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Crumbling hospitals are suffering chemical leaks and broken fire alarms as NHS repair bill passes £10billion

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Crumbling NHS hospitals are suffering chemical leaks and broken fire alarms as the cost of tackling the repair backlog passes £10billion, an investigation reveals.

Bosses reported 115 chemical incidents last year, including on children’s wards, A&Es and maternity units.

Health leaders last night described the repair bill as ‘eye-watering’ and warned buildings and facilities are ‘in a very bad way and getting worse’.

Manchester University Trust recorded 22 chemical leaks, which is more than any other trust that responded to

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Hospitals on alert over chemo drugs shortage | UK | News

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The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England sent out an alert warning to hospital drug buyers to order unlicensed imports of cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin “to meet the needs of patients”.

Cisplatin is used to treat testicular, ovarian, bladder, head and neck, lung and cervical cancer, carboplatin for ovarian cancer, and oxaliplatin for bowel, stomach, pancreatic, and oesophageal cancer.

The alert said the resupply of licensed drugs was not expected until September at the earliest.

It added

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Why London’s mayor just can’t scrap his clean air plan – POLITICO

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LONDON — Sadiq Khan is under pressure to ditch a controversial plan to clean up London’s air after a bruising by-election for the mayor’s Labour colleagues. But scrapping the plan is no panacea — and critics will have to explain what replaces it.

London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) aims to reduce the U.K. capital’s emissions of nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxide (referred to together as NOx) by imposing a charge on polluting vehicles when they enter the zone. It’s

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London’s Sadiq Khan moves to soften emissions scheme impact after backlash – POLITICO

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LONDON — Mayor of London Sadiq Khan moved to soften the impact of a city-wide emissions reduction scheme after a voter backlash saw the Labour Party fail to make a gain at a crucial by-election.

The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) — which costs drivers of polluting vehicles £12.50 a day to enter — is set to expand to cover the whole of London from 29 August in a bid to tackle the city’s air pollution problem.

Khan, Labour’s London

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understanding the condition – POLITICO

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Every breath we take is a gift, yet for hundreds of millions across the globe, breathing comes with a challenge – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).1,2 Never heard of it? You’re not alone. A recent Ipsos poll* shows that for most people, the disease is a mystery, and despite its dire consequences, COPD remains an often under-recognized and under-prioritized non-communicable disease (NCD).3,4

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an increasingly important threat to the public and health systems

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Fears of a ticking cancer timebomb: Study shows hundreds of thousands of Americans missed out on a diagnosis during Covid – when hospitals prioritized virus and lockdowns left patients too scared to come forward

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The US is facing a cancer timebomb because hundreds of thousands of patients missed out on a diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

A new analysis shows rates of new cancer patients fell by around 15 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, the equivalent of around 125,000 fewer diagnoses.   

However, the true number of missed cancers could be even higher, possibly by hundreds of thousands, based on the recent increasing trends of diagnoses.

It is the latest in a long line

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Georgia’s EU dreams live or die with Mikheil Saakashvili – POLITICO

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TBILISI, Georgia — Almost every day, Giuli Alasania makes the drive down a dusty highway through the Georgian capital to visit her son, former President Mikheil Saakashvili, in hospital.

“It’s ironic,” she says, fussing over the plastic pots of stewed beans and salads she is bringing for his lunch, “when he was president, he built this clinic. Now he’s dying in it.”

Ailing and imprisoned, Saakashvili holds Georgia’s future

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Outcry in Poland after claims that prosecutors drained cesspit in abortion probe – POLITICO

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WARSAW — The political row over sexual and reproductive rights in Poland has reignited after local media reported Wednesday that a woman who miscarried had her house’s cesspit drained in search of the fetus on orders of a prosecutor seeking to find out if the miscarriage was in fact an abortion.

The report is the latest in a series of high-profile incidents concerning Polish authorities’ heavy-handedness around abortion laws

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Inside a Ukrainian baby factory – POLITICO

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KYIV, Ukraine — When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to a surrogacy firm in Ukraine hoping to build a family six years ago, she says she never expected the uncertainty and heartbreak the process would bring.

Tanya desperately wanted a child but found out she would be unable to conceive herself. After discovering how expensive surrogacy in the U.S. can be, she and her husband began pursuing options abroad — and

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In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—by Design

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In the case, which is backed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the plaintiffs argue that, “contrary to their stated purpose of furthering life, the bans are exposing pregnant people to risks of death, injury, and illness, including loss of fertility.” A statement from the office of the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, in response to the suit said that he was “committed to doing everything in his power to protect mothers, families, and unborn children, and he will continue

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