Within the space of almost a month, actor Cody Hivley, 27, went from perfectly healthy to almost completely paralysed. After two weeks of suffering from tingles and numbness in mid-January this year, Cody, from Los Angeles, USA, became numb up to his shoulders and was admitted to hospital on February 6, 2022. He was diagnosed […]
Anna Sutton was shocked when she received a letter from her husband’s job-based health plan stating that Humira, an expensive drug used to treat her daughter’s juvenile arthritis, was now on a long list of medications considered “nonessential benefits.” The July 2021 letter said the family could either participate in a new effort overseen by […]
Heather Meador and Anna Herber-Downey use dating apps on the job—and their boss knows it. Both are public health nurses employed by Linn County Public Health in eastern Iowa. They’ve learned that dating apps are the most efficient way to inform users that people they previously met on the sites may have exposed them to […]
GPs warn they’re in ‘danger of being overwhelmed’ by Strep A as practices, A&E and NHS 111 centres are flooded by parents panicking their child may have killer bug – as five-year-old girl becomes NINTH victim of outbreak GPs, NHS 111, and A&Es warn they are being swamped by panicked parents British parents are warned to […]
By looking at the data of all people aged 18–65 years registered in Denmark over a period of 22 years, researchers from Aarhus University have been able to shed light on some of the consequences faced by those diagnosed with a mental disorder. The study followed a total of 5,163,321 individuals in Denmark, 488,775 of […]
insights from industryIris MengFoetal Medicine SpecialistShanghai First Maternity and Infant Hostipal In this interview, NewsMedical speaks with Iris Meng, Foetal Medicine Specialist at the Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital in Shanghai, China, about the applications of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). What are the purposes and goals of prenatal screening methods? We want to determine the high-risk […]
When Kazi Kalam, a second-year student at Georgetown University School of Medicine, says that his childhood best friend didn’t make it past high school, he doesn’t mean that he did not not pursue college. His friend was murdered before having the opportunity. Kazi Kalam “I grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn in the early ’90s,” […]
How much booze is in YOUR favourite drink? As a new survey reveals Britons massively underestimate how strong wines, beers and cocktails are, guess just how many units these 16 different drinks contain… MailOnline’s quiz allows you to guess how many units are in 16 different drinks Read more: How Britons massively underestimate how much alcohol […]
Anna Sutton was shocked when she received a letter from her husband’s job-based health plan stating that Humira, an expensive drug used to treat her daughter’s juvenile arthritis, was now on a long list of medications considered “nonessential benefits.” The July 2021 letter said the family could either participate in a new effort overseen by […]
While the production of COVID vaccines could have been the "light at the end of the pandemic tunnel", this outcome was hampered at critical stages by vaccine hesitancy, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines". Even prior to COVID-19, the WHO considered vaccine […]
