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Prostate drug may slow Parkinson's disease17 Sep 2019 01:21A medicine for enlarged prostates may benefit brain cells damaged by Parkinson's, scientists find.
Soot pollution particles 'cross the placenta'17 Sep 2019 16:11Particles of black carbon pollution can cross to the fetal side of the placenta, a study finds.
Nurse numbers rise 'eclipsed by jump in patients'17 Sep 2019 01:24Hospital admissions are rising at nearly three times the rate of the nurse workforce, the RCN says.
Inquiry into safety and wellbeing concerns at two hospitals17 Sep 2019 21:33It follows problems at the new children's hospital in Edinburgh and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
Common cold stopped by experimental approach16 Sep 2019 16:03It may be possible to make our bodies inhospitable for the cold virus after promising early research.
Meningitis: 'I'm no longer Miss Independent'16 Sep 2019 00:37A survey shows few understand the long-term effects of meningitis for people like Lesley.

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