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Plans to ban smoking outside schools and hospitals

Plans to ban smoking outside schools and hospitals

Health charities have welcomed the bill, which will be subject to consultation for the next six months. Action on Smoking and Health said it would help create a country where young people would never start smoking. “It is important to have the debate about how we will protect children and vulnerable people from the harms […]

How close were hospitals to collapse in Covid?

How close were hospitals to collapse in Covid?

This was the main reason why temporary Nightingale hospitals, built in the first Covid wave at a cost of more than £500m, only ever treated a handful of patients. It was possible to build the critical care infrastructure almost overnight, but quite another thing to find trained medics to work in them. To help plug […]

IV shortage 'creates havoc' for hospitals, exposing supply chain 'whack-a-mole'

IV shortage 'creates havoc' for hospitals, exposing supply chain 'whack-a-mole'

A shortage of IV fluid in the wake of Hurricane Helene is shining a spotlight on the fragility and vulnerability of the country’s medical supply chain.  Hospitals were left scrambling after the storm flooded a Baxter manufacturing plant in Marion, N.C. The plant makes about 60 percent of the IV fluid in the country, including […]

US approves temporary imports of IV fluids as hospitals grapple with storm-related shortages

US approves temporary imports of IV fluids as hospitals grapple with storm-related shortages

Federal health officials have approved the import of certain IV fluids from overseas as hospitals across the country scramble to deal with a Hurricane Helene-inflicted shortage.  The shortage occurred after floodwaters from Helene damaged Baxter International’s IV fluid manufacturing facility in Marion, N.C. The plant had supplied roughly 60 percent of the IV solution used […]

Five hospitals linked to disgraced surgeon Jabbar

Five hospitals linked to disgraced surgeon Jabbar

The lawyer representing families of children treated by Mr Jabbar at GOSH, the Portland Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital welcomed the widening investigation, calling for full transparency. “Sadly, at Great Ormond Street, in many of the cases we have seen so far, there has been a lack of documentation available with regards to Mr […]

Other hospitals warned over surgeon Jabbar

Other hospitals warned over surgeon Jabbar

The RCS report – first leaked to The Sunday Times earlier this month – concluded that children had “incorrect” and “unsuitable” surgery – leaving many with life-altering conditions and suffering from severe harm. Now solicitors for the families are calling for Chelsea and Westminster – where Mr Jabbar worked before Gosh – to also launch […]

Wyden presses hospitals for answers about delayed or denied emergency abortion care

Wyden presses hospitals for answers about delayed or denied emergency abortion care

A top Senate Democrat is pressing hospitals in states with abortion bans about how they are complying with a federal emergency care law, following reports about women who need emergency reproductive care being turned away.  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent letters Monday to eight hospitals in Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Florida, Louisiana and […]

Lawmakers say US firms conducting drug trials in Xinjiang hospitals

Lawmakers say US firms conducting drug trials in Xinjiang hospitals

A bipartisan group of House members is criticizing some U.S. drug companies they allege have conducted clinical trials in combination with hospitals and medical centers affiliated with the Chinese military.  “For over a decade, it appears that U.S. biopharmaceutical companies conducted clinical trials with China’s military organizations, and specifically with medical centers and hospitals affiliated […]

Texas women file federal complaint against hospitals for delayed ectopic pregnancy care

Texas women file federal complaint against hospitals for delayed ectopic pregnancy care

Two women filed federal complaints against Texas hospitals they allege refused to terminate their ectopic pregnancies, which led to both women losing a fallopian tube, compromising their future fertility. Abortion is banned in Texas, but terminating an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg implants in a fallopian tube instead of the uterus, is explicitly allowed under […]