Browsing: lifesaving

Rob Sissons, East Midlands health correspondentBBCJordan was one of the first donors to give stem cells at the new centre, which collects cells for NHS transplants…

The first group of children from Gaza have arrived in the UK for specialist life-saving treatment on the NHS, the Guardian understands.Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary,…

A decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions in…

Adam EleySocial affairs producerBBCTim has been unable to leave his bed since February of this yearTim Hull can point to many achievements during his 56 years.…

The number of patients waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the UK has increased to a record high while there has been a sharp drop…

To read Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which has won this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction, is to experience an onslaught of often competing…

Cool news out of the women-loving Trump administration: Hospitals are no longer required to perform emergency abortions in order to save a pregnant person’s life. Yes,…

A 43-year-old woman and mother of two with advanced cancer says she is experiencing life-or-death delays in treatment because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the…