A UK clinical psychologist says she’s seeing more trans youngsters than ever, with over half of her teen patients identifying as trans. The clinical psychologist who preferred to remain unnamed said the spike in trans kids happened after the Covid-19 lockdown periods. More details from the Daily Mail: “She is currently seeing a dozen families and has helped almost 40 over the past year but has... 

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) this week released a report that shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the latest update, the CDC pointed out that only 6% of deaths related to COVID-19 listed COVID-19 as the only cause of death. The vast majority of patients that were listed as COVID-19... 

According to Helsana, a major Swiss health insurance company, since 2016 the number of patients receiving cancer treatments has decreased. However, something changed in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, Helsana’s data shows there was a dramatic increase of 73% compared to 2020 in the number of patients receiving cancer treatments. And the high number of cancer patients continued in 2022 with an increase of... 

Steve Barclay last night ordered an urgent investigation into new guidelines that tell NHS staff to treat all patients as gender-neutral. The Health Secretary demanded answers after learning taxpayers had funded the guide to ‘inclusive communication’. It instructs doctors and nurses not to use phrases such as ‘Mr’ and ‘Mrs’ or ‘he’ and ‘she’ until a patient has confirmed their... 

An incredible 93 percent of severely autistic child patients come from immigrant families, according to a new Finnish study. The study comes from Helsinki University Hospital (HUS), reports Ilta-Sanomat – which describes the findings as “astounding”. According to the researchers, only seven percent of the severely autistic patients at the autism unit at the New Children’s Hospital... 

Elon Musk’s Neuralink company has threatened to start implanting its brain implant microchips into human skulls within six months. Bloomberg reports that Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface firm, said at a Wednesday event at its headquarters that it is almost ready to begin putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients. The news comes despite the fact that an... 

A viral video has circulated social media showing a healthcare worker boxing his elderly patients but don’t you know you stupid racist whites that these black healthcare are your saviors??? This is what the UK said, that these people saved them. Now let’s flip the script a little bit just so you understand the gravity of the situation here. Imagine a white man being filmed punching black... 

A British court has sentenced Manish Shah, a doctor for the National Health Service (NHS), to life in prison with a minimum fifteen-year sentence after he was convicted of sexually assaulting dozens of his female patients. Shah, who worked as a General Practitioner at the practice in the borough of Havering in East London, was born overseas and speaks Hindi and Gujarati. The 47-year-old was found... 

Australian nurses and midwives are being forced to announce their ‘white privilege’ before treating Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander patients – a move which has been slammed as ‘racist to its core.’ The term ‘white privilege’ defines the unearned social and cultural advantages awarded to people with white skin which are not enjoyed by people of colour or non-white backgrounds. The... 

The 50 hospitals overcharging patients are marked in the US map. A new study shows that 50 hospitals in the United States charge uninsured patients around 10 times more than the normal care cost. Out of the 50, half are run by the Community Health Systems while 14 others are operated by Hospital Corp. of America, the Washington Post reported on Monday based on the study published in Health Affairs. “They... 

Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University have created a new biological marker for cancer patients that lights up tumor cells and treats disease with drugs at the same time. The breakthrough biomarker is a nanophosphor particle ten thousand times smaller than a grain of sand, which lights up when it detects tumor cells to allow scientists to take a better look. “This is the first... 

Australian doctors have successfully transplanted hearts that have stopped beating, revolutionizing organ donation. The breakthrough is predicted to save the lives of 30 percent more heart transplant patients. After two decades of research, a team of surgeons at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney has transplanted three still hearts into living patients. The first two patients are recovering well,... 

An elderly patient in a wheelchair at a hospital in England. An NHS regulatory has claimed that around 10,000 patients are killed each year by the “dangerously” variable treatment by hospital and doctors in England. According to a report published in The Guardian on Tuesday, Care Quality Commission (CQC) chair David Prior warned that many patients receive poor care which leads to many thousands... 

A hospital in New York State has notified 1,915 patients that they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C – days after another hospital in NY admitted making the same mistake – through reusing insulin pens, used by diabetics. Olean General Hospital is mailing 1,915 patients who received insulin between November 2009 and last week and advising them to have a blood test, although... 

Telemedicine has been widely used in Europe and countries like Chile, Mexico and Brazil… Given the advancement of the Internet, analysts and practitioners have described telemedicine as eHealth, a new way of giving treatment, consultations, medical education and health status monitoring remotely. Telemedicine has evolved in recent years as health services at a distance. Doctors and hospital...