THE next round of Covid booster jabs will start on Monday. Five million high-risk Brits will be eligible for a spring vaccine to keep them out of hospital. PA Older people must keep boosting their immunity because it wears off faster[/caption] Doctors will dish out doses in care homes fromContinue Reading
Hundreds of 1199SEIU health care workers staged a rally and sit to block 3rd avenue where some were arrested. They protested against health care cuts in Governor Kathy Hochuls budget on Medicare. Lev Radin | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. states on Saturday will start to kick as many asContinue Reading
Proposed UK surrogacy law changes raise concerns over unequal treatment of birth mothers Phil Jones/Shutterstock Surrogacy, where a woman agrees to carry and give birth to a child for another person or couple to raise, is growing in popularity. There aren’t any comprehensive figures on the number of cases (partlyContinue Reading
NEARLY all remaining Covid testing will be scrapped from Saturday under plans to live with the virus. Asymptomatic testing for patients arriving at hospitals and care homes will be scrapped from April 1, the UK Health Security Agency said. Getty Covid testing is being wound down from Saturday as BritainContinue Reading
A fungal superbug called Candida auris is spreading rapidly through hospitals and nursing homes in the US. The first case was identified in 2016. Since then, it has spread to half the country’s 50 states. And, according to a new report, infections tripled between 2019 and 2021. This is hugelyContinue Reading
Two federal judges are poised to issue rulings soon in dueling cases that could dramatically affect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In Washington state, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice is weighing whether to scrap federal regulations on mifepristone that complicate access even where abortion is legal. He is alsoContinue Reading
PLASTIC surgery procedures more than doubled in Britain last year. Some 31,057 surgeries were performed in 2022, up 102 per cent on the previous year, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (The BAAPS). Plastic surgery procedures more than doubled in Britain last year, according to the BritishContinue Reading
Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock More than a million people in England are waiting for mental health support due to soaring demand exacerbated by the pandemic. On top of this, an estimated eight million people with mental health concerns are not seeking NHS help. Meanwhile, rising costs have driven the most vulnerable toContinue Reading
Rawpixel.com/Shuttersock Why children are less likely to become severely ill with COVID compared with adults is not clear. Some have suggested that it might be because children are less likely to have diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, that are known to be linked to moreContinue Reading
THE number of biolabs handling the world’s most dangerous viruses has boomed in the last two years as experts warn of a “deadly arms race” to build high risk facilities. The locations of the labs spread across 27 countries have been plotted by King’s College London experts in an effortContinue Reading
