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Editor's Choice (view all news in this section)

New era of GP choice 'beckoning' (BBC 14/10/2008) The government has set it sights on GPs since their pay rocketed in the first few yea...(see more)
Hospitals 'allowing top up care' (BBC 14/10/2008) Professor Mike Richards, the cancer tsar for England, has been holding a review about...(see more)
DIY safety kit that kills hospital superbugs in just 10 seconds (Daily Mail 14/10/2008) A DIY safety kit to protect hospital patients from superbugs has gone on sale. The pa...(see more)

Medical Practice (view all news in this section)

NHS trust slammed over yacht fund (BBC 14/10/2008) Hull Primary Care Trust (PCT) will buy the 72ft (22m) boat if funding is secured to s...(see more)
New era of GP choice 'beckoning' (BBC 14/10/2008) The government has set it sights on GPs since their pay rocketed in the first few yea...(see more)
Hospitals 'allowing top up care' (BBC 14/10/2008) Professor Mike Richards, the cancer tsar for England, has been holding a review about...(see more)

Health Trends (view all news in this section)

Warning over health inequalities (BBC 14/10/2008) The World Health Organization report highlights three ills of life in the 21st Centur...(see more)
'Credit crunch insomnia' emerging (BBC 14/10/2008) Nearly half of the 1,000 men and women surveyed by NetDoctor said they were sleeping ...(see more)
The cancer map of the world (The Independent 14/10/2008) We think of cancer as one disease. In fact it...(see more)

Latest Developments (view all news in this section)

People lacking vital antioxidants and exposed to sunlight more likely to develop eye disease later in life (World health - EU Monitor 14/10/2008) People who lack essential antioxidants, and w...(see more)
The 'button' that could bring an end to catheter misery (Daily Mail 13/10/2008) A new device which is implanted into the bladder could help some of the millions of B...(see more)
British cancer patient has her breast removed in revolutionary keyhole surgery (Daily Mail 11/10/2008) A British cancer patient has become the first in Europe to have her breast removed us...(see more)

Ongoing Research (view all news in this section)

Pneumonia jab could stop heart attacks, a new study suggests (Daily Mail 14/10/2008) Vaccines already used in the UK to prevent pneumonia could also halve the risk of hea...(see more)
Scientists hot on the trail of breath test to spot cancer (Daily Mail 14/10/2008) British scientists are looking at ways to analyse all the chemicals and compounds pre...(see more)
Parkinson's linked to vitamin D (BBC 14/10/2008) A US team found 55% of Parkinson's patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D, com...(see more)

Life and Living (view all news in this section)

Music fans 'risk losing hearing' (BBC 13/10/2008) One in 10 people with personal MP3 or CD players could suffer permanent hearing loss ...(see more)
Forget the gym, the office is the place to get fit (The Scotsman 12/10/2008) FORGET the gym: get fit in the office. That's...(see more)
How to breathe more easily about asthma (Daily Mail 11/10/2008) Children who take paracetamol more than once a month may have a greater risk of devel...(see more)

Relationships (view all news in this section)

Lesley Garner's Lifeclass: My husband has lost interest in sex with me (Telegraph 13/10/2008) I have a two-month-old baby. In the last thre...(see more)
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas: I've recently learnt that my 11-year-old daughter sent a vile email to a boy at her school. (The Independent 13/10/2008) Dear Virginia, I've recently learnt that my...(see more)
Life Support: How to make small talk (The Independent 13/10/2008) Don't be shy Small talk - about the traffic, ...(see more)

Healthy Eating (view all news in this section)

Jane Clarke: You shouldn't always listen to nutritionists! (Daily Mail 13/10/2008) While it's good news that more of us are paying closer attention to what we eat, we h...(see more)
New salt shakers at chippies to reduce salt intake (Mirror 13/10/2008) Salt shakers with five holes have been handed...(see more)
Now school pupils are banned from eating tomato ketchup as part of healthy eating drive (Daily Mail 12/10/2008) Tomato ketchup has been banned from school canteens as part of a move towards healthi...(see more)

Case Histories (view all news in this section)

Football-mad schoolgirl whose spine twisted 110 degrees is on the pitch weeks after 10-hour operation (Daily Mail 14/10/2008) Alex suffers from Coffin-Siris syndrome, which affects just 16 people in the UK and 8...(see more)
This man woke up utterly exhausted every morning. The reason? He had been 'dying' forty times an hour in his sleep (Daily Mail 14/10/2008) Charles, 57, had been fighting extreme tiredness for most of his life. For years he w...(see more)
'No one told me that my breast cancer treatment would leave me needing two new hips' (Daily Mail 14/10/2008) After a mastectomy and months of gruelling chemotherapy, Radio 4 presenter Jenni Murr...(see more)

Commentary (view all news in this section)

S Africa concedes virus link with AIDS (World health - EU Monitor 14/10/2008) SOUTH AFRICA'S new health minister has broken...(see more)
Research fear over Christie money (BBC 13/10/2008) A cancer treatment centre, which invested £7.5m in an Icelandic bank, has said resear...(see more)
Mother industry (BBC 13/10/2008) Childless Asian couples from Britain are incr...(see more)

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