Ransomware cyber-attack threat escalating – Europol
From BBC Friday’s cyber-attack has affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, Europol chief Rob Wainwright says. He told the BBC the act was “unprecedented in its scale” and warned more people could find themselves affected on Monday morning….
Aspirin taken to thin the blood to prevent strokes ‘can double risk of suffering a heart attack’
By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail From This Is Money Study of 30,000 NHS patients with atrial fibrillation found they were at higher risk if they took aspirin Patients were 1.9 times as likely to have an…
UK NHS crisis: Corbyn calls on May to face urgent Commons questions
By Chris Johnston and agencies From The Guardian UK Lib Dems demand emergency health funding as NHS England boss disputes Red Cross claim of a humanitarian crisis Jeremy Corbyn has called on Theresa May to attend the House of Commons on…
Jessica Whelan: girl in heartbreaking picture shared worldwide dies aged four
By Frances Perraudin From The Guardian UK Father of Lancashire girl documented ‘truth and reality’ of his daughter’s struggle with neuroblastoma on Facebook page A four-year-old girl whose portrait came to symbolise the “darkness that is childhood cancer” has died…
Caribbean nurses who saved Britain’s Health Service honoured in new documentary
From Caribbean360 LONDON, England – When the first pictures were released of Britain’s two youngest royals, few people noticed the midwife who had headed the team that brought them into the world. Standing quietly in the background, Dr Jacqui Dunkley-Bent…
Nothing to hide?
From New Scientist If Google has nothing to hide about NHS data, why so secretive? Google’s subsidiary DeepMind could use our health data to diagnose disease sooner. If it was more open, we might be happier to let it go…
Caribbean News iBusiness iCommunity iCrime iFinance iHealth iLocal News iWorld News Manager's Choice News
[UK] Nursing agency’s £43m NHS payday [owned by Cayman Islands company]
By John Stevens and Lucy Elkins and Rosie Taylor for the DAILY MAIL Mail investigation finds firm billed cash-strapped hospitals as much as £1,800 a shift to plug gap in staffing shortages A nursing agency last year charged the NHS…
BBC star said he had sex with corpses and claimed his jewelry was made from the glass eyes of the dead
By Jim Edwards From Business Insider The First Photos Of Possible ‘Rich Kids Of New York’ Cast Members Over the last couple of years, the BBC has been dragged through the mud as several of its former top celebrities have…
Increased coffee consumption lowers risk of type 2 diabetes – study
From Caribbean360 MASSACHUSETTS, United States, Friday May 2, 2014 – New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that increasing coffee consumption by on average one-and-half cups per day (approx 360ml)…
Cayman Minister says waiting period for obstetric and gynaecological services is 2 weeks
Statement by Minister Responsible for Health, Osbourne Bodden, on Access to Obstetric Care On 27th February, North Side MLA Ezzard Miller, speaking in the Legislative Assembly, voiced concerns with regards to the ability of the public to access to obstetricians…
