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McLEOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 11 AUGUST 2025 Octavia Williams-Blake, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, spoke on behalf of McLeod Health during Central Carolina Technical College’s (CCTC) dedication and ribbon cutting on Tuesday, August 5, celebrating the newly renovated Academic and Student Services Building, which now includes the McLeod Health Anatomy and Physiology…

A former patient of Yaser Jabbar has spoken to the BBC about his experience with the limb reconstruction surgeon when he was just six years old. “We saw some mistakes on my leg and we realised something happened wrong”, 12-year-old Vivaan Sharma said. An investigation, published by London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) into Jabbar,…

Amarjit Matharoo, whose daughter Asees was stillborn in January 2024, said it “has been a long, drawn-out, and emotionally draining process to get the assurances that this investigation will be handled with the appropriate methodology and care that it needs”.

Drug maker Novo Nordisk says semaglutide, the active ingredient for the weight loss jab Wegovy, does not slow Alzheimer’s – despite initial hopes that it might help against dementia. Researchers began two large trials involving more than 3,800 people after reports the medicine was having an impact in the real world. But the studies showed…