Rebecca Curran,BBC Scotland and Ken Banks,North east Scotland reporter Getty Images Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore – or face losing their jobs. From November next year, industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the maximum clothed weight for a worker…
Getty Images A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 others. Prosecutors alleged that the man, who has not been publicly named, injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort…
Noel Titheradge,investigations correspondent and Olga Malchevska BBC ChatGPT told Viktoria that it would assess a method of suicide “without unnecessary sentimentality” Warning – this story contains discussion of suicide and suicidal feelings Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental…
Eleanor Layhe, Jemma Woodman and Ella Rule,South West Trudy Polkinghorn Lugh Baker died in 2021 and his mother, Trudy Polkinghorn, said she “was so angry” with the regulator, the CQC Care homes that are graded as inadequate or requiring improvement are often not being reinspected for a year or more, a BBC investigation has found….
Janine MachinEast of England technology correspondent, in Cambridge BBC Researchers say their “swimming cap”, which uses light and ultrasound to improve brain monitoring in newborns, is the first of its kind in the world Three-week-old Theo is fast asleep in a cot, unaware he is helping to trial new technology that could change the lives…
Jenny ReesWales health correspondent Lizzie Day says it is easy to fall for the buzz around the latest treatment being talked about on TikTok or Instagram For Lizzie Day, having Botox was as much a part of her routine as getting her morning coffee. It was only when a doctor friend raised concerns about a…
Rawlstock/Getty Images Dr Mark Watson’s actions consisted of sexual harassment, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said A doctor accused of pouring beer down a younger colleague’s cleavage before licking it off and touching her breasts has been suspended for a year. Dr Mark Johnson, who was working at West Suffolk Hospital at the time of…
Information on plan cost-sharing provisions for the plans offered in federally-facilitated and partnership exchanges was downloaded from HealthCare.gov. Simple averages and distributions of the available plans are shown, and neither are weighted by enrollment. Information for “expanded bronze” and “bronze” plans are reported together. Distinct plans from the landscape file were analyzed to calculate the…
This Healthy System Tracker analysis, authored by KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare, examines remote monitoring technologies, identifying the types of patients and health conditions they serve and what is spent on these services. There are an estimated 300,000 adults with employer-sponsored health coverage for whom insurers received at least one remote monitoring claim…
Authored by KFF’s Jen Kates and Boston University’s Debbie Stenoien and Allyala Nandakumar as well as independent consultant Michael Ruffner, this post for ThinkGlobalHealth identifies and examines several key issues and questions that lie ahead for the America First Global Health Strategy — the first roadmap for what comes next for the President’s Emergency Plan…
