Helen Haskell
@hhask

Patient safety advocate with Mothers Against Medical Error

 Columbia, SC
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Joined September 2008
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Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service propublica.org/article/mail-โ€ฆ

Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service

A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the agencyโ€™s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024...

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๐Ÿšจ EXC: Nottingham hospital launches urgent investigation into hip fracture deaths as its mortality rate hits 50% more than national average - the problem is linked to long delays for emergency surgery according to internal documents. Full story: thetimes.com/article/b5bc397โ€ฆ
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If you're an organ donor, you should know about these changes coming : NPR npr.org/2026/10/28/nx-s1-601โ€ฆ

Are you an organ donor? Here are some rule changes you may want to know

Transplant teams can talk to families about organ donation before they've decided whether to continue life-sustaining medical care for loved ones. Until now, that has been forbidden.

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Antimicrobial Resistance Threats Report | CDC arpsp.cdc.gov/artr
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For the first time, we're hearing about previously undisclosed connections between Palantir and some of America's biggest health insurers: Aetna, Humana, Cigna and Blue Shield of California. A new report from the Center for Health & Democracy Education Fund examines documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that claim Palantir's technology is already being used by insurers for functions including "decision support." Read CHDEFโ€™s report here: chdef.org/whitepaper/big-tecโ€ฆ
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How hospitals can help nurses, patients and themselves @IHOptimization beckershospitalreview.com/woโ€ฆ

How hospitals can help nurses, patients and themselves

Hospitals can help nurses by reducing workload fluctuations through better scheduling, easing staffing pressures and improving patient care.

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Bristol Myers has reported a death in its clinical trials of an experimental cell therapy for autoimmune diseases, potentially adding to safety concerns about a promising new class of treatments. bloomberg.com/news/articles/โ€ฆ

Bristol Myers Reports CAR-T Death as Safety Concerns Mount

Bristol Myers Squibb Co. has reported a death in its clinical trials of an experimental cell therapy for autoimmune diseases, potentially adding to safety concerns about a promising new class of...

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Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo economist.com/science-and-teโ€ฆ

Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo

A succession of clinical trials is upending the field

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Nurse, 33, Diagnosed Her Own Breast Cancer After Doctor Dismissed Symptoms and Inconclusive Scan today.com/health/breast-cancโ€ฆ via @TODAYshow

Nurse, 33, Diagnosed Her Own Breast Cancer After Doctor Dismissed Symptoms and Inconclusive Scan

The 33-year-old was diagnosed with a rare type of invasive lobular carcinoma. Here were the symptoms that led her to push for more scans.

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Resident physicians may lose some of their most important work hour protections statnews.com/2026/10/20/acgmโ€ฆ via @statnews

Resident physicians may lose some of their most important work hour protections

โ€œIt is important to create barriers between high intensity shifts with physical, intellectual, and emotional burden to avoid burnoutโ€ in residents, writes Arifeen Rahman.

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Oct 8
'I was blamed for my baby's death now NHS needs to change' bbc.in/4zlP97t

Mum blamed for baby's death at Telford hospital calls for change in NHS

Neil and Katie Russell are working with the hospital where their daughter died on the scheme.

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Disgraced plastic surgeon who went to prison for role in patientโ€™s death surrenders Arizona medical license 10news.com/disgraced-plasticโ€ฆ

Disgraced plastic surgeon who went to prison for role in patientโ€™s death surrenders Arizona medical...

A disgraced surgeon who went to prison for his role in a patientโ€™s botched plastic surgery death has surrendered his Arizona medical license.

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"I was warned about this by people opposing the [MAID] law that told me, 'We see your motivation is good, but you will see, once you open the door you will not close it and it will open wider.' And this is what happened," former Que Premier Couillard cbc.ca/news/politics/phillipโ€ฆ

Premier who oversaw Canada's first assisted dying law says he worries it's gone too far | CBC News

The former Quebec premier who oversaw the passage of Canada's first-ever medically assisted dying law says he now feels conflicted after seeing how far the practice has progressed since then.

