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THT's One-hour 'Fastest' Service Aims To Reduce Undiagnosed HIV In Brighton & Hove
In a bid to reduce levels of undiagnosed HIV in Brighton & Hove, HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is encouraging gay and bisexual men who may have been at risk to attend a local service offering one-hour HIV testing. One in four people who have HIV in the UK are undiagnosed, and there are now more people living with the condition than ever before.

Stem Cell Therapeutics Receives Clearance From Health Canada To Proceed With The Phase IIb Clinical Stroke Trial
Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SSS)("SCT" or "the Company") has received a No Objection Letter ("NOL") from Health Canada for the modified REGENESIS protocol using NTx®-265 for a Phase IIb clinical trial treating acute ischemic stroke.
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Mind Welcomes Radical Reform Of Social Care, UK
As the Government sets out proposals to reform social care, leading mental health charity Mind welcomes the move to simplify the process and create a fairer system for the many thousands of people with mental health problems who currently pay for social care services.
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Beth Israel Patients To Get A Look At Online Doctors' Notes

A Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project called "open notes"" will make doctor"s notes available to as many as 35,000 patients online along with the rest of their medical records for a year, the Boston Globe reports. "Amid the national push to computerize medical records and make them more open to patients, one of the most intense areas of debate is whether patients should be allowed to see their doctors" notes online." According to the Globe, "[T]he notes usually aren"t readily available to patients because hospitals and doctors" groups fear that they will misunderstand medical jargon, take offense at a blunt observation, or worry unnecessarily about a precautionary test." As part of the project, "researchers hope to learn whether the notes prove more useful than objectionable." A doctor who is leading the study told the Globe that patients often don"t remember "what happens in the doctor"s office" (Kowalczyk, 6/19). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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