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Jul 2019
A recent report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women’s Health state that women are unnecessarily dying from strokes and heart attacks as the conditions are seen as ‘male diseases’. It also appears that the same applies to women with heart failure. Female patients account for 40 per cent of the 900,000 people diagnosed with…
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Jul 2019
A study undertaken by the University of Manchester has found that during the course of their treatment, around 6 per cent of patients suffer preventable medical mistakes. New research published in the British Medical Journal has found that of the 337,025 patients who were seen between the years 2000 and 2009, medical staff made mistakes…
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Jul 2019
Chadwick Lawrence Solicitors, recently supported the Leeds Rhinos Foundation and Aspire Community Benefit Society at the Aspire Tag Rugby Festival. The event took place at the Emerald Headingley Stadium on Wednesday 17th July 2019. Six mixed ability teams took part in the tag rugby tournament, including 18 employees from the Yorkshire based legal firm. It…
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Jul 2019
Research carried out by the University of Plymouth has shown that surgical gowns still carry superbugs even after being disinfected. The study exposed hospital scrubs to three different strains of Clostridium difficile (C.diff), which can cause fever, nausea and diarrhoea. The gowns were cleaned for ten minutes with a disinfectant containing 1,000 parts per million…
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Jul 2019
According to new analysis by cancer experts, Wales has seen a slowdown in cancer survival improvement, and the gap in survival rates for lung and breast cancers is widening between richer and poorer parts of the country. According to the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU), a range of wider social and economic factors…
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Jul 2019
A report by Unicef and the World Health Organisation details how 19.4 million children worldwide were ‘not fully vaccinated ‘ in 2018, a figure which has increased from 18.7 million in 2017 and 18 million in 2016. These ’insufficient’ uptake rates are exposing children to the risk of everything from diphtheria to tetanus, whooping cough…
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