India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world’s second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen. The 314,835 infections added in the past 24 hours raise India’s total past […]
In New Delhi, a sprawling capital region of 46 million and home to some of India’s highest concentration of hospitals, a pregnant woman’s death after a frantic hunt for a sickbed was a worrying sign about the country’s ability to cope with a wave of new coronavirus cases. “She kept begging us to save her […]
(HealthDay)—Leading up to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, about 2.2 beds were available per 1,000 people in U.S. hospitals; however, only 36 percent were unoccupied on a typical day, according to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Fredric Blavin, Ph.D., and Diane Arnos, from the Urban Institute Health Policy Center, used data […]
Banning tanning beds ‘would save lives and billions in medical costs’ by preventing up to 10MILLION cases of skin cancer in young people alive today, scientists say The research came from Australia, where indoor tanning beds are banned Experts say stopping young people using the machines would cut cancer rates More than 160,000 skin cancer […]
