The Recovery
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| Originally published | September 2000 |
| Authors | Rex S. Haberman |
| Genres | Suspense |
| Medical Fiction | |
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| ID | 3004840 |
About The Recovery
Alcoholic surgeon makes a serious mistake while operating a patient, and pays dearly for it.
NHS staff failed mum who died from drinking too much water
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Pioneering operation combines cancer surgery and Caesarean
... " She had her daughter by Caesarean too, and says The Recovery and experience with her son was " no different really"...
Hunt is on to find more effective flu treatments
... The Recovery trial will offer hospital patients different drugs to see if any will be lifesavers, as a cheap steroid was found to be during Covid...
New Zealand election: Disillusioned voters eye shift away from the left
... " I know that we re still just coming out of what happened with Covid and just trying to get back into that, " but The Recovery so far had been too slow, she suggested...
Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes
... Soon The Recovery agents started calling...
Afghanistan earthquake: More than 1,000 dead as villagers dig for survivors
... Neighbouring Pakistan has said it was in contact with Afghan officials and will " extend all possible support to The Recovery effort...
Polish elections: When are they and why is Europe watching closely?
... He pointed out that Poland was the only country that was yet to benefit from The Recovery money...
British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
... James Ratcliffe, director of recoveries at the Art Loss Register, said the museum had " carefully balanced the need to provide information to the public to assist The Recovery efforts with the fact that providing too much detail risks playing into the hands of those who might act in bad faith"...
Hunt is on to find more effective flu treatments
By Michelle RobertsDigital health editor
A trial to find more effective flu treatments is being launched in the UK.
Flu deaths hit Last Winter , with nearly 15,000 excess deaths recorded.
It can kill up to 25,000 people in the UK in a bad Year - But treatments for worst cases are still lacking, experts say.
The Recovery trial will offer hospital patients different drugs to see if any will be lifesavers, as a cheap steroid was found to be during Covid.
Annual flu shots help prevent infection - But each Year , Some People become very sick with influenza.
There is also The Threat of a global pandemic flu outbreak, which, according to planning scenarios, could see many millions infected, up to about half of them becoming ill and some also developing potentially fatal complications such as pneumonia.
Even in a normal flu Year , it can kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people.
The Trial 's joint chief investigator Sir Peter Horby, of the University of Oxford, said it was a persistent menace.
" As well as being The Greatest pandemic risk, influenza remains a serious annual scourge, " He Said .
" Yet we have no treatments that have been proven to improve outcomes in hospitalised patients. "
The Trial will test pills such as oseltamivir, or Tamiflu, an antiviral the government has been criticised for stockpiling and spending hundreds of millions of pounds on following concerns about swine flu.
Given within a couple of days of symptoms developing, it is designed to reduce the severity of infections and has already been shown to benefit mild flu.
Other treatments that will be tried include:
Will flu be bad this winter?Last Winter saw The First widespread flu since the start of Covid pandemic.
That 2022-23 season began earlier than usual But peaked quickly.
There are several reasons why it hit harder, experts say.
The population was more susceptible to catching flu, having been Locked Down during Covid, and influenza A H3N2, The Type circulating Last Winter , is more severe in older people.
This autumn, flu cases have been starting to rise again But within the typical range for The Time of Year .
And it is too early to predict which influenza lineages will dominate, experts say.
People in the UK who are over 64, have certain health conditions or a learning disability, are pregnant or care for or work or live with vulnerable people may be eligible for both flu and Covid vaccines.
A nasal flu vaccine is available to children at primary and Secondary School or, for two-three-Year -olds, from their GP.
The Recovery study will be open to patients admitted with flu to:
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com