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A healthcare professional at a hospital in Blackpool has been arrested over the alleged poisoning of patients. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust raised concerns over care to some patients on 8 November, Lancashire Police said. The allegations related to the alleged mistreatment and neglect of some patients on the stroke unit in November, police […]
Peanut allergy can be beaten with a treatment that slowly builds up tolerance, a large study shows. None of nearly 500 four- to 17-year-olds from the US and Europe could tolerate even a 10th of a peanut. But after taking tiny daily doses for a year, two-thirds could tolerate at least two whole peanuts. Emily […]
People who live in cold climates with less sunlight are more likely to drink heavily, according to a new study. Research from the US has established a link between average temperature, hours of sunlight and alcohol consumption. Data from 193 countries provided evidence climate contributed to a higher incidence of binge drinking and liver disease. […]
Some 3,000 foreign doctors in the UK are being urgently checked after a woman practised psychiatry for 22 years without any qualifications. Zholia Alemi falsely claimed to have a medical degree from a New Zealand university when she registered in the UK in the 1995. But she had actually dropped out of medical school in […]
Every blood donation “can save up to three lives”, yet come December thousands miss vital appointments to give blood, as the festivities kick in. It can make a huge difference to patients like two-year-old Henry Alderson who needs blood transfusions every two weeks. Last year, more than 9,000 people cancelled donor appointments at short notice […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is suing the nation’s two largest drugstore chains, Walgreens and CVS, alleging they added to the state and national opioid crisis by overselling painkillers and not taking precautions to stop illegal sales. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced late Friday that she has added the companies to a state-court lawsuit […]
An 11th child has died in connection with an adenovirus outbreak at a health care facility in New Jersey that has sickened 23 others, state health officials said on Friday. The child was a resident of the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, roughly 30 miles west of Manhattan, where a new adenovirus […]
Schools are “not aware” of the need to offer allergy lessons to children, the mother of a boy with a potentially fatal allergy has said. Stephanie Hulme’s son William, six, could suffer a fatal anaphylactic shock from his allergy to cats and nuts. Mrs Hulme, of Cardiff, is giving free allergy lessons in primary schools […]
Some of Britain’s biggest employers are pressing the government to honour a promise to give mental health the same status as physical health at work. Royal Mail and WH Smith are among the companies asking the PM to follow through on her manifesto pledge to update health and safety legislation. That would mean employers would […]
A man in North Carolina who had a constant runny nose for years ultimately learned it was because of a brain fluid leak. Greg Phillpotts told local ABC 11 this week that for five years, he believed his continuous runny nose was caused by allergies. But a doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York says […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Romeo Hadley was three years old when he lost both his legs. Now seven, after 18 months of hard work, he can walk on prosthetic limbs. Romeo had complained of leg pains before he was diagnosed with purpura fulminans, a thrombotic condition that causes necrosis and blood coagulation. […]