Stroke victims often given wrong dose

Health: Ten thousand stroke victims a year are being given incorrect drug doses because doctors are merely guessing their weight, research published yesterday found.

A failure to weigh patients before they are given clot-busting drugs in NHS hospitals means that too many receive the wrong dose — often too little.

Researchers at University of London and St Peter’s hospital in Surrey said A&E departments should be forced to stock beds capable of weighing acute stroke victims.

£14m for football tragedy inquests

Hillsborough: Fresh inquests into the 1989 FA Cup semi-final tragedy cost £14 million to the end of March, according to new figures yesterday.

The hearings in Warrington, Cheshire, were ordered after the original inquest verdicts were quashed in 2012.

All continuing inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at Britain’s worst sporting disaster are being held in a purpose-built courtroom within an office building at Birchwood business park.

Dishonest calls lead to £120,000 fine

Regulation: A firm falsely claiming to be part of a government campaign to write off debt was fined £120,000 yesterday by the information watchdog.

South Wales-based Oxygen Ltd was responsible for more than a million unsolicited calls in April.

It gave no indication who was calling, and even paid another firm to make the calls in a bid to avoid detection, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Teen’s cliff death after taking LSD

Courts: The teenage son of musician Nick Cave plummeted to his death from a cliff on the south coast after taking hallucinogenic drug LSD, an inquest heard yesterday.

Arthur Cave, 15, suffered a life-threatening brain injury after the fall on to the underpass of Ovingdean Gap in Brighton on July 14.

He was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital but died that evening.