Life expectancy for people with HIV in the UK has increased by 15 years in the past decade, thanks to modern drugs and earlier treatment, a study suggests.

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According to Mr Davies 24 modern cancer drugs are available to patients in England via the use of the UK Government's Cancer Drugs Fund.

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Modern HIV drugs are much easier to take, but the effects of living long-term with HIV and the side-effects of treatments are becoming clearer.

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The Hong Kong company aims to strike gold by expanding the global appeal of traditional Chinese medicines and by using modern drug development methods to unearth new drugs within Chinese medicinal herbs.

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Directed by Rupert Goold, the play is set in a modern medical facility where a pharmaceutical company is testing anti-depressant drugs.

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Medical devices are something of an orphan sister to the glamour of drugs, but they include some of the genuine miracles of modern medicine: pacemakers, artificial joints, cardiac stents, scanners, and radiotherapy machines.

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Modern armed robbers are amateurs, he says, usually badly equipped and often on drugs.

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Nearly everything modern medicine does to control these invisible killers, further optimizes their resistance to our drugs and combat strategies, and hence their proliferation.

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In Thailand, only hospitals are allowed to research and produce new herbal medicines, and while Western drugs can be approved in months, traditional remedies that make use of any modern processing or ingredients may take a decade or more to be cleared.

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