The charity said it has written to the National Audit Office, the Public Accounts Committee and Chancellor Rachel Reeves with a detailed overview of the findings and the contracts involved. Chief executive Daniel Bruce said: “That we find multiple red flags in more than £15bn of contacts, amounting to a third of all such spending, […]
More than a million U.S. seniors will save $1,100 in prescription drug costs every year under a provision in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, according to a new report released Wednesday. The report was conducted by AARP, which lobbied for the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. Under the provision, out-of-pocket prescription […]
Drones can be safely used to deliver urgent blood stocks between hospitals, a new project suggests. Researchers from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) sent 10 identical blood packs from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Wansbeck Hospital to Alnwick Infirmary in Northumberland and back again. Half were transported by drones, the other five by road, and […]
The human body doesn’t age steadily throughout middle age and instead goes through bursts of rapid aging typically at around age 44 and again at 60, according to a new study published Wednesday in the academic journal Nature Aging. Stanford University researchers tracked age-related changes in more than 135,000 types of molecules and microbes […]
Dr Sanjoy Kumar, Ms O’Malley-Kumar’s father, told the BBC that the families would like the scope of the inquiry to be “as wide as possible”. “We would like it to be a statutory public inquiry led by a judge, and one that has real teeth to make a difference and change things in our country,” […]
Health providers have seen an increase in pregnant patients suffering from serious medical complications due to delayed care in the two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to a new report from House Democrats. But, at the same time, OB-GYN residents in states with abortion restrictions are receiving less training to perform abortions. […]
Significantly more women chose to end pregnancies themselves — using unsupervised and potentially dangerous at-home methods — in the year following the Supreme Court’s abolition of federal protections for abortion, a study has found. An estimated 3.4 percent of all women of reproductive age reported having tried some form of at-home abortion in the year […]
Six common wildlife species in Virginia have high rates of the virus that causes COVID-19 — a disease they likely caught from humans. The virus has been found in deer mice, Virginia opossum, raccoons, groundhogs, Eastern cottontails and Eastern red bats, according to findings in Nature. “I think the big take home message is the virus is […]
Pesticides may cause cancer on a level equivalent to smoking cigarettes, a new study has found. The widespread use of pesticides may lead to hundreds of thousands of additional cancer cases in major corn-producing states like Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio — even for Americans who don’t work on farms, according to findings published Thursday in Frontiers in Cancer […]
An independent investigation into New York’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic found that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) response “engendered public mistrust” and sowed confusion. The investigation, commissioned by current Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), found that Cuomo’s administration and its lack of communication with agencies and facilities, particularly nursing homes, across the state resulted in […]