The first NHS-led clinical trial for thyroid eye disease (TED), a disfiguring condition causing protruding eyes, double vision and swelling around the eyes, has shown that widely used, expensive and time consuming radiotherapy treatment does not help people who are also given steroid tablets. However, disease severity was reduced in people who also received antiproliferative … Continue reading First NHS-led clinical trial for thyroid eye disease

Multi-million pound plans for a wellness and life science village being supported by Swansea University in Llanelli have taken a major step forward. Swansea University reports an outline planning application has now been submitted to Carmarthenshire Council for the project at Delta Lakes, which includes new sport and leisure facilities, along with state of the … Continue reading Wellness and life science village takes major step forward

A recently formed health consortium, jointly led by the Welsh Blood Service (on behalf of NHS Wales) and the National Institute for Health Research Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, has been awarded £7.3m of UK Government funding to ensure more people benefit from a new generation of breakthrough therapies. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board reports … Continue reading £7.3m award brings advanced medical therapies to Wales

Wales has joined the 100,000 Genomes Project, the Welsh Government announced today. The 100,000 Genomes Project seeks to transform patient care, encourage genomic discovery and drive a thriving genomics sector. In an agreement between Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CVUHB), Cardiff University and Genomics England, four hundred and twenty whole genome sequences (WGS) have … Continue reading Wales joins the 100,000 Genomes Project

Peter Maggs, a seventy old year old grandfather from Abergavenny, has become the first person in Wales to have his chest wall rebuilt with a 3D printed prosthesis following the removal of a large tumour. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board reports Peter Maggs had three ribs and half his breastbone removed during the day … Continue reading Surgeons use 3D printed implant to rebuild chest wall

Life Sciences Hub Wales has announced its new board. MediWales reports the executive chair is Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, who was the first chair of Public Health Wales NHS Trust and is current chair of the Bevan Commission. He is also Professor of Public Health Education at the Centre for Psychosocial, Occupational and Physician Health … Continue reading New Board for Life Sciences Hub Wales

First Minister Carwyn Jones has appointed internationally renowned psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Peter Halligan to the post of Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales. The Welsh Government reports Peter Halligan will provide independent scientific advice to the First Minister and lead the development of the Welsh Government’s science policy. He will also work to promote the … Continue reading Peter Halligan appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales

Today AMs tabled a motion to exert pressure on the UK Government to reschedule cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2, which would recognise the medicinal value of the drug. WalesOnline reports, in response, Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said advocating the use of herbal cannabis, a “raw and illegal” drug, would undermine the evidence-based approach … Continue reading AMs vote to exert pressure to legalise medicinal cannabis

Health chiefs want to spend nearly £500m putting people’s confidential medical history onto a connected NHS medical system, a new report by Wales’ top financial watchdog has revealed. WalesOnline reports the Auditor General for Wales detailed the difficulties that were preventing health services scrapping traditional paper health records. It revealed that despite millions having already … Continue reading £500m to put people’s medical history online

Experts at Morriston Hospital in Swansea have formed a new partnership with colleagues in New Zealand as part of research aimed at reducing the number of deaths from chest injuries. The partnership is being led by Morriston Hospital’s Dr Ceri Battle and is part of the hospital’s academic emergency medicine research programme. Morriston Hospital is … Continue reading Reducing the number of deaths from chest injuries