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Treatment Liver cancer
Liver cancerThe treatment for liver cancer depends on the stage of the condition. Treatment can include surgery and medication. Most hospitals use multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) to treat liver cancer. These are teams of specialists that work together to make decisions about the best way to proceed with your treatment. Deciding which treatment is best for
Treatment Heart failure
Heart failurePreventative Treatment Bed rest. The patient must rest in bed but not for prolonged periods of time, because this may favor the development of pulmonary thromboembolism, bronchopulmonary infections, decubitus. In elderly patients, it may even favor the development of osteoporosis, and in patients suffering from prostate conditions, it may favor
Treatment Depression
DepressionTalking treatments Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) aims to help you understand your thoughts and behaviour and how they affect you. CBT recognises that events in your past may have shaped you, but it concentrates mostly on how you can change the way you think, feel and behave in the present. It teaches
Treating multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosisTreatment for MS relapses Contact your specialist MS nurse or GP if you think you're havinga relapse. A flare up of symptoms can sometimes be caused by something other than a relapse, such as an infection, so your nurse or GP needs to check for other possible causes. Treatment for a relapse usually involves either: a five-day course of
Treatment Skin cancer (melanoma)
Skin cancer (melanoma)Treating stage 1 to 2 melanoma Treating stage 1 melanoma involves surgery to remove the melanoma and a small area of skin around it. This is known as surgical excision. Surgical excisionis usuallycarried outunder Local anaesthetic , which means you'll be conscious but the area around the melanoma will be numbed, so you won't feel pain. In some
Treatment for bladder cancer Bladder cancer
Bladder cancerThe treatment options for bladder cancer largely depend on how advanced the cancer is. Treatments usually differbetween early stage, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer and more advanced muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) All hospitals use MDTs to treat bladder cancer. These are teams of specialists that work
Treating breast cancer in men Male breast cancer
Male breast cancerTreatment for breast cancer in men largely depends on how far the cancer has spread. Most hospitals use multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) to treat men with breast cancer. These are teams of specialistswho work together to make decisions about the best way to proceed with your treatment. Deciding which treatment is best for you can often be
176 health news for FLU
'Get flu jab now,' GPs urge those at risk
The flu vaccine has featured heavily in recent news, with reports that people are avoiding having the vaccine as they are concerned about its swine flu component. The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to the government, warning...
Flu research may lead to universal vaccine
"Scientists say they have made a significant leap towards creating a vaccine that would protect against every form of flu," is the exciting news on the BBC website. It goes on to say that researchers have identified immune cells that…
Effectiveness of flu jab studied
“The annual flu jab given to hundreds of thousands of people this winter provides only limited protection against the illness,” reported The Independent. This news story is based on a systematic review of studies...
Antivirals and swine flu
Several newspapers have reported today on a review of the effectiveness of antivirals for treating and preventing flu. The Daily Express said that "Tamiflu
Children to be offered annual flu vaccine
"Flu vaccines for all children," BBC News has reported. The BBC’s story is based on a report by independent expert advisers ...
Flu and freezing weather may be driving up winter death rates
"The current death rate in England and Wales is running about one-third higher than its normal rate for this time of year," BBC News reports. A combination of flu and very cold weather may be responsible…
Flu jab "may cut" stroke risk by a quarter
'People who have the seasonal flu jab care 24 per cent less likely to suffer a stroke' is the encouraging news in The Daily Telegraph. New research appears to suggest that flu makes people more vulnerable to stroke risk factors…
Flu vaccination in children
“Vaccinating children against flu may be an effective way of protecting the rest of the population”, The Independent reported. Many newspapers covered the same story,
More work towards universal flu vaccine
“Scientists have hailed a breakthrough in the search for a universal flu vaccine,” The Daily Telegraph has reported. The newspaper says that such a vaccine would save lives and money by eliminating the need for the annual jab...
Four out of ten Brits may naturally show fewer flu symptoms
"Four in 10 Britons immune to flu symptoms, leading to hopes of a new vaccine," The Independent reports. A survey of around 1,400 people found 43% of them had a type of immune cell – T cells – that helps protect against infection…