As one of the world’s most common chronic noncommunicable diseases, asthma is a serious yet often misunderstood and poorly managed condition.1,2 Today on World Asthma Day, we join the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and the global respiratory community in calling for “Asthma Care for All” via reforms that increase equitable access to quality care and improve outcomes for the estimated 262 million people living with asthma worldwide.1
Asthma attacks are physically threatening and emotionally significant for many
After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, we asked eight refugees to keep a sort of digital diary while they adjusted to lives far from everything they knew. As the conflict reaches its one-year anniversary, we asked them how things have changed since then — for them, for Ukraine and for their lives in their adopted homes.
Location: The Netherlands
This war showed the
Mehr als eine halbe Million Patienten pro Jahr werden in „virtuellen Stationen“ bequem von zu Hause aus behandelt, hat die Regierung angekündigt, um den NHS zu entlasten. Die Regierung sagte, dass der Plan auf den bereits im NHS vorhandenen virtuellen Stationen aufbaut, in denen Patienten von zu Hause aus behandelt werden, während sie von Medizinern entweder durch tägliche Besuche oder durch Videoanrufe überwacht werden. Bis zum nächsten Winter sollen etwa 3.000 „Krankenhausbetten“ geschaffen werden, mit der Hoffnung, dass etwa 50.000
Compulsory Covid isolation should be considered by ministers to ease the burden on the struggling NHS, a Labour MP claimed today.
Rachel Maskell, who serves on the Health Select Committee, said ‘we need’ people to isolate if they’re infected.
She added that the point of testing — one of the pandemic-era policies axed when No10 chose to press ahead with its living with Covid strategy — was to ensure life ‘doesn’t continue as normal’ for those who are positive.
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The COVID pandemic accelerated global research collaboration at an unprecedented scale2. In the race for a vaccine, scientists worked together across borders on genomic sequencing of variants3 and case reports to better understand and respond to the fast-evolving viral threat — highlighting the value of responsible data sharing4.
The European Health Data Space (EHDS), launched by the European Commission, aims to build on this momentum to transform access, use and sharing of health data within
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) — often regarded as the ‘silent pandemic’ — is the leading cause of death worldwide. In 2019 alone, it was responsible for 18.6 million deaths.
The same year marked the beginnings of the COVID-19 crisis, which revealed profound deficits and inequities in our health care policies and systems. Hospitals were not only overrun and under-resourced, but the prevention, screening and treatment of non-communicable diseases were also disrupted.2 This daunting global crisis, however, revealed something else: our
The Health Secretary has ordered hospitals to tackle weekend bed-blocking as he hinted the NHS is in line for more cash in today’s Budget.
Steve Barclay said bosses are failing to discharge enough medically fit patients on Saturdays and Sundays, when staffing levels are typically lower.
He told the NHS Providers conference in Liverpool that a £500million discharge fund announced in September will be distributed from the start of next month.
The money will be used to get more patients
Hospitals have been told to serve up fewer chips in a crackdown on the dreary meals patients have complained about for decades.
NHS bosses in England have also demanded trusts offer hot food 24/7 and let patients choose their dinner from bed, as well as cooking more vegetable and fish dishes.
The biggest ever overhaul of internal catering will also see patients given food on proper plates as part of green drive to stamp out single-use plastic.
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For thousands of years, clinical trials have been the center of medicine and the idea is very simple. Before you operate on someone or inject people with some new drug, you run trials first to make certain that what you’re doing will help the patient more than it hurts the patient. This is not a new idea.
James Lind did it back in the 18th century with his famous scurvy trials.
