could result in poor doctor-patient relationships... |
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UK dentists likely to become private |
| A new contract set to be implemented in April could cause a significant number of Dentists to move away from the NHS and become totally private. The British Dental Association feels the contract, which the Government hopes will combat the problems facing NHS dentistry, will be no improvement on the existing system and patients will continue to suffer... |
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Viruses can be used to kill cancer |
| Cancer targeting viruses could dramatically decrease the death rate of cancer patients in the near future. Although it was first observed in 1912 that cancer could be positively affected by injecting a virus (doctors treating a woman with cervical cancer who was given a rabies vaccination following a dog bite saw her tumour had shrunk), it wasn't until the late 1940s that medical trials took place to investigate this possibility... |
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Unhealthy eating is drain on NHS |
| The ill effects of eating an unbalanced diet are costing the NHS an estimated £6 billion per year in treatments – 3 times as much as smoking. The figure, calculated by studying the death rates and occurrence of diet-related problems such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, shows the depth of the problem... |
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