EUROPEAN nurses working in the NHS are leaving the UK in droves after Brexit, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has claimed.
Their latest statistics show 4067 nurses from the EU left their job last year, a rise of around 67 per cent from 2435 in the previous year.
A blood test in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy could indicate a risk of miscarriage or premature birth, early research suggests.
US doctors believe they have found molecules in the blood that can be linked to serious birth complications, months before symptoms are apparent.
Doctors in the north east of England could be facing legal action from two of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies for offering sufferers of a serious eye condition the choice of a safe, effective and cheaper drug, according to the BMJ.
It is estimated that prescribing Avastin (bevacizumab) could save the cash-strapped NHS up to £13.5m (€15.4m) in the region over the next five years, and £500m a year if rolled out across the service.
The distribution of treated mosquito nets has commenced across the 18 local government council areas of Ondo State after the exercise was flagged off on Friday in Akure by Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.
The distribution exercise witnessed large turnout of residents at various distribution points in all the local government areas of the state.
An Italian man has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30 women with HIV.
Valentino Talluto is said to have had unprotected sex with at least 53 women after his HIV diagnosis in 2006, the youngest of whom was 14 at the relationship’s start.
Electric stimulation to spinal cord has helped a 32-year-old man - who was left paralysed from the waist down after a motorcycle accident - stand on his feet and move again, researchers say.
The paraplegic man has lost the use of his legs following completely severing his spine in the crash, and had made no progress despite 80 sessions of regular physiotherapy.
