Cancer cure search is overshadowing progress of sufferers living longer with the disease, experts warn
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Cancer cure search is overshadowing progress of sufferers living longer with the disease, experts warn

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/09/cancer-cure-search-overshadowing-progress-sufferers-living-longer/ By Telegraph Reporters The search for a cancer cure is overshadowing “huge” progress being made in allowing sufferers of the disease to live longer, the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has warned. Survival time from cancer has roughly doubled in a decade, with the average patient now living more than…

NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal
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NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/08/nhs-gives-amazon-free-use-of-health-data-under-alexa-advice-deal By Amy Walker UK health service will not gain commercial benefit from future Amazon products using its data Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government. The material, which excludes patient data, could allow the multinational technology…

Measles deaths ‘staggering and tragic’
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Measles deaths ‘staggering and tragic’

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This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50659893 By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent More than 140,000 people died from measles last year as the number of cases around the world surged once again, official estimates suggest. Most of the lives cut short were children aged under five. The situation has been described by health experts…

Norovirus closes 1,100 hospital beds in England
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Norovirus closes 1,100 hospital beds in England

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This article was taken from:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50673491 By BBC Health news Hospitals in England closed more than 1,100 beds in the past week because of the winter vomiting bug norovirus. NHS officials are urging people with the virus not to go to work and parents not to send children with it to school, until 48 hours after…

Typhoid vaccine ‘works fantastically well’
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Typhoid vaccine ‘works fantastically well’

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50587608 By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent A new typhoid vaccine works “fantastically well” and is being used to help stop an almost untreatable strain of the infection, doctors say. Cases of the bacterial disease fell by more than 80% in trials, published in the New England Journal of Medicine….