The Latest Breaking News from Alison Miller

Safety fears over asthma drug after young children suffer severe side effects

Campaigners call for more warnings on montelukast, after reports of night terrors, depression and other mental health events

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2024

‘A healthy kid dies and there has been no change’: parents’ anger over lack of warnings for blockbuster asthma drug

Teenager Harry Miller took his own life two years after being prescribed montelukast. His family say they were not made aware of the reported psychiatric side-effects of the drug

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2024

Plan to add teaching of Holocaust, genocide to science education draws questions from Maine teachers

Teachers are voicing skepticism about a Maine proposal to update science education standards to incorporate teaching about genocide, eugenics and the Holocaust

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2023

A congressional report says financial technology companies fueled rampant PPP fraud

Fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave potentially forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic, was largely due to financial technology companies, according to a new report.

WEKU · Dec 6, 2022

‘I’ve had to give up everything that made me me’: The pain of parenting a child with mental illness

When your child suffers from mental ill health, the impact can be debilitating. Hannah Fearn meets the mothers trying to hold it all together

The Independent UK · May 7, 2022