10 things to watch Friday, Sept. 27 — Today’s newsletter was written by the Investing Club’s director of portfolio analysis, Jeff Marks. 1. The S & P 500 was looking at a slightly higher open Friday after another record high close. The 10-year Treasury yield was finally lower following a tame August reading on the … Read more
Getty Images The doctors’ union, the BMA, says it will take “a neutral position” on the recommendations of a landmark review into care for children and young people with gender identity issues. The British Medical Association (BMA) had previously called for a pause in implementing its recommendations – including a move away from drugs to … Read more
BBC Ms Sword said she regretted taking the slimming drug “every single day” A mother of two who nearly died after taking a fraudulent weight loss injection is urging others to be careful about what they buy online. Michelle Sword, 46, from Carterton, Oxfordshire, ordered the slimming drug from an online beauty company last year. … Read more
The independent doctors’ regulator refused to investigate alleged medical malpractice at Harrods in 2017 because too much time had passed and it wasn’t “in the greater public interest”. A woman who underwent an intimate medical examination in 2008 while applying for a job at Harrods complained to the General Medical Council (GMC) nine years later … Read more
Hospitals need to review any child treated by bone surgeon Yaser Jabbar, a solicitor representing affected families has told the BBC. The lower limb reconstruction surgeon worked at private hospital The Portland, as well as seeing NHS patients at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust Hospitals and Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) in London. A damning … Read more
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A doctor who worked for former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed has denied carrying out sexual health tests on staff members. Multiple women have told the BBC Dr Ann Coxon carried out the medical checks while working for Fayed when he owned Harrods. One woman, known as Kate, said she told Dr Coxon it was … Read more
Amended bill allows California to continue to conceal who is using newborn DNA for research — and why. Bills to shed light on newborn DNA storage in California quietly killed or gutted 03:22 Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill (SB 1099) Wednesday prompted by a decade-long CBS News California investigation into California’s newborn genetic biobank. … Read more
Boar’s Head processing plants nationwide are now part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture disclosed Thursday, in the wake of a deadly outbreak blamed on some of the company’s now-recalled deli meats. At least 59 hospitalizations and 10 deaths have been linked to a listeria strain traced back to Boar’s … Read more
A Harvard medical student recently completed an “egg-citing” experiment. Nick Norwitz, 25, decided to eat 720 eggs in one month to see what the effect would be on his cholesterol. At the end of the month, the Boston man found that his cholesterol levels had dipped by 20%. ASK A DOCTOR: ‘HOW CAN I PREVENT … Read more