Waiting lists for hospital operations at the UK’s National Health Service are soaring as growing numbers of senior doctors turn down extra shifts. Sky News reports...Weekly Roundup
Emergency room doctors and nurses have protested outside the French Health Ministry amid strikes at dozens of hospitals across the country as medics warned that budget...South Africa
Mediclinic International, which has announced another annual loss, intends to build six more day clinics in SA in the next two years, reports Business Day.
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February 11th, 2019Councils in the UK are making ‘deep cuts’ to addiction services despite soaring alcohol-related hospital admissions and deaths, with further cuts projected, writes...
Drug-resistant superbugs are as big a threat to the world as climate change or wars, Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned during a speech at Davos in which he...Guidelines
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidelines for the clinical management of pelvic organ prolapse and stress...
October 24th, 2018Washing contaminated hospital bedsheets in a commercial washing machine with industrial detergent at high disinfecting temperatures failed to remove all traces of...
August 29th, 2018Lorcaserin effectively aids weight loss in obese patients at a high risk for cardiovascular events (MACE) without increasing the rate of MACE.
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An NHS-partnered app that uses artificial intelligence to assess medical symptoms and boasts more than 2.5m users faces regulatory scrutiny after complaints from...
March 14th, 2018Bills are being placed before US state legislatures that would make it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion if sought 'solely' because the foetus has Down's...
