Unlike other nursing roles, a surgical care practitioner is involved with the patient every step of the way In the operating theatre, scalpel in hand, Sara Dalby is reminded of snow: “When you’re making the first incision, it’s like making a set of footprints in it. It’s never going to be the same.” Patients may…
The ‘Report, Remove, Rinse’ advice urges those hit by corrosive substances to contact the police, take off any splashed clothing and run burnt skin under cold water Witnesses to acid attacks are being told how to help victims, as the number of assaults with corrosive substances continues to rise. Victims can be left blind or severely disfigured, and…
THE search for a cancer cure has take a major leap forward after experts discovered a process to trigger the death of cancer cells could be more effective than current methods. The new method of killing cancer cells – called Caspase Independent Cell Death (CICD), led to the complete eradication of tumours in experimental models. Currently most…
Professor Stephen Hawking’s intellectual reputation as our greatest living scientist may be overrated – hence his never being awarded the Nobel Prize… – but his entertaining spat with Jeremy Hunt, whom he accused of “abusing scientific arguments” to justify government policies is right on the money. In response, the Health Secretary defended his controversial plans for a so-called “seven-day NHS”…
It’s right to celebrate the work of the paramedics and those hard-pressed back-up staff in the BBC series. It would be better to fund them properly here’s a part of me that wants to be cynical about the BBC’s new series of Ambulance. After all, the Beeb put on its flashing blue light to do all this…