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When Judith Miller had routine blood work done in July, she got a phone alert the same day that her lab results were posted online. So, when her doctor messaged her the next day that her overall tests were fine, Miller wrote back to ask about the elevated carbon...

Fourteen NHS trusts are to have their maternity services examined over what has been described as "failures in the system", the government has said.The inquiries are part of a rapid review of maternity care in England that was announced in June.Health Secretary Wes...

5 hours agoShareSaveEmer MoreauBusiness reporterShareSaveBBCLethal children's car seats are still appearing for sale on online marketplaces a decade after concerns were first raised by trading standards officers and a well-known consumer group.Which? warned in 2014...

7 hours agoShareSaveBranwen JeffreysEducation Editor andErica WitheringtonShareSaveBBCWhen lockdown started, college student Sam was living with his mum because his parents were separated.Then his dad died unexpectedly, leaving him feeling that "something had been...

56 minutes agoShareSaveRuth CleggHealth and wellbeing reporterShareSaveGeorge HollandRipped. Shredded. Jacked. Swole. Which are you?Gym jargon such as this, which refers to the size and definition of muscles, has long been heard exchanged between pumped men in gym...

FDA leaders under President Donald Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug applications, a move critics say would shield the agency’s decisions from public scrutiny. The agency “would like to get away” from assembling...

[embedded content] New moms all over social media are breaking down their incredibly expensive hospital bills after giving birth. So why is giving birth so pricey in the U.S.? And given the Trump administration’s anti-abortion, pro-natalist policies, is anything on...

ST. LOUIS — Lying on top of an operating room table with his chest exposed, Larry Black Jr. was moments away from having his organs harvested when a doctor ran breathlessly into the room. “Get him off the table,” the doctor recalled telling the surgical team at SSM...

8 hours agoShareSaveAlison HoltSocial affairs editor andJames Melley and Judith BurnsShareSaveBBCThe cost of residential care for vulnerable children in England has nearly doubled in five years but many children still do not receive appropriate care, says a report...

6 hours agoShareSaveHugh PymHealth editorShareSaveBBC"It was really bad – we had patients dying on the waiting lists – politicians were getting desperate."Jesper Fisker, chief executive of the Danish Cancer Society, is looking back 25 years - to the moment Denmark...

The Host Oct. 1 is the start of the next fiscal year, and unless Congress reaches agreement on continued spending, big parts of the government could shut down that day. Democrats, whose votes will be needed in the Senate, would like Republicans to extend the Biden-era...

4 hours agoShareSaveJim ReedHealth reporterShareSaveGetty ImagesDoctors say the NHS is struggling to meet demand in England as new data shows the waiting list for routine treatment increasing for the second month in a row.An estimated 7.4m planned procedures were...