Medical
Four-hour A&E wait target could be scrapped
The pilot schemes aim for mental health patients attending A&E in crisis to receive emergency treatment within an hour. NHS England will also trial a rapid assessment measure for all patients arriving at A&E, with the intention of providing faster life-saving treatment for those with the most critical conditions and injuries, such as heart attacks, sepsis, stroke and severe asthma attacks. [Full Article...]
Italy bans unvaccinated children from attending school
The consequences for failing to comply with the legislation reportedly varies depending on how old the child is. And while children of school age - which in Italy is six and above - can not be turned away, schools will reserve the right to impose a fine of up to €500 (£425). [Full Article...]
Unvaccinated Kids Are Now Banned From Schools In Italy
But in a reversal of policy, the coalition fell into line with mainstream medical opinion and insisted that as of this week, children attending school must receive immunisations for a range of infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, rubella and polio. [Full Article...]
Trump 2020 Pentagon Budget to Request 3.1 Percent Military Pay Raise
The new larger request includes $5 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, combined with $3.6 billion from military construction accounts, a senior administration official said . Who gets more money: The military or everything else? USA government spending is out of control and the national debt is unsustainable, soaring to a whopping $22 trillion. [Full Article...]
Woolly mammoth nuclei come alive inside mouse cells
The cell nuclei used in the team's recent findings were extracted from muscle and other tissue from Yuka, a female woolly mammoth about 3.5 metres long excavated almost intact in 2010 from permafrost in Siberia. The study was detailed in the journal Scientific Reports . Scientists observed the forming of structures that appear just before cell division begins. [Full Article...]
FDA approves nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression
Some researchers contend that esketamine needs more study and additional clinical trials. Spravato is the brand name under which Esketamine is expected to go on sale. "The ability [of esketamine] to sustain mood benefits, i.e.in maintenance treatment, was less clear", Dunn said. Yet Spravato's mixed results, and the FDA's willingness to accept them, does add caveats to the drug's approval. [Full Article...]
How a simple eye test can predict onset of disease
This latest research is the largest study to date and adds to the current literature as scientists strive to find a quick, noninvasive, and affordable way to detect Alzheimer's at the earliest stages. They stressed that while they have proved that blood vessels become sparser in those with Alzheimer's, the next step is to show this happens before memory problems appear, which would give doctors a ... [Full Article...]
Virginia woman wins lottery 30 times in one day
Brown said as the day progressed, she began to notice the same series of numbers appearing everywhere she looked. Deborah Brown purchased 30 Pick Four tickets, each with the combination of 1-0-3-1, apparently magic numbers that brought Brown out on top. [Full Article...]