Amazon One of the most important parts of healing from a foot injury or living with a foot condition is the type of shoe you wear. Whether you have plantar fasciitis, heel spurs or even hammertoes, protecting your feet with comfortable shoes during the recovery process can make all the difference in your progress. Recovery […]
Nikki Fox/BBC The sounds of thousands of heartbeats are being collected in the hope that artificial intelligence will be able to diagnose heart valve disease earlier. Valvular heart disease (VHD) affects almost two million people in the UK and this is expected to double by 2040. A study led by Royal Papworth Hospital and the […]
Stephen Colbert has some bad news about the “hot new virus everybody’s talking about.” Not the coronavirus. It’s the monkeypox. And the “Late Show” host spotted something extremely unsettling about the virus: It’s a “genital form” of the infection. “Now, I’m no doctor,” Colbert pointed out. “But I know that the genital form of something […]
CNN anchor Jake Tapper angered some network staffers earlier this month by taping a show at CNN’s Washington, D.C., bureau after testing positive for COVID-19, The Daily Beast reported Monday. Tapper tested positive for the virus while at the bureau on Monday May 9, just before taping his 4 p.m. ET. show, two people familiar […]
family handout The parents of a girl who died after failings by NHS 111 said they were horrified to learn coroners had already warned about similar shortcomings. Hannah Royle, 16, died in 2020 after the NHS phone service failed to realise she was seriously ill. BBC News found concerns had been raised about the call […]
Broad staffing challenges are a universal obstacle shared by many, especially amid an ongoing global pandemic. Finding talent and keeping positions filled has always been difficult, but Covid-19 was a catalyst for labor fluctuation to invade nearly every industry imaginable. Then came the Great Resignation, which left entire organizations with record-high personnel shortfalls. The medical […]
A Biohaven Pharmaceuticals drug developed to treat disease by modulating a neurotransmitter that’s important to normal brain function has failed a pivotal study in a rare neuromuscular disorder, marking the product candidate’s third clinical trial failure in as many indications in the past two years. The latest disappointing data are from a test in spinocerebellar […]
If you keep up with the latest happenings in the world of cannabis, you’ve likely heard of delta-8 THC. With products available for purchase online, in head shops and even gas stations, delta-8 is being marketed as “weed light,” a way to “get high without the paranoia” and even “legal weed.” But is that actually […]
Endotronix makes the wireless, implantable pulmonary artery pressure sensor to monitor chronic heart failure patients. For most patients suffering from heart failure today, care is episodic. Medication and other treatments are only adjusted when a patient is hospitalized or sees their doctor during periodic office visits. But the digital health and medtech startup Endotronix is […]
LONDON (AP) — A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that might be explained by sexual behavior at two recent raves in Europe. Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO’s emergencies department, told The Associated Press that the leading theory to […]
Getty Images Police are warning people about a Covid text messaging scam that is circulating in Northern Ireland. The message claims to come from the NHS and tells recipients they have been a close contact of a positive case. They are advised to click a link and book a test, which takes the user to […]
Science Photo Library The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it has detected 36 additional cases of monkeypox in England. Adding in a new case found in Scotland on Monday, it brings the total number of infections in the UK to 57. The rare virus – which causes a rash and a fever – has […]
Entasis Therapeutics steered its lead antibiotic candidate through late-stage clinical development with help from Innoviva, which has steadily invested in the company over the past two years and now owns a controlling stake. With the biotech’s candidate for addressing certain drug-resistant strains now on the cusp of an FDA submission, Innoviva is acquiring Entasis in […]
Thinkstock The government is to investigate claims an ambulance service covered up details of the deaths of patients following mistakes by paramedics. It follows a Sunday Times report that North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) withheld information from coroners. Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting described the alleged cover-up as “a national disgrace”. Health minister Maria […]
Science Photo Library Scotland’s first monkeypox patient is being treated in hospital, Public Health Scotland has confirmed. It is understood that the person, who has not been named, is not seriously ill but is being monitored as a precaution in a specialist infectious diseases unit . Their close contacts are being offered a smallpox vaccine. […]