Tag: Unnecessary

Decision to bring Covid jabs forward a month amid Pirola fears sparked unnecessary panic over cold-like virus

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The decision to accelerate the autumn Covid and flu vaccine rollouts increased anxiety over the virus, experts warned today.

Officials launched the programmes, which will see 30million offered a flu jab and 25million invited for a Covid vaccine, in September — a month earlier than planned, citing fears the Pirola variant would overwhelm the NHS.

But scientists told MailOnline that the ‘flip-flopping’ approach towards the start date created mistrust and ‘inevitably increased some people’s anxiety’.

Others also warned the rollout’s

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Best ways to delete unnecessary things from your iCloud to free up storage

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Have you ever felt like your iCloud storage is bursting at the seams? Perhaps you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of digital clutter, like Pattie in Rohnert Park, CA, who writes in, seeking advice on decluttering her iCloud.   

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“Kurt, Thanks for the tips you give in your newsletter. I have an

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Is the NHS carrying out thousands of unnecessary circumcisions on teenage boys?

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Boys and young men are being circumcised unnecessarily by the NHS, risking sexual problems in later life, doctors at one of Britain’s leading children’s hospitals have warned.

Surgeons at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust, Liverpool, have broken ranks and criticised surgeons who offer the operation on medical grounds – suggesting they should be looking for less invasive alternatives.

In an official report, the hospital’s leading paediatric surgeon, Professor Simon Kenny, claims that more than half of the 9,500 circumcisions carried

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Unnecessary Medical Procedures, Sherman Sorensen, and the False Claims Act

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The throbbing near Marian Simmons’s temples made her nauseous. She could barely tolerate opening her eyes; the light brought on an excruciating sensation, as if a helmet was cinched too tightly on her head. Simmons, who was 20 years old and healthy, now struggled to get out of bed in her dorm at Westminster College, a small liberal-arts school in Salt Lake City. Simmons asked a friend to drive her to the emergency room. The staff didn’t find anything

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