Not only is it treating more patients than ever before, but A&E performance in the UK has slumped to a 10-year low. Almost one in ten patients visiting A&E are waiting for more than four hours, while the same proportion are waiting longer than 18 weeks to begin hospital treatment, the King’s Fund think-tank revealed […]
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Joey speaks about the importance of HIV treatment and how it allows him to live a healthy life without putting others at risk. Learn more about HIV transmission and staying healthy here: http://bit.ly/1prg3Zc Find out whether you need an HIV test: http://bit.ly/21t7nNb Find your nearest testing centre: http://bit.ly/1zm1K7f Learn more about HIV and […]
An early BBC documentary on AIDS, first broadcast in 1983. From the Lex Watson archive. […]
United States Global AIDS Ambassador, Deborah Birx, explains why young women are more vulnerable to becoming infected with HIV. 1000 young women are being infected every day = 7000 a week globally. […]
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I would never have been able to have my babies without the help of IVF because I had both fallopian tubes removed when I was 30. (The fallopian tubes link the uterus to the ovaries). I am so grateful that IVF technology exists to let me have a family of my own. Elise and Uma […]
Since the opening of the first modern hospice, St. Christopher’s, in south London in 1967, hospice care has grown into a worldwide movement that has radically changed the way we approach death and dying. The driving force behind hospice, or palliative, care is the desire to transform the experience of dying. Teams of nurses, doctors […]
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme (LeDeR) in 2015 studied the mortality rates for people with learning disabilities (LD). Although LD is not shown on death certificates, it is clear that people with LD have a shorter life expectancy and increased risk of early death compared to the general population. Some of this is disability-specific. […]
Research shows that parents – even the super-diligent ones – tend to overlook the health of their children’s eyes. Yes, they make a point of taking them to regular appointments to go and see the dentist, but an eye examination is rarely on the ‘to do’ list. According to research by The Eyecare Trust, a […]
This has been an exciting year for everyone involved with Terrence Higgins Trust. In the first place, we had the interim results of the PARTNER study, which has shown that people with HIV who are on effective treatment and have an undetectable viral load won’t pass the virus onto their non-infected partners. In the past […]
‘Most broken collarbones are the result of a fall or a collision, so they tend to happen during contact sports such as rugby and skiing, as well as due to falls from bikes and horses. For this reason, they affect younger active people and are not so common in the elderly population. Around 20,000 people […]