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from or mentioning the United Kingdom
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Use of Mitoxantrone for children with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)
Trial of leukaemia drug Mitoxantrone for children with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), as recently (Dec 2010) reported in The Lancet. Study funded by Cancer Research UK and Leukaemia ...
Ban on cigarette sales to teenagers had little effect on access to tobacco
University researchers in the UK have found that banning under-18s from buying cigarettes has had little impact on young people's access to tobacco and that large numbers of teenagers continue to b...
Research could improve detection of liver damage
Scientists have discovered that the presence of specific proteins in the blood are indicative of early liver cell damage and can determine the point at which cell death occurred, the type of cell d...
Watercress may *turn off* breast cancer signal
New scientific research from Southampton University (England, UK) has revealed that a plant compound in watercress may have the ability to suppress breast cancer cell development by 'turning off' a...
New guidelines to ease sleepless nights
Insomnia and other sleep disorders are very common, yet are not generally well understood by doctors and other health care professionals. Now the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) ha...
Half of Brits got sunburnt this year and many would do it again
Far from being a small price to pay for a tan, sunburn is a sign that your skin cells have been seriously damaged by too much sun. It is this damage that can increase the risk of skin cancer later ...
New research links cannabis use and psychotic experiences
Using cannabis has been related to psychotic experiences in the general population but few studies have examined this relationship in undergraduate students despite high levels of cannabis use in t...
Women with osteoporosis suffer more if they have previously broken a bone,
A study of more than 60,000 women living in many different countries around the world has increased knowledge about the relationship between osteoporosis and fractures. Osteoporosis is more common ...
Scientists develop new drug treatment for malaria
Scientists at the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have produced a new antimalarial drug that is more chemically stable in the body than current malaria treatme...
New epilepsy research helps to reduce animal experiments
Good News: A new epilepsy research project led by Dr Roland Jones from the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology at the University of Bath (England) is developing a new technique to reduce the num...
Healthcare in England: CQC response to AvMA report on safety alerts
The Care Quality Commission (CQC), independent regulator of all health and adult social care in England, has been working closely with the Department of Health and the National Patient Safety Agenc...
