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Patients are already dying as wonder drugs lose their effectiveness. International action is urgently neededAs apocalyptic horror stories go, it’s up there with the scariest. Yet it’s not fiction writers but top scientists who are warning of how the world could look once superbugs develop resistance to the remaining drugs against them in our hospital...
Medical professionals and women who had bad experiences themselves respond to the findings of the birth trauma reportThe maternity trauma report is deja vu all over again (Women having ‘harrowing’ births as hospitals hide failures, says MPs’ report, 13 May). I cannot read about it because it makes me want to scream.I was around for the Shrewsbury and...
Exclusive: Experts call for higher taxes and tougher regulation as research shows cost to NHS, other public services and economyThe cost of alcohol abuse is laid bare in a new study that shows £27bn a year being spent in England on the health and social harms of drinking.The research that found the extra burden on the NHS, social services, the criminal...
Authorities confirm 46 cases and warn disruption could last weeks as firms are hit by cancellations before holidayCases of an illness caused by a microscopic parasite in a Devon harbour town could continue for a further two weeks, experts said, with businesses predicting thousands of pounds of losses as school half-term approaches.The comments came...
Telling patients I can’t get their life-saving medication is awful. The government must act to prevent a real tragedyMike Hewitson owns a pharmacy in west DorsetFor the past 16 years, I have run a small community pharmacy in rural west Dorset. My business is older than me – the little yellow-brick building I own is about to turn 235. Right now, I am...
Mindfulness is said to help everything from anxiety to overeating. But how does it work? Experts separate fact from fiction FALSE “Mindfulness is the opposite of ‘emptying the mind’; it is fully immersing the mind in precisely what you are doing,” says neuroscientist TJ Power. “If you were eating a banana mindfully, 100% of your awareness would be focused...
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