1 . When colds and flu hit, many people automatically turn to over-the-counter (OTC) medicines to push through and treat their symptoms. Although these medicines are easily accessible and widely used, it might come as a surprise to many people to learn that they are not risk-free. A study estimated that every year, 26,735 people went to the emergency room for adverse (不利的) events related to OTC cold and cough medicines.
When two or more drugs are used together, their interactions can sometimes produce unexpected harmful effects. Physicians are typically knowledgeable about potential drug interactions, so it is very important for patients to ask their healthcare providers which OTC medicines are safe for them to use.
It is important to read the package ingredients of OTC medicines closely to avoid duplication of doses (剂量重复). Cold medicines are typically made up of multiple ingredients. A person who takes a single-ingredient medicine paired with one of these multi-ingredient medicines can receive an unsafe dose of that ingredient.
While everyone could potentially experience adverse effects from cold and flu medicines, some groups — including older adults, children and pregnant women — may be at greater risk. Older people who are using prescribed drugs to treat multiple health conditions may have a higher risk of drug interactions because of the higher number of medicines being used at the same time to treat different conditions. The aging body is not as expert at absorbing, distributing and clearing medicines as younger bodies are. This can put older adults at higher risk for an overdose and drug-to-drug interactions with some medicines.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do not recommend giving cold medicines to children under age 4. Because of a variety of factors, young children have a higher risk of an accidental overdose and adverse events that could lead to death.
1. What does the author advise patients to do in Paragraph 2?A.To ask for suggestions from doctors. | B.To buy medicines from hospitals. |
C.To read the package ingredients of drugs. | D.To take drugs as early as possible. |
A.To provide a medical choice for people who catch a cold. |
B.To show cold medicines are more likely to cause bad effects. |
C.To explain OTC medicines often have more than one ingredient. |
D.To stress the importance of learning about medicines’ ingredients. |
A.They can’t cope with aging positively. | B.Their body can’t handle medicines easily. |
C.They are more easily affected by diseases. | D.Their desire for health makes them unwise. |
A.Say No to OTC Drugs | B.Tips on Taking OTC Drugs |
C.OTC Medicines May Not Be Safe | D.How to Deal with an OTC Drug Overdose |
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3 . Thousands of lives have been saved by giving blood-thinning drugs to people with a heart condition that leaves them at risk of a stroke(中风), according to the head of the NHS.
Since January 2022 about 460,000 people in England who suffer from atrial fibrillation(AF)- a dangerously irregular heart rate-have begun taking one of four anticoagulant(抗凝血剂) drugs that are proved to reduce stroke risk. Speedy introduction of the drugs has kept 4,000 people alive who would otherwise have died and prevented about 17,000 strokes, according to Amanda Pritchard. Strokes kill about 27,000 people a year in England and lead to about 120,000 being taken to hospital.
A drive to encourage take-up of the drugs means 90% of the 1.5 million people in England with AF are using them. That should result in fewer strokes, which are a leading cause of death and disability, given that AF causes about one in five strokes.
“The rapid introduction of these drugs is a big step forward in providing the best possible care for patients with heart disease”, Pritchard, the leader of NHS(National Health Service) England, will say in a speech today at the King’s Fund health experts’ yearly conference.
The drugs, called direct oral anticoagulants, help stop blood from clotting(凝血), therefore reducing the risk of a clot developing and causing a stroke. In 2021 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended that doctors use four anticoagulant drugs.
Dr Maeva May, the Stroke Association’s director, thought the widespread use of the drugs as “fantastic news”, because AF accounts for one in five strokes and strokes in people with AF are more likely to result in death or serious disability.
NHS England has used its spending power to cut deals with the makers of the four drugs, which has made them much more widely available. The British Heart Foundation praised the NHS’s “great progress towards its goal of reducing stroke deaths”.
1. What is the purpose of listing numbers in paragraph 2?A.To attract the readers’ attention to strokes. |
B.To introduce the specific information about AF. |
C.To show the effects of four anticoagulant drugs. |
D.To summarize the steps towards reducing deaths. |
A.To identify signs of strokes. | B.To reduce blood pressure. |
C.To keep heart beating. | D.To prevent blood clotting. |
A.They have reached some agreements. | B.They have provided free treatment. |
C.They have established disease funds. | D.They have reminded of stroke deaths. |
A.Recognising Signs of A Heart Attack | B.A Breakthrough in Stroke Prevention |
C.Exploring Kinds of Anticoagulant Drugs | D.NHS England’s Life-Saving Conference |
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5 . “I never thought that I would beat the tumor.” says a cancer patient in Lanzhou in Northwest China’s Gansu province. The man adds that he is particularly grateful for heavy ion therapy he received, at a follow-up visit following several rounds of treatment revealing that his cancer cells had disappeared.
