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Independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova wanted to run on a platform to end the war with Ukraine. But the electoral commission voted unanimously to reject her candidacy three days after her application, citing 100 “mistakes” on her form. Ms Duntsova said she would appeal the decision at the Supreme Court. The commission said 29 people have so far filed to run for the presidency. But after today’s decision, Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.

girlfreddy Dec 23, 2023

Alabama mother with rare double womb gives birth to two babies in two days

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Alabama mother with rare double womb gives birth to two babies in two days - Lemmy.World

Kelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered one daughter on Tuesday, and a second on Wednesday, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital. Announcing the arrival of her “miracle babies” on social media, Ms Hatcher hailed the medics as “incredible”. The girls are described as fraternal twins - with rare separate birthdays. Hatcher said the family was now back at home and could “enjoy the holidays”. She had previously expected a Christmas due date. The mother was told at age 17 she had a double uterus (uterus didelphys) - which the UAB described as a rare congenital anomaly affecting 0.3% of women. And the odds of becoming pregnant in both uteri - a dicavitary pregnancy - were even slimmer, at “one in a million”, according to the UAB.

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girlfreddy Dec 23, 2023

The true total of officers in England and Wales under investigation for such offences will be far higher, because only 28 out of 43 forces responded to FoI requests.

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girlfreddy Dec 15, 2023

Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry

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Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry - Lemmy.World

When Shawn Murphy’s wife died in 2009 after a botched gallbladder surgery, he presumed the doctor who performed the operation would be forced out of medicine for good. Dr. Pachavit Kasemsap, a former Air Force surgeon, had cut Loretta Murphy’s aorta during that common procedure, according to a database of malpractice payments kept by Florida insurance regulators. She never left the hospital and died just shy of her 40th birthday. Shawn Murphy was left to raise their two daughters, then 13 and 17, on his own. During the weeks that Murphy prayed for his wife to recover and the months that he fought Kasemsap in circuit court in Brevard County, Florida, he didn’t know that other families had complained that their loved ones had suffered under the same doctor’s care. Kasemsap has settled five malpractice cases for a total of $3 million, according to the Florida malpractice payment database. That includes $1 million paid to the Murphy family. In one of the cases Kasemsap settled, a patient said the doctor negligently stapled and stitched her rectum to her vagina. Kasemsap denied doing that, and in legal filings in all five cases, the doctor denied that he was negligent. The doctor’s LinkedIn profile says his last job as a surgeon ended in December 2012, months before he settled the last of those five cases. But there was one industry ready to welcome him regardless: health insurance.

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girlfreddy Dec 13, 2023

I’ve added the previous paragraph.

If you need more info please read the article.

In one raid in Burton-upon-Trent, over £300 worth of banned confectionary was found in a local corner shop.

They included Jolly Ranchers hard sweets containing mineral oil, which if contaminated with other compounds can initiate cancer formations.