#medical-tribunal

#medical-tribunal

Rebecca Fadanelli admitted guilt on four counts of importing merchandise contrary to law, two counts of selling or dispensing a counterfeit drug, and two counts of selling or dispensing a counterfeit device.

The HIV ward, the scene of graphically ill patients when I was training, is long closed because it's no longer needed in most rich countries. When my young neighbour had a stroke, doctors cleverly retrieved the clot suffocating his artery, not just saving his life but also returning it to its full potential.

Aidan O'Brien faces a series of allegations including that he failed to provide good clinical care to 10 patients between 2011 and 2019.

The government has withdrawn an offer of creating 1,000 more doctor training posts in England after the British Medical Association (BMA) refused to call off a six-day strike next week. The extra posts were part of a wider package of measures put forward by ministers earlier this year to resolve the long-running dispute with resident doctors.

A report last year found unnecessary surgeries were carried out, cancers were missed and poor standards of care were delivered at the University Hospital of North Durham and Darlington Memorial Hospital. CDDTF said it wanted to support the patients it had let down, including by offering access to psychological support, and to ensure they knew how to make a claim or raise concerns with police.

Eight individuals were arrested and 15 charged in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $50 million by running sham hospice facilities across Southern California. Federal officials described the actions as brazen efforts to commit fraud, with many billed patients not being terminally ill.

In birth injury cases, the collection of evidence is crucial for establishing liability and demonstrating the extent of harm suffered by the child and family. Without sufficient evidence, it becomes challenging to prove that the injury was preventable and that the healthcare providers failed in their duty of care.

The companies, whose directors were doctors in Tallaght University Hospital, were hired by Naas General Hospital to run extra clinics paid for by the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

As AI becomes integrated into daily life and personal decision making, it is unsurprising that many people are consulting AI for assistance with depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns. Mental health chatbots, self-help applications, and large language models can provide immediate responses, emotional validation, and structured coping strategies.

The HSE Mid West has said it accepts "full institutional responsibility" for the "catastrophic and irreparable harm caused" when teenager Jessica Sheedy died at University Hospital Limerick.

As every week, month, year passes, women are getting more frustrated, upset. You can't put their pain on hold. A lot of them have had to give up work or reduce their hours. They're struggling to make ends meet. We have some members, they've had to sell their homes and move in with elderly parents, marriages broken down We see those women at three in the morning trying to put up a post saying, I don't want to be here any more'

The initial subpoena, sent to 20 medical providers last year, demanded the young patients' addresses, Social Security numbers, medical diagnoses, prescriptions, all documents affirming any parental authorization to receive gender-affirming care, and other information.

Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years' worth of warnings, MPs have said. In a scathing report published on Friday, the public accounts committee (PAC) excoriates the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England for allowing the cost of mistakes to balloon to 3.6bn a year.

Dr Susan Gilby took over as chief executive at the Countess of Chester hospital in 2018 after it was rocked by the Lucy Letby case. She was awarded the payout one of the biggest in NHS history last month after a tribunal ruled she had been unfairly dismissed after raising concerns about alleged bullying and harassment by the chair of the hospital board.

A New York federal judge has dismissed murder and weapons charges against Luigi M., accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, ruling that prosecutors cannot pursue those counts under federal law. The decision has stripped prosecutors of the ability to seek the death penalty in the federal case, while leaving Mangione facing separate state charges. Who has issued the ruling? US District Judge Margaret M. Garnett issued the decision on Friday in federal court in Manhattan.

We received a file of evidence from Cheshire Constabulary in July 2025 asking us to consider further allegations against Lucy Letby, 36, relating to deaths and non-fatal collapses of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital and Liverpool Women's Hospital. Following a thorough review of that evidence, we have decided that no criminal charges should be brought in respect of those further allegations.