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Breast Cancer
8th May 2008
With over 40,000 cases diagnosed every year, as many as 1 in 9 women in the UK will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives, making it the most common form of cancer within the UK and the...
UK Faces Growing Threat of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
8th May 2008
Having examined nearly 30,000 people infected with TB in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over the last seven years, the Health Protection Agency found a 2.3% rise (from 5.6% to 7.9%) in the...
CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
7th May 2008
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is so called because it was first diagnosed by two German neurologists, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob. Like fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and...
When Insurance Can Save
6th May 2008
One in three people will be positively diagnosed as having cancer within our lifetimes. The disease can hit at any time, although it does tend to affect the older people more critically. With some...
'Missing' Angina in Women
5th May 2008
In 2006 a team of medical scientists from University College London (UCL) found that although Angina is as common in women as it is in men, doctors routinely under-estimate the severity of their...
Heart Disease, Women and the NHS
29th April 2008
Cases of Heart Disease in the UK have been falling since their peak in the mid 1970's, due predominantly to better treatments, a general reduction in smoking and greater awareness amongst the...
