Are women over 70 dying from ovarian cancer… as a tragic result of ageism?

Thousands of older women receive ‘shockingly inadequate’ ovarian cancer care when compared with younger women, meaning they are far less likely to survive the disease, experts have warned. The over-70s face an average delay of five months before being referred to specialists, according to data collected by Ovarian Cancer Action – twice as long as … Read more

Italians face dying a year earlier while lockdown in Spain sees number of babies born plummet

Italians face dying a year earlier due to the pandemic while the Covid lockdown in Spain has seen births plummet to record lows.  Average life expectancy in Italy fell by a year to 82.3 years, the country’s national statistics office revealed on Wednesday. In Spain just 23,226 babies were born in December, a fifth less than … Read more

Covid: Blood test developed in London may find patients at high risk of dying

Scientists have developed a blood test that can spot people at high risk of getting critically ill or dying of Covid. Imperial College London experts say they have made a test that can detect proteins which appears directly linked to the risk of death or severe illness. The protein, named GM-CSF, is thought to be … Read more

Blood test may spot Covid patients at high risk of dying

Scientists have developed a blood test that can spot people at high risk of getting critically ill or dying of Covid. Imperial College London experts say they have made a test that can detect proteins which appears directly linked to the risk of death or severe illness. The protein, named GM-CSF, is thought to be … Read more

Dying woman, 75, who was a mounted police officer granted final wish to see and smell a horse

The most moving story you’ll read this week: Dying woman who was the first female mounted police officer in the world is granted her final wish Rita Meredith believed to have been the UK’s first female mounted police officer Ms Meredith, 75, is in palliative care in Newcastle and not expected to leave Her dying … Read more

Dying woman who was a mounted police officer granted final wish to see and smell a horse

The most moving story you’ll read this week: Dying woman who was the first female mounted police officer in the world is granted her final wish Rita Meredith believed to have been the UK’s first female mounted police officer She is unwell in Calvary Mater Newcastle hospital and not expected to leave Her dying wish to … Read more

Fewer people are now dying than expected in the South West and North East

Fewer people are now dying than expected in the South West and North East and in care homes, ONS data reveals as weekly Covid deaths fall by another 30% Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showed both recorded fewer fatalities from all causes than expected Statisticians estimate expected deaths by averaging fatalities at the same … Read more

Couple who stole from dying woman are jailed for total of seven years

Couple who stole purse and iPhone from dying woman, 84, after they lied to her blind husband, 87, that they were calling an ambulance are jailed for total of seven years Dorothy Crowther, 84, suffered aneurysm in her home near Burnley, Lancs Her husband Ronald, 87, ran into street calling for help from neighbours  Heroin addicts … Read more

US TV firm exec behind Sussex interview was producer of programme that screened dying Diana images

Exec at US TV firm behind Sussexes’ interview was producer of controversial programme that screened images of Princess Diana as she lay dying Susan Zirinsky worked on CBS’s 48 Hours Investigates in 2004 when it screened  two images of an unconscious Diana The Princess was slumped in the back of a car after the crash in Paris … Read more

Britain’s Covid vaccines should cut the risk of dying or being hospitalised MORE in younger adults

 Dr Mary Ramsay, PHE’s head of immunisation said today she expects the vaccines to give ‘even stronger protection’ to younger age groups The coronavirus vaccines being rolled out in Britain should perform even better in younger adults than the elderly, a top Government scientist said today.  Public Health England last night published its first major real-world … Read more