How my pregnancy led to a life-changing diagnosis
Helena Merriman was diagnosed with otosclerosis, which causes hearing loss, after her second child was born. Source link
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BenQ EW3880R Curved Ultrawide Monitor Review
A good, productivity-focused monitor will go a long way in improving your efficiency while working, but it isn’t often that we find a monitor that is equally geared for life after work hours. Among the world’s leading names when it comes to monitors is Taiwan-based BenQ, and one of the company’s newest models in India … Read more
COVID Led More Women to Forgo Needed Health Care
June 15, 2021 — Morgan Tebeau has struggled with debilitating back pain all of her adult life. The 38-year-old mother from Harrisonburg, VA, was diagnosed with degenerative disk disease when she was 18 years old. Her pain worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic as she put off much needed care — something a new Kaiser Family … Read more
Medieval pointy-toed shoes led to Cambridge bunion surge
About 27% of 14th and 15th Century skeletons found in Cambridge digs had bunions. Source link
Lockdown may have led to loss of strength and mobility
“That’s the wrong thing. Get your mum up, get your dad up, and say, ‘You come with me to the kitchen, you come with me to the shops, and let’s walk up and down the aisles and you can push the trolley for a bit of support.’ And all of that will have a big … Read more
Covid: From boom to bust – why lockdown hasn’t led to more babies
Research shows that the US and parts of Europe are facing slumps in birth rates. Source link
Ambulance delays led to ‘secondary Covid victims’
Waiting times outside some hospitals increased over Christmas, with a knock-on effect for 999 call-outs Source link
‘I lost my hands and feet as Covid led to sepsis’
A woman who had her hands and feet amputated after coronavirus led to pneumonia, which then caused sepsis, says she is looking forward to her “second life” despite the challenges. Caroline Coster, 58, from Bedford, said she was put into a medically-induced coma for a month and nearly died twice after catching the virus in … Read more
Spreadsheet error led to hospital opening delay
A mistake in a spreadsheet set in motion a series of events which delayed the opening of a £150m hospital, a new report has revealed. Last-minute issues with ventilation prevented the opening of Edinburgh’s new children’s hospital last July. A NHS Lothian-commissioned review shows there was a “human error” in a 2012 spreadsheet with the … Read more