30 h. ago Statins almost halve the risk of death in patients critically ill with sepsis

Statins lower cholesterol to prevent heart attacks and strokes and are taken by around 5 million adults in the UK.

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4 d. ago Tragic descent into darkness of the man who watched first Sarco pod suicide: Euthanasia advocate was 'broken' after ten weeks in a police cell then 'fell' from third

Assisted dying campaigner Dr Florian Willet was the only person to witness the first Sarco pod death - watching as a gravely ill woman entered the machine.

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5 d. ago Tomato recall elevated by FDA due to heightened risk of illness and death

Tomatoes have been the subject of several recent recalls

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6 d. ago Brave mum who plans to end her life after daughter’s exams says decision is her ‘last bit of parenting’

A mum with motor neurone disease is planning to starve herself to protect her 'amazing' children from seeing her 'brutal' death, after being diagnosed with the terminal illness two years ago.

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9 d. ago Nan crushed to death by beach bulldozer so badly that people who saw fell ill

A new grandmother was tragically crushed to death by a bulldozer while on a beach - the crush was so horrific that a lifeguard had to be hospitalised

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1 week ago Mother and daughter arrested after death of baby at illegal daycare center in California

Maria Cleotilde Marquez, 62, and her daughter, Johanna Marquez, 35, face manslaughter and abuse charges

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2 w. ago ‘I was sure salvation lay in art’: Marina Otero on death, dance and mental illness

The Argentinian choreographer, known for working out her traumas and neuroses on stage, is bringing her provocative new work, Kill Me, to AustraliaLong ago, Marina Otero decided she would film her life until she dies, as part of an attempt to understand her pain and her preoccupation with death. “I was sure that salvation lay in art,” she says. So when she suffered a mental breakdown in 2022, the Argentinian choreographer decided to keep recording.“It seemed interesting to me, recording the darkest parts of a person,” Otero tells Guardian over Zoom from Madrid, where she is based. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'I died for eight minutes – what I saw convinced me death is an illusion'

Brianna Lafferty has claimed death is an illusion after her near-death experience, where she heard a "voice" and saw "beings". She has now opened up about what happened

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2 w. ago A life saved and what Erin Patterson allegedly confided to friends: week four of the mushroom lunch trial

Sole surviving lunch guest watches on as Victorian supreme court hears how hospital staff ‘thought he was going to die’ from death cap mushroom poisoningWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Ian Wilkinson sat in the Victorian supreme court, only metres from the woman accused of trying to murder him, as one of the men who helped save his life gave evidence.Prof Stephen Warrillow, the director of intensive care at Austin Health, had already spoken about the deaths of three people from death cap mushroom poisoning and the particular characteristics of their illnesses; “rapidly progressive deterioration”, the organ failure and of it being “non-survivable”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman says 'death is an illusion' after being declared dead for eight minutes

Brianna was decalred dead for eight mninutes and says her time in the afterlife felt like months

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3 w. ago At least five more MPs have decided to vote against UK assisted dying bill

With two others moving to vote in favour, and a previous majority of 55, the bill seems likely to pass next stageAt least five MPs who previously abstained on the assisted dying bill have decided to vote against it at its next stage in the commons, the Guardian understands.The shift by a number of previously absent or undecided MPs towards voting against it has led to some concern among proponents of Kim Leadbeater’s bill, which would allow an assisted death for those with a terminal illness with less than six months to live. Continue reading...

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