Texas lawmakers overplayed their hand a few years ago when they passed extreme legislation that bans abortion in almost every ...

It is not possible to say whether a fit and healthy student who died in hospital with sepsis would have survived if he had been treated earlier, a coroner has ruled.

But of all the annoyances that drive me to near apoplexy, and there are many more, the worst is the sight of parents standing ...

Thousands of patients or their loved ones have sought a second opinion about their NHS care under the Martha’s Rule initiative, MPs have heard. Families have described how the lives of loved ones have ...

Jeremy and Susan Everard said ‘it is important that sentences should truly reflect the seriousness of the crime’.

It reminds me of a person who brought fish to work and stunk the place out cooking it during the day. I’d no problem with ...

Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman Helen Morgan will call for a £1.5 billion fund to safeguard hospitals over the colder months.

Jerry Hal Saliterman, 77, of Crystal, Minnesota was due to plead guilty in January, but his hearing was postponed indefinitely because of major health conditions, including lung damage ...

Through examination and chart reviews, students uncovered signs of sepsis (a bacterial infection in the whole body and blood) from pressure ulcers on the lower back and found that he that was ...

The death of a US woman who was partially paralysed in the Columbine High School shooting has been ruled a homicide, raising the death toll of the 1999 attack to 14.

Her cause of death was sepsis, with the two gunshot wounds she sustained in the shooting being a “significant contributing factor,” wrote forensic pathologist Dr Dawn B Holmes in the 13-page ...