All posts by MWN
Woman left paralysed after drug withdrawal
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5169549/Why-NHS-agreeing-high-prices-life-saving-drugs.html Sherri Coleman recently spent a week paralysed, imprisoned in her upstairs bedroom, because her doctors say they can’t give her the drug she needs. ‘If it hadn’t been for Violet, my 11-year-old daughter, and mum, Rose, bringing me drinks and food, I would have starved to death,’ she says in measured tones that belie […]
Freed paedophile gets job as teacher
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/freed-paedophile-julien-bertrand-gets-job-as-teacher-ck27rqbls A paedophile teacher who worked at English private schools before he was jailed found work at a new school after his release and immediately started preying on a young boy again. Julien Bertrand, 37, from Nanterre in western Paris but educated in England, was sentenced to six years in prison in 2006 after he […]
Victory for women crippled by mesh implants
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5122641/Victory-women-crippled-vaginal-mesh-implan.html For years women have complained about damage caused by the plastic mesh inserted to treat their post childbirth damage — complaints that seemed to fall on deaf ears, until now. For it was reported yesterday that the government healthcare adviser, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), is going to recommend the […]
Failure of ‘easy’ contraception
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5033391/Mother-suffers-crippling-problems-Essure-implant.html A ‘surprise’ baby four years ago when she was 43 convinced Jackie Miles she needed permanent birth control. The mother-of-three wanted to put her childbearing years behind her. But it was a decision Jackie has lived to regret bitterly. She is one of more than 34,000 women worldwide who claim they’ve suffered a range […]
Faulty batteries in heart defibrillators
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5010531/Imagine-horror-hearing-heart-implant-faulty.html They’re meant to be lifesaving, so imagine the terror of learning that the defibrillator implanted inside your body could have a faulty battery that might stop your heart working at any time. ‘It is a bit like hoping you have the winning lottery ticket when you really need that money,’ says Andrew Wilson, a […]
Shocking failings in the medical device industry
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4986356/How-supermarket-mesh-bag-like-approved.html The pain is ‘unbearable’, says Angela Young. The 47-year-old hairdresser, from Stockport, describes it graphically: ‘It’s as if you have a handful of needles shoved between your legs.’ It’s more than 40 years since women first started to complain that a surgical mesh sling designed to treat post-childbirth damage was causing excruciating pain. Their […]
Rise in university campus suicides
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4942358/Why-wasn-t-save-four-students.html For the vast majority of students now starting at university or returning to their studies, life attached to a campus is a positive experience. But after years of being nurtured and guided by their parents, it can be a massive leap for some — not only are they now responsible for themselves, they must […]
999 call operators order grieving relatives to perform CPR on dead bodies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4913018/999-call-handlers-asking-public-perform-CPR-deceased.html Emergency call handlers are routinely issuing ‘grotesque’ instructions ordering callers to attempt to resuscitate the bodies of loved ones who are obviously beyond help, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In horrific accounts given to this newspaper, readers have told how they were commanded to perform futile chest compressions on corpses already blackened with […]
Is it possible to reverse Alzheimer’s?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-it-possible-to-reverse-alzheimers-wvdk9scpp As the frazzled mother of four children under ten, Eleanor Smith didn’t think it was significant when she couldn’t recognise her children’s friends at the school gates. Then, when she started mixing up actors’ faces and couldn’t follow plotlines any more, she put it down to middle-aged absent-mindedness. As a former lawyer who had […]
Gosport GP Jane Barton was ‘brusque, unfriendly and indifferent’
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gosport-gp-jane-barton-was-brusque-unfriendly-and-indifferent-j9jv0cpmf Jane Barton has never directly responded to the claims from at least 120 families that her use of opiates demands an inquiry similar to that into Harold Shipman, the GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester, who was found guilty of killing 15 patients and revealed by a public inquiry to have murdered up to 250 […]