A US reporting system designed to detect potential safety issues with vaccines is supposed to be user-friendly, responsive, and transparent. But an investigation published by The BMJ today finds it's not meeting its own standards.
Nov 9, 2023
1
38
A snapshot of how residential aged care facilities respond to the issue of sex and intimacy amongst its residents was recently published in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Jan 12, 2023
0
2
Aotearoa New Zealand's bold plan to introduce a smokefree generation by prohibiting the sale of smoked tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009, has attracted international acclaim.
Nov 9, 2022
0
11
Among transplant-free survivors requiring predischarge reinterventions after congenital cardiac surgery, those with persistent major residua have significantly worse long-term outcomes, according to a study published in the ...
Jun 21, 2022
0
2
The Florida Legislature on Tuesday began moving forward with a bill that would allow health care providers to act on their "conscience" when deciding whether to provide certain treatments for patients.
Jan 26, 2022
1
41
For workers in the health and disability and education sectors, midnight last night was the deadline to receive at least their first vaccine dose under a government mandate that now extends to about 40% of New Zealand's workforce.
Nov 16, 2021
0
0
A lockdown of Australia's second-biggest city Melbourne will be extended, authorities announced Sunday as they struggle to quash a stubborn coronavirus Delta variant outbreak.
Aug 29, 2021
0
118
Norway's budget settlement between the government and the Progress Party resulted in getting rid of the sugar tax for chocolate and sweets, halving the tax on soft drinks, cutting the taxes on snuff by 25 percent and on beer ...
Feb 2, 2021
0
6
As we struggle through various phases of COVID-19 restrictions, we are all looking towards what will be a long and tentative process of reopening. Yet the lessons from our first reopening strategies last spring make it clear ...
Jan 6, 2021
0
2
(HealthDay)—More than half of children treated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRgLITT) achieve seizure freedom at one-year follow-up, according to a study presented at the ...
Dec 7, 2020
0
0
