British woman, 24, on life support with broken back after SLEEPWALKING out of a Malaga hotel’s 50ft-high window
Amy Wigfull, 24, has been on life support in hospital since the accident during a family holiday in Malaga.
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Brain scan can spot early signs of Parkinson’s disease
A brain-scanning technique that detects early signs of Parkinson’s holds out the hope of tackling the disease before it starts to cause symptoms.
Legal highs that mimic LSD and heroin to be banned
Government’s official drug advisers call for LSD-like AMT and other tryptamines, as well as ‘legal heroin’ AH-7921, to be controlled as class A substances.
Hospital patients wait a month to be discharged due to lack of residential care, charity claims
Elderly patients are being forced to wait a month to be discharged from hospital due to a “crisis” in residential care, costing the NHS more than £8,000 per person, a leading charity has claimed.
French doctor goes on trial accused of giving lethal injections to seven terminally-ill patients as debate rages on over whether euthanasia should be legalised
A French doctor faces life imprisonment if he is convicted of poisoning seven terminally-ill patients at a hospital in Bayonne, south west France.
Specialists called onto wards as pressure mounts for safe staffing
Specialist nurses are being made to abandon their caseloads to work on wards to bulk up staffing numbers, Nursing Times has been told.
Carers Week 2014: Why Britains 6.5 million carers need more support
One in eight adults are now carers, looking after a friend or family member who is facing illness, disability or frailty.
Patients devastated as cancer drug bid is rejected
PATIENTS suffering one of the deadliest forms of cancer have been left devastated after the first new drug to fight the disease in almost 20 years was rejected by Scotland’s medicines watchdog, despite officials admitting it offered a “substantial improvement” in life expectancy .
Mobile phone risk to fertility of men who keep devices in their trouser pocket: Radiation can affect quality of sperm
Men who keep a phone in their trouser pocket could be exposing themselves to radiation which lowers their chance of becoming a father.
One in three ‘on cusp of diabetes’
People are classed as having borderline diabetes, also known as pre-diabetes, when they have higher than normal blood glucose levels.