Undercover BBC reporter at UK’s biggest GP chain discovers NO doctors are available some days, appointments can all be booked out 24hrs early and admin staff ‘skim-read’ important medical reports On one day no GPs were available leaving patients crying on the phone in pain  Admin staff were also using Google and ‘common sense’ for medical documents Findings were just from one Operose […]

A toddler who nearly died when a birthmark started restricting her airway is now making an amazing recovery. Mia Rogers was taken to hospital at just five weeks old after her parents noticed she was making a high-pitched wheezing sound while breathing. When they arrived at the hospital in May last year, Mia was taken to the paediatric intensive care unit and spent […]

All the signs you need to improve your gut microbiome, according to the experts.  Improving your gut health is a mainstream concept now. But before you drop money on probiotics or time on elimination diets, it’s important to know whether you have a problem with your microbiome in the first place. First off, it’s worth explaining a little about gut bacteria. […]

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commercial hub of Shanghai will lock down millions of people for mass COVID-19 testing this weekend – just 10 days after lifting its gruelling two-month lockdown – unsettling residents and raising concerns about the business impact. Racing to stop a wider outbreak after discovering a handful of community cases, including a cluster traced to a popular […]

In the fall of 2021, Danielle Geohagan woke up in a Turkish clinic, disoriented. Her body was shivering despite the stack of blankets piled on her healing midsection, and she was hungry after going more than 12 hours without food. Surrounding her were nurses donning blue scrubs, speaking a language she didn’t understand. The 30-year-old Londoner traveled to Istanbul for […]

For more than two years, Americans have been able to get COVID-19 tests, often with no costs to themselves. At least, no out-of-pocket costs. A new study from the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University hints at just how great those costs might really be for taxpayers and those paying for private insurance. And it shows how the private […]

The Federal Trade Commission’s announcement last week of a plan to investigate the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) was welcome news to rheumatologists. Widespread concern about the cost of prescription drugs and an additional 24,000 comments from the public prompted the agency’s decision to examine PBMs, which act as intermediaries between insurers, manufacturers, and pharmacies. PBMs negotiate drug prices […]

Researchers have successfully treated type 1 diabetes in mice using pancreatic beta-cell, target-specific, chimeric antigen-receptor (CAR) regulatory T cells (Tregs), and demonstrated the feasibility of their approach to treat the human condition according to data being presented Monday, June 13 at ENDO 2022, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga. The study was led by Juan Carlos Jaume, M.D., […]

For individuals who receive two doses of mRNA-1273 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine, vaccine efficacy (VE) against symptomatic COVID-19 appears to peak at 120 days after the first dose, according to a research letter published online June 8 in JAMA Network Open. Dan-Yu Lin, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues considered […]

Experiencing higher rates of certain cancers than non-Hispanic whites, many Native Americans have to travel especially large distances to access radiation therapy, according to a study led by Washington State University researchers. Published in the journal Value in Health, the study found that individuals living in U.S. neighborhoods with majority American Indian and Alaska Native populations have to travel around […]