First personalised cancer vaccine cuts risk of disease returning in major trial
The scientists involved say the results could mark a turning point in cancer treatment, bringing personalised medicine a step closer.
Category: Health
Gut bacteria use food signals to manage body’s biological clock
Biological clocks are often associated with light. Historically, most people start their days when the sun is up, and end their days when the sun
Rapid changes to care market risk to National Care Service, regulator says
Concerns raised as big private firms buy up care homes and home help fragmenting in England.
I sat in A&E for 13 hours – here’s how to recognise health anxiety
Hollie Sharman shares her experience of health anxiety and a doctor advises on how to manage symptoms.
Family’s plea after autistic son escapes school
A mother says her son regularly climbs fences in their back garden and has “no sense of danger”.
Bryan Cranston on death of Breaking Bad co-star RJ Mitte
US actor RJ Mitte, best known for his role as the defiant son of drug kingpin Walter White in the drama series Breaking Bad, died
‘I thought I was dying but it was health anxiety’
Hollie Sharman shares her experience of health anxiety and a doctor advises on how to manage symptoms.
‘Always remember, cancer doesn’t discriminate’
Harriet Tsadioti says contracting breast cancer was one of her biggest fears growing up.
mRNA cancer vaccine helps reduce chances of melanoma patients’ tumors returning
A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is helping significantly reduce the chances that melanoma patients’ tumors return
‘Wildly unfair that my husband and I pay £4k a year for ADHD treatment’
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a formally commissioned, publicly-funded adult service for ADHD.
Standardized protocol enables safer kidney biopsies in high-risk patients
Results from a prospective study reveal that with standardized precautions, even high-risk patients may safely undergo a kidney biopsy, a cornerstone of kidney diagnostics that
Give more people weight-loss jabs on the NHS, say MPs
Current plans for 6% of eligible patients to get Mounjaro by 2028 unambitious, say MPs.
$8.2 million grant advances on-demand male contraceptive development
Weill Cornell Medicine has received a four-year, $8.2 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to develop and test
Haematology centre for cancer patients at risk over ‘disgraceful’ funds move
The Department of Health has decided to take back £1.5m from the project, Belfast Trust officials have told a Stormont committee.