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Plans for Guy's Tower revamp move closer (London SE1 community website)

see-website-for-real-email-address@london-se1.co.uk (London SE1 website team) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:37:32 GMT

Proposals to refurbish the exterior of SE1's tallest building - Guy's Tower at Guy's Hospital - have moved a step closure with the appointment of architects and project managers to carry out a feasibility study.

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NHS - Happy 60th (The Psychiatrist Blog)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:35:00 GMT

Yesterday I was at Guy's hospital, celebrating 60 years of the NHS. David Cameron spoke about how the Conservatives were going to reduce targets and focus on outcomes. He also gave a personal account of how his son Ivan has frequently used the NHS and how grateful he was to the hard working health professionals.

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Boiler Suit — by Thomas Heatherwick (bookofjoe)

Mon, 26 May 2008 18:01:09 GMT

"Thomas Heatherwick has completed Boiler Suit, an undulating facade of woven steel panels encasing the boiler house at Guy's Hospital in London."

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Power supplies restored after Tooley Street flood (London SE1 community website)

see-website-for-real-email-address@london-se1.co.uk (London SE1 website team) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:39:14 GMT

Power supplies are gradually being restored to premises in the London Bridge area - including Guy's Hospital and Southwark Council's call centre - as the clean-up from Sunday's Tooley Street flood continues.

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Tooley Street reopens eastbound after 7 million litre flood (London SE1 community website)

see-website-for-real-email-address@london-se1.co.uk (London SE1 website team) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:18:57 GMT

Operations at Guy's Hospital were cancelled and Southwark Council's call centre was shut down as part of the knock-on effect from Sunday's burst water main in Tooley Street.

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Guy's Hospital, Southwark (photo.tomlog.nl)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:03:00 GMT

Guy's Hospital, Southwark - 24/04/2008

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‘Lethal’ drugs given for dementia (Times Online)

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:22:57 GMT

WHEN David Ramsay, a former senior consultant at Guy’s hospital in London, was diagnosed with dementia in 1998, his wife fought for three years to have him taken into full-time care.

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Where have all the nurses gone? (NHS Blog Doctor)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:09:00 GMT

Guy's Hospital student nurses Tomorrow morning the Times will reveal the following: A quarter of student nurses quit before the end of their course, at a cost of more than £98 million a year. Figures obtained by Nursing Standard under the Freedom of Information Act showed that 26.3 per cent of student nurses due to finish in 2006 left early. Of 25,101 who started degrees or diplomas, 6,603...

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Transformed urology service at Guy's Hospital (London SE1 community website)

see-website-for-real-email-address@london-se1.co.uk (London SE1 website team) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:12:17 GMT

The new urology service at Guy's Hospital has been officially opened by former BBC reporter Niall Dickson, chief executive of of The King's Fund, after a £3 million makeover.

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Breast Cancer Could Be Reduced And Existing Sufferers Helped By Drugs Like Aspirin (Medical News Today)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin may reduce breast cancer by up to 20 per cent, according to an extensive review carried out by experts at London's Guy's Hospital and published in the March issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

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Aspirin-Like Drugs Could Reduce Breast Cancer (Red Orbit )

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:20:00 GMT

27-year review covers 21 studies of 37,000 womenAnti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin may reduce breast cancer by up to 20 percent, according to an extensive review carried out by experts at London's Guy's Hospital and published in the March issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.But they stress that further research is needed to determine the best type, dose and duration...

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Drug promises end to migraine misery (The Independent)

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:01 GMT

A British doctor is leading a drugs trial that could spell the end of the misery endured by thousands of migraine sufferers. John Chambers, a consultant cardiologist at Guy's Hospital London, says that when, on a mere hunch, he tested clopidogrel, a simple clot-busting drug, on five patients plagued by migraines, it worked, in some cases, "spectacularly well" .

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John Keats statue unveiled at Guy's Hospital (London SE1 community website)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:52:45 GMT

Poet laureate Andrew Motion visited Guy's Hospital this week to unveil the world's first statue of poet John Keats who trained as a surgeon at the hospital.

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Guy's Tower to be spruced up (London SE1 community website)

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:02:10 GMT

Plans are afoot for the world's tallest hospital building - Guy's Tower at Guy's Hospital - to be cleaned up or even reclad by 2010.

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