3 d. ago The hospitals guilty of the most catastrophic blunders: From scalpels left in patients after surgery, to cutting off the wrong limb

More than 300 such events, which include accidental organ removal, performing surgery on the wrong patient, or leaving tools like scalpels inside a patient's body were recorded last year.

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4 d. ago Andy Burnham slams Rachel Reeves' DWP benefits cuts as 'the wrong choice'

The mayor has joined Labour MPs worried about the move, but says welfare reform is needed

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4 d. ago Rachel Reeves defends benefit cuts and denies further tax rises likely in autumn – UK politics live

Chancellor confirmed welfare cuts of £4.8bn in spring statement, but insisted the priority was to restore stability to the public finances Nick Robinson is interviewing Rachel Reeves on the Today programme now.Q: You promised just one budget a year, but yesterday you had to announce drastic cuts. What’s gone wrong?We’re not at the moment at a position where we want to do anything to escalate these trade wars.Trade wars are no good for anyone. It will end up with higher prices for consumers, pushing up inflation after we’ve worked so hard to get a grip of inflation, and at the same time will make it harder for British companies to export. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Terminal cancer patient 'violated' as 'hospital staff shared photos of her in surgery'

Gemma Sabatino spent two months in Addenbrooke's Hospital after falling from a bridge and was also under the care of the hospital's mental health and cancer teams when she says records were accessed

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2 w. ago Patient’s leg is amputated after knee surgery goes horribly wrong

Dr. Dean Wang claimed he ‘nicked a vein’ but he actually hit a main artery in Wayne Wolff’s leg, the suit says

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3 w. ago Alexa Chung cuts a chic figure in a frilly pink dress and fur coat as she joins glamorous Chappell Roan at Valentino's Paris Fashion Week show

She never puts a foot wrong when it comes to fashion. And Alexa Chung cut a chic figure as she led the arrivals to Valentino's Paris Fashion Week show on Sunday.

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3 w. ago Woman, 27, undergoes surgery to restore 'dire' long Covid consequence

Breakthrough nose surgery is restoring the loss of smell in some Covid patients

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3 w. ago Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery

Surgeons believe the technique called functional septorhinoplasty (fSRP) ‘kickstarts’ smell recovery in patients Doctors in London have successfully restored a sense of smell and taste in patients who lost it due to long Covid with pioneering surgery that expands their nasal airways to kickstart their recovery.Most patients diagnosed with Covid-19 recover fully. But the infectious disease can lead to serious long-term effects. About six in every 100 people who get Covid develop long Covid, with millions of people affected globally, according to the World Health Organization. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Patients have sense of smell restored thanks to surgery to treat long Covid

All patients taking part in the research had an impaired sense of smell for longer than two years.

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3 w. ago Jannik Sinner’s pointed Indian Wells absence leaves door open for rivals

Banned world No 1 casts a shadow as tour returns to tournament at which sequence of events began that led to punishmentEarly on during his stay in the Californian desert a year ago, Giacomo Naldi allegedly reached into his treatment bag one morning and accidentally brushed his left finger across the blade of a scalpel used to remove calluses, immediately drawing blood. Two days later, after Naldi had removed the bandage from his finger, his colleague Umberto Ferrara suggested he use the over-the-counter ointment Trofodermin to treat his healing wound.Naldi and Ferrara were in Indian Wells as Jannik Sinner’s physio and fitness trainer respectively. According to Sinner and his team, as Naldi began to use the ointment to treat his wound while also conducting his daily treatment on Sinner without gloves and Sinner undertook two doping tests in the subsequent two weeks, these events put into motion the most high-profile anti-doping case in tennis history as he twice tested positive. Cont...

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3 w. ago Chilling message behind severed hands of nine victims in Mexico bloodbath: How ruthless cartels punish 'thieves' by cutting off limbs as cops say butchered students 'messed with the wrong person'

Five of the nine mutilated bodies were found underneath a blood-soaked tarp, while the remaining four were found contorted inside the trunk of an abandoned car

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3 w. ago Bungling doctor cuts off boy's penis in horrific surgery gone wrong

A seven-day-old baby's penis rotted and died after an unpracticed surgeon performed a standard circumcision incorrectly, altering the boy's life forever.

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