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Air pollution can shorten the lives of patients with lung cancer

Air pollution can shorten lives of patients with lung cancer

Reducing exposure to air pollutants could improve lung cancer survival rates, research suggests. 

09 Aug 2016
Prostate_cancer

Genetic testing can improve precision prescribing for men with advanced prostate cancer

Review of ‘Inherited DNA: repair gene mutations in men with metastatic prostate cancer’

13 Jul 2016
breast check

Spotting breast cancer

Better-educated women more likely to spot breast cancer

12 Jul 2016
Call to lower threshold for pre-emptive ovarian cancer surgery

Ovarian cancer: Call to lower threshold for pre-emptive surgery

Current age threshold of 40 should be halved say UK researchers.

12 Jul 2016
Homeopathy

Use of alternative medicine alongside chemotherapy

Use of alternative medicine alongside chemotherapy
05 Jul 2016
Attitudes to death

How personal attitudes to death influence end-of-life care

How personal attitudes to death influence end-of-life care
05 Jul 2016

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Nurses fight for band 7 status after missing out on £9,000 pay rise

Health visitors in south Wales are striking after NHS employer ignored job evaluation appeal

Senior nurse struck off after lowering patients’ early warning scores

He also failed to take observations and record that he had altered the scores

Nurses’ actions before patient’s suicide amounted to gross failures of care and neglect

Coroner criticises failures to check patient record before tragedy, the latest at the trust

Nurse who defrauded NHS of £51k has to pay back only £300

Tanya Nasir fraudulently secured a neonatal unit nurse manager role and was jailed

What the paediatric early warning system means for nurses

How nurses can use PEWS to spot deterioration in babies, children and young people