The death of a baby girl has prompted warnings about the danger of leaving children unattended while restrained. The nine-month-old died days after she became caught in the harness of her car seat and asphyxiated. She was left in the car to finish drinking a bottle of formula after the family arrived at her grandparents’ … Read more
Demand for ambulances in Victoria has surpassed the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the parents of a young child forced to drive her to hospital because the nearest ambulance was too far away. The incident, involving a four-year-old girl, unfolded in Melbourne in the early hours of Monday after a weekend when ambulance services … Read more
The parents of an 11-year-old British girl who died hours after doctors diagnosed her with constipation and sent her home are demanding answers. When Annabel Greenhalgh complained of abdominal pain, her parents took her to the emergency room at Warwick Hospital, in the West Midlands of England. Doctors said she had constipation and discharged her … Read more
A “terrified” dad rushed his daughter to hospital when a hole burst in her lung after she vaped the equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week. Mark Blight “cried like a baby” when he got a call saying his daughter Kyla, 17, had collapsed and turned blue during a sleepover at a friend’s house early on … Read more
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Although COVID outpaced the strategies in New York’s emergency plans in the early days of the pandemic, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo blundered by favoring a top-down approach. That’s according to the long-delayed review of the state’s COVID response—which you can check out at the bottom of this story—by the Virginia-based emergency management … Read more
Food authorities have issued an urgent alert to Australian consumers about cooked chicken and eggs, allaying concerns about any potential bird flu contamination. It comes five days after Coles supermarket announced that it was imposing purchase limits on eggs after bird flu was detected at a fifth Victorian poultry farm. The retail giant has introduced … Read more
An increasing number of Australian babies are falling sick after being given a potentially toxic colic treatment purchased online, authorities have warned. NSW Health has flagged ongoing reports of neonatal children and infants presenting to GPs and emergency departments with suspected anticholinergic syndrome. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Health authorities issue urgent warning over baby treatments … Read more
Whooping cough cases are on the rise across Australia, prompting medical experts to encourage vaccinations for children. The increase in cases coincides with the short supply of a popular medication called Azithromycin, used to treat the illness. The federal health department reported an increasing number of whooping cough cases from the start of this year, … Read more
A four-year-old British boy was left paralysed after a rare complication of chickenpox led to him suffer from a stroke. Freddie Rushton collapsed at his family home at Stoke-on-Trent in England’s north, in May last year, 11 months after having common childhood chickenpox. The youngster was left unable to stand or speak, and medics warned … Read more
The South Australian opposition has taken aim at the government over the state’s buckling health system, sharing a photo of an 84-year-old woman forced to wait for 10 hours in the Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department after falling severely ill. The woman was suffering severe flu symptoms and reported “coughing to the point of almost … Read more
