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Israeli strikes kill dozens in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, medics say : NPR

Israeli strikes kill dozens in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, medics say : NPR

Lebanese Red Cross volunteers and other rescuers search for victims at a house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Baalchmay village east of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. Hassan Ammar/AP hide caption toggle caption Hassan Ammar/AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past day, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck Beirut’s southern suburbs and killed 33 people elsewhere in the country on Tuesday. The latest bombardment came as the United States said it would not reduce its military support for Israel after a deadline passed for allowing more humanitarian aid into Gaza. The State Department cited some progress, even as international aid groups said Israel had failed to meet the U.S. demands. In Lebanon, large explosions shook Beirut’s southern suburbs — an area known as Dahiyeh, where Hezbollah has a significant presence — soon after the Israeli military issued evacuation warnings for 11 houses there. There was no immediate …

David McLean: Former Winchester mayor cleared of attempting to murder his terminally ill mother who medics thought was about to die | UK News

David McLean: Former Winchester mayor cleared of attempting to murder his terminally ill mother who medics thought was about to die | UK News

A former mayor of Winchester has been cleared of attempting to murder his terminally ill mother after the case was thrown out of court. David McLean was charged with the attempted murder of 92-year-old Margaret McLean at her home in Waltham Chase, Hampshire, in the early hours of 7 October 2022. But after legal discussions, judge Mrs Justice McGowan told the jury at Winchester Crown Court that there was not enough evidence available for them to decide on a verdict. Prosecutors had accused the 72-year-old of smothering Mrs McLean with a cushion because he “could not stand to watch her suffering”. During the trial the former mayor told the court he said “I’m sorry mum” as he pressed the pillow over her face as she was “suffocating in her own snot”. Mrs McLean was undergoing end-of-life care and medics thought she was about to die, jurors were told. Image: McLean told the jury at Winchester Crown Court he could not stand to see his mother suffering. Pic: PA The court was shown body-worn video filmed …

Girl was seen 30 times by medics over three years before brain tumour diagnosis | UK News

Girl was seen 30 times by medics over three years before brain tumour diagnosis | UK News

An 11-year-old girl was seen 30 times by medics over the course of three years before she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Tia Gordon, from Northampton, was told she was suffering from migraines and stomach bugs before she was admitted to hospital as an emergency when her condition started to affect her balance and ability to walk. She underwent an emergency scan, which revealed she had a 3.5cm tumour on her brain. Her mother, Imogen Darby, said Tia had been taken to GPs, A&E and was assessed by NHS 111 and also had her glasses prescription changed four times before the tumour was spotted. She said: “Over more than three years, I took Tia to doctors, she was refused MRIs, she was refused to be seen by emergency paediatrics, I called 111, I went to A&E, she had her glasses changed four times, she was given medication and she had a consultant, but it took for her to be unable to walk for her to get the care she needed.” Ms Darby first noticed …

Medics in Sudan taught to treat gunshot wounds on smartphones

Medics in Sudan taught to treat gunshot wounds on smartphones

Hadeel, along with hundreds of other Sudanese healthcare workers, uses an international platform called Project ECHO to connect with medical experts worldwide and get quick, real-time advice on how to treat her patients, via a messaging app on her phone.  In Sudan, doctors are not taught trauma medicine, meaning many were left scrambling to deal with the sudden influx of injuries and diseases brought on by the civil war.  ECHO employs specialised consultants from around the world and connects them with those who need their expertise. The concept is simple, yet effective – move knowledge, not patients.  The non-profit was founded in New Mexico in 2003, by US-based doctor Dr Sanjeev Arora. At the time, Dr Arora was one of the few doctors in the state trained to treat complex hepatitis-C infections.  When one of his distant patients died of the disease – purely because she lived too far away to regularly visit his clinic in Albuquerque – he set up a programme to share his specialised training with other doctors remotely, using teleconferencing. Fast …

Robotics could be used to diagnose and remove lung cancer in patients in one sitting, medics says | UK News

Robotics could be used to diagnose and remove lung cancer in patients in one sitting, medics says | UK News

