Anna Malnutt Anna Malnutt says a right to paid bereavement leave would have made a huge difference to her Parents who experience miscarriage – the loss of pregnancy during the first 23 weeks – should be legally entitled to paid bereavement leave, according to a report by MPs. Currently only those who lose a child […]
BBC Ray says he feels “lucky” to have had access to the drug via the NHS, especially now he is a granddad to Willow Ray, 62 from south London, became one of the first patients to receive the weight-loss jab Wegovy on the NHS last year and has lost 14kg (just over two stone) in […]
Handout In December 2022, Andrea was barely able to open her eyes and suffered swelling around her cheeks following face fillers at a cosmetics clinic in Hull A former tattooist who left a woman “looking like a gargoyle” after giving her botched face fillers had been posing as a doctor at his aesthetics clinic, a […]
Isobel Perl Four years ago, Isobel Perl was living with friends in London and thriving. She was working for a big accountancy firm and had a busy social life. Then the pandemic hit and she lost her job. Aged 25, she had to move back in with her parents in Watford. She decided to start […]
Radio host Charlamagne tha God was puzzled why some people are celebrating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death. He questioned what Luigi Mangione’s killing of Thompson in Manhattan earlier this month accomplished, arguing that insurance companies still deny claims. “I don’t understand why people are celebrating him being killed because at the end of the day, […]
President-elect Trump in a new interview signaled he would not move to restrict access to abortion pills upon taking office, even as he acknowledged “things change.” “I’ll probably stay with exactly what I’ve been saying for the last two years. And the answer is no,” Trump told Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” when asked […]
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) said he wasn’t completely sold on his vote to support Dr. Mehmet Oz after President-elect Trump picked his former political rival to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). “Freakouts are rarely illuminating. I never committed to a yes, just an open dialogue lol,” he wrote Friday on […]
Natasha Kurzeja from London says the cost of formula is “extortionate”. When Natasha’s 12-week-old son was born, he needed extended stays in hospital, which, she says, made breastfeeding unsustainable. “It’s frustrating when you drop some of the formula because you think, ‘gosh, how much did that just cost me?’” She agrees with Clare about feeling […]
The 50-year-old relies on two different forms of morphine and a high-strength co-codamol to manage the pain. Some days “they don’t touch the sides”, leaving her barely able to move. The pain is worst in her thigh, where she had a metal rod inserted after cancer rotted her femur. Elise says the pain will only […]
Visitors to a Derbyshire waterway say they are horrified at drug pollution levels. Source link