#theguardian.com. × #Jan.31.2025 × Woman freed by Hamas told Starmer she was held in Unrwa premises, her mother says. British-Israeli Emily Damari was taken hostage on 7 October 2023 and says Hamas denied her medical treatment after shooting her twice
#Health × #Politics #United Kingdom #Palestine #Europe #Asia #Israel
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.31.2025 × New York doctor indicted in Louisiana over alleged abortion pill prescription. Dr Margaret Carpenter faces felony charges in state that has had near-total abortion ban since fall of Roe v Wade
#Health × #carpenter
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.31.2025 × ‘We’ve got rats as big as your feet’: Birmingham residents despair as rubbish piles up. Since the council declared itself bankrupt, and bin workers went on strike, the city’s streets have become clogged with bin bags and fly-tipping
#Health × #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.31.2025 × ‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use. Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients
#Health × #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.31.2025 × Australian hospital manager calls junior doctors ‘a workforce of clinical marshmellows’ in email stuff-up. Health officials rush to apologise as union calls misfired message from administrator ‘tone-deaf’ and ‘unacceptable’
#Health × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × Microplastics in placentas linked to premature births, study suggests. Tiny plastic pollution more than 50% higher in placentas from preterm births than in those from full-term births
#Health × #Science
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × NHS England told to scrap improvement pledges and prioritise cutting waiting times. Plans shelved include earlier cancer diagnosis, boosting women’s health and expanding access to dental care
#Health × #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × Health nominee RFK Jr to face further grilling at Senate confirmation hearing. Trump’s pick endured tough questions from Bernie Sanders on Wednesday and was accused of ‘peddling half-truths’
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × Man with ‘sexsomnia’ not guilty of raping woman after judge warns jury in Sydney trial. The 40-year-old had a medical condition where people exhibit sexual behaviour during sleep, court heard
#Health × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × Queensland’s puberty blockers ban has potential to cause harm, sex discrimination commissioner says. Anna Cody raises concerns over halt to hormone treatments for gender dysphoria as youth service labels it ‘discriminatory’
#Health × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × People in England with severe dust mite allergy to be offered daily pill on NHS. Tablet will particularly benefit people who do not respond enough to steroid nasal sprays and antihistamines
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × More than half of Sydney health district’s staff psychiatrists have resigned, leaked documents show. Documents also show plans to maintain services without bed closures and rely on ‘bolstered’ allied healthcare staff and nurses
#Health × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × Almost one in eight Britons now has private medical insurance, say healthcare analysts. Number of people covered by a private medical insurance policy hit a record high of 4.68 million at the end of 2023
#Health × #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × RFK Jr faces questions about U-turn on abortion in US Senate hearing. Health secretary nominee once identified as ‘pro-choice’ but said he agrees with Trump ‘every abortion is a tragedy’
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × Trump’s Medicaid disruption threatens vital resource for millions of Americans. A brief shutdown of the federal health insurance program struck fear into patients – and concern about what’s to come
#Health × #Politics #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × NHS England chief under fire again as MPs ‘exasperated’ by responses. Health committee criticises Amanda Pritchard’s evidence after scathing report from another Commons committee
#Business #Health × #director
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × ‘Groundbreaking’: scientists develop patch that can repair damaged hearts. Cells taken from blood and ‘reprogrammed’ into heart muscle cells may help patients with heart failure
#Health × #Science
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × Labor under growing pressure on dental cover, the ‘missing element of Medicare’. Albanese government backbenchers among those pushing to add dental to Medicare despite the health minister saying it’s not a priority
#Health × #Politics #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × Confirmation hearings begin for RFK Jr’s nomination to be US health secretary. Environmental lawyer turned anti-vaccine activist has sparked fierce resistance from scientific community
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × ‘She’s at peace and so am I’: why members of Australian religious sect the Saints deliberately denied Elizabeth Struhs lifesaving insulin. Police interviews shown during the extraordinary trial for the manslaughter of the eight-year-old Queensland child reveal the beliefs behind the inaction of her parents and others
#Health × #Religious #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × Queensland must listen to doctors on puberty blockers ahead of its own ‘ideological views’, expert says. Comments come after health minister announced on Tuesday a temporary ban on new child patients accessing transgender hormone therapies
#Health × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × ‘Complacent’ health chiefs in England lack drive to transform NHS, say MPs. Public accounts committee finds DHSC and NHS England leaders appear short of the energy and urgency needed
#Health × #Politics #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.28.2025 × Medicaid portals reportedly down after Trump’s federal funding freeze. Lawmakers and state officials say portals inaccessible for one of largest health insurance programs in US
#Health × #Tech
#theguardian.com. × #Jan.28.2025 × Kansas officials say tuberculosis outbreak is largest on record in US history. Department of health reports ‘rapid number of cases in a short amount of time’ and says that there could be more
#Health × #USA #North America
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