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Female NHS worker, 35, avoids jail after poisoning four-month-old baby in hospital with laxatives in ‘attention seeking spree’ In a bid for attention, woman, 35, poisoned the baby with a powerful laxative The four-month-old baby was admitted to hospital in Basingstoke with diarrhoea Medics were unable to determine the cause and extensive tests were carried … Read more
They’re the over-the-counter remedies relied upon by hundreds of thousands of Britons to ease digestive problems, but now new restrictions on laxatives mean many people may struggle with symptoms, and some could end up in hospital as a result. That’s the warning from a world-leading expert on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) following changes to the … Read more
An A&E doctor who misdiagnosed an 11-year-old boy with constipation and left him to die of bowel failure is to keep her NHS job after she was hailed as a ‘competent and dedicated medical practitioner’ by regulators. Dr Aine Mullen, 35, wrongly diagnosed Stephen McElroy, from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and sent him home with … Read more