Covid inquiry chair defends cost and length of process on final day

Joe McFaddenHealth reporter Rose Stokes Rose Stokes is a freelance journalist and mother of two After giving birth to her second child, Rose Stokes was exhausted all the time. “I couldn’t really do anything more than the bare minimum in terms of looking after my kids. I’d put them down at seven and have to…

James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Getty Images Side effects of different antidepressants have been ranked for the first time, revealing huge differences between drugs. Academics looked at the impact medications had on patients in the first eight weeks after starting treatment, with some causing patients to gain up to 2kg in weight or vary heart…

The report did not detail individual cases, but families have previously spoken about the problems their children have experienced. One girl, Bunty, who was born with a rare bone disease that caused her left leg to be bowed and short, was operated on multiple times by Jabbar and eventually had to have her lower leg…

PHILADELPHIA — Christina Simms wouldn’t call herself an artist. The Howard University student was a budding scientist visiting to do research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her main objective was to do lab work. Yet as her summer internship entered its final weeks, she faced the daunting task of creating a piece of artwork…