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One in SIX GP surgeries has closed since 2004 and there are now more than 45% MORE patients per practice The average practice in England now has over 8,500 patients Analysis of NHS figures show 670 surgeries have more than 15,000 patients Some bodies believe merging and closures will continue, adding pressure But others have […]
When Caroline Partridge's daughter, Matilda, was nearly five months old, she became violently ill. "She just continued to vomit, and vomit, and vomit, and vomit," the paramedic recalls. "At first I just thought maybe she'd picked up a bug or something, because her sister was in childcare." Caroline Partridge, with daughters Charlotte, left, and Matilda, […]
Conjoined twins born sharing the same body but with their own heart, lungs and backbones face fight for survival Twins Abdul-Khaliq and Abdul-Rahim were born conjoined at the neck in January They are in an incubator in intensive care, currently in a ‘stable’ condition Doctors said they need care outside of Yemen, a war-stricken country […]
Drugs that target BRAF and MEK in cancer have shown promise in treating a subset of melanoma that carries a mutation in the BRAF gene, but drug resistance usually emerges, reversing the benefit of these drugs and limiting the survival of patients. Research has shown tumors have two common ways of resisting this approach. Until […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7, 2018 — It may be possible to use a blood test to diagnose and manage athletes’ concussions, but the results could vary by race and gender, researchers report. In the new study, investigators analyzed the blood of college athletes and found that levels of certain proteins and peptides (“biomarkers”) were higher in […]
NIBIB-funded researchers have transformed T cells into drug factories engineered to find cells carrying specific diseases in the body—and then produce therapeutic proteins localized to the diseased cells. Senior author Parijat Bhatnagar, Ph.D., director of cell-based medicine at the SRI International Center for Chemical Biology, Menlo Park, California, and his colleagues engineered the T-cell “biofactories” […]
Julie Sonenberg had been looking for a pit bull to adopt for almost a year—one who would mesh well with her five-year-old daughter Billie, her husband David and their 11-year-old Pug, Milton. “After we moved to the suburbs in 2017, I began looking for a second dog,” explains Julie, Senior Administrative Manager for the ASPCA’s […]
Heartbreak can kill you: Grief from losing a loved one causes deadly inflammation, study reveals Researchers at Rice University interviewed 99 people who had lost a spouse in the last two weeks, and took blood samples The most distraught had the most elevated inflammation The grief of losing a loved one can cause life-threatening inflammation, […]
Young women are the worst snorers: One third of females aged 25-34 snore hard at least three nights a week 34 per cent of young women snored in a study, while only 31 per cent on men did In the older age groups men were more likely to be noisy while sleeping The NHS recommends […]
Imagine you could strip your soul of the influence of the world around you, right down to the core of what makes you who you are. What would you discover? With the photos in her new book, My Naked Truth ($25, amazon.com), artist Adrien Finkel helped her subjects bring those inner beliefs and realities to the surface. Finkel’s powerful portraits depict men […]