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Anavex Life Sciences Reports Advances for Oral Alzheimer’s Disease Medication in Phase IIb/III Trial
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. has announced promising results from its Phase IIb/III clinical trial of blarcamesine (ANAVEX®2-73), an oral Alzheimer's disease medication, at the 2024 Alzheimer's Association International Conference. The study demonstrated that...
Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
How Health Systems Leaders Use Strategic Planning And Marketing In Healthcare Systems
Operating a healthcare facility is complicated. Without careful planning, problems can arise that impact the quality of care offered. Health systems leaders use a variety of tools and tactics to ensure that operations are well-managed and streamlined. Good planning...
The Role Of Nurses In Detecting Elder Abuse And Neglect
Going through aging comes with many happy and positive moments. However, some seniors living alone and those in elderly care homes face different challenges that can impact their physical and mental health. Many have to deal with loneliness, anxiety, depression and...
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RFK Jr. Wants To Delay the Hepatitis B Vaccine. Here’s What Parents Need To Know.
Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has spent decades treating the long shadow of hepatitis B. Before a vaccine became available in the 1980s, he saw the virus claim young lives in western Alaskan communities...
Feds Promised ‘Radical Transparency’ but Are Withholding Rural Health Fund Applications
Medication-delivering drones and telehealth at local libraries are among the ideas state leaders revealed in November for spending their share of a $50 billion federal rural health program. The Trump administration, which has promised “radical transparency,” said in...
They Need a Ventilator To Stay Alive. Getting One Can Be a Nightmare.
On vacation in Mexico last year, Michael DiPlacido passed out twice while scuba diving and again in his hotel. Back in St. Louis, doctors diagnosed him with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, an incurable disease that often requires mechanical ventilation. When...
Doctors to stage five-day strike before Christmas
The British Medical Association has announced a fresh round of strikes in England in the long-running pay dispute.Resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, will stage a five-day walkout from 17 December.This will be the 14th strike by the doctors' union since...
US and UK agree zero tariffs deal on pharmaceuticals
1 hour agoShareSaveSimon Jack,Business editor,Nick Triggle,Health correspondentandRachel Clun,Business reporterShareSaveAFP via Getty ImagesThe UK and the US have agreed a deal to keep tariffs on UK pharmaceutical shipments into America at zero.Under the agreement the...
WHO warning over shortage of obesity jabs
4 hours agoShareSaveMichelle RobertsDigital health editorShareSaveGetty ImagesFewer than one in 10 people who could benefit from obesity jabs like Wegovy are able to get them, warns the World Health Organization as it releases its first guidance on the drugs.With more...
New Work Requirement Adds Red Tape to Missouri’s Snarled Food Aid System
WARRENTON, Mo. — Distributing food stamps soon could get even harder for Missouri’s food aid system, which a federal judge has already called “broken and inaccessible.” States depend heavily on federal funds to operate their food stamp programs, which help feed about...
Prostate cancer screening should not be offered to most UK men, say experts
2 hours agoShareSaveJames GallagherHealth and science correspondentShareSaveGetty ImagesA screening programme for prostate cancer for all men in the UK is not justified, according to a hugely influential group of experts.Instead they say only men with specific genetic...
Women ‘traumatised’ by breast cancer treatment at NHS trust
1 hour agoShareSaveSharon BarbourandMary O'Reilly,BBC Local InvestigationsShareSaveBBCBreast cancer patients suffered unnecessary mastectomies, delayed diagnoses and a lack of compassionate care at an NHS Trust in north-east England, the BBC has learned.More than 200...
NHS doctor suspended over alleged antisemitic social media posts
An NHS resident doctor has been suspended by a medical tribunal for 15 months after posting alleged antisemitic comments on social media.Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a 31-year-old trainee trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, was also alleged to have expressed support for "violent...
NHS trust fined £200k over vulnerable girl’s death
18 hours agoShareSaveJuliette Parkin,in BrightonandHsin-Yi Lo,South EastShareSaveFamily handoutAn NHS trust has been fined £200,000 for failing to provide "safe care and treatment" for a 16-year-old girl who died on hospital grounds after fleeing her ward.Ellame...
School shuts for deep clean after pupil sickness
1 day agoShareSaveShannen HeadleyWest MidlandsShareSaveBBCA secondary school in Cheshire has been shut to deep clean the building after high levels of pupil sickness. Congleton High School told parents and staff it contacted the UK Health Security Agency and infection...