For people with traumatic brain injuries, cognitive functions like memory, attention and mood regulation can become exceedingly difficult. But “there is no therapy for this kind of problem, even though it’s so prevalent,” says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
Now, in a small study of individuals who have suffered moderate to severe brain injury, five patients scored better on a test of attention and information processing after having electrodes surgically implanted into
Seven million and growing — that’s the number of people now on waiting lists for NHS treatment ranging from cancer checks to replacing arthritic hips and heart surgery.
These delays can mean living with pain or debilitating symptoms that make everyday life difficult. A six-month wait for an operation can also result in a 50 per cent greater chance of a worse outcome, according to projections reported in the journal Pain Reports in 2022.
Little wonder that more and more
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Bungling NHS staff are carrying out the equivalent of one ‘never-event’ every day, figures show.
This is despite the Government ordering a crackdown on the mistakes, which cost hospitals an estimated £800million in compensation each year.
Experts today demanded further action on ‘unacceptable’ levels of never-events, blaming inadequate staffing levels and a lack of investment in the NHS.
A MailOnline audit of a decade’s worth of NHS data found a colossal 4,328 never-events have occurred in England since 2013.
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Israel’s Defence Forces declared they have ‘split Gaza in two’ after armoured battalions surrounded Gaza City in preparation for a ground assault on Hamas.
‘Today there is north Gaza and south Gaza,’ Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told reporters, calling it a ‘significant stage’ in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group ruling the enclave.
Troops are now expected to enter Gaza City within 48 hours, according to Israeli press – an operation that would mark a new chapter of the
After four decades and over 700,000 Americans dead, gene editing experts believe they are on the cusp of curing HIV.
Three patients in California have just been injected with genetic material along with an enzyme called CAS9 that early studies suggest can splice sections of the virus’ DNA that become lodged in human cells, eliminating it entirely.
Using the gene-editing technology CRISPR, a cure for the AIDS-causing virus could be closer on the horizon than ever thought before.
The current
Halfway into my training to become an intensive care unit physician, I gave birth to my son, Finnegan. My medical training also coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic. I was in the third and final year of my internal medicine residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York when the initial Covid surge of spring 2020 overwhelmed the city and its hospitals. A few months later, I moved to another hospital in the city to begin a three-year fellowship in pulmonary and … Read more
Patients have been left in tears after being told their NHS appointment has been cancelled due to the strikes — with some having to wait more than a month for it to be rescheduled.
Shaun Howe, a delivery driver from the Isle of Wight whose knee replacement is infected, said he was ‘devastated’ when his appointment was postponed and warned that lives are at risk due to delays in care.
Lauren Golding, a construction worker from Essex who is suffering
Frail, elderly patients are stuck in a ‘revolving door’ of hospital treatment, where they are discharged then swiftly readmitted because shockingly poor aftercare leaves them sicker than they were to begin with, experts have warned.
The situation stems from an NHS policy launched in 2015, designed to address the problem of bed-blockers – the somewhat derogatory term used to describe patients, most of them elderly, who are occupying a hospital bed they don’t strictly need.
The protocol, called Discharge To
