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UK okays HIV home-tests

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Kits allowing people to test themselves for HIV at home can be bought over the counter in the UK for the first time. Previously,...

More Scot organ donors

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The number of people who donated their organs after death in Scotland has almost doubled over a six-year period. More than 2.1m Scots have...

Injectable sponges for battlefield

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A simple new method could revolutionise battlefield medicine. This consists of a syringe filled with injectable sponges, shot directly into a wound to stop...

‘Lab grown’ organs

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US scientists have completed the first successful implants of ‘lab-grown’ v aginal organs, in four women with a rare condition who were born without...

Millions sign up for Obamacare

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More than 7.5m people are expected to sign up for private health coverage this year under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. This includes 400,000...

UK GPs to be on call

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Patients will be able to see their family doctors in the evenings and at weekends and e-mail them for advice, under plans for a...

‘Butcher' surgeon stopped from practising

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Dr Luke Gordon, the Benoni plastic surgeon accused of leaving his patients disabled, disfigures and deformed, has been ordered by a Health Professions Council...

Herceptin patents overturned

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Hospira has successfully overturned two patents on Roche’s breast cancer drug Herceptin in Britain, clearing the way for a cheaper copycat version in that...

Morphine in milk conviction

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The conviction by a South Carolina jury of Stephanie Greene, a 39-year old nurse, of killing her six-week-old daughter by administering a morphine overdose...

App to overcome jet lag

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Investigators from the University of Michigan have created an iPhone app that they say offers ‘shortcuts’ to help travellers adapt to different time zones...