Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Ageing

'Depressing' care home's garden was strewn with old dog faeces, inspectors found

Thornton House Residential Home in Childer Thornton, near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, was rated 'inadequate' and has been placed in special measures

Manchester Evening News

Australia's first uterus transplant recipient Kirsty Bryant is pregnant just weeks after surgery

When Kirsty Bryant received a uterus transplant in January — after her mother donated hers — she did not expect to fall pregnant so soon, with her new baby now growing in the same womb that carried her.

ABC News

Almshouse residents may live up to two and a half years longer, study finds

Co-author says UK’s oldest form of social housing could be part of solution to care crisis

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Woman who put tiredness down to busy life spent a month on life support

A woman who put feeling unwell down to just being tired from her busy life, found herself in an intensive care unit and on a life support machine earlier this year. Tara Joanna Hamer lived a very active lifestyle, going to the gym, working for the NH

Bristol Post

Top cop says watching Taser bodycam will taint inquiry

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says viewing footage of an elderly woman being Tasered could affect her impartiality and taint the investigation.

AAP

Mount Gambier In Home Hospice Care calls for ongoing funding for palliative program

The support Satch Niemec received as he succumbed to a terminal diagnosis was an "absolute boon" for him and his wife Jude. But the service is struggling without government support.

ABC News

The baby bonus just does not work any more

I was one of five children -- not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time -- and there was one year when we allegedly beat Guatemala to have the highest birth rate in the world. (That's probably not true, but people were proud of it anyway.)

Bangkok Post

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Priest gives sad update about tasered great-grandmother

A mass has been held by the bedside of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who was tasered by a police officer, as she receives end-of-life care.

The New Daily

Family of elderly woman handcuffed by police at Sydney nursing home wants more accountability

The daughter of a woman with dementia who was handcuffed in a Sydney aged care home is demanding more accountability from police over instances of force being used against residents.

ABC News

At Governor’s event, war veteran raises issue about poor access to hospitals under ECHS

Air Vice-Marshal and war veteran S. Swaminathan raised the issue of poor access to medical treatment under the Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme at an event organised by Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi at Raj Bhavan here on Sunday.

The Hindu

Missing Brit gran who vanished on holiday with husband found dead in Greece

Susan Hart and her Swiss husband Ed had been visiting the island of Kalymnos, in the Aegean sea, when she vanished without a trace leaving the family fearing the worst

Daily Mirror

Six Northumberland private gardens to open this summer to raise money for charity

Six private gardens will open for one day only in aid of HospiceCare North Northumberland

Chronicle Live

Six NSW police officers used two sets of handcuffs on a distressed 81-year-old dementia patient

Daughter of the woman says ‘police have learned nothing’

The Independent UK

Nurses in England offered ‘golden hellos’ as trusts try to ease staff crisis

Staff are being promised up to £4,500 to take up – and stay in – hard-to-fill jobs

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

The ACT's proposed voluntary assisted dying laws have yet to be introduced, but could be the most liberal in the country

The ACT government is expected to introduce laws allowing voluntary assisted dying by the end of this year. For those like Kath Dyason, who has a terminal illness, it can't come soon enough.

The Guardian - UK

Mental health patients forced to travel hundreds of miles for treatment despite government pledge

Many are having to travel long distances to receive NHS help, despite a promise to end this ‘completely unacceptable’ practice

The Guardian - AU

NSW police footage shows officers used two sets of handcuffs on 81-year-old woman with dementia

Exclusive: footage from body-worn camera shows police restraining confused dementia patient Rachel Grahame in 2020

ABC News

Police officers being called to aged care homes is 'standard protocol', industry expert says

The family of 95-year-old taser victim, Clare Nowland, maintain a bedside vigil as questions are raised about why NSW Police police were called to her nursing home.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

Nurse shortage ails U.P. health system

While the World Health Organization norm is three nurses per 1,000 population, in Uttar Pradesh, it is just 0.6.

Nottingham Post

Tributes to Nottinghamshire bin man who 'never stopped smiling' during his 47 years on town's streets

Graham Collins, 74, who worked as a bin man in Beeston for 47 years before retiring in 2017 as an incredibly popular member of the community, died on Tuesday, May 16 after a four year long battle with cancer

Chronicle Live

Northumberland beauty spot 10K run returns to raise funds for local hospice

The Druridge Bay 10K and Junior Run 2023 are set to go ahead on May 28 with the aim of raising funds for HospiceCare North Northumberland

The Hindu

Cashless treatment facilities now available to all CGHS beneficiaries at 6 AIIMS

Cashless treatment facilities will now be available to all Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) beneficiaries (serving and pensioners) at six All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) located at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Jodhpur, Raipur and Rishikesh.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Immigration can help solve the nursing shortage

The US nursing workforce is shedding workers. About 100,000 nurses quit or retired during the pandemic, while another 800,000 have signaled an “intent to leave” by 2027. And yet, the country is failing to tap an available group of qualified health-care workers: immigrants. While there’s no single fix for the…

Chronicle Live

Outgoing Northumberland County Council civic head raises more than £20,000 for Tynedale Hospice at Home

His successor outlined the charities she would be supporting in the coming year

ABC News

Cooma locals say tasering of elderly woman 'disgusting', as police review footage

Great-grandmother Clare Nowland remains in a critical condition at Cooma Base Hospital after the incident on Wednesday, as Cooma locals say other means should have been used to subdue her.

1 … 153 154 155 156

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

NHS

25,432 stories

World Health Organization

Northumberland County Council

286 stories

the Legislative Assembly

Broxtowe Borough Council

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.