Patient One was 24 years old and pregnant with her third child when she was taken off life support. It was 2014. A couple of…
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Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons, studies find
People who are operated on by female surgeons are less likely to experience complications and need follow-up care than when males wield the scalpel, according…
View More Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons, studies find‘A landmark step’: how pioneering foetal surgery is transforming lives
Emily Ellis flicks through photos of her four-day-old baby, Austin, on her phone. “He is perfect,” she says with the certainty of any new parent.…
View More ‘A landmark step’: how pioneering foetal surgery is transforming livesUK Covid cases rise by nearly 20% in a week
Covid cases have risen almost 20% in a week, with one in 25 people in England thought to have had the disease at the end…
View More UK Covid cases rise by nearly 20% in a weekImproved disease control in public buildings ‘could save UK billions a year’
Mandating improved ventilation and other forms of disease control in public buildings could save the UK economy billions of pounds each year through the prevention…
View More Improved disease control in public buildings ‘could save UK billions a year’The hidden long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’
In 2004, Mario Cibelli was preparing a 75-year-old patient for a big cardiac operation when the patient’s daughter asked for a quick word. “She explained…
View More The hidden long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care
I met Chris in my first month at a small, hard-partying Catholic high school in north-eastern Wisconsin, where kids jammed cigarettes between the fingers of…
View More The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical careHearing mother’s voice can lessen pain in premature babies, study suggests
Premature babies appear to feel less pain during medical procedures when they are spoken to by their mothers, researchers have found. Babies that are born…
View More Hearing mother’s voice can lessen pain in premature babies, study suggestsOxygen firms accused of intimidating Mexican hospitals during pandemic
In March 2020, Benjamin Espinoza Zavala saw an entire floor of his small hospital in Guanajuato, central Mexico, converted into Covid-19 wards. The hospital’s need…
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