Becton Dickinson (BD), which manufactures most of the blood tubes used by the NHS, has alerted NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) to a global shortage of some of its products. This includes two types of blood tubes: those with a yellow or purple top. BD says that the covid-19...
Professor J P Osborne, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, Combe Park, Bath BA1 3NG, UK; mpsjpo{at}bath.ac.uk Accepted 28 January 2008 Published Online First 2 May 2008 Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) is a condition well known to paediatricians for causing severe epilepsy, learning difficulties...
I work for the NHS and so am classified as a key worker (as is my partner). Where he can work from home, I can not. I am currently at home due to an IBD flare-up (which I’ll get into in a bit), but I will eventually need to go back to work. The thing is, even though...
Ovulation is a major event in themenstrual cycle(1). It occurs when hormones cause the release of an egg from one ovary, into your fallopian tube (2). Like your period, the timing of ovulation can vary from cycle to cycle and differ between people (3). Research indicates that ovulation ...
t much. The two hippos just walked slowly in and out of their night-time barn now and then. But we had a cunning plan. Emily also searched the internet (mostly Youtube) for more videos showing a wider range of speeds, and I added some more after her project. The upshot is, hippos...
Plantar fasciitis is an overuse injury, like carpal tunnel syndrome or tennis elbow in your foot, a kinda-sorta tendinitis, an inflammatory thickening6 and/or degeneration of the plantar fascia. It’s especially common in runners, and in menopausal women. “Many people are afraid of running bec...
Last month, NHS England confirmedchildren will no longer be prescribed puberty blockersat gender identity clinics, saying there is not enough evidence to support their "safety or clinical effectiveness". The drugs will now only be available to children as part of clinical research trials. ...
We can say that it is an unseen step, which allows us to perform our scenarios or tests. Why Cucumber Hooks? In the world of testing, you must have encountered the situations where you need to perform the prerequisite steps before testing any test scenario. This prerequisite can be anything...
35 is work... and now it’s the weekend. If my family ask, tell them I’m ok and if March asks, tell it I’m not home. Can we just skip that month? I won’t be a happy boy when this thing gets delisted! Other than going through an existential crisis over Mario, I’m ...
This sug- gests that the iridescence color is caused by diffraction, which was demonstrated by an experiment using an argon ion laser illuminat- ing the shell to produce a distinct diffraction image. The strength of the iridescence color can be correlated to both the groove density of the ...