Entries by BBC News

Top scientists urge action against faeces in rivers

A team of Royal Academy of Engineering scientists say the risk from human faeces is increasing.

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‘An abuse by people supposedly there to care’

Victims of the scandal said they had been "gaslit for generations" and felt "vindicated" by the report.

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‘An abuse by people supposedly there to care’

Victims of the scandal said they had been "gaslit for generations" and felt "vindicated" by the report.

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‘An abuse by people supposedly there to care’

Victims of the scandal said they had been "gaslit for generations" and felt "vindicated" by the report.

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‘An abuse by people supposedly there to care’

Victims of the scandal said they had been "gaslit for generations" and felt "vindicated" by the report.

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Electric pulses may ease paralysis after broken neck

One patient who lost movement in her hand can now use it to scroll on a smartphone.

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Infected blood was decades long moral failure – PM

PM truly sorry as inquiry finds authorities covered up scandal and exposed victims to unacceptable risks.

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Infected blood victims await report into biggest ever NHS treatment disaster

Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated blood products and transfusions.

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Victims await report into biggest ever NHS disaster

More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the infected blood scandal - and 3,000 have since died.

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Mum still feels guilt for son’s infected blood death

Martin White died at the age of 33 after being given blood products contaminated with HIV.

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