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NHS trust and manager guilty of failings

Alison Holt Social Affairs Editor, BBC News Reporting fromThe Old Bailey Figueiredo family Alice Figueiredo made previous attempts to take her own life, the Old Bailey heard A hospital trust and a staff member have been found guilty of health and safety failings over the death of a young woman in a mental health unit. […]

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RFK Jr fires entire US vaccine committee

US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, has removed all 17 members of a committee that issues official government recommendations on immunisations. Announcing the move in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said that conflicts of interest on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) were responsible for undermining trust […]

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Warning over ‘dirty secret’ of toxic chemicals on farmers fields

Jonah Fisher Environment correspondent Getty Images About 3.5 million tonnes of sewage sludge, that’s enough to fill nearly 900 Olympic sized swimming pools are spread of farmers fields in England and Wales each year. Successive governments have failed to deal with the threat posed by spreading sewage sludge containing toxic chemicals on farmers’ fields, a […]

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