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  • NHS Updates

    UK is still calling nurses. Can you hear? This video (Malayalam) provides a tutorial on how to find job vacancies in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), particularly Band 5 jobs for international nurses. It lists top job websites and international recruiters, explains the process of applying, and shares tips for navigating online portals to […] More

  • OET Listening 49 Kelly and Paul Zang

    Part A | Extract 1: Questions 1 to 12 You hear a physiotherapist talking to a patient. For questions 1 to 12, complete the following notes with a word or short phrase. You now have thirty seconds to look at notes. Patient: Kelly Patient’s description of symptoms: Lower back pain. (1) ____________________ side, around the […] More

  • OET Listening 20 Peter and Michael

    Part A Extract 1: Questions 1-12 You hear Rose, a neonatal intensive care nurse, talking to Peter about his new-born twin. For questions 1-12, complete the notes with a word or short phrases. You now have 30 seconds to look at the notes. Father’s name: Peter Initial details: Twin babies born (1) _______________________________________________ weeks early. […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 3C5

    Even with current remedies, people typically wait until they have a full-blown headache to start treatment, which limits its effectiveness, Dr. Charles said. His advice to patients: Learn to recognise your early symptoms signalling the onset of an attack and start treatment right away before the pain sets in. Conditions that can trigger a migraine […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 3C4

    Before it was possible to study brain function through a functional M.R.I. or PET scan, migraines were thought to be caused by swollen, throbbing blood vessels in the scalp, usually affecting one side of the head. This classic migraine symptom prompted the use of medication that narrow blood vessels, drugs that help only some patients […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 3C3

    Despite being the seventh leading cause of time spent disabled worldwide, migraine “has received relatively little attention as a major public health issue,” Dr. Andrew Charles, a California neurologist, wrote recently in The New England Journal of Medicine. It can begin in childhood, becoming more common in adolescence and peaking in prevalence at ages 35 […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 3C2

    Effective migraine treatments are available—but many migraine sufferers don’t take advantage of them, either because they don’t seek help or they mistakenly believe they’re just suffering from regular headaches. “l think 80% of all migraine sufferers can be effectively helped, but only about a quarter of them are effectively helped at the present time,” says […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 3C1

    Migraines are often misunderstood, or dismissed as “just a headache.” Yet, they have the capacity to disrupt a person’s life, relationships, and sense of well-being. A study from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia found that chronic migraine sufferers experience as much social stigma as people with epilepsy—a disease that produces far more obvious and dramatic […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 2C3

    Previous studies have suggested that people who sleep less than five hours a night have a 15% greater risk of death from all causes than people of the same age who get a goodnight’s sleep. In a survey of workers in Britain, more than 5% claimed to sleep no more than five hours a night. […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 2C2

    The changes, which affect more than 700 genes, may shed light on the biological mechanisms that raise the risk of a host of ailments, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, stress and depression, in people who get too little sleep. “The surprise for us was that a relatively modest difference in sleep duration leads to these […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 2C1

    Getting too little sleep for several nights in a row disrupts hundreds of genes that are essential for good health, including those linked to stress and fighting diseases. Tests on people who slept less than six hours a night for a week revealed substantial changes in the activity of genes that govern the immune system, […] More

  • OET Reading Poll 1C5

    Now, a large study by researchers in Taiwan suggests people diagnosed with the condition have an increased risk of suicide attempts. Writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers from Taipei Veterans general hospital in Taiwan describe how they analyzed nationwide data from 8,960 women and girls aged 12 to 64 diagnosed with PCOS, covering […] More

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