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Family fundraise for state-of-the-art scanner as thanks for decades of care – Digital Health Technology News

  • August 13, 2024
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Rheumatology patients at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital are set to benefit from early screening for cardiovascular issues – thanks to an £18,300 scanner funded by the family of a long-standing patient. Debs Venezia has been under the care of the hospital since 1991. She has a condition called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), […]

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When ‘Abortion’ Wasn’t a Dirty Word

  • August 13, 2024
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One morning in 2012, eight weeks into her pregnancy, Shannon Withycombe woke up bleeding: She was having a miscarriage. In the emergency room, however, no doctor or nurse uttered that word. Instead, she had to wait to read her discharge papers, which read “incomplete abortion.” Dr. Withycombe, a medical historian at the University of New […]