A three-year-old girl has died after drowning during a camping trip at a popular reservoir in California, according to reports. She was reportedly playing on a raft at the time of the incident, which highlights the ongoing risks of water-related accidents involving young children during the summer camping season. Full details of the incident, including…

New York City is grappling with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease centred on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, which has now killed five people and sickened dozens more. Health officials continue to investigate the source of the outbreak, while doctors have been offering the public guidance on how to reduce their risk of exposure…

William Shatner, 95, and his 61-year-old daughter Melanie Shatner Gretsch have revealed that they were both battling Stage 4 cancer at the same time several years ago. The disclosure, made this week, sheds light on a difficult private chapter for the Star Trek actor and his family, who kept their overlapping health struggles largely out…

The completion date for a new children’s hospital has been declared “unknown” following a fresh dispute with contractor BAM, which has been unable to say when prefabricated bathroom pods that failed fire safety compliance tests will be repaired. The delay adds to a long-running saga of setbacks plaguing the project, raising fresh concerns about cost…

A Melbourne woman named Michelle Buckley was mistakenly declared dead due to an administrative error, leaving her family to grieve her supposed death while she was, in fact, alive and going about her day making pizzas. The mix-up highlights the distress that can be caused by bureaucratic or hospital identification errors, which left her relatives…