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An estimated 20 terminally ill people in the UK die in unrelieved pain each day, according to a study by the independent Office of Health Economics (OHE). According to its research, to be presented to MPs on Tuesday, one in four people receiving palliative care in England have “unmet pain needs”. The OHE said it used “the most conservative of estimates [suggesting] the true number is likely to be much larger”. It calculated that, even with the “highest possible standards of hospice-level palliative care”, more than 7,300 people across the UK died with unrelieved pain in the last three months of their lives in 2023. In 2019, the comparable figure was nearly 6,400 people a year – a 15% increase over four years. It also said that fewer than 5% of terminally ill people in England who needed hospice care in 2023 received it. The OHE’s findings will feed into an intensifying debate over the legalisation of assisted dying ahead of a historic vote by MPs on Friday. Supporters and opponents of Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill are making final efforts to persuade undecided MPs, with few willing to predict the result of the free vote. The last few weeks have exposed divisions over the issue within the government, despite an appeal by Keir Starmer for ministers to remain neutral in the debate. Two justice ministers are understood to be planning to vote in favour of assisted dying, after the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said over the weekend that she was fiercely against the proposals. Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, said that she was “a person who fundamentally believes in the right for people to make a choice about their bodies”. But she defended Mahmood’s intervention, saying it was up to each individual MP to make their own moral choice. Heidi Alexander, the courts minister, is also understood to be in favour of the bill and was formerly the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on end-of-life care. The OHE said that irrespective of the outcome of Friday’s vote, investment in high-quality end-of-life care should be a “crucial component of the conversation around assisted dying”. Its research supports the argument advanced by advocates for assisted dying that even excellent and comprehensively available palliative care cannot guarantee a pain-free death and that all options should be available to terminally ill people. Demand for palliative care in England increased by 15% between 2019 and 2023, from 378,427 to 436,022 patients. Between now and 2040, demand is expected to increase by a further 25%, the OHE said. Prof Graham Cookson, the organisation’s chief executive, said: “Our research finds that even assuming the highest standards of care, there remains a group for whom no amount of pain relief will ease their suffering in the last few months of their life. Sign up to First Edition Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion “However, the reality is that there is an increasingly widening gap in access to palliative care, and this number is only projected to grow, across settings, over the years. The true number of people dying in unrelieved pain in the UK is likely to be much higher than our conservative estimate.” Mark Jarman-Howe, the chief executive of St Helena hospice in Colchester, Essex, said the palliative care sector needed to be more honest. Speaking in a personal capacity, he said: “I’m a great advocate for hospice and palliative care. It can be transformational for people, but it cannot possibly resolve all symptoms and all pain at the end of life. “There are at least 20 people a day in the UK dying in pain, and that doesn’t include other unresolved symptoms such as uncontrollable nausea. Even if we have the best possible funding for hospice care, that would still be an issue that we need to address.” Rebecca Gillanders, a barrister, said her mother’s “excellent” palliative care did not stop a capable, robust and positive woman from being “reduced to a desperate, tormented creature” who begged to die. Gillanders’ mother was diagnosed a year ago with brain cancer and died two months later at the age of 69. “She was on the strongest possible medication, but it took 10 desperate, miserable, brutal days for her to die. Her death was emblematic of the experiences an awful lot of people have behind closed doors.”The recent arrest of the man accused in the Dec. 4 death of United Healthcare’s CEO has resurfaced the writings of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who was apprehended by authorities in 1996 at his Montana cabin near Lincoln after nearly 17 years of mailing bombs that killed three and injured nearly two dozen others. In social media posts, Luigi Mangione called Kaczynski a “political revolutionary,” according to a police bulletin obtained by the Associated Press. Several news agencies are reporting that Mangione wrote about “The Unabomber Manifesto” by Kaczynski, also known as the “Industrial Society and Its Future,” in January on the book review site Goodreads. "It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out," the reviewer wrote. “He was a violent individual − rightfully imprisoned − who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary,” they wrote. Mangione, 26, an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, reportedly gave the manifesto a 4-star rating, or “liked it.” Ratings range from 1 star – “Didn’t like it” – to 5 stars: “It was amazing.” New York police officials have said Mangione was carrying like the one used in the Manhattan killing of Brian Thompson, who led United Healthcare, the United States’ largest medical insurance company. Thompson, 50, was killed Dec. 4 as he walked alone to a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference. Kaczynski’s manifesto, a 35,000-word anti-technology tirade, was printed in 1995 in The New York Times and The Washington Post and eventually led to his arrest. His capture thrust Lincoln into the international spotlight as FBI agents, other law enforcement and hordes of media converged on a tiny mountain town, where he had lived as something of recluse. Kaczynski, a Harvard-educated mathematician, died by suicide while in federal custody in 2023. He was 81. He had been transferred to a federal prison medical facility in North Carolina in late 2021 after spending the past two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado. His brother, David Kaczynski, told several news agencies that his brother should not be someone to aspire to. "His actions are like a virus," David Kaczynski said, according to Yahoo News. "They could be like a virus unless they understand he was a very angry and disturbed man. It doesn't mean his ideas are ideas of a lunatic, but his behavior, I believe, is the behavior of a lunatic." "To the extent that he may have attributed at all to sort of normalizing or recasting the violent acts as beneficial to humanity is a terrible mistake," David Kaczynski added. Mangione is fighting attempts to extradite him to New York so that he can face a murder charge, the Associated Press reported. At the time of his arrest after being spotted Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Mangione was carrying a handwritten document expressing anger with what he called “parasitic” health insurance companies and a disdain for corporate greed and power, the Associated Press reported.
What LaMelo Ball told Charles Lee about his recovery as Charlotte Hornets star’s injury timeline revealedTua Tagovailoa is my Start of the Week for Week 14, so naturally I should be excited about his pass catchers. Tyreek Hill, Jonnu Smith and De'Von Achane are must-start Fantasy options, but what about Jaylen Waddle? The safe answer is to call him a No. 3 Fantasy receiver in the majority of leagues. He scored at least 11.3 PPR points in each of his past two games against New England and Green Bay, but that's the only time this season he's reached double digits in PPR in consecutive games this season. He's topped 60 receiving yards just twice, he has more than four receptions just twice and he only has two touchdowns on the season. And this week, he's facing a Jets defense that is No. 1 in fewest Fantasy points allowed to opposing receivers. But Sauce Gardner (hamstring) is likely out in Week 14, and four receivers have scored at least 11.9 PPR points against the Jets in the past four games. Waddle also destroyed the Jets in two games last season with 16 catches for 256 yards and a touchdown on 17 targets, and he scored at least 19.4 PPR points in each outing. Will that version of Waddle show up in Week 14? That's hard to expect given his body of work in 2024. Your best bet is to start him in three-receiver leagues, and maybe he can surprise us with a rare dominant game at home.None
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