Our region is seeing a surge in sickness, including the flu. If you're sick, you may be heading to the urgent care or ...
An accident inspired Melissa Golombek's nursing career. But she wasn't on the floor long before she found herself in a ...
Just days before her first birthday, Emersyn was attacked by the family dog, Harley, leaving her nearly unrecognizable.
If you’re under 65 years old and receive disability benefits, you’ll be automatically enrolled in Medicare after a waiting period of 24 months. The Medicare waiting period is waived if you ...
The waiting room is a sanctuary where patients and families balance hope, worry, and self-care during cancer treatment. Volunteers provide support while respecting patients' privacy, acknowledging the ...
A total of 364 children in Waterford are waiting longer than 18 months for care at University Hospital Waterford as overall waiting lists drop slightly, according to the latest data released by the ...
Using electronic medical records, the researchers reviewed the association between patients being admitted to an ICU room with or without windows and the presence of delirium. Delirium was ...
When people talk about “the waiting list”, they generally mean the “referral to treatment”, or RTT, waiting list for England specifically, because this is the part of the health service that the UK ...
More NHS hubs will be set up in community locations and there will be greater use of the private sector to help reduce hospital waiting lists in England, the prime minister has said. Sir Keir ...
CAH, chronic active hepatitis; CTP, Child-Turcotte-Pugh; ICU, Intensive Care Unit; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; PELD, pediatric end-stage liver disease; UNOS, United Network for Organ ...
According to Masuku, the reasons for long waiting lists include the following: - shortage of theatre trained nurses limits the number of theatres that can operate per day - shortage of ICU trained ...
But the British Medical Association (BMA) warned that “more is needed than relying on the goodwill of exhausted staff or new technology” to cut into the existing 7.5 million waiting list backlog.