A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the country’s first medical heavy ion accelerator with independent intellectual property rights, and put it into clinical application. Cancer treatments employing heavy ion accelerators can bombard a target with high-energy electrons to kill cancer cells. Compared to traditional therapy such as radiation, heavy ion treatment is considered to be more balanced, exposing healthy cells to less radiation. The treatment period is shorter and the therapy can more effectively control cancer cells.
In 1993, researchers proposed to carry out basic research on heavy ion cancer treatment during an academic conference held in Tianshui, Gansu. In 2006, China followed the United States, Japan and Germany to become the fourth country to successfully carry out heavy ion clinical treatment, when four cancer patients participated in preliminary clinical trials for heavy ion therapy. In 2015, China’s first such accelerator, with independent intellectual property rights, rolled off the production line in Wuwei, in Gansu. On March 26, 2020, the accelerator was put into operation, and by the end of June this year, more than 750 patients completed their therapy at Wuwei’s heavy ion treatment center, with remarkable curative effects. The follow-up statistics showed that the three-year local tumor control rate reached 84 percent among 46 clinical trial participants.
Heavy ion therapy is highly effective in treating a wide range of solid tumors and can be used in cases where surgery is not possible or unsuitable, when a patient is sensitive to conventional radiation therapy, or prone to relapse following such therapy. This includes tumors located in the central nervous system, head, neck, skull base, chest and abdomen. So far there have been several cases where people have recovered from cancers by the therapy.
1. Why is the man in para.1 mentioned?A.To celebrate a successful treatment. | B.To bring up a new kind of therapy. |
C.To show his cancer cells had disappeared. | D.To show the man is brave and lucky. |
A.China is the first country to carry out heavy ion clinical treatment. |
B.In 2006, the United States, Japan and Germany successfully carried out heavy io n clinical treatment. |
C.Heavy ion cancer treatment is more beneficial to patients than traditional therapies such as radiation. |
D.Heavy ion cancer treatment is of great help in treating a certain kind of tumor. |
A.The time of the heavy ion cancer treatment. |
B.The reason why researchers develop heavy ion cancer treatment. |
C.Persons benefiting from heavy ion cancer treatment. |
D.The development of heavy ion cancer treatment in China. |
A.To give some successful examples of the new treatment |
B.To explain the process of the new treatment. |
C.To show the difficulty of the new treatment. |
D.To conclude the value of the new treatment. |
6 . A man with Parkinson’s(帕金森)disease has experienced a substantial improvement in his ability to walk after being fitted with a device that electrically stimulates his spinal cord(脊髓). The findings, although based on one person, suggest this could be used to treat movement disorders.
Treatments for Parkinson’s disease include drugs that target parts of the brain which regulates movement, as well as deep-brain stimulation, which changes the electrical signals that cause symptoms. However, many people don’t respond to these treatments, particularly if their condition is advanced, says Courtine.
He and his colleagues wanted to find out whether directly stimulating the spinal cord in a person with severe Parkinson’s disease could help. The team designed the device that specifically targets neurons(神经元)in the spine that are activated when legs walk, which showed promise in non-human primates with Parkinson’s-like symptoms. To test it in a person, the researchers recruited a 62-year-old man called Marc, who has experienced Parkinson’s symptoms for around 30 years. These included pace freezing-sudden and temporary inability to move.
The researchers first had to map the neurons in Marc’s spine. This helped to guide the application of stimulators so they would only target his legs’ neurons. They then placed sensors on Marc’s legs and shoes to monitor the electrical activity of the neurons that activate the muscles in these limbs and his feet. When these sensors detected this electrical activity, they activated the stimulators.
After three months’ training using the stimulators, Marc more or less stopped experiencing pace freezing. Marc says that passing through narrow paths or turning had previously caused pace freezing, which led to him falling five or six times a day. Marc has now been using the stimulator for two years and says he hardly falls any more, allowing him to walk several kilometres at a time.
The stimulation is personalised to Marc. Nevertheless, the team thinks a similar technique could help many people. But there are at least five more years of development before the treatment will reach people outside a trial, says Courtine.
