Scientists at the University of Southampton are developing a way to carry chemotherapy directly to cancer cells using tiny particles called exosomes, aiming to spare healthy tissue. Early laboratory results have shown activity against cancer cells, including chemotherapy-resistant ones, and funding from PLANETS Cancer Charity and the Hospital Saturday Fund is supporting the next stage of research.
A chef on Skye has opened a pay what you can whole food cafe called Araich in a former woollen mill in Portree. The community interest company provided free lunches to more than 90 pupils at Portree High School before opening to the wider community in October.
Paramedic Gareth Hopkins, who suffered a cardiac arrest at the London Marathon in April, has walked the final mile of the course six months later. He was treated in hospital for six months and is now recovering, with family, friends and supporters cheering him on.
NHS patients in around 200 GP surgeries in England will be offered new blood tests that check for several cancers at once, as part of a trial led by the University of Birmingham. The aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers much sooner, when treatment has a better chance of success.
