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Jun 2021
MPs and medical experts have warned that urgent action needs to be taken to address the backlog in cancer treatment after Covid and prevent a second “devastating” health crisis. The group of MPs, leading oncologists and heads of medical colleges are urging the government to deliver a new “radical” national plan to tackle the cancer…
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Jun 2021
The study which was published in the journal BMJ Open, included nearly 475,000 women aged between 20 and 35 who had uncomplicated births and where the baby’s gestational age was between 37 and 41 weeks. It found that 15 per cent of these women, who were all healthy, had an induced labour without a recorded…
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Jun 2021
The World Health Organisation has said that cuts to the UK’s aid budget will leave millions of the world’s poorest people at risk of dying from “neglected tropical diseases”. They added that prior to its aid cuts, the UK provided funding to 19 countries through its “flagship” health programme Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination…
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Jun 2021
Latest figures show that the number of people waiting for hospital treatment in England has topped five million for the first time. The data from NHS England showed 5.12 million people had been waiting as at the end of April. However, the number of patients facing waits of over a year has dropped for the…
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Jun 2021
Scientists are reporting that dengue fever cases have dropped by 77 per cent in a “groundbreaking” trial that manipulates the mosquitoes that spread it. The trial, which took place in Indonesia, used mosquitos infected with “miraculous” bacteria that lessen the insect’s ability to spread the virus. The World Mosquito Programme team have said it could…
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Jun 2021
Immediate action is being taken after services at the Jessop Wing maternity unit were downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate”, following a Care Quality Commission inspection, the report of which said the maternity unit did not provide “the standard of care women should be able to expect”. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it had…
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