AI-powered alerts systems saved over five lakh lives during 2024 Kerala floods, said MoS Communications

AI-powered alerts systems saved over five lakh lives during 2024 Kerala floods, said MoS Communications

International AI Summit during the ongoing India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2025 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi on Thursday, October 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: Haider Ali Khan The AI-powered alerts systems saved over five lakh lives during the 2024 Kerala floods, said Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, MoS, Communications while addressing the International AI Summit during the … Read more

‘She doesn’t get another childhood’: The lives on hold waiting for wheelchairs

‘She doesn’t get another childhood’: The lives on hold waiting for wheelchairs

Munaza RafiqDisability producer Family handout Wren waited more than a year to receive her NHS manual wheelchair, which she has nearly grown out of More than a thousand disabled children across the UK are waiting for wheelchairs and mobility equipment that could transform their lives, Whizz Kidz say. The charity, which helps wheelchair users up … Read more

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more

Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: 48 hours in UK’s first drug injection room

Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: 48 hours in UK’s first drug injection room

Alarms sound as staff deal with medical emergencies in The Thistle’s using space Chris Clements BBC Disclosure The alarm is sounding in the UK’s first drug consumption room. A man in his 30s has overdosed in the “using space” – a room in the Glasgow facility where nurses supervise injections in eight booths. He had … Read more

Lives at risk due to medical scan mistakes, says ombudsman

Lives at risk due to medical scan mistakes, says ombudsman

Smitha Mundasad Health reporter, BBC News Getty Images Repeated failures in how CTs, X-rays and other medical scans are being interpreted are leading to avoidable patient deaths and delays in diagnosing cancer, England’s health ombudsman has warned. The most common problems include doctors failing to spot abnormalities, scans being delayed or not carried out, and … Read more

MPs say woefully inadequate eating-disorder care is costing lives

MPs say woefully inadequate eating-disorder care is costing lives

Anna Collinson and Lorna Acquah BBC News Investigations BBC Olimata felt like “a shell of a human”, when she had anorexia, as a teenager Lives are being lost and families torn apart because of “woefully inadequate care” for people with eating disorders, according to a group of MPs. The “alarming” rise in disorders such as … Read more

Cervical screening knowledge gap ‘costing lives’, says charity

Cervical screening knowledge gap ‘costing lives’, says charity

Getty Images Cervical screening tests save thousands of lives each year in the UK, but many women do not take up invitations for screenings A knowledge gap around cervical screenings is currently “costing lives”, a cancer charity says. The Eve Appeal says more women need to know they can ask for adjustments to their cervical … Read more