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

GP salary surge goes into reverse (BBC 15/10/2008) Inflation-busting pay rises for many GPs in recent years have been halted - with the ...(see more)
University buys '£400k body parts (BBC 15/10/2008) Medical students are to study anatomy using body parts bought for £400,000 from the c...(see more)
Nursery children treated for TB (BBC 15/10/2008) Students and staff were screened after an adult linked to the Knightsbridge Kindergar...(see more)

Medical Practice (view all news in this section)

GP salary surge goes into reverse (BBC 15/10/2008) Inflation-busting pay rises for many GPs in recent years have been halted - with the ...(see more)
University buys '£400k body parts (BBC 15/10/2008) Medical students are to study anatomy using body parts bought for £400,000 from the c...(see more)
Nursery children treated for TB (BBC 15/10/2008) Students and staff were screened after an adult linked to the Knightsbridge Kindergar...(see more)

Health Trends (view all news in this section)

Better detection and drugs will cut cancer death rate by a sixth (The Independent 15/10/2008) The risk of dying from cancer before the age ...(see more)
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)

Latest Developments (view all news in this section)

Hygiene horror in commuter study (BBC 15/10/2008) Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine swabbed 409 people...(see more)
Sweet pill tackles child malaria (BBC 15/10/2008) A cherry-flavoured pill which is easy to swallow could help save the lives of childre...(see more)
Vioxx risk confirmed (NHS Choices 14/10/2008) This follow-up from a well-conducted trial co...(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)

Surfing the web is good for your brain (BBC 14/10/2008) A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centre...(see more)
Why a dog is an obese child's best friend (Daily Mail 14/10/2008) Young children who play with a family dog have been found to be up to 50 per cent les...(see more)
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)

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)

Maltesers calorie claim 'misled' (BBC 15/10/2008) A Maltesers advert misled consumers when it implied the sweets were a low-calorie sna...(see more)
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)
Mediterranean diet and skin cancer (NHS Choices 13/10/2008) The findings of this study support a link bet...(see more)

Case Histories (view all news in this section)

'Hospital deceived me on the death of my beauty queen wife' (Daily Mail 15/10/2008) The former Miss Romania was admitted to Kettering General Hospital on November 20, 20...(see more)
Three brave readers reveal the reality of their breast cancer surgery (Mirror 15/10/2008) When I look in the mirror at the scars on my ...(see more)
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)

Commentary (view all news in this section)

Earliest confirmed TB case found (BBC 15/10/2008) The 9,000-year-old remains of a mother and her baby discovered off the coast of Israe...(see more)
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)

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