‘My child won’t walk again after failed surgery’ Phil Shepka, Cambridgeshire political reporter and Harriet Heywood Phil Shepka/BBC Natasha, pictured with her daughter Neave, said her child would “never walk again” after two failed surgeries at Addenbrooke’s “My daughter walked into Addenbrooke’s talking, and she was wheeled out non-verbal.” AContinue Reading
The government shutdown has been a source of anxiety for educators, wondering how long grant money will last and who can help them interpret federal laws, Read MoreContinue Reading
Health care professionals fear that new caps on federal student lending, set to start in July, will put medical school out of reach for many who want to become doctors and exacerbate physician shortages. Others say unlimited federal lending has fed a rise in academic costs…Read MoreContinue Reading
Two new deaths and more illnesses have been reported in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to precooked pasta meals sold in grocery stores in many states, Read MoreContinue Reading
Nick Triggle Health correspondent The UK’s winter flu season has begun five weeks earlier than usual, health officials are warning. The UK Health Security Agency said cases were rising quickly among children and young people – and warned the virus would soon start to spread across older age groups. TheContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. HAVANA, Fla. — For a rural community, this town of 1,750 people has been more fortunate than most. A family doctor has practiced here for the last 30 years. But that ended in December when Mark Newberry, MD, retired. To attract a new doctor,Continue Reading
Bill Swick, who has a rare degenerative brain disease, has lost access to virtual speech therapy due to the federal government shutdown, Read MoreContinue Reading
MedPage Today) — Combining in-clinic physical therapy with home exercise did not lead to greater reductions in knee pain for patients with degenerative meniscal tear, a randomized trial showed. Among 879 patients, the difference in the 3-month…Read MoreContinue Reading
Two major nutrition programs — SNAP and WIC — are likely to exhaust their funding in November, and the furloughs and firings at the CDC have left the agency unable to perform some of its major functions. Meanwhile, President Traitor 47’s new IVF policy is being met with dissatisfaction fromContinue Reading
The Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that’s expected to determine who can provide abortion care in the state, Read MoreContinue Reading
Illegal teeth-whitening industry exposed by BBC Daniel O’Donoghue & Laura O’Neill BBC North West Investigations Getty Illegal teeth-whitening treatments that can burn gums and destroy teeth are being handed over in car parks and on doorsteps, a BBC investigation has found. Some gels, containing more than 500 times the legalContinue Reading
Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children, Read MoreContinue Reading
‘Chances missed,’ says damning report into surgeon Phil Shepka, Cambridgeshire political reporter and Katy Prickett Orthopaedic Academy Kuldeep Stohr was investigated in relation to 700 planned and 100 emergency operations “A series of missed opportunities” have been revealed by an investigation into hundreds of children’s surgeries carried out by aContinue Reading