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Posted onA doctor has appeared in court accused of more than 40 counts of sexual assault against hospital patients including children. The charges faced by Nathaniel Spencer on Tuesday relate to 38 patients at Royal Stoke University Hospital and Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, between 2017 and 2021. The 38-year-old of Great Hampden Street, Birmingham, appeared at…
Do wellness drinks really do what they say?
Posted onRuth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images Calm in a can. Relaxation after a few sips. That’s what some drinks companies are promising with beverages formulated specifically to help you chill out. Lucy and Serena swear by them. They’re good friends who, like many, are juggling careers, the chaos of having small children, trying…
Health Academy upgrades better prepare SCPS students for growing medical field
Posted onSANFORD, Fla. —Seminole County Public Schools Superintendent Serita Beamon was at Seminole High School Monday to tout the success ofSCPS’s Health Academy. The program isn’t new, but it received major renovations and upgrades, including for this new school year, that equip its students with very real and modernized medical equipment and spaces. Beamon says those…
How will weight-loss drugs change our relationship with food?
Posted onBBC We are now in the era of weight-loss drugs. Decisions on how these drugs will be used look likely to shape our future health and even what our society might look like. And, as researchers are finding, they are already toppling the belief that obesity is simply a moral failing of the weak-willed. Weight-loss…
Covid scheme fraud hit almost £11bn but much beyond recovery, report says
Posted onMuch of the £10.9bn in taxpayer money lost to fraud and error in Covid support schemes is now “beyond recovery”, a report has said. The response to the pandemic had led to “enormous outlays of public money which exposed it to the risk of fraud and error” with many organisations unprepared, the Covid Counter Fraud…
