2 h. ago ‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writesTo read Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which has won this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction, is to experience an onslaught of often competing emotions. There is awed disbelief at the sheer skill and dedication of the medical teams who transplanted the heart of nine-year-old Keira, who had been killed in a head-on traffic collision, into the body of Max, a little boy facing almost certain death from rapidly deteriorating dilated cardiomyopathy. There is vast admiration for the inexhaustible compassion of the teams who cared for both children and their families, and wonder at the cascade of medical advances, each breakthrough representing determination, inspiration, rigorous work, and careful navigation of newly emerging ethical territ...

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3 h. ago Colleagues pay tribute to 'warm, smiling' doctor and family who perished on doomed Air India plane

Tributes were paid today to a 'warm, smiling and kind' NHS doctor, his wife and three young children were wiped out in the horrific Air India plane crash.

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3 h. ago AMANDA PLATELL: It's not MY fault you're fat... so why should I pay for it?

Though the NHS is in crisis, fat-busting drugs such as Mounjaro will soon be as widely available as statins from your doctor, as accessible as a packet of Smarties for the overweight.

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4 h. ago Doctor explains health risk of drinking too much water that can be dangerous

A doctor has taken to TikTok to explain why some people may find that the more water they drink, the thirstier they become - and it could be a dangerous cycle to get into

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4 h. ago Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke issues plea to Wes Streeting as NHS doctors face unemployment

Author and palliative care doctor won the literary award for her fourth book, ‘The Story of a Heart’

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8 h. ago Revealed: What your TOENAILS say about you, according to experts

Your toenails could tell you a lot about your health - including nutritional deficiencies, diabetes or circulatory issues, a doctor says.

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9 h. ago Family of woman who died from Covid after giving birth sues Brazilian state

Exclusive: Lidiane Vieira Frazão, a black woman from Rio, was repeatedly denied appropriate treatment as President Bolsonaro downplayed the pandemic, lawsuit saysIn the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, Lidiane Vieira Frazão, 35, was expecting her second child but, even at 40 weeks pregnant, she was unable to obtain a doctor’s note to start her maternity leave.Her job as a funeral agent – at times handling the bodies of people who had died from the virus – was on the long list of “essential services” that could not be suspended during lockdown, according to a decree issued by Brazil’s then-president, Jair Bolsonaro. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago The 13 leading GP surgeries in Falkirk where patients are most satisfied with their doctor

Did your GP surgery make the list? ⭐

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10 h. ago Air India crash claims dream of a doctor couple to raise their three kids in London

Air India crash claims dream of a doctor couple to raise their three kids in London  The Economic Times

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13 h. ago British doctor's heartbreaking last selfie with his family moments before Air India crash

They were among the victims of the tragedy, which has seen at least 200 bodies recovered in Ahmedabad

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23 h. ago Air India survivor describes miracle escape as plane 'split and threw him out'

Survivor Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, told a doctor that immediately after the plane took off, it began descending and suddenly split in two, throwing him out and saving his life

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24 h. ago Family's tragic final selfie: Doctor couple and their children snapped photo in Air India cabin to celebrate 'new beginnings' just moments before disaster

The picture was taken to celebrate 'new beginnings' as Komi Vyas had quit her job and was moving to join her husband, Dr Prateek Joshi, in London with their three children.

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24 h. ago NHS doctor Rachel Clarke and debut novelist Yael van der Wouden win Women’s Prize for Non

Authors will receive £30,000 prize money in recognition of their achievements

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25 h. ago Ahmedabad flight crash: He built a life in London, she left her job to join him. Doctor couple's last fami

Ahmedabad flight crash: He built a life in London, she left her job to join him. Doctor couple's last fami  The Economic Times

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31 h. ago Air India plane lost signal less than a minute before 'crashing into doctor's hostel'

It is thought the plane, which had only just taken off for London, crashed into a building housing medical professionals or students

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32 h. ago BBC make Doctor Who announcement weeks after Ncuti Gatwa departs iconic role

Fans have been left trying to come up with theories following a brutal cliffhanger

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32 h. ago Assisted dying: UK doctor says helping patients die in Australia is a ‘privilege’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is due to return to the House of Commons for debate on Friday

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34 h. ago Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan audiobook review – love and conflict in Sri Lanka

The civil war transforms a young trainee doctor’s life as she copes with her feelings for a Tamil Tiger in last year’s Women’s prizewinning novelBrotherless Night opens with 16-year-old Sashi Kulenthiren, who hopes to be a doctor like her eldest brother, making tea when the kettle slips out of her hand, causing her to pour boiling water on herself. When a neighbour, K, hears her screams, he rushes over to help, cracking raw eggs over the scalds to soothe the pain. “So I began as K’s patient though he ended as mine,” Sashi reflects.Set in 1980s Sri Lanka, VV Ganeshananthan’s coming-of-age novel – which won the 2024 Women’s prize for fiction – is an epic and hard-hitting tale of family and survival as it documents life during the civil war between Tamil separatists and the Sinhalese majority that lasted three decades. Before fighting breaks out, Sashi’s most pressing problem is whether she will pass her exams at school. But soon violence and kidnapping become the norm, communities are...

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44 h. ago Assisted dying: UK doctor says helping patients die in Australia is ‘privilege’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is due to return to the House of Commons for debate and more votes on amendments on Friday.

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46 h. ago Greta Thunberg 'mistreated and mocked' by dancing Israeli officials before deportation

French doctor Bapiste Andre was on 'freedom flotilla' with Greta Thunberg - he said the group were subject to 'mockery' when they were intercepted by Israeli officials

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