1. Why does Courtine’s team design the device?A.Conventional treatments help little. | B.Patients suffer from deep-brain stimulation. |
C.The device is much cheaper. | D.The medicine has side-effects. |
A.The procedure of the treatment. | B.The effects of the research. |
C.The function of stimulators. | D.The prediction of researchers. |
A.Marc is dissatisfied with the treatment. | B.Marc recovers after three-month’s training. |
C.The device is specially adjusted for Marc. | D.The device has been used widely. |
A.Small sample. | B.Low technology. | C.High cost. | D.Inconvenient operation. |
7 . A doctor walked into an operating room where an operation was being performed. Everything seemed to be going well, but the doctor noticed that no one was wearing a face mask. He was surprised—wearing a face mask is a basic hospital procedure. But he didn’t say anything. The operation was a success, but a few days later the patient came down with a fever. It turned out that she had contracted a serious infection, probably because the doctors and nurses hadn’t followed a simple rule.
Atul Gawande was interested in that story and carried out a research on the importance of a checklist to boost hospital services. Gawande is a doctor himself, and in his research he suggests that if surgeons run through a simple checklist before every operation, then lives will be saved. And he’s got the numbers to prove it. In 2001, an experiment at an American hospital required doctors to use a five-point checklist before they carried out specific procedures. The checklist was just a list of routine things doctor should normally do without thinking—wearing latex gloves, washing their hands before and after every patient, and so on. By making sure that the checklist was followed, there were almost no infections during the 27 months of the experiment, and they estimate that around eight lives were saved. When the checklist was tested again in hospitals in Michigan, infections went down by 66 percent.
In his study, Gawande looks at other professions, too, to support his argument that checklists reduce accidents and improve success rates. He points out that people like engineers and pilots use checklists all the time, and he comes up with some good examples. Just imagine that an airplane crashed because the pilot had failed to follow basic procedures. Suppose a skyscraper collapsed because the engineers hadn’t remembered to do some important calculations. People would demand that officials look into these events immediately.
Gawande’s study finding is really interesting and received much public attention. It reminds us that sometimes the easiest way to avoid making mistakes is to follow a very simple set of rules. It’s relevant for all of us, not just for doctors.
1. The function of the first paragraph in this text is to ________.A.introduce the origin of the idea for Gawande’s study |
B.explain the importance of the basic hospital procedure |
C.explore the causes of infections among patients in hospitals |
D.emphasize the urgency of providing relevant training to doctors |
A.Young medical staff need follow the checklists. |
B.Checklists are necessary for hospitals in particular. |
C.Hospitals are required to maintain good management. |
D.Medical infections can be reduced by observing a set of rules. |
A.Air crashes hardly occurred with the basic procedures. |
B.Gawande intends to promote his idea to other professions. |
C.High buildings may collapse due to engineers’ miscalculations. |
D.People think it a must for a pilot or engineer to use their checklists. |
A.Unclear. | B.Dismissive. | C.Approving. | D.Doubtful. |
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10 . Online Annual Refresher
This interactive yearly refresher course provides first aiders with an opportunity to practice and update their skills as qualified first aiders, at any time while their first aid certificates (证书) are valid (有效的).
Course description
Employers are legally required to ensure their first aiders are competent and maintain their skills throughout the three years in which their certificates are valid.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) strongly recommends that first aiders attend a refresher course once every year during this three-year period.
Course content
Session (阶段) 1:
Choking — 30 minutes to complete.
After this session, you will be able to help an individual who is choking.
Session 2:
Chest Pains — 30 minutes to complete.
After this session, you will be able to help an individual who is experiencing chest pains.
Session 3:
Severe Bleeds — 45 minutes to complete.
After this session, you will be able to help an individual who is bleeding severely.
Session 4:
Recovery Position — 45 minutes to complete.
After this session, you will be able to help an individual who is unresponsive and breathing normally.
Session 5:
Basic Life Support & AED (Automated External Defibrillator) — 30 minutes to complete.
After this session, you will be able to help an individual who is unresponsive and not breathing normally.
Booking details
Please click this button below if you are the person who wishes to buy and sign up for the course. You will be directed to our Learner Management System where you will be asked to login or register for an account. You will then be given the option to buy access to the course.
1. What is HSE’s suggestion for first aiders?A.Buying a four-year first aid course. |
B.Attending an yearly refresher course. |
C.Updating identity information regularly. |
D.Downloading their certificates from the Internet. |
A.Session 1. | B.Session 2. | C.Session 3. | D.Session 4. |
A.A news report. | B.A diary entry. |
C.A research article. | D.An advertisement. |