Hundreds of thousands of 999 calls each month are from patients asking why their ambulance hasn’t arrived yet, health chiefs reveal Calls to 999 hit a record 1.3million last month, up by 273,025 compared to 2020 75% of these extra calls are from patients waiting desperately for an ambulance Ambulance […]
The lockdown of New Zealand’s largest city is likely to end later this month, with some coronavirus restrictions eased from Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. Auckland has been in lockdown for almost three months after an outbreak of the delta variant. The outbreak has grown to more than 4,500 […]
(HealthDay)—In the United States, more patients are being diagnosed with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and five-year survival for NSCLC has increased, according to a study published online Oct. 21 in JAMA Oncology. Apar Kishor Ganti, M.D., from VA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System in Omaha, and […]
A new national evaluation of the NSPCC’s Speak Out Stay Safe (SOSS) program, involving 3,297 primary school children across the UK, has found that both children and school staff benefited from the education it provided on different forms of harm, highlighting the need for continued education in this area. Led […]
In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Tian-Jiao Lyu, Ling-Yan Li, Xu and colleagues from the Putuo Center Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China studied the safety and efficacy of denervation of renal artery branches in the treatment of resistant hypertension. Sixty patients […]
Research scientists and physicians at UConn Health, in collaboration with researchers at the Mayo Clinic, have just had an article documenting new work published in Nature Aging, a prestigious journal dedicated to aging research and study. The article, “An Inducible p21-Cre Mouse Model to Monitor and Manipulate p21-Highly-Expressing Senescent Cells […]
A 1-year-long analysis of two gold mining communities in Tanzania found that mine workers faced a risk of death more than twice that faced by non-miner community members, and that much of this increased risk was related to road traffic injuries. Isaac Lyatuu of the Ifakara Health Institute in Dar […]
A scientific team at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts has developed a new tool to help consumers, food companies, restaurants, and cafeterias choose and produce healthier foods and officials to make sound public nutrition policy. Food Compass is a new nutrient profiling system, developed over […]
Developing effective treatment methods for Alzheimer’s disease has proved difficult. The most effective, which have just been approved, only provide marginal effects. There are several major reasons why they are not effective, one of which is that the antibodies used do not bind to all the types of toxic clumps […]
Early sign of arthritis that’s a pain in the backside: Too often lower backache is put down to sciatica – and the long delay in diagnosis can lead to permanent damage As a hotel chef often on his feet for ten hours a day, and a keen rugby player, Gareth […]