Getty Images Women experiencing painful health conditions, including heavy periods, endometriosis and adenomyosis, are being dismissed when they ask for help, an MPs’ report has warned. Diagnosis and treatment for these common issues can take years, leaving women and girls in so much pain that it disrupts all aspects of daily life, members of Westminster’s … Read more
A new weight-loss jab will be rolled out on the NHS in England – but it could take 12 years for everyone to receive it, the NHS drugs advisory body says. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) final draft guidance on Mounjaro has recommended it starts being given from March, alongside advice … Read more
Getty Images Researchers say they have found the first new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years. The injection dampens part of the immune system that can go into overdrive in flare-ups of both asthma and a lung condition called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Benralizumab is already used in the most severe cases, but … Read more
Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison for leaking online highly classified military documents, including records related to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Teixeira, 22, was sentenced by US District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston after pleading guilty to perpetrating what US prosecutors call “one of the … Read more
BBC There are two parallel universes in the Lucy Letby story. One can be witnessed every day in Liverpool at the public inquiry into her case. Here, the matter of Letby’s guilt is settled. The question for the judge is why Letby was able to harm babies for so long. In the other universe, doubts … Read more
Cheshire Constabulary Lucy Letby made a “very serious error” in 2013, two years before she began killing and attacking babies Lucy Letby gave a baby 10 times the prescribed dose of morphine “in error” two years before her killing spree began, a public inquiry has heard. The nurse was then unhappy at being told she … Read more
Dr Jan Herzhoff, President (health markets) at the global information and analytics group Elsevier was India recently to participate in a global conference on digital health. In an interview with ET Healthworld’s Vikas Dandekar, Herzhoff spoke on the transformation expected in the use of AI and how almost 80per cent clinicians in India may use … Read more
At 2 p.m. on October 8, 1874, a three-coach train pulled by a steam engine chugged out of Secunderabad Railway station and reached the military station of Trimulgherry in present-day Telangana. Exactly 150 years ago, the train had covered a grand distance of six kilometres. The same station proved to be a lifeline at the … Read more
‘Time is right’ for assisted dying debate, MP Kim Leadbeater says Proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life are to be introduced in Parliament this month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is putting forward the bill and said “now is the time” to hold a … Read more
Ruldu Ram’s joy knew no bounds after he voted for the first time in his life at the age of 90, nearly eight decades after migrating from Pakistan during the Partition. He was among the hundreds of West Pakistan refugees in the border town of RS Pura who cast their votes for the Assembly election … Read more