Patients like a medic in a white coat, but often mistake female doctors for nurses | Doctors
Patients see doctors in a white coat as professional and trustworthy but often mistake a female medic wearing…
Surgeries he never performed: Indian-origin Houston doctor agrees to pay over $2 million to settle medical fraud allegations
An Indian-origin doctor in Houston agreed to pay $2 million to settle medical fraud allegations against him. Dr…
St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre rated ‘Good’ by CQC
St Helens Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), located in St Helens town centre, received the rating following a recent…
ACA insurance: The backdoor way Republicans are rolling back Obamacare
Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are no longer promising to repeal Obamacare, but…
Novo Nordisk’s Alhemo approved by FDA for expanded haemophilia use
Novo Nordisk’s Alhemo (concizumab-mtci) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent or…
Men being over-treated for prostate cancer, says charity
Evidence gathered by Prostate Cancer UK suggests many hospitals have started offering monitoring to this wider group of…
Number of beds on Ramsey Cottage Hospital ward cut by 11
Reducing bed capacity in favour of community care and rehabilitation were among a raft of changes outlined in…
Is laughter a form of therapeutic medicine?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Jaén investigators report significant reductions in anxiety and increased life satisfaction in…
From badge of exhaustion to badge of honour
Susan Stone is the creator and presenter of It’s a Jungle, exploring the people, science, and ideas shaping…
‘None of us feel safe’: attacks on A&E nurses double in six years as waits rise | NHS
Attacks on A&E nurses have almost doubled over the last six years, with incidents often involving patients frustrated…