World must ‘speed up’ efforts to end AIDS pandemic by 2030
To end AIDS, beat COVID-19 and “stop the pandemics of the future”, the world needs…
Month: June 2022
The resilience myth
We just finished a week of clinical service in intensive care units (ICUs) on opposite…
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Brazil urged to step up search for missing journalist and indigenous activist
Authorities in Brazil must step up efforts to find a British journalist and an indigenous…
Opinion: Waiving intellectual property rights is a flawed solution to achieving Covid-19 vaccine equity
When the history of the Covid-19 pandemic is written, readers will be as stunned by…
Approach for reporting master protocol study designs on ClinicalTrials.gov: qualitative analysis
AbstractObjectiveTo describe an approach for reporting master protocol research programs (MPRPs) that is consistent with…
STAT+: Florida hospital system sues religious sharing ministry over unpaid medical claims
Orlando Health is suing Liberty HealthShare, a Christian health care sharing ministry, alleging Liberty owes…
Death sentence for Ukraine foreign fighters is a war crime: UN rights office
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday condemned the death sentence handed down to…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA panel endorses Bluebird Bio gene therapy for rare disease; GSK touts RSV vaccine trial results
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Politicians must behave differently and support NHS leaders to change cultures and improve patient care
The late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen, once described hospitals as “some of the…
Thomas Charles Mayer
bmj;377/jun10_8/o1407/FAF1faThomas Charles Mayer (“Tom”) grew up in war-torn east London and despite his humble beginnings,…
Raymond George Gordon Jones
bmj;377/jun10_7/o1388/FAF1faRaymond George Gordon Jones (“Ray”) met his future wife, Jill, a staff nurse, during house…
Samuel Valla Bhima
bmj;377/jun10_6/o1386/FAF1faThe firstborn child of a Yao mother and an Indian father, Samuel Bhima (“Sam”) came…
Leslie Rose
One of the original NHS babes graduating from Glasgow University in 1948, Leslie Rose became…
STAT+: GSK says RSV vaccine for older adults ‘offers exceptional protection’
GSK said Friday that its RSV vaccine showed “statistically significant and clinically meaningful efficacy” in…
Hormones contribute to sex disparities in bladder cancer, study shows
Male sex hormones interfere with the body’s ability to fight bladder cancer, likely explaining why…
Nine Vegetables That Are Healthier For You When Cooked
Raw food diets are a fairly recent trend, including raw veganism. The belief being that…
Pharmacists and nurses will be able to certify fit notes to reduce GPs’ workload
A wider range of health professionals will be legally able to certify fit notes in…
Mysterious Disease Is Killing Hundreds In Australia
Some people only discover they have the condition after experiencing cardiac arrest. Read Original Article:…
Dexamethasone should not be given to people with a chronic subdural haematoma
The studyHutchinson P, Edlmann E, Bulters D, et al. Trial of dexamethasone for chronic subdural…
Covid-19: Unusable PPE worth {pound}4bn will be burned, says spending watchdog
The parliamentary watchdog on public spending has accused the Department of Health and Social Care…
Shortages of radiology and oncology staff putting cancer patients at risk, college warns
Patients in the UK with cancer are at risk from “devastating” effects of shortfalls of…
Opinion: Pursuit of profits is driving drug companies to break the 340B law
Seventeen drug companies, including some of the world’s largest, are flouting a 30-year-old federal program…
Are these Cocoa Krispies-loving hamsters a key to cracking long Covid?
New York — In late 2020, Justin Frere, a wiry M.D./Ph.D. student dressed in head-to-toe…
Pregnant Women With Monkeypox Advised to Have C-Section – WebMD
Pregnant Women With Monkeypox Advised to Have C-Section WebMD Read Original Article: Pregnant Women With Monkeypox…
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Heart-breaking loss in drought-hit Horn of Africa, record food price alert
Four failed rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa, are tearing families apart –we hear…
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News in Brief 9 June 2022
Developing nations miss out on global investment rebound in 2021: UNCTAD Sri Lanka crisis: UN…
Kazakhstan: ‘Only together’ can ‘silent pandemic’ of gender-based violence be overcome, says Deputy UN chief
The UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed was in Kazakhstan on Thursday, where she spoke out…
Wreck of historic royal ship discovered off the English coast
A royal shipwreck has been discovered off the English coast. The wreck is of one…
Unprecedented Case Series Advances Promise of Phage Therapy – UC San Diego Health
Unprecedented Case Series Advances Promise of Phage Therapy UC San Diego Health Read Original Article: Unprecedented…
Wisconsin’s ‘chronic Lyme’ patients embrace alternative treatments, rack up big bills – WisconsinWatch.org
Wisconsin’s ‘chronic Lyme’ patients embrace alternative treatments, rack up big bills WisconsinWatch.org Read Original Article: Wisconsin’s…
Growing ‘mortality gap’ detected between Democratic and Republican counties
Researchers examined mortality rates and federal and state election data for all counties in the…
Learning and remembering movement
Researchers examining the brain at a single-neuron level found that computation happens not just in…
FDA advisers unanimously endorse Bluebird’s gene therapy for rare disorder
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously in favor of approving an investigational…
STAT+: With Cerner deal closed, Oracle chair pitches sweeping vision for health records and artificial intelligence
Oracle chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison vowed to prioritize the cloud giant’s health…
Yellowstone’s history of hydrothermal explosions over the past 14,000 years
While much of public attention on Yellowstone focuses on its potential to produce large supereruptions,…
Listen: Applause-worthy cancer data, the long wait for Novavax, & the next FDA controversy
When is data “practice-changing”? How many Covid-19 vaccines do we need? And what does it…
How the US can have guns but fewer gun problems
The US will probably always have lots of guns, so we need to learn to…
New study paves way to better understand and treat those suffering from long COVID
A new study links SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells to lung function and those who suffer…
Heavy drinkers four times more likely to smoke in England, study finds
Those who are among the heaviest drinkers in England are four times more likely to…
Scientists craft living human skin for robots
From action heroes to villainous assassins, biohybrid robots made of both living and artificial materials…
Twin crises in Nepal: covid-19 and climate change
Nepal has been on the frontline of both the covid-19 pandemic and climate change, and…
Sri Lanka: UN appeals for $47 million for life-saving aid to 1.7 million people
Sri Lanka is experiencing a multidimensional economic crisis, which is compounded by food insecurity, rising…
GPs criticise “appalling” decision to extend Capita’s primary care contract
NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) has extended Capita’s Primary Care Support England (PSCE) contract for…
Legal smoking age in England should rise every year, review recommends
England should increase the minimum age for buying tobacco products, currently 18, by one year,…
Development of a user-friendly, hot-melt, wound-healing adhesive
Scientist have developed a hot-melt tissue adhesive (i.e., medical glue that is applied in a…
New research shows climate change impacts on whale habitat use in the warming Gulf of Maine
New research finds climate change is having an impact on how large whale species, including…
NHS workforce plan may not be published in full, health secretary admits
A highly anticipated workforce plan for the NHS that will set out numbers of staff…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA decision on Novavax Covid shot could be delayed; new drug prices rose 20% annually in recent years
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you,…
Europe’s largest land predator unearthed on the Isle of Wight
Palaeontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur…
MPs struggle for answers from leaders on solving the NHS workforce crisis
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,…