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A Georgia woman decided to travel across the world to receive a root canal after finding out the exorbitant price it would cost to receive it stateside – and saved nearly $2,000 in the process. Delia O’Malley, 26, who immigrated to Atlanta from Ireland, went to the dentist for a root canal when she was … Read more
Patients made 4.7million trips to A&E because they couldn’t get advice or treatment from their GP, UK’s health watchdog suggests Up to 4.7 million A&E visits may have been due to people not seeing their GP Almost one in five patients resorted to A&E as they couldn’t get advice Meanwhile, one third also said there … Read more
Morbidly obese women are at an increased risk of fracturing or breaking their leg bones if they trip and fall over, research presented at an obesity conference suggests. Scientists at the Quebec Research Centre, in Canada, performed a massive study where they found that women with the most severe cases of obesity were bout 40 percent … Read more
Somerset has been branded a ‘dental desert’ as thousands of patients across the county struggle to get access to dental care. There has been a mass exodus of NHS dentists in England in the last year, which has left the health service with its smallest workforce in a decade. The situation is particularly dire in … Read more
Schools are teaching parents what to put in their children’s lunchboxes to cut obesity as research shows fewer than one in 60 packed meals meet nutritional standards Study in England found pupils regularly took in sausage rolls, crisps and biscuits Now a charity is working with more than 100 schools to improve nutrition Two-thirds of … Read more
It might sound like something out of Blade Runner. But science is edging closer towards allowing blind people to see again — without using their eyes. Researchers are developing a pair of high-tech glasses with a built-in camera that ping images wirelessly to the brain. The gadget bypasses nerves between the eyes and the brain, … Read more
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Gender neutral toilets: 63 Total cost: £586,080 A spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘The FOI request did not specify a definition for ‘gender neutral toilets’ so Mersey Care took it to mean any toilet not fitted with a urinal so anyone can use them, but not including disabled or patients’ en-suite facilities. … Read more
Two years of a pandemic and lockdowns followed by a war in Europe have left me feeling anxious – and my body rigid with tension. My shoulders seem permanently frozen in defense mode after countless hours of sitting at a screen, doomscrolling through the latest headlines. I want to reconnect with the outside world and … Read more
Step away from the burger! Nationwide ground beef recall over E.coli contamination fears at New Jersey plant U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service recalled burgers and mince today It warned over those marked Naturally Better, Nature’s Reserve or Thomas Farms Americans who have got this beef in their fridge should throw it out or return … Read more
GPs should have personal assistants who do their paperwork so they can escape ‘two hours’ of admin each day, Jeremy Hunt claimed today. The former Health Secretary said its going to be ‘very difficult’ to get more family doctors into the NHS in the short-term, which already has 1,500 fewer GPs than 2016. So the … Read more