Maradona doctor was made ‘scapegoat’ for his death, Argentinian court told
Prosecutors have requested a 12-year prison sentence for Leopoldo Luque, one of seven healthcare professionals on trial.

Prosecutors have requested a 12-year prison sentence for Leopoldo Luque, one of seven healthcare professionals on trial.



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First Lady Melania Trump has championed the executive action as a ‘transformative moment’ for US women’s health.
Three years of shortages and impossible choices: doctors who worked in Gaza compare its hospitals with what they need.
Pope Leo pledges a gradual return to duties in an address to the Catholic faithful in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
Kenyan health authorities say latest patient was likely exposed to the country’s first Ebola case.
Sudanese are facing growing costs of medicine caused by the country’s civil war.
Doctors say they are seeing ‘continued improvement’ after the US-born pope had a lump removed from his lung on Tuesday.
Three health workers who treated the country’s first Ebola patient are among the latest confirmed cases.
Loneliness and burnout are sending adults around the world back to bunk beds and bonfires.
Hospitals across the occupied West Bank have been hit by a funding shortage.

Fighting between Yemen’s Houthis and the internationally recognised government is deepening the humanitarian crisis.