Rachel Clarke

CNN — Security errors, lapses and missed opportunities to stop a gunman led to the first shooting of a US president or former president in more than a generation.

(CNN) — Security errors, lapses and missed opportunities to stop a gunman led to the first shooting of a US president or former president in more than a generation.

A car accident, a family’s generosity and the life-saving phone call a nine-year-old boy had been waiting for. Rachel Clarke tells the inside story of a heart transplant

One family’s extraordinary act of kindness – donating the heart of their daughter – gave a young boy his life back. In this extract from her new book, doctor Rachel Clarke tells the story in gripping detail

When he couldn’t find his elderly dad, Tom Perez called the police in Fontana, California. What followed was a ‘disturbing’ 17-hour interrogation and accusations of murder.

Today Westminster begins its scrutiny of a bill that could for ever change the way we live or die in England and Wales, say Rachel Clarke, Lucy Webster and others

Ranchers, Border Patrol officers, vigilantes and migrants believe that Donald Trump’s second presidency is bringing a border crackdown. And most of the people we met in southern Arizona say they’re excited to see it.

Leading palliative care specialists have called for urgent global reforms to address the growing demand for compassionate, patient-centred care. At the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a flagship healthcare event by Qatar Foundation, experts highlighted the pressing need to implement innovative, community-focused solutions for alleviating suffering.

Is the deathbed in Britain today really, as Kit Malthouse claimed during the House of Commons’ assisted dying debate on 29 November, “a place of misery, torture and degradation, a rain of blood and vomit and tears” for far too many people? Anyone watching the debate would be forgiven for assuming that most deaths now involve immense, and often intractable, suffering. As a palliative care doctor who has cared for thousands of people with terminal illnesses in almost every conceivable setting – in hospices, in hospital wards, in care homes, in intensive care units and in patients’ own homes – I felt my heart sink when I heard his words. I don’t doubt their sincerity, but their accuracy is far off the mark. I know the succession of horror stories heard during the debate is likely to generate fear amongst the public that succumbing to a terminal illness must be a fate worse than any other death. But is it?

To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk