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Image copyright Leahy family Image caption Matthew Leahy was found hanged at the Linden Centre in 2012 A national review has been ordered into “significant failings” at a health trust dating back more than a decade. The ombudsman found care shortcomings by the former North Essex Partnership University Trust (NEP) in the case of two […]

Nursing facilities have failed to report thousands of serious cases of potential neglect and abuse of Medicare beneficiaries even though the federal government requires such reporting, says a watchdog report due out Wednesday that calls for a new focus on protecting frail patients. Auditors with the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office drilled down

An A&E consultant, a psychiatrist, and two junior doctors swap notes on being disabled in the medical profession. Emergency medicine consultant Dr Cieran McKiernan speaks on the perils of self-diagnosis. He lost his leg after failing to treat a blister which became a 5cm-sq hole in his foot. Trainee GP Dr Hannah Barham-Brown’s wheelchair means

A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood has become the first cross-border case of Ebola in the current deadly outbreak. Now authorities are trying to determine how his family, exposed to the virus, managed to cross from Congo into neighboring Uganda. Interested in Ebola? Add Ebola as an interest to stay up to date on the latest

Image copyright DGLimages/Getty Images Image caption The curriculum will be rolled out from September 2022 for children currently in Year 3 and below The Welsh NHS bill will “go through the roof” without regular PE in schools, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has said. Due to be introduced in 2022, the draft curriculum does not specify a

Image copyright TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The NHS fraud squad is investigating GPs in England amid suspicions they are claiming for non-existent patients. Doctors get £150 a year for each patient on their list, but records show there were 3.6 million more patients in the system last year than there were people in England. The

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Almost 1,400 have died in a recent outbreak in neighbouring DR Congo A five-year-old boy in Uganda has been diagnosed with Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. This is the first case confirmed in the country amid a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. More than

Environmental Protection Agency chiefs from three previous Republican administrations say they’re concerned about Trump administration actions rolling back environmental protections. EPA heads under former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush appeared Tuesday before a House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee. Obama-era EPA head Gina McCarthy also spoke. Christine Todd Whitman, who

A man who is one of six brothers who was infected with blood given to him by the NHS, will give evidence later to the national inquiry into the scandal. John Cornes, from Kings Heath, Birmingham, was infected by Hepatitis C while being treated for haemophilia. Three of his brothers were infected with HIV and

Image copyright Google Maps Image caption Ms Kreichgauer visited A&E with an infected cat bite on her hand A woman with an infected cat bite died from sepsis after she was sent home from hospital without the proper treatment. Newham General Hospital has apologised over the death of 61-year-old Gabriele Kreichgauer. A junior doctor who