Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is known to affect 900,000 people in the UK, but the numbers could be significantly higher because of under-diagnosis.
The hospital failed to meet standards of care and welfare, staffing, supporting workers and assessing and monitoring the quality of service.
Millions more people should be put on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to protect them against heart attacks and strokes, according to draft guidelines for the NHS in England.
The US research, published in Neurology, assessed the mental and physical health of 1,370 patients three months and a year after a stroke.
A hospital boss has been suspended from her job after being criticised by a tribunal over whistleblowers who accused her of nepotism.
Women are being wrongly warned during counselling sessions at allegedly “independent” clinics that an abortion could lead to serious health damage, including an increased risk of breast cancer and a propensity to sexually abuse children, The Telegraph can disclose.
They claim that the current system – which allows drug companies to opt out of testing new medicines on under-18s – denies children access to treatment that is shown to benefit adult cancer sufferers.
Scientists believe they have found a drug which could eventually be used to combat the viruses that cause colds.
A patient who lost half his pelvis to bone cancer has had a new one created on a 3D printer, it was reported last night.
A revolutionary new contact lens is enabling blind people to read electronic braille.
