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Canadian doctors are leading a group of international medical experts who believe that Britain’s most prolific child killer of modern times may have been wrongly convicted.  Lucy Letby, the former neonatal nurse, was found guilty in two trials, in 2023 and 2024, of murdering seven premature infants and attempting to …

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.  The new law, which took effect immediately, allows doctors to request …

More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott’s visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln continue to fascinate people. Abbott, a man of notable firsts, is included in Jill L. Newmark’s book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. In addition to …

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. A patient sounds slightly short of breath with a subtle decline in their strength. The …

A court in India has sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor who was attacked while on duty in Kolkata last August — a crime that sparked widespread protests across the country. The trial, which started in November and was held in …

An Indian court on Saturday found a police volunteer guilty for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, a crime that sparked countrywide protests and hospital strikes last year amid renewed concerns over lack of safety for women. The killing of the 31-year-old physician while she was on duty …

They started to arrive, and the line began to form, as early as 2 a.m. Despite a steady snowfall and bone-chilling cold, they came to stand outside and wait their turn, hours before the doors opened at 10 a.m.  This wasn’t a queue to purchase Taylor Swift concert tickets at a kiosk in …

नई दिल्ली/कोलकाता1 मिनट पहले कॉपी लिंक इस केस के मुख्य आरोपी संजय रॉय को घटना के अगले दिन (10 अगस्त) को ही गिरफ्तार कर लिया था। कोलकाता के आरजी कर मेडिकल कॉलेज और अस्पताल में 9 अगस्त को ट्रेनी डॉक्टर के साथ हुए रेप और मर्डर केस में सुप्रीम कोर्ट …

A disease that is more commonly associated with the trenches of the First World War, and can sometimes be found in refugee camps, has been detected in several patients in Alberta who received organ transplants. Bartonella quintana, an infection caused by body lice, has been found in seven organ transplant …

Palestinian surgeon Khaled Al Serr was working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on March 25 when he was arrested and detained in a raid by Israeli troops. For months, his family had no knowledge of his whereabouts until other detained health-care workers were released and informed …