The world over, diabetes is spreading at exponential rates. Diabetes is one of the most potent symbols of lifestyle diseases and the most worrisome aspect of this health crisis is the rate…
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Black Death maps of medieval Britain: Guide to the level of devastation
Archaeologists and historians alike have debated much over the actual level of death and destruction caused due to the deadly disease – ‘Black Death’ that engulfed 14th century rural England. Professor Carenza…
Big data and the war on hunger in the UK
The fight against food poverty in the UK is a struggle set for the long haul, if the latest figures released by the Trussell Trust, the country’s leading food bank, are anything…
Charity voices concern over NHS England’s refusal to fund anti-TNF treatments
The Royal National Institute of Blind People has revealed that patients in England with severe refractory uveitis will now have to go to Scotland or Wales to get appropriate treatment as NHS…
One million older people affected by poor standards of dignity in hospitals
A comprehensive, statistical analysis of inpatient experience data in NHS hospitals in England has brought to the forefront “widespread and systematic” pattern of inadequate care that lacks substantially in standards of dignity…
Number of people dying in hospices in UK nearly doubled in two decades
Hospices in England have been playing an important role in end-of-life care of Britons specifically those suffering from cancer, but a new study has revealed that the demographics of deaths in hospices…
Beckenbauer: Technology Could Have Saved England in World Cup 2010
Franz Beckenbauer is a lot of things: ‘Der Kaiser’, as in ‘The Emperor’ of German football, the only man who ever won a World Cup both as a player and as a…