Monthly Archives: April 2018
Women crippled by ‘disintegrating’ contraceptive implant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5649033/Women-left-crippling-pain-NHS-birth-control-implant-inserted-thousands-disintegrates.html When mother-of-five Laura Linkson was offered a new form of sterilisation on the NHS that didn’t involve surgery, she didn’t hesitate. The procedure involved having an Essure device — essentially tiny metal and plastic springs — inserted into her fallopian tubes to stop eggs moving from the ovaries to the womb. The implant can […]
10 million lives could be lost to superbugs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/10-million-lives-could-lost-superbugs-far-have-got-race-beat/ Scientists have made a breakthrough in the antibiotic resistance battle – the urgency has never been greater, says Lois Rogers British scientists claim they have beaten more than a dozen rival teams around the world in the race towards a new synthetic antibiotic. They hope that the agent – an improved version of a […]