Obesity surgery could be offered to a million more people on NHS
Up to a million more people should be offered weight-loss surgery on the NHS, according to controversial new guidance to tackle Britains diabetes time bomb.
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Tackling the mystery of Alzheimer’s, and consciousness itself
The development of novel biomarkers to identify patients at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia is encouraging and will hopefully translate into tests that can be used clinically (Blood test breakthrough in search for Alzheimer’s cure, 8 July).
Frail need joint health and care budget, says NHS boss
Vulnerable patients should be offered their own personal health and care budgets, the NHS England boss says.
Bodybuilder collapsed and died after being told to drink industrial pesticide to lose weight making his temperature soar to 42C
A father-of-one died after drinking a toxic pesticide which was sold to him as a weight loss aid, a court heard today.
NHS chief announces plan to give patients cash to fund their own care
Billions of pounds of health service and town hall budgets are to be handed over to the most vulnerable patients to purchase health and social care services in the community, in a dramatic change of policy being unveiled by the NHS’s new boss.
Organ transplants ‘on the rise’
The number of organ transplants is continuing to rise, but the UK still lags behind other countries, official figures show.
Four arrested over Fosse Court care home abuse allegations
Four staff at a Leicester nursing home have been arrested following allegations residents were ill-treated.
Alzheimer’s research in ‘major step’ towards blood test
British scientists have made a “major step forward” in developing a blood test to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
How too much junk food could destroy a young person’s bowel: By bravely posing with her colostomy bag, Bethany has highlighted a disease that is on the rise
For any student, the pressure of university finals is bad enough – but for Louise Sinnott, 22, the stress was exacerbated by having to rush to the loo up to 20 times a day as she suffered a flare-up of her Crohn’s disease.
Cancer patients denied access to hospital’s £2.5million radiotherapy machine because of cost-cutting
Doctors at Northampton General last used the state-of-the-art radiotherapy device, used for people with lung, liver and other tumours, two months ago.