3 h. ago ‘My best friend was happy, healthy and looking forward to new year. Then his heart just stopped’

Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome affects around 500 people every year in the UK

Events

48 h. ago 'Rapid heart attack test' to stop patients waiting up to two hours for care

A blood test should be able to tell if a patient’s chest pains are actually a heart attack in a matter of minutes

Events

3 d. ago Reporter questions claim of BBC ‘systemic bias’ on trans issues

Deborah Cohen says she is not aware of any attempts within corporation to stop or shape her reporting on subjectA reporter at the heart of the BBC’s coverage of gender dysphoria has questioned claims that the corporation suffers from “systemic bias” on trans issues, saying it ran a series of reports without any interference.Claims that the BBC had failed to properly cover gender and trans issues formed part of a memo alleging “serious and systemic problems” of bias at the corporation. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago BBC reporter who covered gender dysphoria questions claim of ‘systemic bias’

Deborah Cohen says she is not aware of any attempts within corporation to stop or shape her reporting on trans issuesA reporter at the heart of the BBC’s coverage of gender dysphoria has questioned claims that the corporation shows “systemic bias” on trans issues, saying it ran a series of reports without any interference.Claims that the BBC had failed to properly cover gender and trans issues formed part of a memo alleging “serious and systemic problems” of bias at the corporation. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?

Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions“It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Margaret Atwood opens up about heart condition and medication that turns her ‘blue’

‘My heart would stop for up to 10 seconds,’ author writes in her new memoir

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3 w. ago Labour goes to war with CPS over China spying trial claiming officials warned of evidence's shortcomings almost two YEARS before it collapsed

Two Downing Street officials at the heart of the affair said they warned prosecutors that evidence would stop short of calling the Communist regime an 'enemy' of Britain in December 2023.

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3 w. ago Ambulance viewers left sobbing just five minutes into new BBC series as panicked man forced to deliver wife's baby at home in heart

Ambulance returned to BBC1 on Tuesday night for its latest series - and it was a tearjerker within minutes. The programme follows the ups and downs of workers in the NHS Ambulance Service.

Society

3 w. ago Terrifying moment road rage thug slams on the brakes and stops his pick

Heart-stopping footage shows the yob swerve his Volkswagen pick-up truck in front of another car on lane three of the M40.

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4 w. ago Paul Gascoigne says his heart stopped for 3 minutes before being revived by injection

Paul Gascoigne was in an induced coma for 18 days after he was 'dead' for three minutes in the operating theatre of a rehab clinic in Arizona in 2013. People even thought he had died

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4 w. ago ‘I was doing a spin class, the next moment the gym manager was giving me CPR’

An avid gym-goer was halfway through his usual class when his heart suddenly stopped. Andrew Ward and his ‘cardiac arrest buddy’ Andy Palmer are now raising awareness for CPR

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