Fears the coronavirus is spreading inside the NHS are growing after three new cases were confirmed to have been found in or closely linked to hospitals yesterday. At least four NHS staff have caught the illness, which has now infected 90 people in the UK, along with two other people in hospitals and a medical … Read more
Healthcare has come a long way thanks to human endeavour — but even occasional human errors can have disastrous consequences. A misdiagnosis can mean undergoing unnecessary treatment; a misread scan can mean a patient is wrongly given the all-clear. Potentially life-altering or even life-ending mistakes can be made, even by excellent doctors. So the news … Read more
Pope Francis has been forced to cancel a planned Mass in Rome with other clergy after suffering a ‘slight illness’. The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a ‘slight indisposition’ that meant he did not attend an event at the St John Lateran basilica in Rome on Thursday morning. A spokesman said Francis would continue with … Read more
Italy has confirmed its first case of coronavirus in the south after a holidaymaker from the north fell sick while visiting Sicily with her husband and friends. The 66-year-old woman, from Bergamo, travelled to the Sicilian capital of Palermo on Friday morning before her home region of Lombardy was put on lockdown following a surge … Read more