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Fergus WalshMedical editor BBC Oscar Murphy has now finished his CAR-T therapy and is hopeful for his future The first leukaemia patient to receive a breakthrough treatment since it was made available on the NHS has said it was “fantastic” and “very sci-fi”. Oscar Murphy, 28, who has an aggressive form of the blood cancer,…
Wiltshire woman to walk 115km after surviving two heart attacks
Sue Davies,BBC Radio Wiltshireand Kirsten Robertson,Wiltshire Cathy Read Cathy Read has survived two spontaneous coronary artery dissections (SCAD) A woman is planning to walk 115km to raise awareness of a rare condition which caused her to have two heart attacks. Cathy Read from Chippenham in Wiltshire has survived two spontaneous coronary artery dissections (SCAD). The…
Public to be asked who should pay for social care as part of major review
The public will be asked who should receive social care and how it should be paid for as part of a review into the system. Baroness Louise Casey, who is leading a commission into adult social care in England, described the system to the BBC’s Radio Four Today programme as “impossible” to navigate and called…
