A 5-year-old girl with a history of asthma died mere hours after a doctor turned her away for being minutes late to an appointment, according to officials. An inquest determined that Ellie-May Clark was not seen at Grange Clinic in Newport, Wales, for an emergency appointment because they enacted a “10-minute rule.” As a result, a coroner testified that an opportunity …
The daughter of an Air Force veteran is demanding answers after a Veteran Affairs computer system allegedly stopped her father’s prescription pills for a brain injury–which she said resulted in him slipping into a near-vegetative state. Brandye Jackson, the daughter of Air Force veteran Tom Barr, told WFLA that her father was temporarily “flat” because a …
A 6-year-old Florida boy who contracted rabies from an infected bat has died, his father announced Monday. Today reported that Ryker Roque died Sunday in an Orlando-area hospital, despite undergoing an experimental treatment in a final bid to save his life. The boy’s father, Henry Roque, said he found the sick bat, placed it in …
A Texas woman reportedly died from a flesh-eating bacterial infection after eating raw oysters from a market off the coast of Louisiana. According to KLFY, Jeanette LeBlanc contracted the bacteria in September while visiting family in Louisana. LeBlanc reportedly ate about two dozen raw oysters that she picked up in Westwego. “About 36 hours later she …
