Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Juggernaut Books Sneh Bhargava was AIIMS Delhi’s first and only woman director Not much about Sneh Bhargava’s life seems ordinary. In 1984, she became the first woman to helm the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the capital Delhi – one of the country’s top medical institutions –...
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli drone strike targeted a Hamas police unit attempting to assert control over a market in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, a doctor and eyewitnesses told the BBC. Eyewitnesses said Israeli drones fired at members of a Hamas police force, dressed in civilian...
Jon Ironmonger BBC Investigations BBC Hayley Butler began suffering from pain and vomiting soon after undergoing surgery in Turkey An obesity doctor has told an inquest his team has dealt with more than 100 problems in patients who have undergone weight loss surgery in Turkey. Tanveer Adil, who works at Luton & Dunstable Hospital, was...
A California doctor accused of giving Friends star Matthew Perry access to ketamine in the weeks before the actor’s overdose death has agreed to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors. Dr Salvador Plasencia will plead guilty to four counts of distributing ketamine, federal prosecutors said in a statement on Monday. The plea carries a maximum...
Getty Images Adam al-Najjar, pictured with his cousin, is the only one of his siblings to have survived an Israeli strike on his family’s home A Palestinian doctor whose nine children and husband were killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza last month is being evacuated to Italy with her only surviving child. Dr...
A court in Norway has sentenced a doctor to 21 years in prison for the rape and sexual abuse of dozens of women, in a case that has shocked the Scandinavian country. Former GP Arne Bye has been convicted of 70 counts of rape and sexual assault. He was also convicted of 82 counts of...
Stephen Fairclough BBC News Family photo Bethan James died at University Hospital of Wales A doctor at the hospital where a 21-year-old died from a combination of sepsis, pneumonia and Crohn’s disease has told an inquest he does not believe any treatment would have saved her. Bethan James, daughter of former Glamorgan and England cricketer...
A woman who worked as an NHS psychiatrist for more than 20 years after she got the job with a fake qualification has been ordered to pay back more than £400,000 or face more jail time. Zholia Alemi, of Burnley, worked across the UK after forging a degree certificate from the University of Auckland in...
Getty Images Dr Hamdi al-Najjar – pictured here being visited by his niece – died from his wounds on Saturday, health officials said A Palestinian doctor whose children were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on 23 May has died from injuries sustained in the same attack, health officials say. Dr Hamdi al-Najjar...
Lizo Mzimba Entertainment Correspondent PA Media Warning: This article contains spoilers. Ncuti Gatwa has left his role as the Doctor after playing the iconic character for two series on Doctor Who. At the end of this evening’s series finale, Gatwa regenerated into Billie Piper, who previously played the Doctor’s companion, Rose Tyler. In a press...
A leading Polish doctor has told the BBC she fears for her patients’ safety after being targeted by anti-abortion activists. Gizela Jagielska says she has received thousands of death threats in relation to her work administering legal abortions in a hospital in the town of Olesnica in southwestern Poland. The facility specialises in complicated pregnancies....
Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney, doesn’t do surgeries or deliver babies. The small 24-hour emergency room is overseen by two full-time doctors. CEO Matt Ives wants to hire a third doctor, but he said finding physicians for a rural area...
Yolande Knell BBC Middle East Correspondent BBC Dr Sukkar says life in Gaza feels “like a nightmare that doesn’t end” Healthcare in the Gaza Strip is itself a casualty of 18 months of war between Israel and Hamas. With doctors struggling to cope, the BBC followed one GP through her shift at a Médecins Sans...
Doctor Who boss Russell T Davies has hit back at criticisms that the show is too “woke”, saying he has no time for complaints from “online warriors”. The long-running BBC sci-fi show returned last week with Ncuti Gatwa reprising his role as the Doctor alongside newcomer Varada Sethu as the latest companion, marking first time...
A German palliative care doctor has been charged with murdering 15 of his patients using a cocktail of lethal drugs. Prosecutors in Berlin have accused the 40-year-old of setting fire to the homes of some of his suspected victims to cover his tracks. He allegedly killed 12 women and three men between September 2021 and...