Fergus Walsh Medical Editor BBC Mary Catchpole is the first person to benefit from a new treatment for a rare condition affecting her family A teenager from Norfolk has become the first patient in Europe to be given a newly licensed treatment which could potentially cure her life-threatening, inherited disorder. Mary Catchpole, 19, lost her...
Vanessa Buschschlüter Latin America editor, BBC News Online MAURICIO TORRES/EPA Adolfo Macías Villamar was taken to a maximum-security jail Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country’s most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar. Macías, also known by the alias “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang which is blamed for...
Will Grant Mexico and Central America correspondent Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Reuters Silvia Delgado was part of the legal defence team representing Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán A former defence lawyer for the jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been elected as a judge in Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections. Tallies published on Tuesday showed...
Elon Musk has obviously used THC, because we have all seen him smoking pot in a state where it is legal to do so. But the Pravda Media has been hyping the story that Elon has a whole pharmacopia of drugs, legal and illegal, and that he abuses them so much that it presented a...
Sajid Iqbal & Ashitha Nagesh BBC News BBC On the surface, Muhammed Asif Hafeez was an upstanding individual. A global businessman and ambassador of a prestigious London polo club, he rubbed shoulders with the British elite, including members of the Royal Family. He also regularly passed on detailed information to the authorities in the UK...
A drug trafficker has had his prison sentence extended after the Court of Appeal deemed his initial punishment too lenient. Stephen Wills, 36, from Bridford, Exeter, was sentenced to nine years in prison in March for his role in two organised crime groups that trafficked large quantities of cocaine across the country. However his sentence...
Tracey Higgins BBC Midlands Today Aida Fofana BBC News, West Midlands BBC Keeley Knowles works alongside the Offending to Recovery programme and does outreach work with drug users For nearly three decades Keeley Knowles’ life consisted of shoplifting thousands of pounds worth of goods to fuel her heroin addiction. Previously known as “Birmingham’s most prolific...
Zac Sherratt BBC News, South East Danz Photography Phineas Float, Jon Collyer and Lisa Stocker (left to right) are accused of drug offences in Bali The trial of three British nationals detained in Indonesia on drug smuggling charges has begun. Jon Collyer, 38, and Lisa Stocker, 39, were arrested at Bali’s international airport in February...
Getty Images Pharmacists have warned that “one of the worst” examples of medicine shortages is affecting cancer patients. Creon, a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (Pert), helps digestion and is required by patients with pancreatic cancer, cystic fibrosis, and chronic pancreatitis. It is thought more than 61,000 patients in the UK need the medicine. Some patients...
Philippa Roxby Heath Reporter Laura Marston Laura now feels good six years after her diagnosis of advanced tongue cancer Hundreds of thousands of people with advanced head and neck cancer could live longer without their cancer returning thanks to an immunotherapy drug, a clinical trial suggests. This is the first sign of a breakthrough for...
Samira Hussain South Asia correspondent BBC A British woman accused of attempting to smuggle a large quantity of cannabis into Sri Lanka has appeared in court in the country. Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, was arrested earlier this month after authorities allegedly found 46kg of the drug in her suitcases when she arrived...
Bea Swallow BBC News, Bristol Getty Images The 46-year-old actor was found unresponsive at his home in Bristol Actor and reality TV star Paul Danan’s death was by misadventure, after he took a cocktail of drugs including cocaine and heroin, a coroner has ruled. The 46-year-old was pronounced dead at 17:20 GMT on 15 January...
The car incident at Liverpool’s Premier League Victory parade is still front page news on Wednesday. “Parade suspect in drug drive arrest,” is the headline in Metro. The “parade horror driver” was “on drugs”, says The Sun in its headline. The tabloid names several of the celebrities who have shown their support for the fans,...
The brief videos posted by a group called Seniors 4 Better Care to YouTube look just like the political ads that take over the airwaves during campaign season. The voiceover in one breezy video claims without context that former President Joe Biden “broke” Medicare, the popular government insurance program for seniors, and that only President...
Well, yes and no. Maybe. It depends on how you look at it. And it depends on what the results will be. It’s hard to say. It’s complicated. How is that for a non-answer? Pretty good, eh? There’s a reason for my not giving a definitive answer, because the way drug pricing worldwide works really...