The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised to increase the UK's GP numbers by 6,000 by 2024. That target will clearly not be met. In fact, the proportion of GPs working full time in England has fallen compared with last year, ...
Feb 3, 2023
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It may feel like history is repeating itself with yet another strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus driving up cases of COVID-19. The latest is called XBB.1.5 (nicknamed "Kraken," by some), and it's another descendent of the omicron ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Recent data from the UK's Office for National Statistics suggests the COVID pandemic may have triggered a substantial rise in the number of stay-at-home dads across the country. One in nine stay-at-home parents were fathers ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Long COVID is the patient-preferred term used to describe symptoms lasting more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. Children and young people can also suffer from long COVID following even a mild infection with the ...
Jan 3, 2023
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Christmas is said to be a time for connecting with friends, family and having fun. But it can also be time of loneliness. Indeed, the results of a 2018 survey looking at loneliness during Christmas time in the UK revealed ...
Dec 20, 2022
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Researchers aiming to predict which staph-infection patients might develop a related kidney disease have found a high frequency of gene mutations in the infecting bacteria of affected patients, which suggests these variants ...
Dec 7, 2022
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Britons hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis are also the worst affected by depression, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday.
Dec 6, 2022
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One in four 17- to 19-year-olds now has a probable mental health disorder—up from one in six last year.
Nov 29, 2022
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In late October, the UK Health Security Agency assigned variant designations to two new omicron "grandchildren": BQ.1 and XBB. This means they will be monitored by health authorities, but are not at this stage regarded as ...
Nov 14, 2022
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New research from University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers is shedding light on racial disparities in breast cancer mortality in women who live in economically deprived neighborhoods.
Nov 8, 2022
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