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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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Jun 2021
Following an inspection of Botley Medical Centre in Oxford, the Care Quality Commission said they had “significant concerns” about patient care and the operation of the medical centre. This followed an earlier inspection in 2019, which found the surgery, which has 16,000 patients, to be inadequate. In its report, the CQC identified at least 219…
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Jun 2021
A new pill containing a sponge that can detect early signs of oesophageal cancer is being trialled in a mobile unit operating from GP surgeries. The cytosponge, which is being heralded as a “game-changer” and developed at the University of Cambridge, collects cells which are tested at a laboratory. It is hoped the test will…
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Jun 2021
MPs have warned that NHS and social care staff in England are so burnt out that it has now become an “emergency” and risks the future of the health service. A highly critical report said staff shortages had meant that workers were overstretched and exhausted, adding that although the problems existed before the pandemic, the…
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Jun 2021
CGD Europe, a subsidiary of the Centre for Global Development decided not to renew Maya Forstater’s visiting fellow contract and offered no further consultancy work, following investigation into a series of tweets that expressed her views on gender. In 2019 she lodged a discrimination claim which the ET dismissed, finding that her comments were “absolutist”…
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