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A Florida woman accused of assaulting her boyfriend also allegedly shouted “I have the coronavirus” and then coughed in the face of a paramedic. LaDonald Shakkie Holmes, 38, was arrested on March 18 after officers for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded to a domestic violence call in Lady Lake. Holmes’ boyfriend told officers that […]
Two brothers accused of profiting off of coronavirus fears by buying up thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and medical masks to resell at inflated prices have been ordered to halt operations amid an investigation by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. Matt Colvin and Noah Colvin of Hixson, Tennessee, were served a complaint from the […]
Vice President Mike Pence told Jake Tapper on CNN Sunday it was “understandable” that Donald Trump Jr. accused Democrats of wanting “millions of people” to die of coronavirus to make the president look bad. Tapper played a Fox News tape of Trump Jr. on Friday calling it a “new level of sickness” for the Democrats to […]
A campaign group’s video of a patient dying in agony in a hospice has provoked outrage from doctors and nurses, who say it is ‘”scaremongering” and “sensationalist”. Dignity in Dying, which produced the film, said it was “a realistic portrayal” of the deaths of a minority of people in the UK. In a report, it […]
A father and son have been federally charged for allegedly selling body parts on the black market they knew were contaminated with infectious diseases. Donald Greene Sr. was charged with wire fraud in relation to a years-long operation that involved selling diseased cadavers to unwitting researchers, the Associated Press reports. His son, Donald Greene II, […]
An Illinois mother has been charged in the death of her teenage daughter after hiding the child’s diabetes diagnosis for five years, according to news reports. Emily Hampshire, 14, of Alton, died at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital last November of an illness triggered by her condition, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said. Her mother, […]
By Barbara Feder Ostrov and Harriet Blair Rowan The doctor instructed his patient to stand in front of him. He cupped her crotch and inserted his fingers into her vagina through her clothes, moving his hand repeatedly to her rectal area. Then he squeezed her breasts, according to a formal accusation filed by the Medical Board […]
A Tennessee doctor borrowed a large sum of money from a female patient and then falsely diagnosed her with a mental disorder when she asked for it back, according to a state regulatory commission. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners found Dr. Suellen Lee, 79, of Columbia, guilty last month of “unprofessional, dishonorable or unethical […]
One of the world’s biggest tobacco firms, Philip Morris, has been accused of “staggering hypocrisy” over its new advert that urges smokers to quit. The Marlboro maker said the move was “an important next step” in its aim to “ultimately stop selling cigarettes”. But Cancer Research said the firm was simply trying to promote its […]
Allergy sufferers hospitalised after eating Pret a Manger sandwiches have demanded change to the company’s labelling. The coroner leading an inquest into the death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse has also described the allergy labelling at Pret as “inadequate”. Ms Ednan-Laperouse, 15, who was allergic to sesame seeds, died after eating a baguette from the food chain […]
This piece was originally published on Rooted in Rights. By Reid Knight Recently, while on a date, the subject of service animals came up. My date spoke of a female coworker who would occasionally bring a service dog to work. They expressed their disbelief about their coworker’s disability – an anxiety disorder – because she […]
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