The toddler who fell of his bike and scraped his knee. The woman with a common bowel disease injury. And the man with Strep throat.
All are victims of a minor, treatable problems that turned deadly in a matter of seconds. Thankfully, all four survived – but left with life-changing injuries, including legs so destroyed they had to be amputated.
The culprit is a terrifying condition that occurs in response to a minor infection, and affects one American every 20-seconds:
Inside a generic government-office conference room in downtown Indianapolis, Caitlin Bernard sat before six members of Indiana’s Medical Licensing Board, whose cases typically involve complaints against physicians who bilked a patient or drove while drunk. But at this hearing the subject was the intricacies of patient-privacy rules. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a reporter had overheard Bernard tell a fellow-doctor that a ten-year-old girl from Ohio was coming to Indianapolis
A heartbroken father claims Martha’s Rule, which grants hospital patients’ relatives the right to a second medical opinion, could have saved his son’s life.
Balram Patel died at St Thomas’ Hospital in London in August last year from a build-up of fluid that flooded his lungs.
The 30-year-old had multiple disabilities and suffered from six conditions, including rare ones which affected his heart and lung, as well as liver cancer. His illnesses saw him spend weeks as an inpatient at
Doctors today called for President Joe Biden to receive cognitive tests that prove he’s fit to serve after an astonishing week of gaffes, as well as a report from the justice department that raised serious questions about his health.
The DOJ report described Biden, 81, as a ‘elderly man with a poor memory’, finding that he did not remember the years he was vice president and could not recall, ‘even within several years’, when his son Beau died.
Doctors reacting
A Missouri woman who has warned young ‘healthy, active’ people to ‘listen to their body’, after her colon cancer symptoms were dismissed by doctors as exhaustion and hemorrhoids.
Jill MacDonald was a ‘sporty’ 36 year-old who loved physical activity and took pride in cooking herself balanced nutritious meals.
Never did she expect that she’d be diagnosed with a disease that, in half of cases, can be attributed to an unhealthy lifestyle.
By the time Jill MacDonald’s cancer was eventually spotted,
Pharmacists should not be considered a substitute for GPs, campaigners said today as Rishi Sunak faced backlash over his ‘revolution’.
Under blockbuster NHS plans designed to free up millions of doctors’ appointments, chemists have been given new powers to hand out prescriptions for seven common ailments.
It means patients battling minor illnesses, such as a sore throat or earache, can now bypass their GP.
But critics have slammed the ‘risky’ scheme, with pharmacists battling their own crisis that has left
A glamorous entrepreneur who became the first person to receive six offers on Dragons’ Den has been accused of ‘selling snake oil’ and preying on the ‘most vulnerable and horribly ill people in society’.
Giselle Boxer, 31, from Sheffield, appeared on the BBC show last week and asked for £50,000 for a 10 per cent stake in her business, Acu Seeds.
The mother of one said she set up the business, which sells £30 gold plated ear seeds, while on
Former Instagram travel blogger Jessica Stein has become a virtual housebound recluse after her pleas for cash to fund treatment for a serious illness were questioned and a GoFundMe appeal was dramatically halted.
At the peak of her popularity in the late 2010s, Ms Stein’s Tuula Vintage travel blog had three million followers on Instagram and Facebook – with fans including Liz Hurley tracking her jet-setting adventures around the world.
But the dream lifestyle updates with her partner Patrick Cooper
Junior doctors are today set to stage the longest ever strike in the history of the NHS.
Workers began a six-day walkout at 7am, delaying care for tens of thousands of patients and with experts warning it would be the NHS’s ‘toughest challenge yet’.
As many as 200,000 operations and appointments could be cancelled — bringing the total number since junior doctor industrial action started to more than 1million.
The strike comes at one of the busiest times of the
It has been six years since Masterchef host Gregg Wallace was in such bad shape that doctors warned he was heading for a heart attack.
More than a decade of snacking on the set of the BBC cookery show and grabbing meals on the run had him tipping the scales at nearly 17 stone, which – given he’s 5ft 8in – left him with a dangerously obese BMI of 36.1.
Blood tests revealed his cholesterol was ‘sky-high’ – nearly three