Robotics could be used to diagnose and remove lung cancer in one sitting in a move that would be “transformational” for patients and NHS waiting lists, according to medics trialling the technology. Professor Pallav Shah, a consultant respiratory physician based at Royal Brompton Hospital in London, said his team is “generally getting good results” after testing the procedure on seven patients. One of them was a woman who was unable to have more radiotherapy as part of her treatment. The method using robotics allows doctors to target and remove nodules on the lung with millimetre precision. Before the procedure, a CT scan is performed and passed through software to create a detailed 3D roadmap of the inside of the patient’s lungs from the mouth to the location of the cancer. A thin, robot-guided tube, or catheter, is then passed through the patient’s mouth and into the airways. Once located, cancer cells are destroyed using heat in a process known as microwave ablation. Professor Shah said: “We can get to the nodule really precisely. “The first …

Dad with six months to live gets ‘second shot of life’ as Edinburgh medics make surprising discovery

Dad with six months to live gets ‘second shot of life’ as Edinburgh medics make surprising discovery

A dad who began planning his own funeral after he was given six months to live says he was given a ‘second shot of life’ after medics in Edinburgh made a surprising discovery. Callum Laing, 40, was diagnosed with a stage 4 Glioblastoma brain tumour, after he had been suffering from intense headaches earlier this year. Medics carried out a scan and discovered a mass roughly the size of an orange growing inside his skull. The devastated dad-of-two was given just six months to live and had started to plan his funeral. However, just days later, when surgeons in Edinburgh attempted to operate on the growth, Callum was told that the lump was completely benign. READ NEXT-Furious Midlothian couple ‘won’t back down’ as builder ‘makes demand’ over refund READ NEXT-East Lothian carer worked a shift ‘intoxicated’ placing residents ‘at risk’ The stunned father-of-two, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, told how he had been preparing to say goodbye to his wife and young children and has called the experience the “biggest rollercoaster of his life”. Callum told …

Gaza medics pull baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike – video | World news

Gaza medics pull baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike – video | World news

Doctors have delivered a baby via an emergency caesarean section on a Palestinian woman who was killed in an Israeli attack in the southern city of Rafah. Health officials said Sabreen al-Sakani had been 30 weeks’ pregnant when she was killed alongside her husband and young daughter. The head of the neonatal unit, Mohammed Salama, said the baby, who weighed 1.4kg, was in a stable condition and improving. More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have crowded into Rafah, seeking shelter from Israeli bombardment Source link

‘ICU on wheels’: 24 hours with Ukraine’s combat medics in Donbas | Ukraine

‘ICU on wheels’: 24 hours with Ukraine’s combat medics in Donbas | Ukraine

It is around midnight in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, and the first emergency ambulance of the night is charging 75mph down a single carriageway road from the frontline. Inside, under the care of two watchful medics, is Ihor, an unconscious soldier wounded from the battle of Chasiv Yar, with shrapnel, perhaps from a mine, in his abdomen. The medics’ task is to complete the last leg of evacuation from the battlefield, which involves Ihor and tonight’s most serious casualties being taken to a hospital in the safe central city of Dnipro. Four ambulances are following on a bumpy high-speed run that takes three hours down roads largely deserted because of the 9pm curfew, the full single beds creaking and bouncing as they go. “This is intensive care on wheels,” says Sergei Zakharchenko, one of the anaesthesiologists describing his night’s work inside a noisy but relatively spacious Mercedes Sprinter van. “It is a trauma of course, but it’s our work. You have to fight the war and you have to help people.” Ruslan, a Moas medic, rescues …

Gaza conflict is creating a traumatised generation of child amputees, warn medics

Gaza conflict is creating a traumatised generation of child amputees, warn medics

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) co-ordinator Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial witnessed the pitiful sight of scores of children having their limbs amputated in the al-Aqsa hospital only last week. “It is completely devastating to see,” she admitted. “Babies as young as one year old are being amputated. These are babies that have never learned to walk, and now they never will walk [unaided]. “I saw many patients who arrived at the hospital who had already lost their legs and their arms. And then there were others badly injured in a blast who had to be amputated because the lack of access to healthcare and post-operative care means their wounds will otherwise be infected.” With little indication of Israel loosening its tight control of border crossing points for more medical evacuations, agencies fear that thousands of those maimed who have not yet been operated on risk infection. Limb injuries ‘have to wait’ In Gaza, where just under half of the population are under 18, a substantial proportion of the young will grow up hampered by a war-inflicted disability …