Category: General Health

Ciaran Harper reflects on the NHS winter crisis and its impact Related items from OnMedica Give us long-term solutions, not quick fixes, urge health and social care leaders NHS 111 calls hit new high as winter pressures build Sickness surveillance system hopes to ease winter pressures BMA calls for increased funding to end annual winter crisis Long-term solutions needed to address winter pressure

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Eleanor Pearce-Willis sheds light on how lessons learned from vanguard programmes across Nottinghamshire are being applied to the development of the area’s accountable care system Related items from OnMedica Give public say on US style make-over of healthcare, Hunt urged GPs need to prioritise mental health more, say experts Stick with STPs, government and NHS urged CQC head calls for better GP-hospital-care home integration

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PARIS (Reuters) – Russia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu on a farm in the Kostromskaya Oblast region, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday.

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With patients open to taking a more active role in managing their health, self-care provides a win-win scenario for patients and an NHS under unprecedented pressure, explains GP Dr Farah Jameel Related items from OnMedica GPs in Northern Ireland ask patients to self-treat over winter Nurse Coaching Self-care and health literacy, part and parcel of a viable NHS Over 90% of people recognise importance of self-care

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(Reuters) – Health workers in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are struggling with a shortage of medics able to administer antitoxins to patients infected with diphtheria that has killed nearly two dozen people, aid officials said.

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Illinois law expanding state-funded coverage of abortions for low-income Medicaid recipients was set to go into effect next month after an Illinois judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by abortion opponents seeking to block it.

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(Reuters Health) – An “artificial pancreas” that monitors blood sugar and automatically delivers insulin may make it safer for teens with type 1 diabetes to participate in sports, a U.S. study suggests.

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(Reuters) – About 8.7 million people enrolled in healthcare plans for 2018 using the federal Obamacare marketplace, according to updated government figures released on Thursday.

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(Reuters Health) – Older adults are more likely to die on days when air pollution rises, even when contaminant levels are below the limit considered safe by U.S. regulators, a new study suggests.

Source: Reuters Medical News