Antidepressants and pregnancy: study didn't find they actually cause autism
Jul 20, 2017 17:03 pm UTC| Health
A new paper published today has reported a small increase in the number of children born with autism in mothers who were using antidepressant medication while pregnant. But the increase was small, and the study did not...
A new vaccine is promising to advance the frontier of eliminating malaria
Jul 19, 2017 11:15 am UTC| Health
More than 30 malaria vaccine candidates are at various stages of development. The RTS,S vaccine is at the most advanced stage. The World Health Organisation has recommended the introduction of the vaccine in Ghana,...
New Home Office drug strategy, same old rhetoric
Jul 18, 2017 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The Home Office has just published a new drug strategy. The last one was published by Theresa May (then home secretary) seven years ago. The world has changed a lot in that time not least for May and so have drugs and...
Why has healthcare become such a target for cyber-attackers?
Jul 18, 2017 13:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
More than 16m patient records were stolen from healthcare organisations in the US and related parties in 2016. That year, healthcare was the fifth most targeted industry when it came to cyber-attacks. And earlier this...
As academic hospitals lower mortality rates, should insurers reconsider excluding them?
Jul 17, 2017 01:19 am UTC| Health Economy
A comprehensive new study has found that major teaching hospitals in the United States outperformed non-teaching hospitals in the most important of all health care outcomes: reducing mortality rates. Using a traditional...
What to look for when choosing a good care home
Jul 14, 2017 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Although four out of five adult care homes in England evaluated in a recent report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) were found to provide good care, it is the shocking reports of resident abuse, medication errors,...
FDA Approves Gene-Editing To Cure Leukemia
Jul 13, 2017 12:56 pm UTC| Health
Its a new age for science as the US Food and Drug Administration gave its approval for scientists to conduct genetic manipulation in an effort to combat leukemia. This could potentially lead to a cure that does not require...
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