The widow of an 81-year-old man who died in Jersey’s General Hospital six years ago after developing one of the worst pressure sores local nurses had ever seen has today broken her silence – as new ...

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Do not let this dressing dry out because it can adhere to the wound bed through the fenestrations of the Mepitel dressing. If the wound bed remains moist with daily changes, the frequency of ...

Too much earwax can cause rubbing of the ear or poking in the canal. A piece of ear wax can become dry and hard in the ear canal. This creates a feeling that an object is in the ear. Complete blockage ...

Any open wound that may need sutures should be seen as soon as possible. Ideally, they should be checked and closed within 6 hours. Reason: to prevent wound infections. There is no cutoff, however, ...

Outside magazine The idea behind sleepmaxxing — getting sufficient, good quality sleep — isn’t new, says Aruna Rao, assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. “People are finally ...