The HSE has apologised to the family of an elderly man who died with choking complications after it took a hospital a week to act on an X-ray that showed he had swallowed his own dentures. The apology ...

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More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer? Each year, choking claims the lives of more than 4,100 Americans who are 65 or older.