Controversial South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem‘s visit to Cape Canaveral drew Democratic protestors who opposed her giving the keynote speech a Brevard County Republican Party event. Noem was invited to speak at the local party’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner amid backlash from both sides of the aisle this past month for writing in her book about […]
Controversial South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem‘s visit to Cape Canaveral drew Democratic protestors who opposed her giving the keynote speech a Brevard County Republican Party event. Noem was invited to speak at the local party’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner amid backlash from both sides of the aisle this past month for writing in her book about […]
A Columbus City Schools board member said Thursday that she was responsible for sharing the document with the Columbus Education Association that is now the center of controversy as the board looks to close district schools. In a Thursday statement where she stressed she was speaking in her personal capacity, Board Member Sarah Ingles said […]
Victims of a decades-long contaminated blood scandal that has killed about 3,000 people in Britain will start receiving final compensation payments this year, the government said on Tuesday, with some likely to receive sums of around £2 million. More than 30,000 people, including children, were infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis after being […]
LONDON (AP) — Victims of the U.K.’s infected blood scandal, in which tens of thousands of people were infected by contaminated blood or blood products provided by the public health service, will start receiving their final compensation payments this year, the government said Tuesday. Officials announced the compensation plans a day after the publication of […]
There must be “justice and accountability” for any “wrongdoing” when it comes to the infected blood scandal, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has said. He said victims affected by the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS have “waited an incredibly long time for justice and the truth”. The comments come as people […]
Rishi Sunak said it was “a day of shame for the British state” on Monday as victims of the infected blood scandal were finally given an apology. The Prime Minister said the worst treatment scandal in NHS history had resulted from a “moral failure at the heart of our national life” in which doctors, civil […]
Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals on Wall Street, has died at the age of 87. His daughter Marianne Boesky told The New York Times on Monday that he died in his sleep, and his wife confirmed Boesky’s death to […]
The infected blood scandal in the UK “could largely have been avoided” and there was a “pervasive” cover-up to hide the truth, an inquiry into the biggest treatment disaster in the NHS has concluded. Deliberate attempts were made to conceal the disaster, including evidence of Whitehall officials destroying documents, the Infected Blood Inquiry found. Patients […]
LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country’s public health service committed a “catalogue of failures” and knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have […]
A public inquiry into the long-running infected blood scandal is due to publish its findings today, with a compensation scheme running into the billions thought to be amongst recommendations. The scandal concerns over 30,000 people in the UK who were infected with deadly viruses during the 1970s and 1980s due to contaminated blood products. The […]
The Infected Blood Inquiry in the UK is due to conclude almost seven years after it was first announced. But what is the infected blood scandal? Here’s the answers to questions on what is considered to be the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. What happened? Tens of thousands of people in […]