Weight-loss drugs: Who benefits most and why?

Failures within the system have been known about, and reported on, for years. The BBC has spent more than a decade speaking to bereaved and harmed families following poor care at Morecambe Bay, Shrewsbury & Telford, East Kent, Nottingham, Leeds and a number of other NHS Trusts, gathering evidence of failing maternity services.

This is famously the case in the Meningitis Belt – which stretches across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia. Dust, high temperatures and low humidity throughout the dry season are thought to damage the back of the throat and give the bacteria a route into the body. This triggers regular epidemics.

Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves. Credit: Doug Hardy / CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As the Trump administration continues to overhaul federal spending and disbursements to the states, Connecticut officials are stuck in a holding pattern, trying to make their dollars stretch further. The appropriations, human services and public health committees convened at the Legislative…