Use intensive care drug, NHS told
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Thousands of intensive care patients are set to benefit from a drug which has been recommended to NHS doctors.
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Patients who are violent to NHS staff should be made to pay for their treatment, under Lib Dem proposals.
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Patients with a potentially fatal lung condition have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a drug that was not approved for their disease but was promoted for that use.
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Hundreds of thousands of patients taking three brands of painkillers for arthritis were advised yesterday to see their doctors after new research raised fears of an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Intensive-care doctors monitor patients from miles away. Also: Vioxx might be responsible for more deaths than thought.... New network in southern India gives government a big boost.... and more.
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An inquiry hears a doctor gave a massive dose of a drug to two terminally ill babies, hastening their deaths.
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Users of an anti-arthritis drug linked by a study to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes have been urged not to panic. The UK Department of Health said users of Celebrex, manufactured by US drug
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An antibiotic often used in hospital intensive care units to treat serious staph infections resistant to other medicines may cause a sometimes-fatal bleeding condition, researchers said on Wednesday.
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STEYR, Austria - A medical intern at a western Austria hospital mistakenly injected an elderly patient with olive oil instead of antibiotics after mixing up bedside vials, officials said Wednesday.    The patient, a 79-year-old woman in the hospital for an appendectomy, was not in life-threatening condition, hospital director Harald Geck told the Austria Press Agency...
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The Health Select Committee is to investigate the role of the body which decides which drugs should be available on the NHS.
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Clinicians claim that a new approach to tackling heart disease could save thousands of lives in Scotland.
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When a person is told he has an aggressive form of cancer, he might seek a second opinion if the doctor responds by telling him to drink plenty of fluids, take two aspirin, get a good night sleep and call the office in the morning.
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Campaigners demanded yesterday that more psychological therapies be made available on the NHS after a study showed that Britain leads the world in prescribing antidepressants and other mind-altering drugs to children.
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Patients could be offered therapies such as acupuncture on the NHS under plans being considered by the assembly government.
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THe NHS drugs advisory body is to reconsider its block on a drug for people with asbestos-related cancer.
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Binmen may treat heart attack patients under plans being considered.
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More than 17,000 people receiving treatment in the UK have died unnecessarily because of the inadequacies of the NHS, it is claimed today