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Are Mobile phones a health hazard?

March 4, 2010

Image by Erik Luyten Moblog via Flickr

4.02.10
ARE CELL/MOBILE PHONES DANGEROUS?

One of biggest concerns on the Internet is “are mobile/cell phones safe?”
So far no-one has come up with positive proof one way or another re dangers associated with cancer, but anecdotal evidence talking to researchers shows that they tend to limit or [...]

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Now is the time to get your MP working for you!

February 11, 2010

Gordon Brown   Flickr

WATCH OUT – CANCER PATIENTS ARE IN THE TARGET FRAME -

POLITICIANS ACROSS THE BOARD have settled on us as ‘easy’ targets!

By the time the date for the next election is announced, I bet the majority of Britons will want to crawl away to a deserted island and bury their head in the sand [...]

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Watch out for personalised medicine, making treatment more efficient

February 8, 2010

COULD THIS BE A POINTER TO BETTER HANDLING OF SIDE EFFECTS?
For some time concerned doctors have realised that side effects can easily cause patients to come off the very drugs designed to help them live longer.  In Britain the problem is so bad that surveys show over 60% come off their drugs – not good.
But [...]

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Now’s the time to ask your Oncologist to find answers

February 7, 2010

Getting down to business  2009 Flickr

World’s Oncologists will meet at AACR  101st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Everyone likes a little holiday – especially if it is allied to attending a working conference where their peers will be meeting to discuss latest developments in their field of work.
This April the AmericanAssociation for Cancer Research will be [...]

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Who’d be a Whistleblower in today’s NHS?

February 5, 2010

There was a very sad headline in last week’s papers: Senior NHS Consultant wins whistleblowing claim
Sad on two counts –
1.     a competent consultant was barred from looking after  his patients.
2.    And an NHS trust is going to have to pay out compensation for possibly destroying a doctor’s career.
Ramon Niekrash, a senior Consultant Urologist at [...]

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Being Internet-savvy helps when dealing with cancer

January 13, 2010

Doctors admit that those who understand and research their cancer treatment, often recover better and more quickly.
As a patient, I found that using the Internet sensibly, I was able to work out more effective treatment and find which cancer centres could give me better advice.  When all my UK hospital could offer to deal with [...]

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Cancer Pioneer dies aged 82

January 6, 2010

Mobile Mammogram van – a familiar site today

Once upon a time …  many of the best surgeons started their careers on the rugby field, and Paddy Boulter, who died recently, was no exception.
A Carlisle Grammar School boy, he led the way in breast cancer detection, working alongside Dr. John Price,playing a key role in [...]

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KPD K-9 breast cancer survivor to retire

January 1, 2010

Dogs can get cancer too – and return to work, as this K-9 Tasja shows.
To those in the know, what is even more remarkable about Tasja’s story is her age.  The world’s oldest canine police force was founded in Belgium, around 1899.  A crime wave hit the Belgian town of Gent, and the Police Commissioner, [...]

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Where the Queen’s New Year Honours went

December 31, 2009

Most recipients will proudly wear the badge of the Member of the British Empire – above  Wikipedia

Nurses, ambulance workers and others beavering away in the background were honoured
Health made a big impact on the New Year Honours list, with a baron, two dames, a knight and scores of OBEs, CBEs and MBEs.  But amongst the [...]

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When a focus group thought ‘Royal Marsden’ was the name of a potato

December 28, 2009

Gordon Brown making plans for the NHS

MASSIVE CUTS FORECAST IN NHS
2010 is Election year – and everyone is forecasting massive cuts in NHS Funds.
But – is this such a bad thing?  Or will cuts force the NHS administration to think seriously about where the cuts will fall – and perhaps even devise plans to [...]

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