A&E doctor who failed to diagnose 75-year-old woman’s fatal sepsis and lied to ‘cover up’ the error is struck off

A&E doctor who failed to diagnose 75-year-old woman’s fatal sepsis and lied to ‘cover up’ the error is struck off

An A&E doctor who failed to diagnose a 75-year-old woman’s sepsis – and later tried to ‘cover up’ his mistake after she died – has been struck off. Dr Allen Demanya wrongly diagnosed the patient with an infection on her digestive system just hours before she died from sepsis, a tribunal heard. When the woman … Read more

Student, 16, dies from a blood clot just days before Christmas after taking her first contraceptive pill

Student, 16, dies from a blood clot just days before Christmas after taking her first contraceptive pill

A 16-year-old girl died from a blood clot on her brain just weeks after she started taking the contraceptive pill to ease period pain.  ‘Beautiful and intelligent’ Layla Khan from Immingham, Lincolnshire, died last Wednesday after a scan revealed a blood clot on her brain. Just weeks earlier the schoolgirl started suffering from agonising menstrual … Read more

DR MAX PEMBERTON: You want your GP to take you seriously? Here’s my advice…

DR MAX PEMBERTON: You want your GP to take you seriously? Here’s my advice…

With Christmas around the corner and reports the NHS is already stretched to breaking point, it’s easy to feel that a medical issue can ‘just wait’ until after the festive break, or to accept it when a healthcare professional gives you the brush-off — even though deep in your gut, you know something is wrong. … Read more

Breakthrough in sepsis treatment as new blood test can rapidly identify the ‘silent killer’

Breakthrough in sepsis treatment as new blood test can rapidly identify the ‘silent killer’

Sepsis kills around 48,000 people a year in the UK alone It occurs when an infection causes the immune system to attack the body itself The new test could provide a diagnosis in just 45 minutes  By Victoria Allen Published: 22:04 GMT, 17 December 2023 | Updated: 08:12 GMT, 18 December 2023 A blood test … Read more

King Charles has been criticised for backing homeopathic ‘quackery’. But which other British royals swear by the controversial treatments?

King Charles has been criticised for backing homeopathic ‘quackery’. But which other British royals swear by the controversial treatments?

King Charles has often been lampooned for his interest in homeopathic medicine. And there was fresh criticism recently when it was reported that a 71-year-old part-time GP from Devon has been appointed as head of royal medical household. Dr Michael Dixon, OBE, has been asked by the King to manage the team serving members of … Read more

Baroness Mone hits out at Rishi Sunak as PM wades into PPE row involving lingerie tycoon – as she is told not to return to the Lords after admitting lying about links to firm handed contracts worth millions

Baroness Mone hits out at Rishi Sunak as PM wades into PPE row involving lingerie tycoon – as she is told not to return to the Lords after admitting lying about links to firm handed contracts worth millions

Baroness Michelle Mone today hit out at Rishi Sunak after he waded into the PPE row surrounding the former Tory peer – as she was warned she should not return to the House of Lords. The 52-year-old and her billionaire husband gave a ‘car crash’ TV interview this weekend in which she admitted she stands … Read more

Revealed: ‘Pure evil’ nurse who sedated patients for fun had A&E medic boyfriend who was caught trying to cover up her thefts by chewing up medicine packs and flushing tablets down the toilet when police bugged their home

Revealed: ‘Pure evil’ nurse who sedated patients for fun had A&E medic boyfriend who was caught trying to cover up her thefts by chewing up medicine packs and flushing tablets down the toilet when police bugged their home

A high-flying NHS nurse chewed up cardboard medicine packs and flushed the tablets down the toilet in a failed cover-up bid after his callous girlfriend was accused of stealing drugs and mistreating patients. Marek Grabianowski, 46, the lead nurse in the accident and emergency department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, took the desperate measure after a … Read more

EMMA COWING: Crisp-mas pudding? I much prefer the taste of tradition!

EMMA COWING: Crisp-mas pudding? I much prefer the taste of tradition!

I’ve always been partial to Christmas pudding. Perhaps it’s the once-a-year treatiness of it, or the fact that when I was growing up it was often set alight at the table with much pomp and ceremony (and on one memorable occasion, almost causing a house fire after its flames caught some party streamers). It’s the … Read more

Heartless bus driver left blind woman a mile from her home at night… leaving her to walk through unlit rural road with cars zooming past at 60mph

Heartless bus driver left blind woman a mile from her home at night… leaving her to walk through unlit rural road with cars zooming past at 60mph

A terrified blind woman was forced to walk a mile down a dark rural lane to get home after claiming to have been abandoned by a heartless bus driver at the side of the road.  Frightened NHS worker Simone Woods was with her trusty guide dog Mervin when a ‘thoughtless’ driver on the 350 bus in … Read more

I’m a psychiatrist and these are the common techniques used by liars to conceal deceit

I’m a psychiatrist and these are the common techniques used by liars to conceal deceit

By Maria Chiorando For Mailonline Published: 08:32 GMT, 16 December 2023 | Updated: 10:18 GMT, 16 December 2023 How can you tell if you’re being told the truth, or are simply being fed a very convincing lie? Some people can be frighteningly good at doling out deception and it might feel almost impossible to tell … Read more