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Opinion | Please ACGME, Leave Our Work Hour Protections Alone medpagetoday.com/opinion/secโ€ฆ

Opinion | Please ACGME, Leave Our Work Hour Protections Alone

Limits protect residents and patients alike

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Inquest told toddler Pippa White's sepsis and pneumonia death preventable - ABC News @DrSimonCraig abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/pโ€ฆ

Six senior medical experts say toddler's sepsis death 'avoidable'

Six senior doctors have told an inquest of system failures in the care of Pippa White which led to the undetected progression of sepsis and pneumonia that killed the two-year-old.

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Coroner finds death of Pippa White at Orange hospital 'wholly preventable' - ABC News @ptsafetyaction abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/tโ€ฆ

Mother's videos of dying toddler may be used to train junior doctors

The mother of two-year-old Pippa White, who died in a NSW Hospital after diagnosis and treatment delays has welcomed the prospect of videos of her symptoms being used to train doctors.

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๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ, ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง-๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž. ๐น๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘†๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ 2026, @whoeurope ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ฟ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘–๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘Ž๐‘ ฬŒ๐‘ก๐‘–ฬ๐‘˜๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘Žฬ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐ถ๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘Ž ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐พ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘  ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘๐‘’, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘พ๐’๐’“๐’๐’… ๐‘ท๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” ๐‘จ๐’๐’๐’Š๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†. ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘š๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘ , ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›-๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘”๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘. ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’„๐’Š๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ฒ๐’๐’๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’”โ€™ ๐’‡๐’–๐’๐’ ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’” ๐’๐’ ๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘ถ/๐‘ฌ๐’–๐’“๐’๐’‘๐’†: who.int/europe/news-room/feaโ€ฆ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐‚๐ƒ๐ฌ. ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž! @HowardCatton @Diabetescouk @diabetesdaily @DiabetesHealth @ncdalliance @PapievaIrina @kchalkidou @DrKatiadePinho @Shams_Syed @emmajdoble @GloriaEkeng @HIMSS @ICNurses @JNJNews @merckgroup @Axiosint @bmsnews @Roche @aesgp @FightTheFakes @eupsf @eupatientsforum @patientaccess
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๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” | ๐–๐‡๐Ž ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐–๐ž๐›๐ข๐ง๐š๐ซ On ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”, the ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž will join the ๐–๐‡๐Ž ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ž๐›๐ข๐ง๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”. Jolanta Bilinska, Founding Director and Treasurer of the World Patients Alliance, will bring the patient perspective to the discussion, speaking on: โ€œ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘๐ถ๐ท๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘†๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘…๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘  ๐ด๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ข๐‘š ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’.โ€ Her contribution will highlight why patient safety must remain central throughout the NCD care journey, from prevention and early detection to diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and long-term care. The webinar will bring together experts and patient representatives to explore patient safety risks linked to NCDs and multimorbidity, approaches to safer and higher-quality care, and the importance of patient perspectives in strengthening health systems. ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” 11:00โ€“12:30 EEST | 10:00โ€“11:30 CEST | 13:00โ€“14:30 Pakistan Time (UTC+5) ๐‹๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ ๐ž: ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก, ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ž๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐‘๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐‘น๐’†๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’†: bit.ly/3Uy4frC Join the conversation and help advance safe care for noncommunicable diseases and safe care for life. #WorldPatientSafetyDay #WPSD2026 #PatientSafety #NCDs #SafeCareForLife #PatientVoice #WorldPatientsAlliance #WHOEurope @WHO @WHOAFRO @WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHONigeria @UN @UNICEF @PapievaIrina @kchalkidou @DrKatiadePinho @Shams_Syed @emmajdoble @GloriaEkeng @hhask @AndrewRSpiegel
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Ebola outbreak spreads to new province as confirmed cases in Congo rise above 7,000 | LBC lbc.co.uk/article/confirmed-โ€ฆ

Ebola outbreak spreads to new province as confirmed cases in Congo rise above 7,000 | LBC

New figures released by the government on Friday showed the death toll had risen to 3,398

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Richard Branson's wife Joan died from 'massive' blood clot after doctor 'failed to prescribe her medication' | LBC lbc.co.uk/article/richard-brโ€ฆ

Richard Branson's wife Joan died from 'massive' blood clot after doctor 'failed to prescribe her...

Lady Joan Branson, 80, died on November 24 after suffering a cardiac arrest at the private Lister Hospital in Chelsea, west London

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