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• Edoxaban may be effective treatment for atrial fibrillation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

  29-08-2021 14:19
  A new study compares edoxaban anticoagulant with the standard of care in large randomized clinical trial.
  
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• Clare Wenger obituary

  29-08-2021 13:39
  
  Gerontologist who studied how support systems for older people in rural areas adapt as aspects of society changeThe gerontologist Clare Wenger, who has died aged 84, conducted the Bangor Longitudinal Study of Ageing, the first of its kind in the UK, which spanned 20 years from 1979 until 1999, and collected data on the availability and provision of support from family, friends and neighbours for older people in a rural area of North Wales.At the time, there were concerns that urbanisation and in
  
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• Vulnerable children at risk as England faces shortfall of 25,000 foster families

  29-08-2021 09:45
  
  No support, a broken system and increasing poverty are hampering the recruitment of carers, charities warnEngland faces a 25,000 shortfall in foster families over the next five years, amid complaints of a lack of support for existing carers and a broken system that pits councils against private agencies for potential candidates.Around a fifth of foster households exit the system each year, leaving local councils and specialist agencies scrambling to recruit families just to keep the current leve
  
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