Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Senate Republicans are under mounting pressure from doctors and medical associations to reject massive cuts to health care and food assistance as they rush to complete a...
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Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. In response to a January executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented new guidelines that permit individual doctors and other health professionals to refuse to...
Mills/Laity family photograph/PA Wire Martha Mills died from sepsis in a London hospital in 2021 The failings of a doctor responsible for Martha Mills’ care, who died from sepsis, amounted to “gross negligence” and were “particularly grave”, a medical tribunal says. Her death gave rise to Martha’s Rule in hundreds of hospitals in England, giving...
GSTT UK doctors are attempting to clear dangerous superbug infections using “poo pills” containing freeze-dried faeces. The stool samples come from healthy donors and are packed with good bacteria. Early data suggests superbugs can be flushed out of the dark murky depths of the bowel and replaced with a mix of healthy gut bacteria. It...
Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised, and trained in the United States, packed up his family and got out. Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of...
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged doctors in England to “vote no” in a ballot on industrial action which gets under way on Tuesday. In a BBC interview, he urged resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, to “work with the government” and warned strikes risked hampering the progress being made in the NHS....
Getty Images Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says. Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar’s children and...
Close. The Wall Street Journal comes so close to the correct question — and answer. But close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and the WSJ seems oddly credulous where skepticism is not just warranted but downright required. The news that Joe Biden has a late-stage and metastatic version of normally slow-developing prostate cancer...
Don’t be fooled by the narrower topic focus of Amy Alkon’s new book, GOING MENOPOSTAL: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know about the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause. Amy’s latest book gives readers a highly entertaining journey through her personal experiences in dealing with her own menopause arc, and offers plenty of...
The health of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has worsened after intestinal surgery earlier this month, according to his medical team. The 70-year-old remains in intensive care and will undergo new tests. Bolsonaro was visited in hospital by a court official on Wednesday, who delivered a summons giving him five days to present his initial...
Laura Gozzi BBC News, Rome Getty Images Pope Francis waves to crowds on Easter Sunday during a public appearance which surprised many At midday on Monday, church bells across Italy began to toll. Pope Francis was dead. Not even 24 hours had passed since he had made a surprise appearance on the balcony overlooking St...
Jim Reed BBC News Reporting fromSupreme Court, London Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Parents of the deceased children heard doctors involved in their care could be named Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the Supreme Court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell...
A man from Devon said he owes his life to doctors and nurses after they removed a suddenly discovered brain tumour. Jake Bristow was 32-years-old, working in a family air conditioning business in Exeter, when he was diagnosed with the life-threatening growth. He then went for surgery at Derriford Hospital, where he was treated by...
One doctor condemned US presidents and Western media for complicity in Israel’s violence on CNN hours before the attack. Israeli forces bombed the largest hospital in southern Gaza on Sunday, killing at least five people and destroying a surgery ward just after U.S. doctors volunteering there gave an interview on CNN about Israel’s mass killings...