The relatives of two women who died from herpes after undergoing caesarean sections by the same surgeon are bringing a claim for medical negligence against an NHS hospital in the High Court. Kimberley Sampson, 29, and Samantha Mulcahy, 32, died six weeks apart in 2018 at hospitals in Kent run by East Kent Hospitals University … Read more
One person has died and more than 120 others, including children as young as six, have been hospitalized in Britain amid a E.coli outbreak linked to lettuce. Two people in England died within 28 days of being infected with Shiga toxin-producing bacteria. E. coli (Stec), the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said in a briefing … Read more
The grieving daughter of the French explorer who died on the doomed Titan submarine says she hasn’t heard from OceanGate in the year after the disaster. Sidonie Nargeolet’s 77-year-old father Paul-Henri Nergeolet – known as ‘Mr Titanic’ – was one of five people killed when a submarine catastrophically imploded during its journey to the wreck … Read more
A vulnerable woman with mental health problems died after ‘absconding’ from a supermarket while on ‘supervised leave’ with a care worker. Hayley Cowan, 29, who was being held under the Mental Health Act, fled as both she and her care worker went to the toilet in a nearby Tesco store in Prestwich, Bury in Greate … Read more
A “highly regarded” vet is believed to have died instantly when he lost control of his BMW while two-and-a-half times over the drink-drive limit, an inquest has heard. Two teenagers in the vehicle also died at the scene after the horror crash near Liskeard last year. Ben Mason, aged 30, from Liskeard, died when his … Read more
Small, primordial black holes that formed in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang may have had company, in the form of even smaller supercharged black holes with the mass of a rhinoceros that quickly evaporated. A team of researchers has theorized that these tiny rhino black holes, which would represent an … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the first Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo in 1968 that showed the planet as a shadowy blue marble from space was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone crashed into the waters off Washington state’s San Juan Islands collapsed. He was 90. His son, … Read more
Devastated family and friends have paid tribute to a Hartlepool-born boy who died suddenly aged 33 after collapsing in the gym. Dan Cook left Hartlepool in 2010 for London to pursue a career in music. However, he came into contact with the rich and famous after joining an aviation company and working his way up … Read more
A grandmother died after a fall when paramedics tried to lift her with a bath towel instead of approved equipment, an inquest has heard. Doreen Piling suffered a serious leg fracture on September 3 last year after an ambulance technician tried to lift the 93-year-old from her bathroom floor with a towel to rush her … Read more
A mother jailed for shoplifting shampoo and cheese took her own life just days later after her cries for help were ignored by prison staff, an inquest has heard. Christine McDonald was locked up at HMP Styal in Cheshire on March 1, 2019. She was jailed for two offenses of shoplifting small valuable items such … Read more