Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email An 11-year-old cancer patient with lymphoma was “broke down” to tears when she met the stem cell donor who saved her life for three years. James Benzel … Read more
Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email Six NSW Police officers placed two sets of handcuffs on a distraught 81-year-old woman battling dementia at her nursing home in Sydney, bodycam footage has revealed. Rachel … Read more
Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email A court has heard that a nurse slapped an elderly and frail patient in the face as he lay in his hospital bed. Primrose James, 51, of … Read more
by Afusat Agunbide-Oladipo The Ilorin Magistrate’s Court on Thursday remanded a doctor, Ayodele Joseph, on remand for allegedly raping a patient. The suspect was charged with two counts of gross indecency and rape contrary to sections 285 and 283 of the Penal Code. Police alleged that the accused sedated the patient, who is a professional … Read more
The management of Edo State Specialist Hospital, Benin City has rejected Mr. Sunday Oghogho’s claim that a student doctor ‘murdered’ his pregnant wife during an operation. The hospital’s management issued a clarification in response to Oghogho’s allegation that a student doctor at the hospital murdered his wife. The statement said: “The attention of the management … Read more
Turai, the wife of late President Moses Yar’Adua, on Saturday offered advice to President-elect Bola Tinubu’s wife, Remi Tinubu. Turai urges Remi to be patient as she is Tinubu’s only true advisor. He insisted that others would tell Tinubu what he wanted to hear but that he should not stop giving Tinubu advice. The former … Read more
Receive your free Morning Headlines email with news from our reporters around the world Sign up for our FREE Morning Headlines email Worms were crawling inside the open wound of an elderly dementia patient living at a £4,000-a-month nursing home which the owners blamed on a “heatwave”. Kathleen Hines, 92, was checking for cancer-triggered sore … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A cancer patient who had his check-up delayed despite discovering “alarming” lumps has stood in solidarity with striking junior doctors on a picket line, saying NHS staff pay … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Junior doctors across England will launch a four-day strike on Tuesday in a worsening dispute over pay which threatens huge disruption to the NHS. An estimated 350,000 appointments, … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email This week’s junior doctors’ strikes will pose immediate “risks to patient safety”, the head of the NHS Confederation has warned. Matthew Taylor said the stoppage would also have a longer-term “catastrophic impact” on … Read more