All news on the topic: Hospitals

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Woman 're-grows' spine after landing on neck slipping during pole dancing
Kaitlin Rawson was practicing a pole dancing routine until one slip left her on the ground paralysed with a shattered spine in Johannesburg, South Africa, and forced to "re-grow" it
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Pub landlord shouts cancer patient neighbour, 70, will 'die anyway' in bin row
A pub landlord from Morecambe attacked his 70-year-old neighbour who had cancer, following a dispute over their dustbins
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Police officer and boyfriend jailed after selling dying kittens in £280,000 scam
Police officer Amy Byrne and her partner Harry Angell were jailed after selling kittens that were malnourished and unwell
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Nurses fear being taken to court over treating patients in corridors, warns RCN
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has revealed its members worries about being taken to court because of patient safety amid huge pressure on the struggling NHS
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Parents desperate for answers after 'loving daddy's boy', 5, collapses and dies
Parents of Lucuis Corry, from Belfast, are desperate for answers to understand how their five-year-old son who had Down Syndrome suddenly collapsed and died from a cardiac arrest
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Kidnapped nurse found dead in boot of her car as police hunt for ex-boyfriend
The body of 29-year-old Patrice Wilson was found in the boot of a car in Detroit after she was kidnapped following a shift at a nearby hospital by a suspect thought to be ex-boyfriend Jamere Miller
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Mystery of man who started seeing the world backwards after being shot in head
Patient M miraculously survived after taking a missile to the head during the Spanish Civil War but his injuries left him seeing the world very differently to his reality
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Grandma with 'ticking time bomb' brain tumour gives it hilarious name
Cornwall mum-of-three Tara Simpson has named her brain tumour after the Harry Potter villain due to it being "he-who-must-not-be-named" in her family
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Pregnant mum fights for life with 2 sons and nephew seriously hurt in crash
Frankie Hough, 38, and her two children, Tommy, nine and Rocky, two, were travelling along the M66 on Saturday afternoon when they were involved in the devastating smash
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Woman, 24, 'cries in bed all day' as cramps turn out to be life-changing illness
Admin manager Kirsty Heron, 24, from Swinton, has been left in excruciating pain and unable to enjoy some of the finer things in life after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis
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Woman with size 34H breasts denied NHS breast reduction surgery due to BMI
Leonie Reynolds, from Chelmsford, says she has been asking doctors for a breast reduction since the age of 12 due to terrible back pain, but was turned down over her BMI
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Four wounded in mass shooting after hooded gunman opens fire at graduation party
Four people have been injured after two hooded males are said to have approached the graduation party shortly before 5pm on Saturday, May 13, with at least one carrying a firearm which he then used to shoot at the party
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Man eats nothing and has only drank fizzy drinks 'for energy' for 17 years
Iranian national Gholamreza Ardeshiri, says he stopped eating food in June 2006, adding that he doesn't feel hungry and that the only thing that gives him energy are fizzy drinks
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Wife dies after being in a coma for last 31 years from horror car crash
Miriam Visantin died last week at the age of 57 after spending three decades in a vegetative state after being in a horror car crash on Christmas Eve 1991 - with her husband Angelo Farina staying by her side ever since
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Teen went to optician with squint in her eye but was given devastating diagnosis
College student Molly Whitelaw, 18, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in January 2021 after being sent to the hospital by her optician, who couldn't see the back of her eye
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Rio Ferdinand 'grabbed intruder in garden and held him until the police arrived'
The Manchester United legend acted quickly to protect his wife and kids after spotting an alleged intruder in his garden by holding him there until the police arrived on the scene
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Healthcare firm owned by Tory grandee landed £53million in NHS contracts
Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft controlled Medacs Healthcare when it was handed 10 NHS deals worth up to £53million between September 2021 and December 2022, contract notices have revealed
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Tragic student, 18, dies in horror crash on way home from graduation
Lauren Hewski, a high school student also attending a nearby community college, had just received her associate's degree and was being driven home when the Jeep she was a passenger in hit a utility pole and flipped over
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'I thought boy, 3, had conjunctivitis but key symptom led to horror diagnosis'
Jade Williams says her world came crashing down when doctors told her little Rhys had a rare type of eye cancer known as Retinoblastoma on Friday, April 14
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Teacher planned funeral as hundreds turn out in bucket hats
Bethannie Booth, from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, died surrounded by her family on March 31 after being placed in an induced coma when she developed sepsis following a Strep A infection.
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Mum told she had nothing to worry about given just weeks to live
Danielle Connor, 33, first complained of a sore back in January when doctors dismissed it as indigestion but was later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told she had weeks to live
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Woman in coma after being hit by Royal motorcade pictured as 'family sickened'
Helen Holland, 81, was critically injured in a crash with a police motorcycle escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh Sophie Wessex on Wednesday in Earl's Court, west London
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Cops face probe over death of man who plunged from a height after he was tasered
The dead man still has not been formally identified a month after he plunged from a balcony at his home. Both officers have been warned that they are under investigation
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Jamie Foxx is out of hospital and 'recuperating' after illness, daughter says
Jamie Foxx's daughter Corinne has confirmed that the Hollywood actor has been "out of hospital for weeks" and is "recuperating" after being hospitalised over a medical condition
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9 times flip-flopping Rishi Sunak broke his promises - from NHS waits to taxes
The PM has become notorious for chucking promises made to voters as he has whacked up taxes, failed to cut record hospital waiting lists and ditched a Brexit pledge to scrap EU laws