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UK 'may be facing drugs shortage'

Thursday 20th of November 2008

Britain may be facing drugs shortages as it becomes more profitable for pharmacists and wholesalers to sell them abroad, it has been suggested. According to a report in the Financial Times, the...

Pioneering biomedical science technique trialled

Thursday 20th of November 2008

A woman has become the first person in the world to receive a laboratory-engineered whole organ transplant. Biomedical scientists took stem cells from Claudia Castillo and used them to create an...

New superbug threatens hospital hygiene

Thursday 20th of November 2008

A new superbug has been increasing in prevalence in UK hospitals, it has been found. Called Acinetobacter (A) baumannii, the bacteria causes infections in hospitalised patients and incidence of the...

Virus forces hospitals to shut computer systems down

Wednesday 19th of November 2008

A number of London hospitals have been forced to shut down their entire computer systems after they were struck by a virus. St Bartholomew's, the Royal London Hospital and the London Chest Hospital -...

Vitamin D deficiency linked to heart dysfunction

Wednesday 19th of November 2008

People with cardiac jobs may be interested in the findings of new research which links vitamin D deficiency with heart dysfunction. Conducted by German researchers, the report suggests that severe...