14 h. ago Mother tells inquest how she watched her toddler son die from sepsis after he was admitted to hospital twice in just 36 hours

Devon Coroner's Court heard the three-year-old was admitted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth on the afternoon of July 6 2022, but discharged from the children's assessment unit shortly after midnight.

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27 h. ago ‘I was angry at the world’: Damon Hill on pain of his father’s death and how it fuelled his rise

Former F1 world champion’s gives a moving insight into dealing with his grief as a 15-year-old, and reflects on driving with Senna and against Schumacher“It was awful and to this day I feel the tension that I experienced,” Damon Hill says of the moment he heard on television in November 1975 that his father, Graham, the two-time Formula One world champion, had died in a plane accident. Hill had to leave the living room to find his mother and tell her what had happened.“It was like having a nuclear bomb and I dropped it on my mum. Of course it was accentuated by the fact I was 15, which is when you haven’t got the defences to deal with it.” Continue reading...

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56 h. ago ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: How cherry vodka took the edge off my 'scanxiety'

It's exactly a year since I was in hospital, recovering from a six-hour operation to remove a cancerous tumour from my colon.

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57 h. ago Husband's fury as elderly wife waits for 25 hours in hospital corridor

Carol Upton was taken into hospital with suspected appendicitis

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3 d. ago Too scared to go to hospital: the pregnant women in Dominican Republic dying because of deportation fears

Haitian Lourda Jean Pierre died shortly after giving birth at home after seeing images of pregnant women and new mothers being rounded up in hospitals by immigration agentsAbout an hour after giving birth on the floor of her one-room shack in the Dominican Republic, Lourdia Jean Pierre, 32, started gasping for breath.Her husband, Ronald Jean, knew something was seriously wrong, and shouted for help from the neighbours. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago They are forced to travel 1,000 miles to get healthcare for their trans kid. But they still refuse to leave Tennessee

After the USA’s highest court backed states’ rights to block transgender under-18s from lifesaving medical treatments, one Tennessee mother tells Io Dodds why she and her family plan to stay and fight

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5 d. ago Woman who fractured baby's arm while in her care at Glasgow flat dodges jail

Demi Laurie took five hours to take the baby girl to a hospital after realising she was injured.

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6 d. ago British teacher, 25, dies in China just 90 minutes after telling his mother how much he was looking forward to trip back to UK

Bradley Hall, 25, had been working as a teacher near Shanghai for two years when he died suddenly on May 10.

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6 d. ago Scots mum convinced toddler son had past life in 1800s after eerie encounter

Laighanne McLaughlin's son made a chilling claim at nursery.

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6 d. ago Two Brits are arrested after brutal Majorca brawl caught on camera that saw one man smashed over the head with a bottle

Police today confirmed three people had been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after the incident in the early hours of Sunday morning.

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6 d. ago New mother is 'humbled' by change in her appearance after having a baby

The Kenya-based young mother is 'beyond humbled' by her new role as a parent - but fellow TikTok users have, for the most part, focused very negatively on her appearance.

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7 d. ago Dad's chilling police call after leaving toddler son to die in boiling 43C car

Scott Gardner, 33, has been arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and child neglect after his 18-month-old son died in a hot car in Ormond Beach, Florida

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1 week ago Girl, 11, beats cancer but dies days later after hospital makes 'fatal mistake'

Ava Wilson, 11, was prescribed a lethal amount of morphine, hydroxyzine and gabapentin by staff at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois and died around 36 hours later

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1 week ago Dad 'left son to die in hot car for hours as he got haircut and went to bar'

Scott Allen Gardner, 33, has been arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and child neglect causing great bodily harm after his toddler son Sebastian died

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1 week ago Aston Merrygold rushed to hospital as JLS star shares concerning ambulance snap

JLS star Aston Merrygold has shared a concerning snap from the back of an ambulance as he revealed he had been in hospital for 13 hours after being rushed there

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1 week ago Horrifying moment girl, 9, walks out of sea with no hand after shark attack

Leah Lendel, 9, was snorkelling in Florida on June 11 when she was attacked by a shark. She was airlifted to hospital and underwent a six-hour surgery to repair her hand

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1 week ago 'Beautiful' singer who died having boob and nose job 'partied with surgeon night before'

Ana Bárbara Buhr Buldrini, a 31-year-old singer from Mozambique, died at a hospital in Turkey just hours after receiving a breast augmentation, liposuction and a nose job

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1 week ago From Beersheba to Babylon: Netanyahu casts himself as liberator of Iran

Speaking at a hospital hit by an Iranian missile, the Israeli prime minister invoked ancient Persia as he hinted at a historic missionIt was in the Beersheba, about a thousand kilometers and 2,500 years from Babylon, that Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Thursday that the time had come for the Jews to repay their ancient debt to Cyrus the Great and bring liberation to Iran.The Israeli prime minister had just made a tour of Beersheba’s Soroka hospital which a few hours earlier had sustained a direct hit from an Iranian ballistic missile on one of its buildings. It was for that reason the scene of an escape which was already being dubbed miraculous by Israel’s leaders. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Monty Python legend, 82, rushed to hospital after 'I should not be alive' confession

Eric Idle, star of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe, says he was taken to hospital twice in the space of just 72 hours in a nasty and unexpected health scare

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1 week ago Kylian Mbappe rushed to hospital as Real Madrid issue statement in Club World Cup turmoil

Kylian Mbappe has been hospitalised with illness just hours after Real Madrid were held to a 1-1 draw by Al Hilal in their Club World Cup opener

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