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The Alzheimer's Society has said people who experience problems with memory should seek help as soon as possible.The charity is in the process of sending out leaflets and posters to doctors' surgeries across the country in order to raise awarenes...

A study carried out by Cancer Research UK and Superdrug has found that almost 50% of people in Britain were burned by the sun during the summer. The study revealed that 46% of Britons suffered sunburn and one third of people who were burned we...

A civil service recruitment freeze has delayed the recruitment of a new chief executive for the foundation trust regulatory body Monitor. Critics say the delay is not helpful at a time that Monitor is regarded as being in need of strong leader...

A significant number of elderly patients who suffer broken hips are not getting surgery quickly enough. The annual audit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, showed that many are waiting longer than 48 hours to be operated on. However, w...

Information gathered by the North West Public Health Observatory has revealed more than 16,000 alcohol-related deaths in England in 2009. The figures also showed that the number of male premature deaths due to alcohol were higher in the north ...

The government has confirmed that it is to get rid of NHS Direct and replace it with a new 111 number. In the course of a visit to a hospital in Hampshire, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley informed the press that the 111 service would have a na...

A pill currently available on prescription for angina may save the lives of thousands of heart-failure patients, international clinical trials suggest. Ivabradine, which costs less than £1.50 a day, lowers heart beat rates without reducing bl...

UK hospitals have been issued a warning over hip replacement devices. The alert comes from medical device company DePuy Orthopaedics, which is a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, and has issued an urgent safety notice after discovering proble...

Experts say that brisk walking could help combat breast and bowel cancer. The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) scientists also suggest that any moderate activity that makes the heart beat faster should achieve the same. They believe that i...

An Australian mother who hugged her premature baby for two hours, believing him to be stillborn, has apparently brought him 'back from the dead', through cuddles. When he was delivered at 27 weeks, Jamie Ogg showed no signs of life, and doctor...

A study by researchers at Glasgow University has found that one third of poor three-year-old children in Scotland have bad teeth. The results of the study showed that a quarter of all the children tested had "signs of tooth decay". T...

Data from Cancer Research UK has shown that cancers of the oesophagus have increased substantially since 1983. The statistics showed that oesophageal cancer doubled in males over a 25-year time frame, from 1983-2007. However, incidences of ...

The Age UK charity has said hospitals in the UK are not identifying which older patients are in danger of malnutrition. The charity carried out a survey which polled 1,000 nurses and discovered around one third were not "confident" t...

Nerve-damaged patients who smoke small amounts of cannabis through a pipe can reduce chronic pain to a significant degree, a Canadian study has found.Cannabis, which has been used as a form of pain relief for thousands of years, was also linked t...

A US$18.5 billion buyout offer by Paris-based pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis to acquire biotechnology company Genzyme has been rejected as an undervaluation of the company. The drug developer offered Genzyme shareholders US$69 per share a...

An internally displaced child in Burma’s Shan state, on a path leading into Thailand, in late monsoon season, October 2009. Along the Thai-Burma border “I have had this for four years,” said Loong Wan, as he rolled up his pants to rev...

China has been beset by a series of product safety scandals over the past few years. At least six children died in 2008 after drinking milk contaminated by the industrial chemical melamine. In 2003 and 2005, three Chinese children suffered sev...

Personnel from a medical research lab in China's southwestern Sichuan province have been detained, authorities said, following clashes between police and angry parents demanding to know if their children had been infected by re-used needles durin...

Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang have executed two people for their role in a tainted baby milk scandal which killed at least six children and sickened hundreds of thousands. The announcement came as groups of supporter...

Amid a global slowdown in new HIV infections, sex workers and gay men in East Asia are increasingly vulnerable to the virus, in a region where access to treatment is still below the world average. Six million households will be forced into pov...

Around 20 people petitioning major state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm in Beijing for compensation after they became infected with HIV/AIDS have vowed to renew their appeal, following clashes with police in which three people were injure...

The Background A controversial Bill which would have given terminally ill patients the right to end their lives was blocked by the Lords on the 12 May after an impassioned seven-hour debate. Peers voted by 148 to 100, a majority of 48, to dela...

It is a condition that is destined to have a huge global impact in the coming decades. And with an ageing population, the number of sufferers from Alzheimer’s could quadruple over the next 40 years. More than 26 million people worldwide a...

