Category Archives: People
Gosport hospital deaths inquiry looks into 800 certificates signed by Dr Opiate
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hospital-deaths-inquiry-looks-into-800-certificates-signed-by-dr-opiate-jane-barton-p508dnh56 A retired female GP is at the centre of a £13m inquiry into hundreds of deaths that may have been caused by overdoses. The death certificates of 833 patients at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire are being re-examined as part of the inquiry by the Gosport independent panel, which is investigating claims […]
The women left unable to sit down for years after; having a baby
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4125720/The-woman-unable-sit-YEARS-giving-birth.html For years after the birth of her daughter in 2003, Debra Shaw regarded the prospect of any sort of treat — a foreign holiday, a trip to the cinema, or a meal in a restaurant — with total dismay. For she couldn’t sit down because of agonising pain radiating from her coccyx, the bony […]
Osborne family firm pays no corporation tax
By Lois Rogers and Jon Ungoed-Thomas GEORGE OSBORNE has shared in a £335,000 dividend payout from his family’s profitable wallpaper business — even though it has not paid any UK corporation tax for the past seven years. A Sunday Times analysis of the accounts of the parent company of the family business, Osborne & Little Group Ltd, reveals that it […]
The cut-price fertility boost that childless couples are not told about: IUI versus IVF ‘comes down to profit margins’, say doctors
Lois Rogers The Daily Mail 27 July 2015 Tracy Hedges, 36, from Dudley, was convinced she’d never conceive She’d been through four years of failed attempts to get pregnant and IVF Tried much more basic process known as IUI (intrauterine insemination) Helped her and husband Keith to have baby Maia, who is now two Just […]
Lucky few have gene recipe for youthful looks
The Sunday Times 7 June 2015 (The model Iman may carry genes allowing her to look far younger than her age of 59 Photograph: Celebrity Monitor, PacificCoastN/Celebrity Monitor, PacificCoastNews) SCIENTISTS believe they have identified a group of genes that allow some people to look far younger than their true age. A project involving almost […]
‘I have a constant burning sensation down through my leg and foot’: The amputees in agony from limbs no longer there
The Daily Mail 23 February 2015 Two weeks after her 41st birthday, Sue Cook’s life changed for ever. She was on a pheasant shoot when she was injured in a freak accident. A woman standing near her failed to unload the unused cartridges in her gun. As she put it away, both barrels went off. […]
Brains of new dads rewired to play mummy
The Sunday Times 21 December 2014 Abu Amin, with wife Henriette and baby Noa, says fatherhood can have a double-edged effect (Akira Suemori) MODERN man can mother a child as well as any woman, new research suggests. The first project to study brain activity in new fathers shows that men develop extra mental connections just […]
Shockingly common, the cruel genital birth defect thousands of men have – but never talk about
The Daily Mail 11 November 2014 As estate agent, James Newman goes about his business, confidently valuing exclusive houses in the wealthy London commuter belt where he works, no one would guess he suffers from a humiliating genital defect. It is a problem that affects around 1 in 300 men, blighting their relationships and condemning […]
Have 800 women been killed by the Pill? The alarming dangers of taking so-called third generation contraceptives
The Daily Mail 12 February 2014 Nancy Berry died after taking Femodene Trudi Banning suffered a blood clot when she was 22 She had also been taking Femodene She survived but is now infertile Warns other women to be aware of the risks Campaigners calling on some Pills to be banned When Trudi Banning collapsed, […]
Mo Zimmer:elderly run faster and faster
The Sunday Times 19 January 2014 EVEN people in their nineties can benefit from strength and endurance training usually reserved for elite athletes, according to a study. The research into the athletic capacity of the very elderly comes as a new breed of endurance athletes in their seventies and eighties are reporting that they […]