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United Healthcare takes over as student health insurance provider
Posted onUnited Healthcare will be the University’s student health insurance provider for the 2025-2026 school year, taking over from Aetna, which has been the provider since 2007. All University students are required to be medically insured, but the University student plan is only required for students who do not have other, valid health insurance. Other insurance…
Scottish teens as young as 15 seeking help over botched Botox and fillers
Posted onTeenagers as young as 15 are seeking help after receiving botched Botox treatment and fillers, a charity has said. Advice Direct Scotland (ADS) says it wants tighter restrictions on cosmetic procedures after receiving hundreds of complaints about procedures. The Scottish government has proposed legislation to make non-surgical treatments illegal for under-18s and require procedures to…
First leukaemia patient to get pioneering drug on NHS says it is very sci-fi
Posted onFergus WalshMedical editor BBC Oscar Murphy has now finished his CAR-T therapy and is hopeful for his future The first leukaemia patient to receive a breakthrough treatment since it was made available on the NHS has said it was “fantastic” and “very sci-fi”. Oscar Murphy, 28, who has an aggressive form of the blood cancer,…
IVF concierge clinics warning: ‘I paid £15,000 then it went bust’
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Moment of reckoning needed in social care, says Louise Casey
Posted onIn her speech, she described two NHS hospital trusts that tried to set up their own care services but discovered they could not make it “stack up” financially because anyone working in the NHS is better paid, and has better terms and conditions, than care staff.
