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Woman disabled for life after paramedics push wrong button

Woman disabled for life after paramedics push wrong button

By Ed Chatterton A producer left disabled for life when bungling paramedics "pressed the wrong button" on a defibrillator during a cardiac arrest has received an undisclosed payout after suing the NHS. Meg Fozzard has been left with permanent disabilities as a result of her brain being starved

Supreme Court preserves access to mifepristone via telehealth – at least for now

Supreme Court preserves access to mifepristone via telehealth – at least for now

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that patients can continue to get mifepristone, one of the two drugs used for medication abortion, via telehealth and by mail. At least for now. A lower court had temporarily blocked this access nationwide in early May 2026. The case now returns to

From medieval plague ships to hantavirus: How outbreaks at sea helped to shape the international public health system

From medieval plague ships to hantavirus: How outbreaks at sea helped to shape the international public health system

Cruise ships are convenient floating hotels by which to see far-flung parts of the world – but as an epidemiologist, I know they are also everything an infectious pathogen could want: thousands of strangers packed into enclosed spaces for days or weeks, sharing dining rooms and high-touch surfaces such

Nurse donates kidney to stranger on same day as husband’s transplant

Nurse donates kidney to stranger on same day as husband’s transplant

By Amy Reast A kind nurse who wasn't a match for her sick husband donated her kidney to a stranger being treated at the hospital where she works—on the same day he had his transplant. Filipinas Nercua, then 50, volunteered to donate a kidney to her husband,

Life after cancer treatment is different. So are the health needs.

Life after cancer treatment is different. So are the health needs.

Life after cancer treatment is different. So are the health needs. Nearly 10 years after Kara Kenan of North Carolina finished treatment for advanced breast cancer, her routine bloodwork revealed an increased level of an enzyme called alkaline phosphatase. Kenan’s primary care doctor didn’t think that was important,

Stress-sensing lie detector can also spot distressed babies

Stress-sensing lie detector can also spot distressed babies

By Stephen Beech A new stress-sensing wireless lie detector can also spot potentially deadly sleep disorders in babies. The patch monitors physical signs of stress, indicative of lying in interviews, when attached to someone's chest. But, beyond its capacity as a wearable lie detector, American scientists say

RFK Jr. swaps vaccine talk for healthy foods and reading to tots in push to woo voters

RFK Jr. swaps vaccine talk for healthy foods and reading to tots in push to woo voters

TOLEDO, Ohio — The little boy, dressed in a Toy Story sweatshirt, wrapped himself around the nation’s health secretary. “What do you guys want to be when you grow up?” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a carpet full of preschoolers. “A dinosaur!” the boy replied,