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In the News24 May 2006 Leading doctors write to trusts urging every them to stop paying for alternative medicine A Group of Britain’s leading doctors has urged every NHS trust to stop paying for alternative medicine and to use the money for conventional treatments. Their appeal is a direct challenge to the Prince of Wales’s campaign to widen access to complementary therapies.
19 May 2006 WHO urges drug trial registrationThe World Health Organization is calling for tighter registration of clinical drug trials so that negative findings cannot be kept secret. The WHO is urging drugs firms and research bodies to register all medical studies on humans from the outset. Currently researchers can opt to wait until they are well advanced in their work before reporting on results.
19 May 2006 Doctors survey reports that training reforms risk patient safetyBBC news reports on the results of asurvey of 1,089 doctors, carried out by the website Doctors.net.uk. The survey showed that 62% thought the changes to medical training had led to a deterioration in patient safety. More than one in seven (15%) said safety had been greatly worsened. Doctors are concerned the reforms do not allow enough time to master medical skills, or to provide continuity of care for individual patients.
17 May 2006 National Library for Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Library (CAM SL)The National Library for Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Library (CAM SL) has been launched. The CAM SL aims to provide access to the best available evidence in the field of CAM. Although the content of the library is intended primarily for health professionals and CAM practitioners and researchers, most of the information is also accessible by patients and carers.
17 May 2006 Melanoma deaths in men soarCancer Research UK reports that for the first time the number of men who have died from melanoma in the UK has exceeded 1000 a year – a 31 per cent increase in the last decade. More men than women die from this potentially fatal form of skin cancer. And one of the reasons for this is because men fail to check out suspect moles. A new survey of almost 2000 men found that almost 60 per cent never check their backs – where skin cancer often occurs - to see if existing moles have changed or if new ones have appeared.
17 May 2006 NHS told to fund treatment abroadUK patients forced to wait longer than they should for NHS treatment are entitled to reclaim the cost of being treated in Europe, a court has ruled. The European Court of Justice said the NHS must refund costs if patients waited longer than clinicians advised, even if waiting time targets were met. The court was ruling in the case of Yvonne Watts, 75, of Bedford, who paid £3,900 for a hip operation in France.
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