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Parents of premature and ill babies could be entitled to additional leave and pay under SNP plan

A mum from Cumbernauld told the Record how she had to take three months unpaid leave to care for her baby daughter who was born premature.

Daily Record

New figures detail the most popular day to be born with Boxing Day the rarest

More babies were born on September 27 than any other date – with the rest of the top five no more than a week either side - while Boxing Day pipped Christmas Day as the rarest birthday

Daily Mirror

Disabled man says delayed care bill is making his ‘health worse’

He has been sick with worry over how he will afford the bill when it finally gets issued

Bristol Post

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'NHS is dying on its knees and crisis shows a wider sickness at the heart of politics'

Sharon Graham, General Secretary of Unite, says the National Health Service is on its knees but this is just a snapshot of the sickness at the heart of politics in this country

Daily Mirror

Calls made to guarantee the future of dementia wards at hospitals in Dumbarton and Alexandria

MSP Jackie Baillie has called for a 'cast-iron guarantee' on the future of dementia wards in Dumbarton and Alexandria.

Daily Record

Funding for Dumbarton's elderly community groups delayed over park taxi bid

The last money in a local trust fund is to be distributed to groups helping the elderly - but a delay on an application by the Friends of Levengrove Park has held up the payments

Glasgow Live

Relief as 'vulnerable' John Davidson, 86, from Chester-le-Street found 'safe and well'

Officers from Durham Constabulary were searching for the pensioner who went missing from his home in Chester-le-Street

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Dagenham mother-of-three, 40, dies at home after waiting over an hour and a half for ambulance

Her 18-year-old daughter frantically tried to get help, and eventually had to give her mum CPR

Evening Standard

Afraid to treat a miscarriage

Louisiana's near-total abortion ban has physicians terrified they could be investigated for treating a miscarriage

Salon

Brave dad 'with brilliant sense of humour' dies with family by his side

Justin Hammond was paralysed from his neck down but always remained "upbeat" and "positive"

Liverpool Echo

Hallelujah! I’ve found the secret to feeling eternally young at long last

We were on a family walk in the countryside and I decided to grab a selfie with my daughter. She asked to see the photograph. “You look really old,” she said. I looked at the photograph, studied the man next to the young girl and grudgingly concluded that she was…

Evening Standard

Scotland's oldest person says no alcohol is secret to long life as she celebrates 110th birthday

Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire revealed her secrets to a long life and said lemonade 'is her stretch'.

Daily Record

Scots couple who tragically lost two babies raise thousands for children's charity

Parents Gary and Sally McBride lost daughter Holly in 2010 and son Jamie in 2021.

Daily Record

Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin shoot down awkward question about their age and gender

‘We are meeting because we are prime ministers’

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Dublin Live

Heartfelt tributes pour in for 'wonderful' DCU professor following death

The double lung and kidney transplant survivor has just last week spoken about his harrowing experience in hospital after being diagnosed with Covid-19

The Guardian - UK

The ‘virgin speculum’: proof that medicine is still rife with outrageous myths about women

No wonder fewer British women are attending cervical screenings when some in the medical profession have such outdated views, says Jenny Halpern Prince of the Lady Garden Foundation

Wales Online

Living and dying in pain: The victims of Wales' NHS waiting list scandal

The Welsh Government is keen to draw people's attention to a small drop in waiting lists — but what is really happening in the NHS in Wales, where 15,000 people have died while waiting for an operation to relieve their suffering?

Belfast Live

Organ donation: Delay in introducing Daithi's Law branded "unacceptable"

Daithi's father Mairtin MacGabhann said the delay in the legislation was "devastating"

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The world's oldest person, Sister André of France, dies at age 118

Born Lucile Randon in 1904, Sister André spent most of her life in religious service as a Roman Catholic nun. The oldest living person is now Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at age 115.

The Independent UK

Lifespan-doubling injection in mice takes rejuvenation therapy step closer in humans

‘This is a powerful technology, and here is the proof of concept’

Irish Mirror

World's oldest person dies at 118 after surviving two World Wars and Covid-19 pandemic

She lived through the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and in 2021 she shrugged off Covid with few symptoms

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak confronted over 'lethal chaos' in NHS after death of woman, 26, in 999 delay

Labour leader Keir Starmer told MPs about the tragic case of a woman called Stephanie, from Plymouth, whose mum called 999 - but the ambulance failed to arrive in time

Salon

Pregnancy-related nausea undertreated

Often, the condition is misunderstood or downplayed by doctors or the patients themselves

Asharq Al-Awsat

World’s Oldest Known Person, French Nun, Dies at 118

A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday. Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11,…

Daily Record

Anas Sarwar warns UK Government has taken 'wrong approach' by blocking Holyrood gender reforms

The Scottish Labour leader said it was up to Keir Starmer to judge how the controversial law looks in the rest of the UK.

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