by News Feed Editor | Oct 28, 2024 | Health
ReutersThe government has announced more details of what is in this week’s Budget for the NHS – including £1.57bn for new surgical hubs, scanners and radiotherapy machines.The funding is part of the government’s overall pledge to increase the number...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 28, 2024 | Health
BBCSuper-strength drugs linked to hundreds of deaths have been found in samples of fake medicines bought across the UK, the BBC can reveal.We found more than 100 examples of people trying to buy prescription medicines such as diazepam – commonly used to treat...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 28, 2024 | Health
Getty ImagesWomen in England and Wales had an average of 1.44 children between 2022 and 2023, the lowest rate on record.Only 591,072 babies were born in 2023, fewer than in any year since 1977 and a fall of more than 14,000 on the previous year, figures from the...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 28, 2024 | Health
On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. The call was from a woman at the Florida landscaping business that he had joined that week, the Davey Tree Expert Co., Ramones said. By the time she arrived, she...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 28, 2024 | Health
KINGSTREE, S.C. — One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four years after catching covid-19, still is too weak to drive. Louvenia McKinney,...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 28, 2024 | Health
Getty ImagesA doctor found to have urinated in a consultation room’s sink and failed to adhere to restrictions on his registration has been struck off.Graham Holmes worked as a locum consultant in Hampshire, Dorset, Greater Manchester and the Wirral.A hearing...
