Bernie Sanders’s plan to eliminate medical debt, explained

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 11:40

vox.com - Americans go bankrupt every year because of unpaid medical bills. Now Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), one of the leading progressives in the 2020 presidential race, says he wants to eliminate…

Category: Business

More than one million people on hospital waiting lists, say consultants

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 10:55

irishtimes.com - The acute hospital system across the country is crumbling, hospital consultants have claimed at their annual conference. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) meeting…

Category: Politics

SNP has been in charge of NHS for 12 years. Just look at the state it’s in – Miles Briggs

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 08:07

scotsman.com - Health Secretary Jeane Freeman must show she has ability to sort out unacceptable situations at the new Sick Kids hospital in Edinburgh, the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in…

Category: World

Government admits long delays to medicine in the event of a no-deal Brexit

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 06:30

theneweuropean.co.uk - PUBLISHED: 08:53 21 September 2019 | UPDATED: 08:53 21 September 2019 Health and Social Care secretary Matt Hancock. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA. Email this article to a friend…

Category: Business

Health minister accused of ‘cowardice’ after pulling out of consultant conference

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 05:16

irishtimes.com - Minister for Health Simon Harris has pulled out of a planned address to the annual conference of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association in Dublin on Saturday. The IHCA described…

Category: Politics

To the surprise of nobody, users on Mumsnet really don’t like the NHS LGBT+ rainbow badges

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 03:19

pinknews.co.uk - The latest outcry from the online parenting forum Mumsnet concerns the NHS’s LGBT+ rainbow badges, which commenters claim are “divisive political symbols”. The rainbow pins were…

Love in the time of Alzheimer’s

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 02:50

thehindubusinessline.com - Shanta Rao still remembers the day it sank in. It was a cold winter in 2015, and the 74-year-old homemaker could feel the onset of her usual asthma attack. After having…

Category: Leisure

Celebrity eye surgeon struck off

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 01:57

bbc.co.uk - A surgeon who "put financial interests before patients" has been struck off by the General Medical Council. Bobby Qureshi cultivated a high media profile as an eye expert and featured…

Category: Health

Children’s hospital project ‘at risk’ due to staff shortages

Sat, 09/21/2019 - 01:42

irishtimes.com - The opening of the new national children’s hospital is at risk due to shortages of senior medical staff, hospital consultants have warned. Ahead of its annual conference on Saturday…

Category: Politics

Babies born by C-section have more potentially infectious bacteria in their guts

Fri, 09/20/2019 - 21:09

sciencenews.org - Babies born by Caesarean section may miss out on many of mom’s helpful gut microbes. Instead, these infants’ guts harbor more bacteria that commonly lurk in hospital rooms,…

Category: Science