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Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US
An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said
Focused on Work, Needed at Home: A Federal Caregiving Policy Might Help
(Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) Jill Woodrow reached a tipping point as a caregiver when her mom began struggling to communicate information about her latest doctor appointments. Woodrow’s mother, a uterine cancer survivor, was seeing specialists to get to the bottom of several new, concerning symptoms. “When she would try to tell
How digital platforms and policy shifts reshape GLP-1 affordability
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Collapsed Henley replaced on Croydon housing scheme
Henley's former office. Credit: 2023 Google Streetview Southern Housing has appointed Formation Design & Build to finish a housing scheme in Croydon that was left in limbo after the collapse of its previous contractor. Henley Construct was building the 116-home scheme on Cherry Orchard Road when it entered administration in April 2023, owing millions of
Creditors owed £33m by collapsed J Tomlinson set to get some funds
Image © 2023 Google Unsecured creditors linked to collapsed contractor J Tomlinson are set to receive a dividend after all, after HMRC claimed less money than was expected. Administrators from FRP Advisory did not expect unsecured creditors – including the construction supply chain – to receive any of the £33m they were owed when J
Collapsed contractor’s employees win compensation
Former employees of a contractor that went into administration last spring have received compensation because they were not consulted before they lost their jobs. The 20 former employees of ARJ Construction all received 90 days’ pay after the Employment Tribunal found the contractor did not consult them or any union representatives before they lost their
NG Bailey owed more than £2m by collapsed gigafactory client
Britishvolt, the start-up electric vehicle battery manufacturer behind a £3.8bn gigafactory in Northumberland, went under owing around £160m, it has emerged. A new report from administrators at EY shows that those owed money by the company included mechanical and electrical (M&E) giant NG Bailey, which is out of pocket by more than £2m. The report
Collapsed contractor ‘fined’ £146k over worker death
A collapsed company has been sentenced for failing to keep its workers safe after a 48-year-old man was fatally crushed by a 20-tonne excavator. Kidderminster-based Birch Brothers, which went into liquidation last year, had been building a concrete overflow weir structure at a pond in Derbyshire in 2017. Philip McDonald was one of the workers
Collapsed contractor received £7.5m taxpayer support
Collapsed contractor Jehu Group received £7.5m in taxpayer-funded grants and loans while it was struggling, it has emerged. A report by the Bridgend-headquartered company’s administrators revealed that the circa £70m-turnover firm received £5.1m in loans from the Welsh Government-owned Development Bank of Wales in the year before it went under. It was also granted £2.4m-worth
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Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US
An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said
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Focused on Work, Needed at Home: A Federal Caregiving Policy Might Help
(Candice Evers for WPLN and KFF Health News) Jill Woodrow reached a tipping point as a caregiver when her mom began struggling to communicate information about her latest doctor appointments. Woodrow’s mother, a uterine cancer survivor, was seeing specialists to get to the bottom of several new, concerning symptoms. “When she would try to tell
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Baffling. Frustrating. Frightening. What It’s Like To Be Sued Over Medical Debt.
When Christine Wood received a $12,000 bill from Bristol Hospital, she thought it must be a mistake. It was more than she and her husband made in a month combined. “I’m freaking out,” said Wood, who lives in a 1,700-square-foot home in Terryville, a village just outside Bristol, Connecticut. “I don’t understand it.” Wood, 52
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Former Angels Top Prospect Jordyn Adams, 26, Commits To SMU Football
The 2018 wide receiver recruiting class was spearheaded by top prospects Amon-Ra St. Brown and Ja’Marr Chase. Both elite talents lived up to the immense hype and have since become All-Pro receivers in the NFL. Lost in that group was the player who sat between Brown and Chase in the rankings — a once highly-touted