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Last modified on Wed 5 May 2021 18.40 EDT The number of people being diagnosed with cancer early in England has plummeted during the Covid pandemic, sparking fears that many will only be treated when it is too late to save them. Official figures show a third fewer cancers were detected at stage one, when the chances of survival are highest, in the early months of the pandemic than during the same months a year before. Cancer experts fear that the figures, which have been collected by Public Hea...

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canadas oil and gas industry Dogged pursuit Kay Cashman Petroleum News Recent releases of information from Pantheon Resources plc offered encouraging results on the Talitha A exploration/appraisal well drilled by affiliate Great Bear Pantheon on Alaska’s central North Slope, despite the fact well testing was interrupted by operational challenges resulting in the well being suspended until next winter when testing can be completed. Reaching a total dept...

  Pantheon Resources plc ("Pantheon" or the "Company"), the AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration Company with a 100% working interest in projects spanning c.160,000 acres covered by 3D seismic and advantageously located adjacent to transportation and pipeline infrastructure on the Alaska North Slope, provides the following update following the conclusion of operations at the Talitha #A well: Talitha #A well - conclusion of operations and overview   Operations at...

Pantheon Resources has provided an update following the conclusion of operations at the Talitha-A well, North Slope of Alaska. Operations at the Talitha-A well have concluded with the well suspended for future testing operations.

Experts warned the lost referrals could lead to thousands of delayed diagnoses and avoidable deaths.  NHS England data shows the number of patients urgently referred for the cancer fell by 28 per cent between April 2020 and January of this year - about 52,000 fewer. The charity Prostate Cancer UK estimates at least 8,600 fewer men started treatment for prostate cancer in that time, down around a third on 2019.  It said the drop in referrals is largely attributed to fewer men seeing their GP...

“This will provide more insight into the reasons that investigations do not, or cannot, lead to a sanction outcome,” Mr Harris said. It means gardaí will be required to account for why crimes they investigated did not result in any conclusion, such as criminal charges being pursued. The Garda has in the past recorded and published data showing its record in detecting, or solving, a wide variety of crimes. But it has not formally recorded the reasons why crimes remain unsolved and t...

Rishi Sunak faced fury from charities, MPs and care groups today after failing to provide any extra help for hospitals, care homes or medical research. Care home bosses accused the Chancellor of betraying elderly residents, claiming he had once again ignored the cash-strapped sector which has been ravaged by Covid.  Boris Johnson originally promised to reform social care when he first became Prime Minister in 2019, but the plans have been delayed again until the end of this year. NHS officials...

NHS Digital estimates there were 35.6m fewer family doctor visits in England between March 2020 and January 2021 compared to the same period a year prior.

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Jason Oke, of Oxford University, told MailOnline one a factor behind the drop in excess non-Covid deaths in the second wave could be a displacement of deaths from the first wave.

Tens of thousands have missed out on potentially lifesaving treatment, official figures reveal. Surgery to remove tumours plummeted by one third during the first wave of coronavirus. From April to August some 21,700 fewer patients had cancer surgery than in the same period of 2019, according to Public Health England (PHE). The number of patients diagnosed with cancer from April to September last year was 35,592, a fall of one quarter compared with 2019 levels. Surgery to remove tumours plummete...