Social media has been overrun by pictures of people with Type 1 diabetes proudly showing off insulin pumps attached to their bodies, after beauty queen Sierra Sandison put hers on show during the Miss Idaho swimwear competition.
The Assisted Dying Bill is due to receive a second reading in the House of Lords on Friday. As has been demonstrated this week, it’s a divisive issue, and can be confusing.
Fewer Americans are having strokes and those who do have a lower risk of dying from them finds a new study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers.
The average pensioner living in a developed country is less likely to suffer from dementia today than in the past, doctors say.
Senior American scientists have been abruptly dismissed from a US Government advisory board on dangerous biological agents, amid growing disquiet within the academic community about laboratory research creating more dangerous forms of flu virus.
People who are dying and have a range of illnesses face a bewildering array of services, according to research by the University of Edinburgh.
People who are in their last year of life with multiple illnesses are finding it a struggle to access the support they need, including from their GP, shows a study* published today in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.
Health unions, regulators and other nursing organisations have largely welcomed the publication of safe staffing advice for nursing care on adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals.
The research, which was carried out by Cambridge Universitys Institute of Public Health and published in the medical journal The Lancet on Monday, said that one in three Alzheimers cases could be avoided if there was a change to peoples lifestyles.
A new screening test for Down’s syndrome is still not available across the Welsh NHS, six years after guidelines said it should be.
