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Nov 2018
NHS England has announced that from April next year, wearable glucose monitors will be made available to tens of thousands more type 1 diabetes patients. This comes following a recent investigation which found that in some parts of the country, patients were being denied access to the device. It found that although 209-25 pert cent…
20
Nov 2018
Over 200 families have now raised concerns about maternity care at Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust, following ongoing investigations over infant deaths and injuries at the trust. The review into the crisis has now widened for the third time, following an initial focus on 23 cases. This scandal is now set to become one of…
13
Nov 2018
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered an explanation as to why obese people are more likely to develop cancer. The team found that a type of cell which is used by the body to destroy cancerous tissue gets congested by fat, stopping it from working effectively. Currently more than one in 20 cancer cases…
13
Nov 2018
Although scientists don’t have a conclusive answer to what causes autism, a new study has revealed that there may be evidence that babies who do not get enough zinc while in the womb may be more likely to develop the condition. In a recently published paper, German and US scientists stated that zinc levels during…
13
Nov 2018
Researchers have warned that over 30,000 children in Britain are needlessly having their tonsils removed every year, which is costing the NHS tens of millions of pounds annually. During the study, researchers at the University of Birmingham investigated the medical records of 1.6 million children between the years 2005 and 2016, and found that around…
09
Nov 2018
A study conducted by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has found that around 33,000 people a year in Europe are being killed by superbugs a year, and that fatalities from antibiotic-resistant bugs have tripled over the last ten years, from 11,000 in 2007 to 33,000. The group branded the findings ‘worrying’,…
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