HHS threatens to cut off funding for US hospitals if they do not start reporting data on COVID-19 patients within 14 weeks after hundreds fail to regularly share stats with the White House HHS is threatening to cut off of Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that do not report data on coronavirus and influenza … Read more
Nearly 100 GP surgeries closed their doors last year as new figures reveal two MILLION patients have been forced to find a new family doctor since 2015 It’s estimated 502 GP practices have closed or merged in the past five years Experts say closures hitting the most vulnerable the hardest such as the elderly GP … Read more
The proportion of severely ill Covid-19 patients needing to be hooked up to ventilators has more than halved since the peak of the pandemic in the spring, figures reveal. Twenty-six per cent of intensive care patients received invasive ventilation up to 24 hours after being admitted to hospital last month. But this figure was as … Read more
More than 80% of hospitalized coronavirus patients have neurological symptoms, study finds – but White House doctor insists Trump has NO mental fogginess from COVID-19 Researchers looked at more than 500 patients with COVID-19 at 10 hospitals for neurological symptoms About 42% had neurological symptoms when their symptoms began, 63% suffered them while in the … Read more
Father, 63, who is one of UK’s longest-suffering Covid patients is discharged from north London hospital after 149 days after spending TWO MONTHS sedated in intensive care Anil Patel tested positive for Covid-19 at the beginning of May after collapsing He was admitted to King George Hospital in Ilford where he spent four months On … Read more
Patients who were told by their GPs to get a Covid test ‘have been turned away at testing sites’ even when there is enough capacity due to lab processing problems. Up to 200 people a day were refused a test at a centre in Stoke after Whitehall officials limited the number they could administer. Officials … Read more
Patients who were told by their GPs to get a Covid test ‘have been turned away at testing sites’ even when there is enough capacity due to lab processing problems. Up to 200 people a day were refused a test at a centre in Stoke after Whitehall officials limited the number they could administer. Officials … Read more
A small percentage of coronavirus patients are responsible for major outbreaks, the largest study-to-date of transmission suggests. Researchers found that, in India, less than 10 percent of people infected with COVID-19 are responsible for almost two-thirds of all new infections. What’s more, children younger than 17 were the least likely to die of the disease, … Read more
A health firm is investigating claims a world renowned surgeon kept the bones of patients he operated on. Derek McMinn, the inventor of a pioneering hip resurfacing technique used on tennis star Sir Andy Murray, was suspended from Edgbaston Hospital in Birmingham where he carried out most of the surgeries. Dr McMinn allegedly kept the … Read more
Prostate cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy after surgery as new research suggests there is no benefit and it could be carried out later if the disease comes back Roughly 15,000 men could avoid radiotherapy while undergoing prostate cancer treatment Research in The Lancet found there was no benefit of the treatment ‘Radiotherapy need only … Read more