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Infectious disease expert and Manhattan physician Matt McCarthy sounded the alarm Monday about the critical lack of available testing for the new coronavirus, blasting it as a “national scandal” that has “hamstrung” health care professionals. A visibly frustrated McCarthy, who is on staff at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, complained on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he has to […]
Welsh victims of the contaminated blood scandal are being used as “political footballs”, a help group has said. Charity Haemophilia Wales said it was concerned victims were dying without getting the financial support they deserved due to differences in how much money is paid out across the UK. Payments to victims in England were increased […]
More than 200 new families have contacted an inquiry into mother and baby deaths at a hospital trust in Shropshire. Investigators were already looking at more than 600 cases where newborns and mothers died or were left injured while in the care of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust. One expert says the scandal, spanning […]
Women given faulty breast implants fear thousands of them may have to pay back compensation after visits by bailiffs warning them of legal proceedings. German safety body TUV Rheinland was found liable for the global PIP implant scandal in 2017 and ordered to make payouts to victims by a French court. The firm has begun […]
A group of teenagers with haemophilia who were infected by contaminated blood made a pact -that whoever survived would find out what was killing them, a public inquiry has heard. Stephen Nicholls, now 52, said he is the only one of his friends left alive and he thinks about that “every day”. Thousands of people […]
The boss of the firm at the centre of the NHS clinical waste scandal has hit back against claims of mismanagement. Garry Pettigrew, managing director of Healthcare Environmental Services, told the BBC his company had been “vilified for providing an excellent service”. The firm has been stripped of NHS contracts after hundreds of tonnes of […]
The government has apologised for the infected blood scandal at the public inquiry into how thousands of people became infected with HIV and hepatitis. The government’s legal team said it was clear “things happened that should not have happened”. The inquiry, which started on Monday, is looking at how NHS patients were given infected blood […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Campaigners say it is time to find out the truth about the contaminated blood scandal that left nearly 3,000 people dead, as the public inquiry begins. The inquiry is looking at how thousands of NHS patients were given blood products infected with hepatitis and HIV during the 1970s […]
A UK-wide inquiry into a contaminated blood scandal that left at least 2,400 people dead will look at whether there was a cover-up by the authorities and if documents were destroyed. Treatments including blood transfusions infected thousands of patients with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s. It has been called the worst […]