Temporal trends in lifetime risks of atrial fibrillation and its complications between 2000 and 2022: Danish, nationwide, population based cohort study bmj.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bmj.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
<p>A large, population-wide study of Denmark residents with type 2 diabetes shows that migrants typically face a greater risk of inferior care for their disease than native Danes, particularly when it comes to monitoring their disease and controlling biomarkers—managing blood levels of key substances that are associated with diabetes. Anders Aasted Isaksen of Aarhus University and Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Denmark, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health.</p>
Across Europe, hospitals and their staff are coming up with simple but effective ways to reduce their environmental impact while saving time and money, Elisabeth Mahase reports
After years of frustration at the numbers of items in healthcare that were used once then thrown away, Maria Gaden, a midwife by training, became the head of Denmarkâs Centre for Sustainable Hospitals. The centre, which works with all hospitals in the Central Denmark Region (Midtjylland), was established in 2021, alongside a new sustainability strategy that set three main goals for hospitals to achieve by 2030: reduce consumption by 30%, reduce the total amount of waste by 30%, and recycle 70% of all waste.
To help them achieve this a microfunding programme was set up to finance sustainability projects. Every year the scheme opens to applications, and anyone from the hospitals can apply. The money is mainly spent on subcontracting employees so that they can take a day or two off a week for perhaps half a yea
New Research Bolsters Hope for Fusion-Driven Cancer Treatment miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new study presents a promising treatment method for so-called fusion-driven cancers, which are currently often difficult to cure. These fusion-driven cancers are caused by an error in cell division that creates a fusion of different genes.