Pressure to provide more GP appointments is making it harder to include checks for gynaecological cancers within the 10-minute slots, doctors have said. Dr Amara Naseem says her clinics always overrun as it takes about 20 minutes to sensitively take a detailed history and carry out internal examinations. A reducedContinue Reading
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Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing At about 3am one morning in May, Bamita Markam began convulsing. The three-year-old had spent days with a high fever and angry red sores on her body. Her mother, Koushila, had first taken her to a doctor, who prescribed anContinue Reading
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President Traitor 47 has championed sprawling health policy changes under the Make America Healthy Again movement, but a KFF-Associated Press survey of rural voters found people aren’t seeing the initiatives reach their communities…Read MoreContinue Reading
For three years, Sally Williams struggled to understand what was happening to her as her mental health deteriorated and her life fell apart, spending almost 11 months in hospital across eight admissions. She left her finance job, was separated from her teenage son and found herself fighting for her life,Continue Reading
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The death penalty is legal in 27 states, and lethal injection is the primary method. That means involving medical professionals to store, test, and inject the drugs. After a botched execution in Tennessee, doctors and nurses there say medical professionals need to be removed from the process completely…Read MoreContinue Reading
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Congo’s Ebola outbreak has resulted in over 4,000 deaths, with authorities struggling to contain the virus, Read MoreContinue Reading
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths as authorities struggle to contain the virus, Read MoreContinue Reading
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