A coalition of cancer charities has warned that cancer deaths could rise for the first time in decades due to the Covid backlog. They said that almost 45,000 UK patients are "living with cancer without knowing it".
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4.6 million people were on the waiting list to begin hospital treatment in January, the highest since records began in 2007. The number waiting more than a year was 300,000 – up from 1,650 last year.
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Public Health Scotland finds up to two thirds of serious Covid infections are caught in hospital and people shielding are 7.6 times more likely to wind up in ICU or die. Is this why lockdowns don't work?
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Yemen is already living through what the United Nations calls “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Yet despite twin epidemics of cholera and COVID-19 raging through the embattled nation, the Saudi-led coalition continues to target medical and water infrastructure, having done so over 200 times since the conflict began, a new
Hospitals hide prices from patients, thus, making it impossible for people to seek less expensive options. Hospitals privately negotiate with insurance companies to set the price of procedures. Trump's mandate simply requires that the hospital disclose the cost of the service before the patient accepts it.
Healthcare is a major hot-button issue in the United States, most particularly among the socialist-minded and liberal ideologues in the country. They have often gone on record decrying the United States’ refusal to grant free healthcare as a right to all citizens, and often the best-looking models of socialist western nations, such as Sweden, are brought to represent examples of such systems working.
I was happy, secure, and mostly unafraid until med school. I recall in vivid detail the first orientation day. Our anatomy professor stood before an auditorium filled with 125 eager, nervous, idealistic would-be healers and said these words: ‘If you decide to commit suicide, do it right so you do not become a burden to society.’ He then described in anatomical detail how to commit suicide.
— “Why Doctors Kill Themselves”, by Pamela Wible, KevinMD.com, March 23, 2016
The number of cases of Candida auris (C. auris), a dangerous multidrug-resistant fungus, in the U.S. has grown from 7 to 122 over the past 9 months, the CDC says in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. [1]
A screenshot of the warning screen from a purported ransomware attack, as captured by a computer user in Taiwan, is seen on laptop in Beijing, Saturday, May 13, 201. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
Apparent National Security Agency (NSA) malware has been used in a global cyber-attack, including on British hospitals, in what whistleblower Edward Snowden described as the repercussion of the NSA’s reckless decision to build the tools.