The 12 week consultation on the Department of Health’s proposed Code of Practice for Promoting NHS services has just closed.  What is it proposing, and what has been the initial reaction to the Code? Why the need for a Code of Practice ...

Colour is a good way to differentiate tablets and their containers because it enables more immediate recognition than do words printed on labels or embossed onto tablets. Moreover, patients with poor vision or those not wearing their reading ...

Residents of one of the poorest regions of central China have staged repeated demonstrations outside a zinc smelting plant near their homes after their children were diagnosed with lead poisoning. Villagers in Fengxiang county, in the north-ce...

Residents of Mandalay say that patients needing transfusions at a main public hospital in the Burmese cultural capital are routinely asked for money for donated blood. "You have to pay money at the hospital," a member of the Aung Pin...

More than 1,300 children have been poisoned by lead from a year-old manganese factory in China’s central Hunan province, official media said, on the heels of another lead-poisoning scandal in nearby Shaanxi province. The mass lead contaminat...

BBC On-line has launched a new weekly insight into the local and national issues affecting a busy GP practice in Wandsworth, South West London. Drs Jones, Andrews, Coffey, Sangha and Duckenfield will be documenting their views in a r...

Experts have warned of the possibly harmful effects of the swine flu virus on pregnant women and their babies.A woman aged 39 who was infected with the virus died after she gave birth and her baby is in intensive care.The BBC asked Maureen Baker, H...

Simon Jenkins writes in The Guardian about the HFEA's plans to pay donors for eggs and sperm in order to increase the number of donations in Britain.The HFEA has decided to increase the amount it pays out to donors of eggs and sperm for use by infe...

Blair McPherson, a former senior manager in a large local authority and author of People Management in a Harsh Financial Climate, says the NHS needs to recognise it is wasting talent. Fewer than 30% of consultants in the NHS are women, when th...

Writing in The Guardian, Diane Taylor suggests that while treatment can help problematic drug users, it will fail unless we stop judging them and offer kindness and empathy instead. Few people truly know what the life of a drug addict is reall...

Telegraph Medical Editor Rebecca Smith discusses autism: a life of difficult relationships. Autism is now called a spectrum disorder, the change reflecting the fact that people can have a range of symptoms. Characterised by difficulty with ...

Anna Quigley poses the question whether the “irresponsible” have a right to NHS care? With the NHS facing tighter financial constraints, there is an argument that people who do not look after themselves should have to pay for treatment, or...

Writing in The Guardian, Felicity Lawrence suggests Andrew Lansley's belief that children should be responsible for their own diet choices would be risible were it not so scary. This house believes obesity is a moral failure and that solving i...

Writing in the Telegraph, three experts offer advice to a patient with recurrent shingles. The patient was in their fourth year of recurrent shingles, which started on the left side of their face and spread across the cheek to the nose and rig...

Writing in the Guardian, Rachel Roberts adds her backing to homeopathy. I was such a dedicated scientist that the idea that I would one day become a homeopath would have seemed ludicrous. I scoffed when a woman told me that homeopathy had s...

A panel of experts offer suggestions on how to keep cool in the heat. WHAT TO DRINK - Dr Dan Rutherford writes: With signs of dehydration such as increased pulse, feeling faint and muscle cramps, it is important to drink more in hot weather an...

Writing in the Guardian, SE Smith argues that US police need proper training in mental health. In the US, people suffering from mental health problems are too often subjected to brutality by poorly trained police officers. In one case in Ne...

Cherrill Hicks examines what dyslexia is and what can be done to help those affected. Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that mainly affects literacy skills such as reading, writing and spelling. People with dyslexia often have difficulties ...

The Telegraph argues there is no economic case for ring-fencing the health service and overseas aid. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has written to all departments apart from the Department of Health and the Department fo...

Former Cabinet minister Lord Young of Graffham, adviser to the Prime Minister on health and safety law and practice, says it is time to tackle the compensation culture. Changes in legislation over the past decade have seen “ambulance chasers...

The Daily Express comment section argues that the health service must prioritise preserving life, not meeting financial targets. The NHS has forgotten the reason why it exists if it does not consider lengthening the life expectancy of people w...

Why do some people suddenly become struck by hay fever after years of being symptom-free, asks The Magazine from the BBC. Pollen counts are soaring as summer reaches its peak, sparking misery for hay fever sufferers. But while many assume t...