Scandal-hit NHS trust at centre of baby deaths review receives its FOURTH warning in eight months from CQC over the safety of its emergency services Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust warned over its lack of paediatric staff Young emergency patients weren’t getting care in 15-minute national guideline Latest in string of scandals at beleaguered trust being … Read more
A ‘Holy Grail’ heart failure cure could be on the horizon after scientists worked out how to regenerate specialised cells in the muscle. Injecting the gene which drives cell growth in people’s infancy could restore tissue which is damaged during a heart attack, a study on pigs has found. Currently, people who have heart attacks … Read more
Penis enlargement surgery rarely works and should almost never be performed, doctors have warned. Researchers found as many as 80 per cent of men who have the ops are unhappy with the results, and many are left with ‘disfigured’ or even smaller penises. Private clinics are preying on men insecure about their bodies, one expert … Read more
A newlywed nurse who lost her mother to cancer is now battling the cruel disease herself aged just 26. Julia Cullen, from Hartlepool, County Durham, was dealt the blow just weeks after getting married when she came home tired from her honeymoon. Working 60 hours a week in the intensive care unit at the North … Read more
A cat crouches in the dappled sunlight beneath a trellis of bougainvillea, watching me sip Greek coffee and eyeing my baklava. This traditional Kafeneion (coffee shop) is behind the cathedral of Chora — the main (and only) town on the island of Ios. It’s a warren of narrow lanes that wind steeply to the cliff-edge … Read more
A pregnant woman was diagnosed with cancer after doctors stumbled across her tumour when her growing baby aggravated her symptoms. Rachel Avon was forced to have her appendix removed while six months’ pregnant after developing sharp pains in her right side. While operating on what they thought was appendicitis, the surgeons discovered the now 34-year-old … Read more
Iceland was one of the last places on earth to be settled by humans. And as these incredible photographs show, we haven’t done much with the place. And that can only be a good thing because Iceland is one of the most staggeringly extraordinary places on earth. These images are from a new book in … Read more
British people are breathing in the equivalent of one cigarette a day because of air pollution, a leading doctor has warned. The Government is now being begged by two royal medical colleges to do more to tackle the public health crisis, which is shortening thousands of people’s lives. The Royal College of Physicians and Royal … Read more
A mother has credited a mobile app for saving her life after she was diagnosed with cancer when it warned her about a suspicious mole on her leg. Seonaid Sichel, from Crewe in Cheshire, discovered she had melanoma after trying an app which checks moles for potentially dangerous changes. She said the app, which she … Read more
Ambulance services records 80% jump in staff leaving the workforce as 33,000 employees have quit since 2010 The number of people leaving NHS ambulance trusts hit 4,875 in 2017-18 That is a rise of 80 per cent from the 2,704 who left in 2010-11, figures show A third of ambulance staff have been victims of … Read more