healthcare professionals
Coverage of healthcare professionals in the Nexus archive.
- Community health event connects Louisiana residents with resources, support
A community health and wellness event in Baton Rouge connected residents with healthcare professionals and organizations to access resources for healthier living. The event aimed to provide support and improve access to necessary health services.
- UK hypermobility sufferers wait up to 21 years for diagnosis, study suggests
People in the UK with hypermobility conditions are waiting up to 21 years for a diagnosis while experiencing symptoms like chronic pain and partially dislocated joints. A study by the University of Edinburgh, the largest of its kind in the UK, found low awareness of hypermobility spectrum disorders and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome among British healthcare professionals.
- UK nurses and midwives who should have been banned have worked for last 12 years
The UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) admitted to failing to check 15 healthcare professionals who broke the law, allowing them to work for 12 years. This 'potentially dangerous' oversight endangered public safety, as banned nurses and midwives continued treating patients.
- The new face of America's deadliest cancer: Fit, healthy young people are being diagnosed in record numbers... now concerned experts believe they have uncovered why
Fit, healthy young people in America are being diagnosed with cancer at record rates, raising concerns about the disease's new demographic impact. Experts are investigating potential causes for this alarming trend.