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Government seeks views on periods, contraception, fertility, pregnancy and menopause for health strategyWomen in England are being urged to help shape reproductive health policy by sharing their experiences of a range of issues.The government’s launch …
SoHO-based treatments are of high value. They provide large numbers of life-saving and life-enhancing therapies every year: 25 million units of blood for transfusion (e.g. for surgery or trauma care); 36 000 stem cell transplants for blood cancers, life-creating therapies (medically assisted reproduction treatments, e.g. 940 000 cycles of in vitro fertilisation), and life-improving therapies (e.g.14 500 cornea transplants for restoring sight, and 2 000 skin transplants for burn wounds and other injuries).
SoHO-based treatments are of high value. They provide large numbers of life-saving and life-enhancing therapies every year: 25 million units of blood for transfusion (e.g. for surgery or trauma care); 36 000 stem cell transplants for blood cancers, life-creating therapies (medically assisted reproduction treatments, e.g. 940 000 cycles of in vitro fertilisation), and life-improving therapies (e.g.14 500 cornea transplants for restoring sight, and 2 000 skin transplants for burn wounds and other injuries).
James Bethell says Downing Street did not want to prioritise pandemic in early 2020 even as evidence was mountingDowning Street showed an “ostrich, head-in-the-sand mentality” towards Covid in early 2020 as Boris Johnson’s government instead focused on…
Mother of Martha Mills, who died after treatment failures at London hospital, releases report with Demos calling for new policy in EnglandPatients who believe their concerns are not being taken seriously by medical staff should be given the right to se…
Exclusive: New and expectant mothers left to ‘suffer in silence’ as demand outstrips supplyCampaigners have expressed alarm at new analysis showing a sharp increase in new or expectant mothers waiting for mental health care, with one woman found to hav…
Anthony Mbare found his tied visa put him at mercy of his bosses. He is one of thousands who have come to plug shortages in adult social careIt is a bitter November night and Anthony Mbare is shivering in a car in rural Wiltshire, south-west England, w…
Concern over public health fuelled by studies linking UPF to raised blood pressure, heart attacks and strokesHealth experts have ramped up calls to improve the national diet in the wake of research that paints a worrying picture of the harms linked to …
Action will reduce health services to Christmas Day levels of care for four days in September and OctoberJunior doctors and consultants in England will strike on the same days together for the first time in the history of the NHS, in a dramatic escalat…
Drop ‘abstinence-only approach’ and focus on public health, report by home affairs select committee saysMinisters should expand anonymous drug testing at festivals and allow supervised drug-taking facilities to reduce the risk of fatal overdoses and in…