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Posted onCatherine SnowdonHealth Producer Getty Images Thousands of pharmacies in England will offer free NHS flu spray doses to toddlers for the first time this year. The vaccination is given via a child’s nose and two and three-year-olds could previously access them at their GP surgery. Around 4,000 pharmacies have signed up to deliver the vaccine…
Initiation of Semaglutide Does Not Decrease Health Care Spending
Posted onAlthough the initiation of semaglutide is associated with improvements in cardiovascular risks, it is also associated with higher health care expenditures, according to investigators of a study published in JAMA Network Open. They stated that the “findings suggest potential clinical benefits in routine practice, while highlighting the need to evaluate the long-term impact of semaglutide…
Redcar and Cleveland Council to support those with endometriosis
Posted onA council has unanimously voted to become the first endometriosis friendly local authority in the north of England. Deputy mayor of Redcar Ceri Cawley was diagnosed with the condition in her early 20s and has struggled with “agonising pain” for years. As well as Redcar and Cleveland Council, Southwark and Stoke-on-Trent City councils, have joined…
Advice for PCOS has not changed for 30 years, says Essex woman
Posted onSupplied Alex Allan is a nutritionist and said more needs to be done for women who have polycystic ovary syndrome When Alex Allan was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) aged 22 her GP told her the symptoms could only be managed and to come back when she wanted to have a baby. Thirty years…
Mental health waiting lists: Amy has complex PTSD but has seen a psychiatrist once in 10 years
Posted onChloe Hayward & Hugh Pym BBC News Amy Amy has had multiple emergency ambulance callouts this year As a child, Amy was often violently attacked. At 15, she was threatened with a knife. Now diagnosed with complex PTSD, she’s spent over a decade isolated at home with her mum, desperately seeking help. She has seen…
Maternal Health Care At Risk As Federal Funding Uncertainty Continues, CT Official Says | CT News Junkie
Posted onSocial Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves. Credit: Doug Hardy / CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As the Trump administration continues to overhaul federal spending and disbursements to the states, Connecticut officials are stuck in a holding pattern, trying to make their dollars stretch further. The appropriations, human services and public health committees convened at the Legislative…
