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NHS officials have announced that Martha's rule — the right of patients, families and staff to call in a different medical team for an urgent second opinion — will apply in every emergency department in England, after the ward rollout that officials say has already potentially saved hundreds of lives.
Source: The Guardian
Read the original story →CDC's 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, published on 21 September, records improvement across its mental health and suicide-risk indicators: persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness down from 40% to 33% in two years, poor mental health down from 29% to 23%, and seriously considering suicide down from 20% to 14%.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Read the original story →Singapore General Hospital is using an AI screening tool that flags bleeding inside the skull on CT scans within a few minutes, down from the 30 to 60 minutes the check normally takes — time that decides how much brain tissue survives.
Source: The Straits Times
Read the original story →Researchers report that measurable thickening in the cortex appears on MRI up to seven years before amyloid-beta plaques, the established hallmark of Alzheimer's — an early window on the disease using scanning that hospitals already have.
Source: Science News
Read the original story →The Inuit hamlet of Naujaat has finished its Ikayuut solar and battery project, generating roughly 1.6 gigawatt-hours of clean electricity a year and becoming the first community to sell power back under Nunavut's independent power producer programme.
Source: CBC North
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