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In a new national survey of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, Health Union reveals a surprising lack of awareness of risk factors and knowledge of diagnosis stage among patients. Results demonstrate a severe impact on quality of life, employment, and ability to afford treatment.
Five American teenagers, all bullied because they were gay, have committed suicide over the past few weeks. The deaths have caused a media storm and raised a critical question: Did the social or healthcare system fail these adolescents? "Absolutely," says Concordia University Professor Deborah Dysart-Gale. "Bullying and such resulting suicides are avoidable. Healthcare workers have tools that can help queer teens - no one needs to die because of their sexual orientation."
Delegates visiting MR Solutions' new exhibition stand at ISMRM 2015 and SNMMI 2015, in June 2015, were thrilled to see the company's 3T, 4.7T and 7T MRI cryogen-free magnet technology for preclinical imaging.
"The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), through its partnership with the Millennium Challenge Account-Lesotho, is helping Lesotho address key challenges in its health sector through a $122 million investment in health infrastructure and health systems," IIP Digital reports.
With experts stating that 120,000 people could perish from Coronavirus in the closing months of the year, a health charity is warning Britain had better brace itself for another crisis – antibiotic resistant infections.
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