The weather hasn’t been great all week, says Daniella Moyles, and, luckily, she doesn’t expect any sympathy. It’s been nice in Ireland, hasn’t it?” she asks. “Sunny?” Sun and hailstones, I tell her, and she offers a sympathetic grimace. The sky is blue through the window behind her on Zoom, and when Daniella pivots the… Read More »
Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. The Mayo Clinic published an informative piece on Feet and the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Cleveland Clinic posted advice on exercising during the pandemic… Read More »
Boris Johnson promises NHS will get ‘all the funding it needs’ to get through Covid backlog as number waiting for routine treatment hits ANOTHER record-high with 4.7million patients on the list 387,885 people have now waited more than a year for hospital treatment 30.3% of people diagnosed with cancer are waiting more than two months… Read More »
A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. This broad-spanning patient… Read More »