So where DOES that £150billion-a-year go? Pie chart breaks down annual NHS expenditure as critics say it could find cash for striking nurses if ailing service stopped wasting billions on tinkering email systems, diversity roles and prescribing paracetamol Ministers say every 1% raise to nurses would cost the health service £700million Campaigners say ‘unacceptable levels […]
Among patients with metastatic melanoma who undergo treatment with single or combination immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and who experience immune adverse events, overall survival is significantly longer, regardless of the need for hospitalization. Survival is further improved if the immunotherapy is continued after the adverse event develops, a new study confirms. “In the largest clinical […]
Ever since Meghan Trainor welcomed her first child, Riley, in February 2021, she’s been basking in the glow of motherhood — and she doesn’t plan to let that glow go anytime soon. During an exclusive interview with People, Trainor revealed that her goals and dreams for 2023 involve adding to her and husband Daryl Sabara’s […]
Researchers from the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in collaboration with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine), confirmed smoking, obesity and lower socioeconomic position (SEP) likely increase the risk of contracting mild to severe COVID-19, using data from large […]
Liver Disease: Expert discusses risks and symptoms We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Fatty liver disease, which is also known as […]
“It’s like you’re being punished for being sick.” Penelope Wingard, 58, Charlotte, North Carolina Approximate Medical Debt: More than $50,000 Medical Issue: Breast cancer What Happened: After a year of chemo and radiation, in 2014, Penelope Wingard finally heard the news she’d been praying for: Her breast cancer was in remission. But with relief immediately […]
Dr Zoe discusses the signs and symptoms on Crohn's disease We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The exact causes of inflammatory […]
Shortly after Russia attacked Ukraine in February, the ASPCA provided $150,000 in grant funding to five organizations offering emergency assistance to Ukrainian animals and owners in Ukraine, including FOUR PAWS USA. FOUR PAWS has applied some of these funds toward Animal Assisted Intervention sessions with refugees and soldiers, healing abandoned animals that would otherwise have died, and establishing […]
There is large nationwide variation in commercial rates for breast reconstruction, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in JAMA Surgery. Danielle H. Rochlin, M.D., from Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues evaluated the extent of commercial price variation for breast reconstruction using data from Turquoise Health, a platform that […]
Southampton clinical researchers, working as part of a UK team, have shed new light on causes of bronchiectasis, a long-term lung condition currently effecting more than 200,000 people in the UK. People who have bronchiectasis experience a persistent cough, shortness of breath and recurring infections because their airways have become irreversibly widened. This can lead […]
