Cataract patients could soon have the option of getting rid of their condition with just a few eye drops rather than a surgery, researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China have…
Tag: Medical Care
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…
Research gauges accuracy of online symptom checkers
With more and more people turning to the Internet for information on health conditions, diseases and even medicine information, there is one particular area which has been receiving increased attention – online…
NHS Okays 17 healthcare innovations; to be rolled out to patients across England
The National Health Services (NHS) UK has announced the names names of successful applicants of a scheme to make evidenced healthcare innovations more widely available to patients under which technologies, processes and…
UK lags behind other countries on survival rates for common cancers
A comparative study of quality of care in the UK health system with that of similar countries over time has revealed that despite recent improvements, UK lags behind other countries in several…
Sleeping off traumatic experiences may not be the ideal solution, experts say
Sleeping off difficult situations including traumatic experiences may not be the ideal solutions, experts have suggested as this strategy often backfires and leads to what is clinically known as ‘flashbacks’ and a…
NELA report highlights high death rates for emergency bowel surgery
More patients die from emergency laparotomy (bowel surgery) than any other type of high-risk planned surgery, the First Patient Audit Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit has found and the primary…
Doctors, nurses and midwives should apologise to patients and admit mistakes
Medical professionals should admit mistakes and apologise to patients and provide face to face explanation to patients, according to a set of new guidance from the General Medical Council (GMC) and the…
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…
Mechanical ventilation linked to long-term disability, mortality after 1 year
In a startling revelation based on a study of nearly 400 patients who had been mechanically ventilated, researchers have revealed that those who have been subjected to this form of ventilation are…
Choosing Wisely programme comes to the UK; urges docs to stop over-treating
An initiative, which calls upon doctors to stop over-treating their patients by using interventions that have no benefit whatsoever and which has had noticeable success in the US, is now launching in…
Twitter, big data could help hospitals better plan and handle emergencies
Twitter as a medium of sharing information in few characters has garnered user base and according to researchers tweets from users along with few other information could help hospitals better plan their…
Researchers group obese people in 6 categories; recommend targeted treatment
Researchers say that obesity, which costs NHS £6 billion annually, isn’t of a single type but instead can be categorised into six different types and that tailored strategies to tackle the menace…
Study: 90% Ebola-infected children aged one or less die
A joint research by experts over at Imperial College London and World Health Organization (WHO) has established that Ebola is more deadly for children under five with the death rate at 90…
NHS shelled out £3,258 for one doctor’s A&E shift during Christmas
Staff shortages aren’t a new thing for NHS, but the situation turns grim at the time of major holidays including Christmas and New Year and a new investigation into the payments made…