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Image copyright University of Maryland Image caption The drone had to be custom-built A donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind. Many see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa. The […]

The Trump administration is putting the finishing touches on a regulation to protect the rights of clinicians who object to participating in abortions. President Donald Trump made the announcement Thursday during a speech in the White House Rose Garden to mark the National Day of Prayer. According to an earlier draft from the Department of

Image caption Ella Kissi-Debrah lived 25m from the South Circular Road in south London A fresh inquest will be held into the death of a nine-year-old girl whose fatal asthma attack may have been linked to air pollution near her home. Ella Kissi-Debrah, who lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south east London,

An embattled Phoenix long-term care facility where an incapacitated woman was raped and later gave birth has received an Arizona license to operate, the latest step in an effort to overhaul its image and operations by relinquishing oversight to the state. The Arizona Department of Health Services last week approved the license for Hacienda HealthCare

Image copyright Chaz Snell Image caption Parents in Leeds were offered classes in how to encourage their children to be healthy Across the UK, record numbers of children are obese – but one city appears to have bucked the trend. Figures presented at an obesity conference suggest Leeds has managed to reduce child obesity rates

New York City has reached a $3.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed over the 2014 death of a Rikers Island inmate who records show was deprived of seizure medication. The Daily News reported Wednesday that the city agreed last week to pay the money to Rolando Perez’s girlfriend, who is the mother of his

Image caption Owen Smith’s Pontypridd constituency includes the Royal Glamorgan Hospital A Labour MP has accused Welsh ministers of being partly to blame for failings in Cwm Taf maternity services. An independent review said units at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals were “dysfunctional” and mothers’ worries were often ignored. Pontypridd MP Owen Smith said

Congressional budget experts said Wednesday that moving to a government-run health care system like “Medicare for All” could be complicated and potentially disruptive for Americans. The report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was a high-level look at the pros and cons of changing the current mix of public and private health care financing to

Image caption Stephen Nicholls told the inquiry he was at school when his friends with haemophilia started to die 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

The woman spent more than a week at home sick before family members tried to take her to an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo. Before the motorcycle could reach the facility, it was too late. Her crumpled body rested against the driver’s back as he worriedly made phone calls, witnesses said. Health experts are