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The ongoing dire situation in the refugee camps in Greece is presenting healthcare staff on the ground with huge challenges. People who fall ill are cared for on-site by doctors and nurses from various charitable organisations. A few months ago, MedUni Vienna joined forces with the organisations “Crisis Medical Association” and “Hands on Global” to […]

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Omitting ethnic minorities from the vaccine priority list is putting these groups at a significantly higher risk of COVID-19 illness and death. Public health doctors, writing in a commentary published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, say that the UK’s colour-blind vaccination model disregards the unequal impact of the pandemic on minority […]

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Chemotherapy with fewer side effects may be on the way: A discovery by University of Queensland pain researchers may allow some future cancer patients, including children with leukaemia, to avoid their chemotherapy’s worst and most debilitating side effects. Professor Irina Vetter and Dr Hana Starobova thought “turning off” the inflammation that is one of the body’s natural reactions to […]

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Tree pollen allergy – what you need to know this springtime from Emma Hammett of First Aid for Life. Tree pollen allergies It is commonly thought that hay fever is only a problem in late Spring or the summer months, when the sun is shining, and people are out and about in the great outdoors […]

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History-making Coventry University student May Parsons has called on people from Black, Asian or other ethnic minority communities not to miss out on their COVID-19 jab. Senior nurse May became the first person in the world to deliver the vaccine to a patient outside of a clinical trial but she knows the battle is far […]

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Kids’ blood pressure measurements substantially different between arms, potential for misdiagnosis: Blood pressure measurements in children and adolescents should be taken from both arms after new research showed substantial differences could be seen depending on which arm was used. The study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in the Journal of Hypertension, found even a […]

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Sarcoma cancer patients not receiving same protection from Covid-19 as healthy population due to Pfizer vaccine spacing: Sarcoma UK, the national bone and soft tissue cancer charity, is concerned to hear that a new study suggests cancer patients are not receiving the same protection as others against Covid-19 following one does of the Pfizer vaccine. […]

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Healthy Diet Index supports diet quality assessment and dietary counselling in healthcare: The Healthy Diet Index developed by Finnish nutrition experts facilitates the assessment of diet quality. Its effectiveness was demonstrated in a recently published study. Dietary counselling plays a crucial role in the prevention and treatment of chronic lifestyle diseases. In healthcare settings, dietary counselling […]

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Health emergency of climate change – Episode 1: Discover the role of health professionals in the climate change emergency. Webinar: Tue 16 Mar 2021 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm The world is currently in the grip of the worst health crisis in living memory, but the growing climate change emergency poses a far greater threat to […]

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