A teenager has been left blind and partially deaf after living off a diet of chips, sausages and crisps. The British 17-year-old’s diet was so bad he suffered from a condition normally only seen in malnourished third-world children. Researchers from Bristol Eye Hospital have published a report into the boy’s case, which believed to be the first… Read More »
Dive Brief: After providers and stakeholders aired their concerns in front of Kansas lawmakers over Aetna’s less-than-stellar performance in delivering benefits to Medicaid beneficiaries, the Kansas Hospital Association says it’s optimistic that longstanding issues will be corrected. The hearing in front of an oversight committee was held Monday, about a month after the state of… Read More »
Man, 73, needed part of his bowel removed after a 2cm-long fish bone he accidentally swallowed perforated his intestine The unnamed man went to hospital in Japan with severe abdominal pain Scan revealed a ‘linear body’ had penetrated his small intestine Man recalled eating yellowtail fish the day before his pain started By Alexandra Thompson Senior… Read More »
Teen survives after car lands on his head during near-fatal crash Medical Mysteries and Marvels: Juan Spence had been riding in his friend’s car when it crashed, and after being ejected from his seat, the car actually landed on his body, and then his head. Doctors put his chances of survival at just five percent.… Read More »
Yazmin Juárez, who testified in Congress earlier this month about her 21-month-old daughter’s death, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking $ 40 million in damages from CoreCivic, which runs the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Juarez and her daughter, Mariee, were detained for three weeks at the 2,400-bed facility last year. Mariee died… Read More »
ROBERT Mark Boydell joined Facebook in March 2017. He’s slender; in his late-teens or early-20s with dark hair, high cheekbones and a rock-and-roll hipster aesthetic. In one photo, he is stepping out of a closet, face painted and cigarette hanging between his fingers, bundled into a dark jacket and film camera haze – the kind… Read More »