Health

A new start after 60: I had PTSD after surgery. Ceramics gave me the resilience to face the world again

Linda Pitcher was so self-conscious after cancer surgery that removed part of her nose, she wouldn’t even answer the front door. Now, at 61, she’s a successful artist showing her work in public. For many months after skin cancer surgery, Linda Pitcher couldn’t leave the house. She avoided answering the front door, and if she

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Drug trial a ‘milestone’ in leukaemia treatment

A new drug pathway is “transforming” the lives of people with leukaemia and could revolutionise how the disease is treated, scientists said this week. The comments came in response to a study that found that a new combination drug therapy significantly outperformed chemotherapy for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). The FLAIR trial followed 786

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