Nurse wins battle for cancer drug

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Barbara Clark, a nurse, who had early-stage breast cancer, explains how she single-handedly won the right to be prescribed a new best cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin). She desired to obtain the drug, which is only licensed for advanced disease, as based on growing evidence that women with her condition can halve the risk of tumour recurrence if they take trastuzumab alongside chemotherapy.

Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Company legal issue, Cases, Licensing, certification and accreditation, Herceptin (Medication), Trastuzumab, Clark, Barbara

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Healers help leukemia patients

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The NHS is part-funding two healers, an aromatherapist, a reflexologist and a hypnotherapist to work alongside nurses in the hematology department due to their positive response to the patients' demand. The healers are helping the adults and children with leukemia at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust.

Financial management, Management dynamics, Services information, HEALTH SERVICES, Care and treatment, Finance, Services, Health care industry, Practice, Nursing, Company financing, United Kingdom. National Health Service. Modernisation Agency

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All you need is help

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The author examines the results of a study critical of the medical and psychological treatment of the Michael Abram who stabbed ex-Beatle George Harrison. Topics include mental health services in the United Kingdom, psychotic fits, medical treatments, and medical errors.

Psychological aspects, Health aspects, Crimes against, Mental health, Psychological manifestations of general diseases, Psychological symptoms, Harrison, George, Abram, Michael

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